Amy Sultan – senior reporter deputy news editor at Us Weekly and new-ish wife to Scott Cosman (pictured here), operator of the tabloid's "in-house" paparazzi agency Flynet – has left the magazine, we're hearing.

She departed sometime this week, or as it's heretofore to be known, Post-Lawsuit.

Sultan, as you'll recall, was at the center of controversy over allegations that Us Weekly-lawsuit-filer Jill Ishkanian was hacking into Us Weekly's email and computer systems, since it was Sultan's username and password that were regularly abused, granting access to an untold number interested outsiders and celebrities.

And just so your dot-connecting comes full circle, Ishkanian-target and Us online chief Ken Baker was a guest at Sultan's wedding to Cosmon. And it was Cosmon's Flynet who snapped the pics of Teri Hatcher and Ryan Seacrest kissing — an allegedly staged setup orchestrated by Seacrest and BFF Ken Baker.

Now, what's that sound we're hearing? Oh, right: chips falling.

When news broke last week that paprazzo Scott Cosman was suing Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards (remember that laptop gently tossed over the balcony?), the photog industry was abuzz with a not-so-well-kept unreported secret: Cosman is one of the owners of Flynet, the agency you'll remember for working with Us Weekly's Ken Baker to set up a smoochfest between Teri Hatcher and Ryan Seacrest (a Baker pal) in that makeout session.

Cosman and Rik Fedyck are taking on Richards with a lawsuit charging she went on a rampage after spotting the twosome snapping pics of Anderson on the set of Blonde and Blonder in November '06. The part where Denise called him a "fuckkng cockksucker at least 12-15 times as well as scumbags, douche bags and paparazzi scum" allegedly ended with Richards throwing their laptop over the balcony where it landed on an elderly lady.

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