One season of P. Diddy clothes for women was one season too much. The originally named Sean Combs has pulled the "Sean by Sean Combs" women's line. The suspension will begin with the fall 2006 line.

We thought the launch of his new cologne line, Unforgivable, might prevent him from turning women into walking trash bags, but unfortunately, he has not given up. Diddy wants to focus on a Sean John women's line.

"Our women's has been delayed to next year because I want to get it right. But it will be incredibly sexy, strong, approachable and hot."

Y'know, Diddy's been talking about getting a women's look off the ground since February 2000. Maybe he's just having trouble grasping the concept of women putting their clothes on?

DADDY PULLS HIS WOMEN [Vogue UK]

• Production on Janet Jackson's new album is almost complete but the first single probably won't drop until February. Hopefully that'll be enough time for Janet to get back into "wardrobe malfunction" shape. [Billboard]

• The Guardian asked some bands who they think is going to be the next big thing on the music scene. Popular responses included Architecture in Helenski and other bands you'll probably never hear. [Guardian]

• The Shins are finally revealing details about their upcoming release. The album is tentatively titled Sleeping Lessons, so we're going to go ahead and assume its going to be easy listening — a lot like their other albums. [Pitchfork]

• Adam Radwanski of Canada's National Post ruminates on how narrow-minded the Grammy nominations are and goes so far to say of the Billboard Awards in comparison: "They may be soulless, but at least they're not f—ing idiotic." [Canada National Post]

• Diddy's yet-to-be-named all-girl supergroup has been made. Watch out for these names, because maybe someday they will release an album before fading into obscurity: Aubrey O'Day, oh hell, that's probably the only one you'll ever need to know. [MTV, AubreyODay.com]

Yes, we know this pic of Diddy and Zac Posen dates way back to Fashion Week, but in this era of terror alerts and subway smells, we thought it'd be nice to treat you to some homoerotic loving between to fashion heavies on a Friday.

Match that, Jai and Rocco.

• Maybe it was the drugs, maybe it was the threeway with Jude Law and Sadie Frost and maybe, well, it was more drugs like that fist-sized lump of coke she snorted with Naomi Campbell, but yes, Kate Moss is out of that H&M gig. Oh, but that's not the news! Rather, it's that now ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty was spotted snogging another man.

• There will be no Comeback comeback for Lisa Kudrow. HBO has canned her post-Friends effort because of other "commitments," otherwise known as "shitty ratings." But the "we don't care about ratings" network can't say that, of course.

• Sarah Jessica Parker clocks in as Gotham's highest-earning female with an estimated $38 million year (thanks, Gap!) followed by Kimora Lee Simmons (thanks, uh, Russell!).

• Naomi Campbell is usually tearing worlds apart, but her Fashion For Relief charity catwalk brought together the feuding Tyson Beckford and Diddy, who shook hands and hugged. Though we didn't see Diddy hand Tyson that $600,000 check he owes him.

• To go with the imagined Louis Vuitton toilet paper is this actual (yes, they really make this) Dior toothpaste cozy. (via)

• Party photog Patrick McMullan might not wind up with his own reality show, by his own accord. His talks with New Line cooled when he started assessing the potential legal issues, as in getting the A-list to sign even more releases.

• And don't forget to attend the WYSIWYG show on Sept. 27 (that's a week from today!). Catch Jossip's editor David Hauslaib waxing on his worst roommate experience that, in all hopefulness, will pale in comparison to yours. Read David's interview at The Precog Blog and purchase your tickets in advance here. And while we're dropping gratuitous plugs, today is also David's birthday, so let the gift baskets commence.

This could've gone much, much worse. Thankfully, Martha Stewart's introduction to spitting rhymes (and don't we sound hip?) was led by Diddy's "Rap 101" instruction.

Martha got schooled on rap vernacular ("chedda," "benjamins" and the somewhat sexually uncomfortable notion of "ballin'") and avoiding the "jake" (that's the police, winners). And it didn't stop there: Diddy also helped her dance.

Lucky for her, audience members don't have a choice in whether or not they applaud.

• Sensitivity challenged Kimberly Stewart strikes again. In the October issue of Stuff, the wanna-be starlet let loose on Heather Mills McCartney, the amputee and activist. "What has three legs and lives on a farm?" Rod Stewart's daughter snarks. "Paul McCartney and his wife." Now what has a saggy ass and pays for friends?

• We can't decide whether Tara Reid is more famous for her awful boob job or her party girl antics, but E! settled the debate for us: She's not famous enough, which is why they canned her Taradise.

• Overexposed author Bret Easton Ellis didn't have quite the experience Anna Wintour did on the Today show. Instead of being quizzed by Matt Lauer (who split to Iraq), Katie Couric conducted the questioning, which left Ellis sneering: "She was such a bitch to me, I couldn't believe it." But the knees! Oh, the knees.

• Blinging up baby! The upcoming spawn of Britney Spears and K-Fed is going to be decked out in a designer wardrobe, courtesy Donatella Versace. No doubt Ms. Versace was enticed by the challenge of creating low riders and tacky T-shirts for the infant set.

• It's 10 counts of fraud for Survivor's first winner Richard Hatch, who notoriously omitted his $1 million winnings plus other compensation. He faces up to 75 years in prison — or eating two dozen balut eggs.

• Tonight's hour-long Hurricane Katrina telethon won't feature any special precautions, except for a five or seven second delay, to ward off any Kanye copycats. Or West himself, who's on the roster.

• Voletta Wallace, mother of Notorious B.I.G., doesn't have very nice things to say about her deceased son's friends Sean Combs and Lil' Kim, and she's using her upcoming memoir to spit. As for Diddy: "Sean loved my son–after he was dead."

• So, what does Sean Penn get for his trouble of saving over 40 people in a borrowed boat? A rumor from a snarky Aussie journalist, claiming the boat sprung a leak. Not true, says Douglas Brinkley, who was on the boat with Penn. If you pull people out of water, guess what? Some water gets in the boat.

• Christina Aguilera became $2 million richer instantly, thanks to her wedding performance quote being met by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko. Meanwhile, Whitney Houston pulled herself together to open the act with Enrique Iglesias for bride (and former Miss Yugoslavia) Alexandra Kokotovic.

• Michael Jackson is reviving his charity motif with plans to record the song "From the Bottom of My Heart" in the next two weeks to benefit Katrina victims. Funny, since we heard he had his removed with his last nose job.

• While Diddy and Jay-Z are donating authentic designer duds to hurricane victims, the Department of Homeland Security is doing its part. They've sent $138 million worth of confiscated faux Yves St. Laurent and Tommy Hilifiger designs to needy evacuees.

• Producers' decision to pull Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie back into the grasp of The Simple Life are getting what they've bargained for. Now they're struggling to tie a plotline around separately filmed scenes.

• W Hotels is snubbing Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony from its Fashion Week party after last year's infamous "fuck you" doodle incident.

• Nicky Hilton is agreeing to hold court as a bridesmaid for both sissy Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride — except for that one time in Vegas when we were really wasted and were lucky enough to get it annulled.

• Ocean Drive's VMA party wasn't just home to Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson's brooding — it was also the scene of Shaquille O'Neal's beating up a fellow party-goer. Though he didn't react with Russell Crowe's pinache. Instead, he took off for for Louisiana to escape Hurricane Katrina.

• Tyson Beckford is done with modeling, thanks to Diddy's Sean John line. He announced yesterday he was quitting the biz of cashing in on good looks thanks to Sean Comb's complete lack of fashion know-how. That'll go nicely with his breach of contract and trademark infringement lawsuit.

• B-List celebrities are clamoring to get spots on the Hurricane Katrina benefit circuit, because being seen is being seen, right?

• Whether you think it was the gays, the terrorists or the gay terrorists responsible for Hurricane Katrina, our money is on abortion rights advocates.

• While Courtney Love spends time at her new rehab home, her New York landlord is trying to kick her out of her SoHo loft (in the building Lenny Kravitz once inhabited). Mercury Capital says she hasn't made a mortgage payment since June, which is understandable considering her habit.

• Now that Ashton Kutcher has stepped aside to impregnate Demi Moore, it's Wilmer Valderrama's moment to shine — as a C-list It Boy.

• Thanks to Suge Knight's self-shooting at Kanye West's VMA party, The Game is running into trouble himself. He was set to attend the Magic Marketplace fashion convention in Las Vegas to promo his Hurricane sneaker by 310, but organizers forced him to leave fearing Knight might send some goons for retribution, even though he had nothing to do with the incident.

• There certainly wasn't any Madonna-Britney kiss to buoy ratings, but Diddy didn't do much to even maintain last year's VMA ratings. The MTV broadcast slipped 22 percent over last year, averaging just 8 million viewers from 10.3 million.

• As part of his reelection campaign, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is ripping on old friend Rudy Giuliani.

• Al Pacino could use some lessons with the ladies. Instead of making young starlets feel comfortable around him, he's scaring them off with his rude 'tude.

• It doesn't matter if you're black or white — unless you're a Hurriance Katrina looter intercepted by a wire service caption.

You'll have to forgive the professional gossipists. Unlike us, they actually sent staffers to the MTV VMAs and, unlike us, they actually have things like editorial calendars and delays between a story breaking and publication.

So with the last of the filing finally making its way into the pages of the tabs, we can do what we do best: recycle the juiciest VMA scoops under one roof, and what better place to start than Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.

Even their publicists are at their breaking points, and the feuding twosome didn't make things any easier as they fought over whether they'd walk the Ocean Drive magazine party red carpet together. They ended up feeding their facade one more bite, walking hand-in-hand (barely) down the paparazzi line. Though Jessica's ring was noticeably absent.

And that was just the beginning. As Jessica was gearing up to perform her latest single "Fired Up" at the Delano, she pulled an Ashlee Simpson, bolting off stage when the wrong "back-up track" started playing.

Then Nick had a run-in at the Setai with Bam Margera, who's been making a name for himself as Jessica's extra-marital partner.

Meanwhile, celebrity riders were as extravagant as expected.

For 50 Cent, it was condoms and Cristal, but absolutely no pork (none for Diddy either). Coldplay and Green Day were happy with cases of liquor and Kanye West was content with just water, salad and Pepsi. Can't say the same for Kelly Clarkson (vanilla candles) or Shakira ("relaxed" lighting and drapes over ugly walls).

In other news, four blokes were enough for Jamie Foxx, who closed the door on fellas at his after-party at the Bentley Beach Hotel. And Mariah Carey is staving off her diva reputation, making demands at her sound check but not without a disclaimer.

As we write this, CNN is engaging on a serious investigation into the celebrity "Name Game," from Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jennifer Lopez to Snoop Dogg, Madonna/Esther and Prince/The Aritst Formerly Known as Prince.

And in a stunning lesson in investigative journalism, journo Jeanie Moss reveals "G is getting better treatment than P." Noted.

All that complaining over Fox News' horrendously biased coverage may be for naught, at least according to a new study referenced as the sole source for Alan Krueger's New York Times item on the subject.

Specifically, the economists ask whether the advent of the Fox News Channel, Rupert Murdoch's cable television network, affected voter behavior. They found that Fox had no detectable effect on which party people voted for, or whether they voted at all.

So if you've been keeping score at home, Diddy's (remember, there's not "P." now) Vote or Die campaign had more affect on voter turn out than Fox News. We're not sure whether that's frightening or calming, but mostly because we're struggling to fight off last night's Ambien.

• It's now just "Diddy" for Sean Combs. Formerly Puff Daddy, Puffy and P. Diddy, the rapper-producer-designer wanted to "simplify things" with his latest name change. Certainly, one less syllable will do the trick.

• Eminem has got Mariah Carey all hot, and not in the way he claims to have had her back in 2002 during their supposed fling. He's playing voicemail messages on-stage during his Anger Management tour that he claims she left for him in 2001, but her camp says it's an impostor on the line.

• Moral is low at Martha Stewart's Bedford estate. Even as she's about to cash in on her comeback, the cooks, gardeners and other staffers are without health insurance or retirement packages.

• NBC is denying they're willing to have Ashlee Simpson return to their set to promo her second album. But with ratings what they are, they should be jumping at any chance for viewer interest to resume. Meanwhile, she's supposedly not targeting Lindsay Lohan in her upcoming single "Boyfriend."

• Just remember, Anderson Cooper shoved first. The CNN 360 anchor is calling out his cable news colleagues for their "downright ridiculous" coverage of Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba and now MSNBC's Dan Abrams is returning the jabs.

• Blogger-stalking victim Corey Feldman cut his Fatal Attraction show short (which plays across the street from us) on Friday night after his fight scene with actress Alana McNair turned into a real-life blood-filled scare.

• Lizzie Grubman and Jonathan Cheban have some 'splainin' to do after their supposedly celeb-friendly and comped New Year's Eve event at the Shelborne Hotel in Miami instead wound up as a credit card charging nightmare. To think the B-list might actually have to pay for their partying is just heartbreaking.

• The New York Philharmonic is lashing out at Anton Polezhayev, who filed a lawsuit against the music troupe last week after being passed over for tenure.

• Jay-Z won the bidding war for 14-year-old R&B singer Karina Pasian, offering up seven figures from his Def Jam Recordings to sign her, leaving with Bad Boy's P. Diddy and Interscrope Jimmy Iovine in the losers circle.

• Green Day leads MTV's Video Music Awards nominations, drawing the enthusiasm of exactly 16 people.

• San Fran mayor Gavin Newsom could be spotted "having a blast" together over the weekend, even though they're en route to divorce.

• New York Post staffers have to ask permission to use instant messenger at work, and even then their bosses will be tracking their key presses.

Formerly Puffy & Puff Daddy, Sean Combs is tired of current moniker

And Lloyd Grove wants your suggestions on his rock'n'roll replacement.