Singer pleased to see abuse allegations cut

LOS ANGELES -- At Jackson Browne's demand, two TV programs have edited out scenes referring to allegations the singer beat up Daryl Hannah during their romance.

The Fox Television Production of "America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story," which aired on TNT in January, will be modified to delete references to Browne in two scenes, Browne publicist Michael Jensen said Thursday in a statement.

"I never assaulted Daryl Hannah, and this fact was confirmed by the investigation conducted at the time by the Santa Monica Police Department," Browne said in the statement. "I am gratified that Fox agreed to take these steps."

Fox Television spokesman Justin Pierce said the network had no comment.

Lunden keeping quiet on surrogate twins

NEW YORK -- Joan Lunden, whose newborn twins were born to a surrogate, won't say if she's biologically connected to the infants.

"I'm not going on record as saying anything," Lunden said when asked by Barbara Walters in an interview Friday on ABC News' "20/20."

"We've really taken the position that we want to not be public about how we go about creating our children," said the former "Good Morning America" host. Excerpts of the interview were released by the network.

Lunden, 52, and her husband, Jeff Konigsberg, met the surrogate, Deborah Bolig, last fall through the Los Angeles-based Center for Surrogate Parenting. They'd failed to conceive through in-vitro fertilization.

Bolig gave birth to Kate and Max Konigsberg in a Cincinnati hospital last month. Lunden has three daughters from a previous marriage. The twins are Konigsberg's first children.

Lunden said Bolig has no biological relationship to the twins.

Entertainers agree to pay back diverted funds

NEW YORK -- Cameron Diaz, Alannis Morissette and other former celebrity clients of convicted Wall Street fund manager Dana Giacchetto have agreed to repay the money he illegally diverted to them, Thesmokinggun.com Web site says.

Diaz has repaid $100,000 after being sued for $208,600. Richard Lovett, president of Creative Artists Agency, returned $75,000 after being sued for $150,000; Tim Roth returned $60,000; screenwriter Richard LaGravenese, $90,000; Morissette, $1,800; Leonardo DiCaprio's father, George, $2,000; and composer Philip Glass $2,500, the crime Web site said.

Giacchetto, 40, was convicted in 2001 of improperly diverting funds to his Hollywood clientele from the accounts of ordinary clients, claiming they represented investment gains.

He had pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges accusing him of squandering nearly $10 million of his Hollywood clients' funds on a lavish, drug-abusing lifestyle.

As a result of "fraudulent conveyance" lawsuits filed last year by the court-appointed trustee handling the Cassandra Group's bankruptcy, Diaz, Morissette and others recently agreed to return funds that will be used to repay Cassandra's creditors, said the Web site, which displayed documents from the Manhattan Bankruptcy Court.

The Web site said some of the largest sums still remain unpaid, including Tobey Maguire, $350,000; Courteney Cox, $228,727; Ben Stiller, $96,094; Jon Favreau, $19,027; Dan Cortese, $53,125; and Steven Van Zandt, $150,000.

Giacchetto, who was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, entered a Bronx halfway house earlier this year; he is scheduled to leave July 28.

Celebs in legal battle over wedding photos

LONDON -- The former editor of OK! magazine says sales of its issue covering the wedding of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas fell well short of expectations after rival Hello! magazine printed unauthorized photos of the nuptials.

Martin Townsend compared the wedding with that of British celebrity couple David and Victoria Beckham Thursday at a hearing in High Court to decide the damages to be awarded to OK! and the Hollywood couple.

Justice John Lindsay ruled in April that Hello! breached the couple's commercial confidence by printing photos of their $2 million wedding at New York's Plaza Hotel in November 2000.

Zeta-Jones and Douglas are seeking $800,000 from Hello!, while OK! publisher, Northern & Shell PLC, has asked for $2.75 million.

Jerry Lee Lewis seeks divorce from sixth wife

NESBIT, Miss. -- Jerry Lee Lewis, known for hits such as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On," and his sixth wife, Kerrie McCarver Lewis, are suing each other for divorce.

The 67-year-old singer filed a divorce petition April 16 in DeSoto County Chancery Court. Kerrie McCarver Lewis sued in May.

Until recently, Lewis and his 40-year-old wife -- president of Lewis' JKL Enterprises Inc. fan club -- lived together at a 40-acre ranch near Nesbit.

The couple were married in 1984; they have a 16-year-old son, Jerry Lee Lewis III. It was her second marriage.

Kerrie McCarver Lewis has asked for an injunction ordering Lewis to pay unspecified child support, temporary alimony and all medical bills. She also seeks to bar him from any transfer or disposing of assets until a full accounting is made.

Jerry Lee Lewis couldn't be reached Thursday for comment.

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