‘Never ever getting back together’

Bobby Brown is reportedly suing an American tabloid for making false reports he planned to re-marry his late ex-wife Whitney Houston just before her death. The 44-year-old former New Edition singer is waging a legal battle against The National Enquirer, the New York Daily News reports.

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Get Me Boies!

This is the way David Boies conducts himself when the battle is at its hottest, when losses are mounting and the enemy is preparing for the kill: he sits upright with his gold-framed reading glasses halfway down his nose, a pen and document in hand, while his paralegal, only a few feet away, performs a circus act involving two cell phones, a briefcase and an importunate reporter. Boies’ pen makes sharply slanting scratches on a critical legal brief–just one stone in a brutal, driving hail of critical briefs–that must be filed immediately on behalf of Vice President Al Gore

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People: Aug. 24, 1962

In New York County Surrogate's Court, the last will and testament of Marilyn Monroe was filed for probate, showing that for all her troubled personal life, her business affairs seemed in extraordinarily good order. Unencumbered by the debts, tax claims and pending lawsuits so common to Hollywood's money minters, the value of her estate was listed “in excess of $500,000,” a legalism often meaning much more.

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