Penelope Cruz Has Baby Boy, Mellencamp Files for Divorce, and Rihanna a Lesbian?

A couple of the big stories making the headlines today are the birth of a new baby boy to Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, while John Mellencamp files for divorce. Get the juicy details here, as well as a few more good celebrity scoops.

New Baby Boy for Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem

The New York Post is reporting that the superstar couple welcomed a new baby boy on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California. No details have been released at this time other than the fact that close family members were at the hospital at the time of birth.

Cruz and Bardem first met on the set of "Jamon, Jamon," a Spanish comedy filmed in 1992. The pair didn't start dating until 2007. The couple tied the knot in July of 2010 in a quiet ceremony held in the Bahamas.

The couple confirmed the pregnancy while Cruz was still filming "Pirates in the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" in September 2010.

Rocker John Mellencamp Files for Divorce

After 18 years of marriage to Elaine Irwin-Mellencamp, John Mellencamp has filed for divorce. Papers were filed in Brown County, Indiana on January 14, 2011 by the rock star to end his marriage to his third wife. The petition contained three pages according to the Clerk's Office in Brown County.

John and Elaine have two teenage sons together.

Mellencamp released his latest album, "No Better Than This" earlier this month.

Rihanna A Lesbian?

That is what Hollywood Gossip if reporting! Natajah Burton is the lady making the claim and she will tell all in a book she is currently writing titled "Low Down Dirty Shame." It seems that Rihanna will not be the only celeb Burton will dish on in this tell-all story of her experience with Rihanna. Burton claims to have bedded other A-list stars as well. Burton's new book promises to be a real low down and dirty book!

Elizabeth Olsen, the Olsen Twin's Little Sister Takes Sundance by Storm

Elizabeth Olsen, 21, has impressed many with her acting abilities at the Sundance Film Festival with roles in two movies soon to be released. In fact, she has been dubbed the Sundance Film Festival's "It Girl." Olsen's two movies are titled, "Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene," a suspense film and "Silent House," a spectacular horror movie.

Olsen, who has worked on Broadway as an understudy for the play "Impressionism" just started going on movie auditions in January of last year. That is quite an accomplishment for a newbie without any help or endorsements from her sisters at that. And Elizabeth, "Lizzie" is getting rave reviews, at that!

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Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem Celebrate Birth of Baby Boy

John Mellencamp Files for Divorce

Is Rihanna a Lesbian?

The Other Olsen Sister