Nicole Kidman recently gave birth to a baby girl. Her name is Sunday Rose, and she weighed 6 pounds 7.5 ounces. Not even two weeks since giving birth, Ms. Kidman has, according to on lookers, already lost all of her baby weight. "No sign of a baby bump," declares Britain's Daily Mail. Except, given that Kidman never looked more than five months pregnant the entire term, it's natural that she would return to a slim-ish figure quite quickly. As for that disappearing baby bump? The Daily Mail is blind.

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Watch as Britain's Daily Mail writes nice things about a chunky girl who dared wear white. Luckily, she happened to be royalty. "Princess Beatrice was the epitome of summer chic as she took in the polo and enjoyed the May sunshine in a frothy white sun dress. Wearing aviators and casual flat pumps, the 19-year-old looked relaxed as she watched the sport her cousins Princes William and Harry are so fond of." [Daily Mail]

As the Daily Mail reminds us, the album-promoting Janet Jackson is suddenly very svelte again, which means it might be time for Us Weekly's Janice Min to look back to June 2007 and resurrect one of the tabloid's best selling issues ever.

The Daily Express isn't the only British paper (or publication) making a libel payment this week. The Daily Mail, whose owner Associated Newspapers is already shelling out cash to Lisa Marie Presley for calling her fat, is paying an undisclosed sum to "world's 12th richest man" Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., who the paper claimed "engaged in cut-throat, ruthless and despicable business practices and had held secret talks with Malcolm Glazer to take over Manchester United." Apparently that was a "grave slur" against his personal integrity. To us, it's a matter of opinion.

The Daily Mail, the respected British news source that today leads with Jennifer Aniston in a pink bikini, is picking up a report from Star magazine that Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis and terrible singer, is pregnant with twins.

Funny, because wasn't the Mail most recently reporting Presley was fat because she was binging?

Yes, actually, they were — and it pissed her off so much that she's suing them under the U.K.'s less stringent libel laws.

Maybe we're witnessing the settlement agreement in effect?

Being called fat upsets Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of the legendary rocker who died in his bathroom, well, fat. So upset is she with the Daily Mail, Presley is suing them in Britain over claims she was piling on the pounds due to excessive eating. Not lost on Presley: Libel laws are grossly more stringent abroad than they are in the U.S., so proving the newspaper acted maliciously is a helluva lot easier.

For the record, Presley is gaining weight because she is pregnant. And overeating for two.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony got furious when the National Enquirer accused them in being involved in a herion smuggling ring; they're now in the middle of filing a legal claim. Anthrax mailer suspect Steven Hatfill got back at Vanity Fair and Reader's Digest for printing claims about his alleged wrong-doings; he sued (and won in a settlement). Vince Vaughn threatened London's The Sun and Daily Mirror and the New York Post for alleging he cheated on Jennifer Aniston; he let that lawsuit fade away.

Those are three of the various stages a celebrity libel lawsuit might be in.

And then there's Keira Knightley, who just joined the ranks of Roman Polanskis.

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We know what it's like to hear from Steve Bing's attorneys. After this item ran on tabloid cuz MollyGood, we had the pleasure of a few emails and phone calls with the lovely Lynda Goldman at (and where else would she work?) Lavely & Singer. In the end, Bing laughed off the whole incident.

But that's not how things went down with London's Daily Mail in 2003, when they claimed Bing hired Anthony Pellicano to dig up dirt on then-lover Liz Hurley, after she claimed she was pregnant with his child. Cue Bing's passion for threatening to sue, and the Mail caved — issuing a retraction and a cash apology.

Now, the NYT's David Halbfinger and Allison Hope Weiner are laying the groundwork for inviting Bing's infamous litigation with a report that evidence from the Pellicano trial shows Bing paid the P.I. thousands of dollars as early as 2000 and continued through 2002, though it's not clear whether that money was earmarked for investigating Hurley.

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