It’s said that Nicole Richie’s new engagement ring is estimated to be around 47 Carats.. Dang!  She also tells that the husband to be is the current father of her baby Joel Madden.

Click here to see pictures of the engagement ring!

TMZ has obtained a photo of the alleged love child of Mathew Knowles — aka Beyonce’s dad — and while Knowles has yet to take a DNA test … we kinda see a resemblance.

Alexsandra Wright — who claims she had an 18 month affair with Knowles — filed a paternity suit against him back in October and gave birth on February 4. Wright’s lawyers are in court today, trying to get Knowles to pony up child support

– so far, sources say, he hasn’t paid a cent.

For his part, Mathew has skirted the issue, telling TMZ, “We are not aware of the birth of a child. Mr. Knowles has never had a DNA test. These rumors are untrue.”

HERE’S A PICTURE!!

From TMZ.COM

Adam Lambert put one of his own fans on blast yesterday — in the middle of a live performance — after the rude fan was caught yapping away on her phone while the “American Idol” alum was trying to sing.

After appearing together at Monday’s arraignment for Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s family issued a series of statements decrying the doctor’s not-guilty plea to the charge of involuntary manslaughter.

“He’s lying. He’s guilty. Nobody was there but him,” Jackson’s mother, Katherine, told the assembled media while leaving court. “He’s just trying to save his own behind. … He killed him. He wasn’t monitoring him.”

Murray, who faces up to four years in prison if convicted, didn’t make a statement following his court appearance, during which he did not interact with the Jackson family members, according to reports. The Houston-based doctor is expected to leave Los Angeles after posting $75,000 bail.

“Dr. Murray is doing fine. … He’s in good spirits,” attorney Edward Chernoff said during a press conference after the hearing.

As one expert suggested in an interview with MTV News, it could be hard to find an impartial jury in Los Angeles, a reality Chernoff said he was ready to deal with. “It’s going to be tough, but I think if we get the right jury, the right result will come in,” he said. “This has been a nightmare for [Murray] for many different reasons, and one of the reasons is that he lost a friend.”

Murray was hired as Jackson’s personal physician several months before the singer was slated to leave for England to begin his planned 50-show residency comeback stint at the O2 arena. The cardiologist told investigators that he administered the surgical anesthetic propofol, as well as other tranquilizers, to Jackson several times in the hours leading up to his June 25 death. The coroner has ruled that the singer died of lethal levels of the drug. Murray obtained propofol legally, but is accused of negligence in the administration of the drug, a stance prosecutors came to after speaking with more than 10 medical experts.

Outspoken family patriarch Joe Jackson went on CNN’s “Larry King Live” following the hearing and called Murray a “fall guy” in a wider conspiracy. Speaking to King after attending the hearing with his estrange wife, five of his children and a number of grandchildren, Jackson reiterated, “I was looking for justice, and justice, to me, would be a murder charge.” According to legal experts, Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter because there was no proof the doctor purposely acted in a fashion intended to cause death or serious injury to his patient.

“To me, he’s just a fall guy,” Jackson claimed. “There’s other people, I think, involved with this whole thing. But I think that he’s interrogated — he would come clean and tell everything he knows.” According to Joe, Michael Jackson told his mother that he feared he would be killed in the lead-up to his London shows.

“He was afraid to even do all of these shows, because he was afraid that he wouldn’t get a chance to finish all of the show,” Joe Jackson said. “He couldn’t do all those shows back-to-back. Even his kids say that he had told them that he would be murdered.”

Sister La Toya Jackson issued a statement later in the day, which read, “Michael was murdered, and although he died at the hands of Dr. Conrad Murray, I believe Dr. Murray was a part of a much larger plan. There are other individuals involved, and I will not rest and I will continue to fight until all of the proper individuals are brought forth and justice is served.”

La Toya and Joe Jackson have not elaborated on their allegations and neither has named any other suspected conspirators. Police have not named any other suspects in Jackson’s death, after focusing almost exclusively on Murray during their nearly eight-month investigation.

Do you like the teardrop we gave Conrad with MS Paint?

At present, emcee/actor crews The Fat Boys and Kid N’ Play are involved, as well as Dr. Dre’s onetime pupils J.J. Fad. Performances have been confirmed on January 16th at Casino Viejas in San Diego. The trio of groups has also confirmed a May 15th date at Detroit’s Fox Theater.

The tour has been organized by Louie and Eric B., co-founder of Eric B. & Rakim. Dates in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, St. Louis, New York and Los Angeles will reportedly also be announced.

Other acts that are said to be featured on this tour include Special Ed, Kurtis Blow and Salt N’ Peppa.

HipHopDX will announce the additional dates added to the tour as they are confirmed.

Promoters looking to bring Uncle Louie’s Old School Extravaganza to their city can visit www.Uncle-Louie.com for more info.

The Walton County Sheriff’s Office said that the boy walked into the store Thursday, pointed a wood-barreled, long gun at the clerk and demanded money from the cash register. After handing him an undisclosed amount of money, the clerk told deputies the boy said thank you and left.

A deputy on patrol saw the boy walking on a highway. The boy attempted to run before being stopped.Authorities said they found the money and toy weapon. The boy was first transported to the Walton County Jail, and later transferred to the Department of Juvenile Justice in Crestview.

Food stamps are the primary federal anti-hunger program. It helps poor people buy groceries. The economic stimulus package boosted benefits by $80 a month for a family of four.

Participation has surged since the financial-market turmoil more than a year ago and has set a record each month since December 2008. The Agriculture Department said enrollment reached 37.9 million in October, the latest month for which figures are available, up 746,000 from the previous month.

The average monthly benefit was $133.60 per person in October.

The Food Research and Action Center, an anti-hunger group, said enrollment of one in eight Americans “is the highest share of the U.S. population” ever in the program, which was renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in mid-2008.