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Looks like the Us Weekly-Jessica Meisels feud may actually have come to pass. If you remember, on the heels of Kitson's lawsuit against the tabloid, we exclusively told you about another of West Coast executive editor Ken Baker's problems: an unpaid bill to power publicist Meisels, who was looking for a measly three-figure payment stemming from her work on Baker's Head to Hollywood charity event in June. Baker, we reported, refused to pay up.

Under threats of editorial blacklisting from Janice Min's Us if Meisels didn't but a kabosh on our story, the spinstress insisted to us that all bills were paid. (To be fair, both Us and Meisels have denied, from the beginning, that there was ever any bad blood between the two parties. Our reputable sources said otherwise.)

Further, at the end of last month Meisels claimed to us that her Elizabeth Hurley/Polaroid/Breast Cancer Awareness Month event was being covered by the tabloid. Would a magazine upset with a publicist agree to cover said publicist's event? Likely not.

But there's the coverage, above, in this week's Us Weekly (p. 115). Unless it's a carefully orchestrated ploy to convince us to give up on the story. Though with Ken Baker still in play, we can't entirely dismiss the possibility.

Earlier: Us Weekly & Jessica Meisels' Mended (If Ever Broken) Fences