It appears paparazzi agency X17 and its ethically questionable founders Brandy and François Navarre – who don't care much when their photographers nearly kill people – are reaching some sort of settlement agreement with Eva Longoria and Tony Parker, who launched a $40 million suit libel against the pap company in December after X17 claimed Parker cheated on Longoria with French model Alexandra Paressant.

This nondescript apology – originally riddled with grammar and spelling mistakes, even referring to themselves as "X7," but since corrected – was buried on X17Online.com:

In December 2007, X17online.com published over ten articles concerning Tony Parker and a woman named Alexandra Paressant. Various of the articles asserted that, after Mr. Parker was introduced to Ms. Paressant by Thierry Henry at this wedding to Eva Longoria, Mr. Parker engaged in sexual relations with Ms. Paressant. Since the publication of these articles, X17online.com and X17, Inc. have discovered that Mr. Parker has never met with, or spoken to, Ms. Paressant nor has he ever had sexual relations with her. X17online.com and X17, Inc. regret having been misled by Ms. Paressant and her representatives and apologize to Mr. Parker for any damage or inconvenience this may have caused him or his wife.

Even more interesting: It's paparazzi photo purchaser TMZ.com who took a turn dumping on the agency over the weekend.

In the fallout from X17's irresponsibility, the ones piling it on the most are their own commenters, who are leaving notes like, "Guys, guys. Don't be so hard on x-17. It's gotta be hard to see all the facts when you're stuck up Britney's ass 24 hours a day," "ROFLMFAO!!!!!! YOU BEEN SLAPPED DOWN ASS HOLES. I HOPE BRITS DAD AND MOM GET YOUR ASSES TOO FUCKERS," and one particular doozy.

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Supposed Tony Parker homewrecker Alexandra Paressant is a total fraud, as enterprising reporter Dana Kennedy discovers. The storytelling model claims that she bed Eva Longoria's husband after meeting at their wedding – which landed disgraced paparazzi agency X17 with a $20 million defamation lawsuit – are a total farce. As her core, Paressant is a pathological liar, and a poor one at that: When caught in a lie, she goes on the attack instead of just explaining it away and moving on, like a skilled cheat.

Notoriously litigious paparazzi agency X17 is getting its ass handed to it in a new lawsuit launched by basketball player Tony Parker, husband of Eva Longoria. Filed yesterday, the San Antonio Spurs point guard is seeking $20 million in damages for defamation and invasion of privacy after X17 claimed he cheated, in a series of published text messages, on his now-wife with French model Alexandra Paressant.

"X17 had to know that the story was false, or at the very least, it had to have entertained serious doubts about the credibility of its supposed source," says Parker in the suit. "No one from X17 attempted to contact Mr. Henry, who … would have told them in no uncertain terms that this woman was not at the wedding." Nor would they retract their statements when Parker's camp argued the allegations were false.

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• Mischa Barton's well-defined ribcage proves hell hath no fury like a woman on a no-carb diet.

• Britney too sick to show up in court, not too sick to drive around in her giant Crashmobile.

• Breaking: Tony Parker (a.k.a. Mr. Eva Longoria) may or may not have sent some banal text messages to a person of the opposite sex.

• Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson continue their "Fuck it, we're high" tour of 2007.

• Not even Marilyn Manson is crazy enough to sell his own foreskin. Or is he?