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Michael Jackson's family and the rest of the world aren't the only ones waiting for that final coroner's report on what really killed the King of Pop.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton says that, depending on what the toxicology tests turn up, the nature of their investigation into Jackson's death could change.

"We are still awaiting corroboration form the coroner's office as to cause of death," Bratton told CNN.com. "That is going to be very dependent on the toxicology reports that are due to come back. And based on those, we will have an idea of what it is we are dealing with. Are we dealing with a homicide or are we dealing with accidental overdose?"

The use of those potentially inflammatory words comes as the Los Angeles Times reports that the county coroner's office has subpoenaed Jackson's medical records from a number of doctors who treated the Thriller artist over the years, including dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein.

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No one is going to London anymore, but Dr. Conrad Murray says that he's owed plenty just for coming to California.

A lawyer for the cardiologist, who was hired by Michael Jackson's camp to accompany the artist's entourage overseas for his 50-show concert engagement, tells E! News that promoter AEG Live owes him $300,000 for the six eight weeks of work he put in as Jackson's personal doc.

"We don't know the exact terms of the contract with AEG," said Miranda Sevcik, spokeswoman for the law firm of Stradley, Chernoff & Alford, which has been representing Murray in his dealings with authorities since Jackson's death.

But legal action is a possiblity if AEG persists in not paying, Sevcik told E! News. "If it comes to that, it comes to that," she said.

AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips said last week that Murray's salary was to be $150,000 per month and that they advanced Jackson the money, chalking it up to a production cost, but that it was Jackson's responsibility to do direct financial business with the doc.

Attorney Edward Chernoff said that Murray, who discovered Jackson unconscious in the bedroom of his Holmby Hills mansion and attempted unsuccessfully to resuscitate him before paramedics arrived, has been fully cooperative with the LAPD's investigation into the circumstances of the singer's death, and that Murray is not considered a suspect.

Meanwhile, Murray isn't the only one who thinks AEG Live should put its money where its proverbial mouth is.

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Patricia Arquette is done trying to divorce Thomas Jane.

Less than a month after the Medium star and her famous siblings were spotted at the launch party for Jane's new HBO series, Hung, a judge has signed off on her request to abandon the divorce petition she filed in January.

Arquette filed the request Tuesday and it was approved today. Neither actor's rep had any comment and no details were included in the one-page document as to what led to their reconciliation—though it appears that the two continued to spend quality time together despite the proposed split.

In addition to hanging at the Hung party in June, Jane and Arquette also cohosted a soiree in February for the composer who scored Jane's directorial debut, The Dark Country.

The couple, who married in May 2006, have a 6-year-old daughter, Harlow Olivia Calliope Jane. Arquette also has a teenage son, Enzo, from a previous relationship.

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What did belts ever do to you, Pete Wentz? Why did you turn your ample tattooed back on such a convenient pants-holding device? Are you raging against the Beltinistas or some such?

There's no winning that fight. The Suspender Element of this society is only filled with clowns and mobsters who will lead you down a dark path of senseless, beltless crimes. Crimes...of fashion.

Also, as you know, part of being a man is avoiding dressing like Colonel Sanders. So it's time to grow up and put on your big-boy pants, those held up by a tidy strip of leather. Quickly, before li'l Bronx sees this.

Besides, by the looks of the ample ankles you're flashing, it wouldn't hurt if those pants did fall down a little. Or a lot.

Faux pas or fabulous? Join the Fashion Police patrol!

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• Actually no one asked Gwyneth Paltrow about her digestive system; she just volunteered the information. In short, it has been through a three-week liquid-only cleanse and feels great now. Also, it likes Spain more than America. That is all.

• Someone needs to take Kevin Smith's Twitter away. Everyone else—Kirstie Alley, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, Ashton Kutcher—you can keep yours now that he is officially the worst twitterer.

• To quote Dlisted: "Jude Law left a theater in London (where's he performing Hamlet) last night wearing something that he fished out of Adrien Brody or Michael Lohan's closet."

• Old Russian ladies singing "...Baby One More Time" is probably the best way to listen to Britney Spears.

• Everyone's all mad at Michael Jackson's public memorial for not being "authentic" enough.

Oh look, that's Lindsay Lohan actually working in our Big Pic. Just kidding. She doesn't do that. She's just stalking her friend SamRo, which could be considered work.

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George Clooney is in a rebuilding period.

While touring L'Aquila, capital of the central Italian region of Abruzzo, where a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on April 6 killed nearly 300 people and left upwards of 65,000 homeless, the Oscar winner announced that he plans to come back soon to shoot part of his next movie in hopes of boosting the economy in the medieval fortress town.

"We'll shoot a film here at the end of September, in which I will act," he told reporters Thursday. "We're here to draw attention to this tragedy."

Clooney didn't mention the name of the movie, but now we know there's going to be some seriously picturesque scenery involved.

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Jim Carrey may have played the Grinch, but now he's about to be the grandpa!

The star's 21-year-old daughter, Jane Carrey, is expecting her first child with fiancé Alex Santana, the actor's rep, Marleah Leslie, confirms to E! News.

The actor's only child fronts the Jane Carrey Band, and the dad-to-be goes by "Nitro" in his rock group Blood Money.

"I am very excited," the future grandfather said. "Jane is going to be a great mom."

Jane's mom is the Yes Man actor's first wife, Melissa Womer, who the thesp divorced in 1997. Carrey has dated Jenny McCarthy since December 2005.

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UPDATE: And...he shoots, he scores. More than a year after reaching a tentative agreement, DiCaprio and his neighbors finalized the terms of their settlement and a judge has dismissed the case.
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Leonardo DiCaprio's settlement process has hit a snag.

A deal reached in June to settle a property dispute between the actor and a couple who live next door to him in the Hollywood Hills is still not resolved.

"We're still talking and hope to have the kinks worked out," David Glubok, who reps plaintiffs Ronald and Joan Linclau, who claimed that a basketball court that DiCaprio installed undermined a slope in their backyard.

They sued the Body of Lies star for negligence, trespass and nuisance, after which DiCaprio filed a cross-complaint against the contractors who handled the court job, asking that they be forced to foot the bill for any damages the Linclaus might win from him. Then the contractors started suing each other.

Another hearing has been set for December. "Hopefully we'll have it signed, sealed and delivered by then," Glubok said.

(Originally published Oct. 25, 2008, at 4:25 p.m. PT)