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Neighbor accuses Bieber of battery

From Wire Reports

A neighbor accused Justin Bieber on Tuesday of battery and making threats during an argument in suburban Los Angeles, authorities said.

No one was arrested and few details were immediately available.

A representative of Bieber did not immediately return a request for comment.

The “Baby” singer is in the midst of a European tour and performed a show in Poland on Monday night.

Authorities were called to the Calabasas, Calif., scene just after 9 a.m., said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

“There have been allegations made against Mr. Bieber of battery and making threats,” Whitmore said.

Bissinger big on boots, leather

Buzz Bissinger never worries that he’s got nothing to wear.

In an article for GQ magazine, he confesses that he’s shelled out more than $600,000 on clothing as he battles an addiction akin to a drug or sex habit.

The 58-year-old author of “Friday Night Lights” says he has 81 leather jackets, 75 pairs of boots and 115 pairs of leather gloves.

Bissinger writes that he is baring himself in print in hopes it will help him deal with his problem.

Warwick owes millions in back taxes

Singer Dionne Warwick claims in a recent bankruptcy filing that she owes nearly $10 million in back taxes and her monthly expenses top $20,000.

The singer of “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” filed a Chapter 7 petition in U.S. bankruptcy court in New Jersey last Thursday.

In the filing, 72-year-old Warwick listed liabilities that include nearly $7 million owed to the Internal Revenue Service for the years 1991 to 1999 and more than $3 million in business taxes owed to the state of California.

Ex-football player, reality star split

Former Pittsburgh Steelers standout Kordell Stewart has filed for divorce from his reality television star wife.

In a divorce petition filed Friday in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta, Stewart says his marriage to Porsha Williams is “irretrievably broken” and the two are separated. The pair appears on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”

The filing says the two married May 21, 2011, and have no children together.

The birthday bunch

Actor Michael York is 71. Movie director Quentin Tarantino is 50. Singer Mariah Carey is 43. Actor Nathan Fillion is 42. Hip-hop singer Fergie is 38.