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In an unprecedented act of celebrity philanthropy, the charitable foundation created by Johnny Carson has reported receiving $156 million from a personal trust established by the entertainer years prior to his January 2005 death, The Smoking Gun has learned. The nine-figure transfer from the late entertainer’s estate was disclosed in a tax return filed three months ago by the John W. Carson Foundation, records show.

Filling Simon Cowell‘s seat on American Idol was already a tough task –- now another chair is there for the taking. Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who became a full-time judge on the show during its ninth season, is bowing out of the series, PEOPLE has learned. “A couple months ago, I let FOX and the American Idol producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me,” she says in a statement. 

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Lindsay Lohan surrendered to the court Tuesday to begin her 90-day jail sentence for violating probation in a DUI case. The actress, 24, arrived at the Beverly Hills courthouse in a motorcade to a crush of photographers and reporters. Somebody threw confetti toward her as she walked up the steps. One fan held a sign reading, "Free Lindsay." Read more...

Roman Polanski has made his first public appearance since being released this week from house arrest, attending the Montreux Jazz Festival on Saturday to watch his wife perform on stage. The 76-year-old film director arrived at the Lake Geneva festival Saturday evening in a sport utility vehicle with tinted windows. Read more...

Bawling and broken, Lindsay Lohan learned today that she's going back to jail. Beverly Hills judge Marsha Revel declared the 24-year-old starlet in violation of probation for her 2007 DUI conviction for failing to attend court-ordered alcohol education classes. Revel sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail followed by 90 days in-patient rehab. Read more...

In one of the most explosive, racist and vile outbursts by a celebrity ever caught on tape, Mel Gibson told the mother of his love child that the way she was dressed would get her "raped by a pack of n***ers," RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. It's a shocking and blockbuster development in the couple's bitter legal battle, and Mel's disgusting words are on audio tape. Read more...

CNN is preparing for a summertime search to find the successor to Larry King, who announced suddenly that he's leaving the show that has been the centerpiece of the news network's lineup for 25 years. Even though the host is changing, CNN will keep to the idea of a provocative interview show with newsmakers, CNN U.S. President Jon Klein said. Read more...

What a difference an appealing movie can make. After weeks of soft box office, overall business perked up ten percent over the same weekend last year, thanks to The Karate Kid. The remake of the 1980s smash debuted far beyond genre norms, and it more than doubled the opening of fellow '80s rehash, The A-Team, which was relatively sub-par.The Karate Kid rallied an estimated $56 million on approximately 5,300 screens at 3,663 locations. Read more...

Piers Morgan is on the verge of signing a four-year contract to take over from Larry King on CNN. Piers has built a profile in the US as a judge on America's Got Talent.CNN executives were also impressed by his British chat show, Piers Morgan's Life Stories, in which he interviewed Gordon Brown. Morgan is expected to quit his role on Britain's Got Talent and base himself permanently in the US. Read more...