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Christina Applegate's Divorce Finalized in L.A.

Christina Applegate's divorce from husband, actor Johnathon Schaech, is final, PEOPLE has confirmed.

According to papers filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, their four-year marriage is over. The decision to dissolve the union in December 2005 was mutual, according to a rep for the couple.

Schaech, 37, cited irreconcilable differences, say the court papers. He is worth about $2 million and she has accounts totaling over $6 million, but the couple did not bicker over splitting the property. According to the filings, Applegate, 35, gets both their Los Angeles homes and the Lexus. He keeps the 2001 Mercedes-Benz, but has asked for custody of his cement Buddha.

Applegate, whose credits include Married ... With Children and Anchorman, is returning to the small screen in Samantha Who? on ABC this fall.

The pair, who married in Palm Springs in October 2001, have no children.

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Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Engaged?

Are congratulations again in order for Nicole Richie and Joel Madden?

After a late Friday night performance with his band Good Charlotte at the Hot 99.5 Lil' Black Dress Party hosted by Perez Hilton at the Clarendon Ballroom in Arlington, Va., Madden was walking offstage when Hot 99.5 morning show deejay Kane announced to the crowd, "He got engaged yesterday. Congratulations, Joel!"

To that, Madden quickly glanced back over his shoulder but was otherwise unresponsive as he made a hurried exit from the stage behind brother Benji.

"We heard this morning," Kane told PEOPLE following Good Charlotte's 40-minute set. Crediting he got the word from "good sources," Kane said he hadn't seen Richie since hearing the news, but added he had offered his congratulations to Madden earlier in the night. "He said, 'Thank you so much,'" recalled Kane.

"They're very excited about the baby and the wedding. They want to keep their personal life personal," he added.

That might not be so easy. On Thursday, during a visit to ABC's Live! With Regis and Kelly in New York, Madden was asked by cohost Philbin about "a little ring, or something." "I was hoping it would be a surprise, but now –" Madden responded.

While there were no sightings of Richie at the party, she and Madden, who are expecting their first child together, were spotted touring Washington, D.C., earlier in the day.

The pair, along with entourage in tow, popped into Nathans of Georgetown restaurant for a late lunch before making their way to the upscale Georgetown baby boutique Dawn Price Baby.

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Britney's Former Rehab Facility Subpoenaed in Custody Fight

While Kevin Federline parties in Vegas, his defense team has struck again, delivering a subpoena to the rehabilitation facility attended by his ex Britney Spears.

According to a source familiar with the proceedings, Promises Treatment Center was served with a subpoena Saturday morning. This is the fourth subpoena doled out by the Federline team in the singer's increasingly high-profile custody battle. (Earlier in the week, Spears's former assistant Shannon Funk, bodyguard Daimon Shippen and pal Alli Sims were all served with legal papers.)

"Kevin and his attorneys Mark Vincent Kaplan and James Simon are on a mission," says the source. "They are pursuing all relevant evidence from every potential source and every available witness."

A spokesperson from Promises refused to comment, saying: "This is a confidential facility and we cannot comment."

The pop star spent a month at Promises and was released on March 21. Her manager at the time said she was "successfully" released.

According to Pepperdine University Law Professor Steven M. Cron, the Federline camp is clearly seeing how Spears took to the Promises stint.

"Strategically I don't think they are concerned with the treatment, but how she responded to that treatment," says Cron. "Specifically, if she participated as she was supposed to. Did she have a positive attitude, did she complete it successfully. Or was she a screw up?"

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Nicole Richie 'Pleasantly Surprised' by Early Release

Nicole Richie was "pleasantly surprised" to be released after serving 82 minutes of her four-day jail sentence for a second DUI conviction, her lawyer said Friday.

"Nicole was aware that most people with sentences similar to hers are booked and released in a matter of hours and she was hoping to be treated like everyone else," attorney Shawn Chapman Holley said in a statement. "Nevertheless, she was prepared to serve her entire four-day sentence had the Sheriff's Department required her to do so."

On Thursday, accompanied by her boyfriend Joel Madden as well as Holley, the five-months pregnant Richie entered the jail in Lynwood, Calif., at 3:15 p.m. She was processed into the system and released at 4:37 p.m.

"Of course, she was pleasantly surprised to be released so quickly," said Holley.

Kerri Webb, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's department told PEOPLE that Richie "was released early due to overcrowding in the jail system. This is standard procedure for nonviolent offenders."

Richie, 25, who's pregnant by Madden, pleaded guilty to DUI on July 27. As part of her sentence, she also agreed to serve a three-year probation term, must enroll in an alcohol education program and was fined $2,048.

She was arrested for DUI on Dec. 11 after being spotted driving her black Mercedes SUV the wrong way on an L.A. freeway.

She was previously convicted of DUI in June 2003.

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Hulk Hogan's Son Seriously Injured in Car Crash

Hulk Hogan's son Nick Bollea was seriously injured Sunday night after his car careened off the road and struck a palm tree.

Bollea, who was featured with the rest of his family on the pro wrestler's VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best, was driving his yellow Toyota Supra down a four-lane highway in downtown Clearwater, Fla., when the car's rear tires hit the raised median, police said. After fishtailing for several seconds, the car slammed into a 25-foot tall palm tree.

"His car inexplicably left the road," Clearwater Police spokesman Wayne Shelor tells PEOPLE, "and it was totally destroyed upon impact."

The cause of the crash is unknown, although police believe the car was traveling at a high rate of speed. "We don't know exactly what happened," says Shelor, "but we are investigating."

Bollea, 17, and his male passenger had to be extracted from the vehicle using the "jaws of life." They were placed on a Medivac helicopter where they were flown seven minutes to nearby Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg.

Bollea is in serious condition, while his passenger has been listed in critical condition.

Police alerted Hulk Hogan to the accident. According to a hospital source, the wrestler and his family are in a private waiting room as Bollea is being treated for "very serious, life-threatening" injuries. Hogan declined to address the media through a hospital spokesperson on Sunday evening, but plans to make a statement on Monday morning.

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Usher & Tameka Foster Finally Get a Wedding

After a quiet civil ceremony, Usher and Tameka Foster at last pulled off their dream wedding in Atlanta on Saturday.

"I'm thrilled that this is finally happening," said one guest, who watched the couple exchange vows in front of about 200 people at the luxurious Chateau Elan Winery & Resort, a 16th-century-style French chateau set on 3,500 acres of rolling hills outside Atlanta. "It was a long time coming, and I can't think of any two people who deserve happiness more than they do."

Among the guests were Oprah Winfrey's pal Gayle King and music manager Benny Medina.

Usher's mother, Jonetta Patton, who has reportedly clashed with Foster, did not attend.

The guests enjoyed a sit-down dinner inside the resort's ballroom. Dessert was a five-tiered white chocolate-covered wedding cake with handmade flowers by Napa's Perfect Endings, who recently did Eva Longoria's wedding cake.

"They are in love and they wanted this to be perfect," says another guest of the event, planned by wedding planner Diann Valentine. "They had their reasons for not getting married (before), and that's their own business. Now they could get things done the way they wanted to, their family and friends can be here now."

The couple originally planned to tie the knot at a lavish no-expenses-spared event at music mogul L.A. Reid's Sagaponack, N.Y., home, but the ceremony was postponed at the last minute.

The civil ceremony between Usher (full name: Usher Raymond), 28, and Foster, 37, was reportedly held in his lawyer's office Aug. 3. The couple are expecting their first child this fall. This is Usher's first marriage, Foster's second.