People: Ink Dry On New Usher Album Title

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SPLITS
YOU MAKE ME WANNA LEAVE
R&B singer Usher's divorce from Tameka Raymond is final as of last week, according to court documents. Usher, 31, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, filed for divorce from Raymond on June 12. He said the couple had been separated since July 2008 and claimed that the marriage was "irretrievably broken." Raymond disputed Usher's claim that the couple had been separated.

HUMILIATION
CLASSIC BAD GUY: 'LET'S KEEP MY AWFUL BEHAVIOR SECRET'
On Friday, Chris Brown made a statement to MTV News about ex-girlfriend Rihanna's revealing interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer. "While I respect Rihanna's right to discuss the specific events of February 8," Brown says, "I maintain my position that all of the details should remain a private matter between us."

SHIFT
'DWTS' TEMPORARILY TURNS INTO 'SINGING WITH THE BRITS'
Susan Boyle will fly to Los Angeles early this week to perform on "Dancing With the Stars," according to Usmagazine.com. The "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up will perform "I Dreamed a Dream," the Les Miserables song that skyrocketed her to fame last April. Pro dancers Tony Dovolani and Chelsie Hightower will perform on the ballroom floor as she sings.

TMI
NOT CLEAR WHAT'S WORSE: DIAPER TALK OR BABY NAMES
In a the December Issue of Elle magazine, Sarah Jessica Parker discusses her affinity for dirty diapers. "I love the smell of diapers," she says. "I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm liked a baked good." Parker has been on double diaper duty since the arrival of her twin daughters, Marion Loretta and Tabitha Hodge, earlier this year.

» Pictured above: Playing fashionista Carrie Bradshaw doesn't mean you can be gross, SJP.

STRENGTH
HOPPER FEELING GOOD, HOPEFUL IN SPITE OF PROSTATE CANCER
Prostate cancer couldn't keep Dennis Hopper away from the Breeders' Cup on Saturday. The 73-year-old actor and artist attended the Breeders' Cup in support of the V Foundation for Cancer Research at Santa Anita Park in Southern California. It was revealed last month that Hopper had been diagnosed with cancer, although he said Saturday he's been battling it for the past nine years. He's started a new, experimental treatment at the University of Southern California that he says he hopes will help. "It has great promise," Hopper said.

TROUBLEMAKER
FRANCIS' MOM THRILLED NO UNDERAGE GIRLS ARE INVOLVED
A judge sentenced "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis on Friday to 301 days already served and a year of probation for filing false income tax returns and bribing Nevada jail workers. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero accepted the terms of a plea deal between the soft-porn mogul and prosecutors. Francis turned and kissed his mother after he was sentenced. "I think we won that one," he said.

With contributions from The Associated Press
Photos by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images; Peter Kramer/AP