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Cindy Crawford's the only one who takes photos for money in this bunch.

The supermodel and husband Rande Gerber were targeted by a would-be extortionist who had in his possession a "sexy" photo of the couple's then-7-year-old daughter and wanted to make a deal so the pic "wouldn't end up in the tabloids," according to a federal criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

The couple told investigators that Edis "Eddie" Kayalar, who has since been deported back to his home country of Germany, called them in July, claiming to be a "good person" who just wanted to help them out.

According to the complaint, Kayalar told them that the photo, in which their young daughter was gagged, dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, and tied to a chair, "just wasn't right" and he was "bothered" by it.

Presumably pretty horrified, Gerber and Crawford say that they had no idea such a photograph, which the family's former nanny has admitted to taking "as a prank," even existed.

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If you happen to be stuck in a wardrobe rut, look to Suri Cruise for answers.

Today, Suri teaches us how to take one look from daytime to night.

Take this hot pink dress, purple sweater and metallic silver leggings. Sure it works for flying in your helicopter from Boston to New York City (did we mention how relatable Suri is?), but say you want to quickly dress it up for a fancy dinner and night out on the town. How would you do that?

Let Suri show you how!

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It's not quite the ultimate battle of good versus evil, but it'll do: America's Sweetheart is taking on a freshly jail-broken porn star in what's shaping up to be quite the headline-grabbing custody dispute.

The child in question is 5-year-old Sunny James, the daughter of Monster Garage host Jesse James and his trouble-plagued, sobriety-challened, adult-film-star ex, Janine Lindemulder.

For the better part of the last year, James (with a massive maternal assist from wife Sandra Bullock) has had sole custody of the child, due primarily to the fact that Lindemulder has spent the past six months behind bars for tax evasion.

But now she's out and looking for a return stake in parental duties. And what better place to find that than Good Morning America?

"What would give her the right to take away my daughter?" Lindemulder said of Bullock, toward whom the majority of her ire seems directed. "This is my daughter. I'm the best mother I can be."

And while she admitted on the morning show that she's "absolutely made horrific choices in the past," she stresses that her life is currently back on track.

Though Bullock and James beg to differ.

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Halloween is officially out of control. As soon as 9-year-olds like Noah Cyrus start using the holiday as an excuse to dress sexy, that's when you know it's time to shut it down.

Miley's little sister dressed up—as a vampire? A witch? Her older sister?—for the 2009 Dream Halloween event held over the weekend, and once again we're forced to question Billy Ray and Tish's judgment. Or if they're even around... 

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Ah, baby magazine covers. They're that rare breath of cute air that we can look at in the supermarket line without feeling angry at Jon & Kate or sad about Lindsay Lohan's new haggard makeover or annoyed at the Jen Aniston lies.

Instead, we can just let the warm fuzzy feelings wash over us and be like, "Well, that's nice."

So thank you, Nicole Richie, for showing off your cuddly 6-week-old son Sparrow in this week's People. Inside the magazine there are even more adorable pictures of the new family of four that are worth checking out.

And as an added bonus, Nicole and her longtime partner, Joel Madden, even (kind of) explain what's up with the strange bird name...

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We knew there was more going on between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck than meets the eye.

Jokes about their level of closeness and who's banging Jimmy Kimmel aside, it turns out the longtime pals and Oscar-winning screenwriters really are more than friends and writing partners. In fact, they're related!

According to the New England Genealogical Society, the actors are both descendants of bricklayer William Knowlton Jr., an Englishman who settled in Ipswich, Mass. around 1630.

That would make Affleck and Damon approximately 10th cousins, once removed. Affleck was born in Berkeley, Calif., but spent his formative years in Boston, where he and Damon became friends.

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Last week Katherine Heigl stopped by Ellen DeGeneres' show to announce she and husband Josh Kelley were adopting a little Korean girl.

And now she would like to share pictures of 10-month-old Nancy Leigh or, as Heigl notes on her Jason Heigl Foundation website, "She will go by the nickname Naleigh."

The three make such an adorable family, it's definitely going to make it harder to get angry at Katherine for all her entitled complaining. 

So congrats! May the future be filled with many more touching family photos where everyone wears complementary-colored (but not matchy-matchy!) sweaters.

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Sorry, Gosselins. Better luck next time, Lohans.

This year's most gushed over guardians are reality 'rents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. The 18 Kids and Counting progenitors have been named the 2009 National Parents of the Year by the National Parents' Day Council, who assures the public the selection was the result of quality, not quantity parenting.

The Duggars picked up their one accolade (and counting) at Maryland's Tontitown City Hall last week, with their 10 boys and 8 girls, aged 7 months to 20 years, in attendance for the honor-bestowal.

And with their eldest expecting a babe of his own next month, we suspect the 2010 Grandparents of the Year award is as good as locked up.

The Duggars are fine and all, but what we want to know is, who was robbed?

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Jennifer Garner is up at the Toronto Film Festival promoting her new movie, The Invention of Lying. With a title like that, one question is obvious: Do you ever tell lies?

And imagine that! She does.

Especially to her children, although Violet is beginning to suspect mermaids aren't real...

But Garner's husband, Ben Affleck, does not abide by little white lies. Sure, they might speed up his wife's getting-ready process, but if that means Jen looking fat in her jeans, he will intervene.

What a nice husband. 

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