• Tracey Edmonds says she's not dating Diddy. Since she's not one to under-publicize her relationships, I believe her. [SR]

• R. Kelly's defense claims that the singer could have been digitally inserted into the infamous sex video using the same technology employed in the Wayans movie Little Man. [C&D]

• Kanye tries "Flashing Lights" one more time. [TGJ]

• Sex advice sometimes needs to come in different colors. Here's why. [Racialicious]

• What do a Kim Kardashian imposter and the actual Kim Kardashian have in common? Neither of them have any reason to be famous. [NB]

This weekend marked the opening of the new MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Connecticut, and everybody who's anybody (just kidding — make that "some celebs who aren't special enough to be in Cannes right now") were in attendance. Diddy even had his own "den" at the opening gala, whatever that means. Check out more pictures after the jump — with Alicia Keys in jeans and Tichina Arnold and Kim Kardashian in evening gowns, I'm guessing something was lost in translation on the invite.

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• Would you like for your kids to be schooled by Will Smith? [CB]

• Mya surely regrets ever getting herself involved with those G-Unit brats. [NB]

• Floyd Mayweather wants to quit boxing, which is new that interests boxing fans, I guess. He also wants to beat up Reggie Bush for "taking" Kim Kardashian. He also needs to get a life. [SR]

• When you release a really bad album that doesn't do well, try to just blame it on jail and your label. That's the route Foxy Brown is taking, anyway. [Bossip]

• Suge Knight's nemesis is really flirting with death, isn't he? [RWS]

• It's dangerous to be O.J. Simpson's significant other. But we knew that. [D-Listed]

• All of the many women currently in romantic relationships with Diddy should be ashamed of themselves. [NB]

• Kim Kardashian and her siblings continue to deny stealing $120,000 from Brandy and Ray J's mom. [People]

• How can we interpret the U.S. media's lack of hesitation in showing the dead bodies of non-Americans (or Katrina victims)? [Racialious]

• if I liked Hillary Clinton even a fraction of the amount that I used to, I would feel sort of bad about the way all of this has gone down for her. [JJP]

• Al Reynolds criticizes the media and says he married Star Jones for love. [SR]

• Rihanna loves her butt. Chris Brown probably does, too. Unless their relationship is all fake. [People]

• The Williams sisters of golf. They already look like they're trying to come up with names for their future fashion lines. [Jezebel]

• February is over, but black history doesn't stop! [BV]

• Surely Kim Kardashian had no idea the cameras were snapping away behind her. That homeless guy got lucky, though. [Bossip]

• The Game checked into jail. I'm sure the other inmates will be so nice to him! [MTV]

Sonja Norwood, mother of Brandy and Ray J, is suing her son's ex-sex-tape partner for allegedly using her credit cards in 2006 and 2007 against her permission. Kim Kardashian, her sisters Khloe and Kourtney, and her brother, Robert, Jr., are named in the suit.

Kim Kardashian denied the allegations, telling PEOPLE she and her siblings had Norwood's permission to make the purchases.

"We have her signature on all items," Kardashian says.

In the lawsuit, Norwood's mother, Sonja Norwood, who is also her manager, alleges Kim Kardashian had only been authorized in 2004 to make one purchase on the Norwood American Express card in Kim's then-capacity as a stylist for Brandy.

The totaly bill is more than $120 grand. Norwood's looking to be paid the entire amount plus 10 percent interest.

In the past, Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian have denied being a couple despite obviously being a couple. On New Year's Eve in Miami, they were quite a bit more obvious than usual. I guess it's for a good reason; OK! says they're engaged. Uh, congrats?

Kerry Washington, who, like a classier Kim Kardashian, must RSVP to the vast majority of parties she's invited to (so prevalent is she in the Wire Image universe), has been MIA for a couple of weeks. Just when I was starting to worry, she popped up at the 7th Annual Hollywood Life Breakthrough of the Year Awards. In festive sequins, no less! I can breathe easy. More pics after the jump.

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• Have a video camera? Know how to upload video to YouTube? Maybe one day Dr. Pepper will give you a contract, too. [C&D]

• Knowing BET, they'll probably mess this up, too. [EUR]

• If Brandy isn't charged for the fatal car accident she caused last year by December 30th, the first anniversary mark, then she's home free. [TMZ]

• Remember how Kim Kardashian got robbed at the airport? It turns out she was just lying. C'est la vie. [MG]

• I wonder if there really is someone out there who won't vote for Barack Obama because he has big ears. [Time]

• Kim Kardashian finally gets what's coming to her. [MG]

• More beauty pageant sour grapes: a white Miss DC USA contestant blames her loss on being "too pale" for the Chocolate City crown, instead of the more obvious "not good enough." [Jezebel]

• Nas has pushed the release of his album Nigger from December to February, just in time for Black History Month. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King, Jr., are somewhere in heaven performing a joy-filled cakewalk in honor of this wondrous news. [XXL]

• Chris Brown likes the cougars. This works out fine, because the cougars really like him. [C&D]

• Fingers crossed that Janet Jackson's new album is actually worth a listen. [SOHH]

• Wow, this show just gets worse and worse. [MG]

• Black lawyers rarely go before the U.S. Supreme Court. [AP]

• Humiliating workplace stories? You know you have them. [Jossip]

• Another Sean Paul song for you to get tired of after three plays. [CL]

• Jay-Z's American Gangster tour sold out within 1 minute in Chicago, LA and Philadelphia. I guess he wouldn't want to help Kelly Rowland out with a guest appearance on her tour? [Bossip]

Marques Houston, that girl from My Wife and Kids and a bunch of other D-F listers attended the premiere of Somebody Help Me, an "urban thriller" starring Houston and Omarion and directed by (surprise) Chris Stokes. Here's the synopsis from IMDB:

The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young (Houston) and Darryl Jennings (Omarion) who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a mysterious young visitor arrives and helps them begin to unravel their tangled web of terror.

Based on this plot summary, the fact that Omarion didn't even show up to the premiere, and my own common sense, no one in their right mind is going to see this film. Pics of the random premiere-goers after the jump.

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As cocky as Kanye West might be, he certainly is putting in the promotional work with performances at parties from coast to coast. He's getting paid, of course. But still. Last night he graced the Sidekick LX launch party with his musical stylings, no doubt rocking the crowd of semi-famous people. More pics from the party after the jump. And dare I say Nick Cannon seems a bit lackluster? He must not be taking his fake breakup from his fake fiancee very well.

Some people are not only unqualified to be mothers, but they should get their big sister cards revoked as well.

Prime example: Kim Kardashian celebrating her baby sister's pole dancing skills on her new show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

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If anyone thought Kim Kardashian's foray into nudie stardom began with her Ray J sex tape, think again. Kim Kardashian has been getting naked for the cameras for a long time, since she was 16, to be exact. Now someone is trying to profit off the racy photos Kim and her sister Kourtney took when they were both underaged.

The sisters, who will star in E!'s "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" this fall, are identified as being in nude pictures that were offered for sale to media outlets yesterday. The women are also seen in sexual poses with a naked man.

But while Kim is 27 and Kourtney is 28, sources say the pictures were taken 11 years ago, when they were teenagers.

I guess the guy with the pics thought he had his hands on a pile of cash, but it's doubtful any publication would risk the child porn implications, particularly when the world has already seen most of what Kim K's got already.

[NYDN]