Anderson and Rock in 2001
Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock have gotten married – again, the actress says on her Web site and her rep confirms to PEOPLE. "It's official.
Just left the courthouse!!!! Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie have left the building," reads the posting headlined "Detroit Wedding" on Anderson's Web site. (Kid Rock's real name is Bob Ritchie.) "Off to honeymoon in Detroit! Go Tigers!" the message continues. The Motor City wedding is the couple's second ceremony.
Last weekend in Saint-Tropez, they held an elaborate wedding ceremony aboard a yacht, but the marriage was not considered legal under French law because in that country couples must first have a civil wedding at the mayor's office.
The Detroit ceremony may also not be legal: A search of public records has not yet yielded a marriage license for the couple. The second ceremony comes as no surprise, however: During a July 26 press conference in Las Vegas, Anderson repeatedly declared her intentions to marry her rocker beau – serial-style.
"I'm going to get married a few times this month to the same guy," she said. "We had to do Malibu, we've got to do Detroit, and we've got to do Nashville." Anderson, 39, and Rock, 35, began dating in spring 2001.
The following April 11 they became engaged in the Las Vegas desert, only to split the following year. Still, when they ran into each other in Saint-Tropez on a mutual friend's yacht in early July, the feelings were still there.
"It was like we'd never been apart," Rock told PEOPLE on July 11. "(I) love her to death." Anderson announced their engagement on her Web site on July 18.
Anderson has two sons, Brandon, 10, and Dylan, 8, with ex-husband Tommy Lee, to whom she was married from 1995 until 1998. Detroit-born Rock has a 16-year-old son, Robert James Ritchie Jr., whose mother is Kelly South Russell, a Detroit autoworker.
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Jessica: My Album Isn't About Nick
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson's next album, A Public Affair, is set for release Aug. 29 – and though the title may make it sound like it's about the spotlight placed on her crumbling marriage to Nick Lachey, she insists that isn't the case.
"A Public Affair is a play on words," Simpson, 26, tells MTV News. "It's not about what you think it's going to be about." Granted, she admits, "People probably expected (it to be about Lachey) because of everything going on in my life, but it's not about him at all."
Instead, she says, "It's about me going out with my girlfriends and forgetting everything that's around me, which is paparazzi, and just having a fun night. Because (paparazzi) can ruin a night." That's not to say that Lachey didn't serve as the inspiration for at least one track on the album, Simpson reveals.
During the "really tough time" last year when things were falling apart, Simpson says she found solace when she shared one of her favorite songs with younger sister Ashlee: Patty Griffin's "Let Him Fly."
"We laid there listening to the song and just cried and cried like babies," Simpson tells MTV.com. "In a lot of ways, my sister really gave me the strength to pull through this really hard time. And it was just lying there and being with her that got me through it.
I knew everything would be okay." The song, which Simpson covers on the album, "is about how sometimes you just have to know when to let something go," she says. "(It) was just perfect for that moment. And I had to sing it."
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Madonna's Rome Concert Outrages Vatican
Madonna in concert in California on May 21
Madonna staged a mock-crucifixion in the Italian capital on Sunday, ignoring a storm of protest and accusations of blasphemy from the Roman Catholic Church.
In a sold-out stadium just a mile from Vatican City, the lapsed-Catholic diva wore a fake crown of thorns as she was raised on a glittery cross during the Rome stop of her worldwide "Confessions Tour."
The Vatican had accused her of blasphemy and provocation for even considering staging the sham crucifixion on its doorstep, anger Madonna further enflamed prior to the show by inviting Pope Benedict to come and watch.
The self-styled "Queen of Pop" went on to pepper her two-and-a-half hour show with more controversial imagery, at one point showing photographs of the pope after those of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
"Did you know two miracles have taken place in Rome?" the star, dressed in skin-skimming black, later joked with the crowd. "Italy won the World Cup and the rain stopped before my show."
The 70,000 fans, crammed into the Olympic Stadium, shrugged off the scandal by dancing, singing and jumping as she performed songs from her latest album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, and classics such as "Like a Virgin."
Yet the cheering lulled when she was raised on the cross and some fans from predominantly Roman Catholic Italy confessed their disappointment. "The crucifixion was unnecessary and provocative. Because this is Rome, I wish she'd cut it out.
But it's Madonna, she's an icon, and that balances out her need to provoke," said 39-year old Roman Tonia Valerio. It is not the first time Madonna, whose father is a Catholic Italian American, has caused religious anger for her controversial religious and sexual imagery.
Catholic leaders condemned as blasphemous her 1989 video for the hit song "Like a Prayer," featuring burning crosses, statues crying blood and Madonna seducing a black Jesus.
In 2004, a Vatican group warned that her latest religious belief, Kabbalah, a mystical from of Judaism, was a potential threat to the Roman Catholic faithful.
And she looks likely to face another storm when the tour reaches Moscow in September, where the Russian Orthodox Church has advised its followers to boycott the show because of the crucifixion stunt, agency Interfax reported on Saturday.
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Barry Manilow to Have Hip Surgery
In a file photo Barry Manilow comments on his Emmy Award nomination during an interview Thursday, July 6, 2006, at The Capitol Tower studios in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Barry Manilow will take a break from his regular gig at the Las Vegas Hilton to undergo surgery to repair torn cartilage in both hips, his publicist said Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Barry Manilow will take a break from his regular gig at the Las Vegas Hilton to undergo surgery to repair torn cartilage in both hips, his publicist said.
The 60-year-old singer, who has a four-year contract with the hotel, suffers from labrum tears in his hips a painful condition exacerbated by his high-energy performances, publicist Carol Marshall said in a statement Sunday.
Manilow will continue performing through his appearance at the Emmy Awards on Aug. 27 and will then have outpatient arthroscopic surgery at a Southern California hospital, Marshall said.
Recovery and rehabilitation time is expected to be about eight weeks.
Manilow will miss about 20 concerts at the Hilton, all of which will be rescheduled for the 2007 season.
He is scheduled to return in mid-October for the launch of his new album, "The Greatest Songs of the Sixties."
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