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Random Celebrity Dirt 4-2-08

A week after Robin Williams’ wife Marsha filed for divorce the comedian has been linked with a Connecticut artist 29 years younger than him. The National Enquirer reports that the end of his marriage was hastened by his relationship with Charlotte Filbert, 27, who he was introduced to six months ago by Tommy Hilfiger’s daughter Ally. /DN 23

Kiefer Sutherland and girlfriend Siobhan Bonnouvrier, who had lunch together yesterday at Pastis, are getting serious, sources tell The Post. Bonnouvrier, 35, is a recently divorced style director at Allure magazine. //NYP 11

The Post and Daily News picked up People’s report that Beyonce and Jay-Z, who’ve been dating for five years, got a marriage license in New York yesterday. /NYP 7, DN 2

Usher’s new album, “Here I Stand,” will hit stores May 12. The video for his first single, “Love in This Club,” will debut on MTV Monday. /USAT 1D

Justin Timberlake was photographed in a baseball uniform on the set of his new movie, “The Open Road,” filming in Corpus Christi, Texas. /NYP 11

Ivanka Trump has called it quits with New York Observer owner Jared Kushner. The pair dated for almost a year. /NYP 10

Ray Romano is returning to TV. Romano stars in a pilot that he just sold to TNT called “Men of a Certain Age.” /NYP 81

Friends of Chris Farley tried to get tough with the drug-addicted comedian before he died in 1997. In new book “The Last Days of Chris Farley,” Chevy Chase and David Spade talk about the bad state Farley was in before he overdosed. /NYP 12

Oprah Winfrey plans to dedicate a show investigating abuses at puppy mills to her cocker spaniel, Sophie, who died last month from kidney failure. While Sophie was not a product of a puppy mill, and Winfrey’s three current dogs were adopted from breeders, Winfrey says in the future she would look to adopt from an animal shelter. “I would never, ever adopt another pet now without going to a shelter to do it. I am a changed woman after seeing this show,” she says on the broadcast scheduled to air Friday. /AP

Roger Ebert will not rejoin his syndicated TV show because he’s still unable to speak, but he will resume writing reviews later this month. In a letter published in Tuesday’s Chicago Sun-Times, the co-host of TV’s “Ebert & Roeper” said surgery in January ended in complications, and his ability to speak was not restored. He said the return of speech would require another surgery. /AP

David Beckham visited Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” Tuesday. Beckham admitted he was nervous during his Emporio Armani photo shoot (the ads feature the soccer star appearing in briefs) because his “mum” was going to see him lounging around in almost no clothing. /AP

Republican presidential candidate John McCain appeared on David Letterman’s “Late Show” last night. During his monologue, when Letterman joked during his monologue that McCain looked like “the guy who points out the spots they missed at the car wash,” the senator appeared on stage. “You think that stuff’s pretty funny, don’t you?” McCain asked, then added: “Well, you look like a guy whose laptop would be seized by the authorities.” /AP

Jimmy Kimmel will mark the 1,000th episode of his late show with a 90-minute special tomorrow featuring Eva Longoria, Kid Rock and Richard Simmons. /DN 81

Nickelodeon’s “Kids’ Choice Awards” drew a record 7.4 million viewers Saturday night. That’s up 22% from last year’s ratings. DN 80

Two months after Times Square street performer The Naked Cowboy filed a lawsuit against the makers of M&M’s for capitalizing on his image, Mars Inc. has been slapped with a $10 million federal suit for using characters from the “Addams Family” TV series in ads. /NYP 25

A group of about nine third-grade boys and girls at Center Elementary School in Georgia plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday. The children, ages 8 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner said. A prosecutor said they are too young to be charged with a crime under Georgia law. School officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school, Tanner said. /AP

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