Diddy's Early Release Twist, Josh Duhamel's Split Confession, Vince Vaughn's Wedding Crash & More
Plus a Kennedy family clash over a new series, a Housewives comeback, Swift’s hidden inspiration reveal & a wild rumor debunked.
Headlines may scream – but the real chaos is unfolding behind the scenes.
Sean “Diddy” Combs scores an early release after his “freak off” fallout, Josh Duhamel finally spills on his Fergie split, and Vince Vaughn turns real-life wedding crasher. Add in a Kennedy family takedown of Ryan Murphy, surprise TV comebacks, and viral rumors gone wild – and suddenly the gossip cycle is in overdrive.
From courtroom curveballs to celebrity clapbacks and blink-and-you-miss-it moments, the drama isn’t slowing down anytime soon. This is HOLLYWOOD 411 by KEEPING TABS – Let’s dive in.
DIRTY DIDDY GETTING EARLY RELEASE
JAILED sex-party maestro SEAN “DIDDY” COMBS has caught a prison break - the billionaire record mogul’s reportedly getting released 40 days early after joining a drug rehab program in the clink. The 56-year-old, who’s serving four years in the slammer after being convicted of transporting people for the purpose of prostitution, will now be set loose on April 25, 2028, say sources.
While he was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges, his convictions are linked to his notorious “freak off” parties where male prostitutes were brought in for sex orgies. Combs’ lawyers got him into the rehab program by arguing that his drug use drove him to throw the “freak offs.” Before his sentencing, the bad boy wrote a letter to his judge claiming he was “now sober for the first time in 25 years” and trying “to deal with my drug abuse and anger issues.”
The trial judge, who blasted Combs for the “savage” abuse that his ex-galpal CASSIE VENTURA said she suffered at his hands, also ordered the moneybags rapper be put on supervision for five years following his prison release.
JOSH SPILLS ON FERGIE SPLIT
Ransom Canyon hunk JOSH DUHAMEL and Black Eyed Peas pop princess FERGIE split after eight years of marriage and son AXL, now 12, in 2017 - and now he reveals why. “We’re just very different,” he says. “She and I just have different views of the world. And that’s OK.” The 53-year-old actor was just three years older than Fergie, but is a whopping 21 years older than second wife AUDRA MARI.
Both North Dakota natives, he invited the former Miss World contestant to a barbecue at his house. “I wasn’t even inviting her because I wanted to date her, because she was too young for me... I’m not going to be that dude. So... she comes to the door and: “Holy s***. [She’s] so beautiful.’” Wed in 2022, they’re now parents of a 2-year-old son, SHEPHERD, and are expecting their second child, a girl.
VINCE REAL-LIFE WEDDING CRASHER
VINCE VAUGHN’s star skyrocketed after playing the wise-cracking goof in the hit 2005 flick Wedding Crashers, and the funnyguy did it for real at the recent nuptials of ALI WALDMAN and EVAN ESHELMAN. The lovebirds had tied the knot at Washington, D.C.’s InterContinental at the Wharf and were in the lobby posing for pics when the actor, 56, sauntered up and “crashed” their wedding. “At first, we didn’t immediately realize who he was, and then it clicked,” gushes photog VENESSA RAMIREZ.
“We asked if he would mind taking a quick photo with the couple, and he happily agreed. The interaction was brief, just a few minutes, but he was warm, friendly, and made the moment feel really special.”
SCHLOSSBERG HATES LOVE STORY
TV hotshot RYAN MURPHY expected applause for his new FX series, Love Story, about the ill-fated romance of JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. and his bride, CAROLYN BESSETTE KENNEDY - but John’s outspoken nephew JACK SCHLOSSBERG blasts it as “grotesque!” Jack, whose mom, CAROLINE KENNEDY, is John’s sister, is slamming the prolific showrunner for making money off his family’s horrific tragedy when the plane John was piloting and Carolyn and her sister LAUREN BESSETTE were in crashed in the waters off Martha’s Vineyard in 1999.
“If you want to know someone who’s never met anyone in my family, knows nothing about us, talk to Ryan Murphy,” spits Jack. “The guy knows nothing about what he’s talking about, and he’s making a ton of money on a grotesque display of someone else’s life.”
MUSIC NEWS, TV COMEBACKS ... AND MORE!
TAYLOR SWIFT’s hit tunes are often about her and her romances, but best pal SELENA GOMEZ says Dorothea in the album Evermore is about her when she was breaking into showbiz as a teen and the friends didn’t see each other much. The song goes: “Hey, Dorothea, do you ever stop and think about me?! When we were younger down in the park/Honey. makin’ a lark of the misery/ You got shiny friends since you left town/A tiny screen’s the only place I see you now/And I got nothin’ but well wishes for ya.”
Real Housewives of New York City is welcoming back an oldie, but goodie - CAROLE RADZIWILL - last seen on the chatfest eight years ago. Sources tattle that the author and journalist, who appeared in five seasons, has mended fences after a falling-out with Housewives overseer ANDY COHEN. Says Carole: “Andy and I are very much on the same page now, and I’m happy about that.”
Pulp Fiction director QUENTIN TARANTINO is alive and fit as a fiddle despite a social media claim that he was killed by an “Iranian missile in Tel Aviv.” The filmmaker has been living in the city with Israeli wife DANIELLA PICK and their two kids for the past four years. Quentin describes Tel Aviv as a smaller version of L.A. with “magnificent restaurants, cool bars, cool clubs.”