SHE’S not even two days old, but Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby girl is already proving to be a diva thanks to the over-the-top security measures afforded her pushy, famous parents at the Manhattan hospital where she was born.

Beyonce Knowles has given birth to a baby girl.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs became the first rapper to be honoured on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday when he unveiled the 2,362nd star outside Hollywood landmark Mann's Chinese Theater.

Former supermodel Tyra Banks made good on a promise to pay an unpaid restaurant bill this morning after New York's Daily News newspaper "outed" her following a "dine and dash" controversy.

Britney Spears stepped out to support friend Kimora Lee Simmons at her fashion show last Friday in New York City where she told reporters her newly single status was "awesome".

Czech model Petra Nemcova has hit back at reports that she has left Beautiful singer James Blunt and taken up with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.

Eddie Murphy and his wife Nicole are divorcing because of the pressure of a showbiz marriage, according to her pal Kimora Lee Simmons.

Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Josh Groban, Def Leppard and Toby Keith have been added to the line-up of Saturday’s Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.

Lotsa de Casha, the fifth and final instalment in a series of children’s books by Madonna, has been released.

Rap mogul Russell Simmons has come under fire from the owners of hip-hop magazine The Source, after he pulled out of speaking at an event.

Rap beauty Lil' Kim credits late lover The Notorious B.I.G. as being her central "role model" who taught her "a lot of things".

Outkast's Andre 3000 and Wyclef Jean have become the latest hip-hop stars to urge fans to vote in the forthcoming US presidential election.

Rapper Ricky “Slick Rick” Walters said today he still cannot believe he was freed from jail more than 17 months after US officials moved to deport the British-born star and locked him up.

Sean “P Diddy” Combs has joined fellow rap mogul Russell Simmons and former US housing secretary Andrew Cuomo in calling for New York’s strict drug laws to be the repealed.

WHILE police investigated whether a feud led to the fatal shooting of Jam Master Jay, a founding member of the pioneering rap trio Run-DMC, friends and family mourned and puzzled over the slaying.