With this week's ouster of HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman, so too come the exciting details. Like how Rupert Murdoch took a meeting with Friedman's deputy Brian Murray on Monday, and then met with Friedman on Wednesday, where she was told she'd be leaving the company, and then named Murray her successor.

But another bit of HarperCollins news makes headlines this week: That the publisher is suing former Star columnist and reality television star Victoria Gotti for the $70,000 advance they paid her in a 2005 two-book deal, one of which was to be a memoir, but never materialized. Her literary agent says no big whoop, and that she'll return the advance. Oh, and maybe the reason she never turned in that memoir is because they fired her confidant Judith Regan and all her underlings, and she didn't feel like commuting in from Long Island to make any new friends.

• We are by no means suggesting that murder is funny, but when somebody falls off a cruise ship two seconds after meeting Tara Reid, suicide shoud definitely be considered an option. [Page Six]

• Jennifer Aniston's version of dinner: sitting at a table full of food [People]

• Victoria Gotti gets axed from relaity television to make room for Jann Wenner and Bonnie Fuller. Either that or Long Island ran out of hair gel. [NYDN]

• The Brits may laugh, but we just know Lindsay Lohan can prove that American girls have what it takes to be the face of Chanel. Huge coke habits can transcend borders. [Glamour UK]

• Teri Hatcher gets her holiday bonus early. [MSNBC]