The accident involved no other vehicle and the Oscar winner was neither drunk nor under the influence of drugs at the wheel, police said in a statement.

“For unknown reasons, Mr Gibson steered his car to the right and struck the rock hillside,” the statement said.

“His vehicle was towed from the scene, DUI is not suspected in the accident,” it added.

The accident follows a troubled few weeks for the Australian-raised star, who is under investigation for domestic violence after his former partner Oksana Grigorieva released recordings of abusive telephone calls he allegedly made.

Gibson’s driving habits made the headlines in 2006 when he was arrested at the wheel with 1.5 times the legal blood alcohol limit.

He was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $US1,300 after undergoing alcohol rehabilitation.

At the time, Gibson’s arrest exploded into a major scandal when he made anti-Semitic remarks to the highway patrol.

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With this in mind, Dunn is suing the Big O’s new creation for discrimination in the workplace.

So far, Oprah and her company has not commented on the lawsuit — and may choose to settle the matter privately before releasing a statement of any kind.

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Mel Gibson was interviewed by detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Sunday, concerning extortion claims by his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva’s extortion.

Gibson is under investigation for alleged domestic violence. He claims his Russian babymama Grigorieva tried to shake him down over a series of damaging phone recordings, according to Daily News reports.

“We did talk to Mel Gibson on Sunday. It had nothing to do with the domestic violence investigation. It only concerned the allegations of extortion,” Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore told the Daily News on Tuesday.

“He wanted to make formal complaint for the allegations for extortion and provide information to the detectives,” said Steve Whitmore. “Detectives will investigate this wherever it leads,” he added.

The sheriff’s department is also investigating claims by Grigorieva that Gibson abused her during a January confrontation.

The former couple, which split earlier this year, has become embroiled in a bitter battle over recent weeks as they attempt to thrash out custody arrangements for their young daughter, Lucia.

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The video, released today, features Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan as a sexy couple caught up in an ugly cycle of domestic abuse — graphically loving, fighting, drinking, shoplifting and ultimately burning down the house.

It’s both engaging and very disturbing to watch.

People.com quotes Eminem as saying, "[Director] Joseph [Kahn] and I worked pretty closely together to make sure we got this right. Trying to make this tough subject work visually is a challenge. It was great to have Rihanna, Megan and Dominic on board for this. They really brought it and made this video super-powerful."

In the video, Fox and Monaghan are shown repeatedly slapping and hitting each other, then heading to a bar, romantically teasing each other, shoplifting liquor and then engaging in more abusive behavior amid some steamy scenes of kiss and make-up.

Reportedly Fox donated her salary from the video to Sojourn House, a shelter for abused women.

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US actor Charlie Sheen has been sentenced to 30 days in rehabilitation after he pleaded guilty to assault in a domestic violence case.

His wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen, had told police he had put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her during a row on Christmas Day 2009.

He denied the claims, and more serious charges were dropped in a plea bargain.

The 44-year-old was put on probation and told to undergo 36 hours of anger management.

He was told to attend the Promises Treatment Center in California, which specialises in drug and alcohol addiction.

But his lawyer said as the actor had already spent three months at the centre this year, it was uncertain how long he would now actually have to stay there.

“Credit for time served is absolutely on the table,” said Yale Galanter. “How much credit he gets is up to Promises.”

“I’m very grateful to the court and to the people of Pitkin County,” Sheen said in a statement after the hearing in the Colorado court.

“I look forward to complying with the court’s decision, getting on with my life and putting this behind me.”

According to reports, the couple agreed to reconcile earlier this year.

Sheen married Brooke Mueller, his third wife, in 2008 following an acrimonious divorce from actress Denise Richards.

The actor – one of US TV’s highest-paid stars – recently signed a deal to star in US sitcom Two and a Half Men for another two seasons.

Lawyer Yale Galanter said Sheen would be back working on the show on Tuesday.

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Aretha Wilson, 40, attacked the star at a private party in Hollywood, resulting in him needing about a dozen stitches to his face and neck.

After fleeing to Canada, Ms Wilson was extradited to Los Angeles to face a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

She was ordered to not to contact, or come within 500 yds (457m) of DiCaprio.

Ms Wilson is accused of sneaking into a party hosted by Paris Hilton’s former boyfriend, Rick Salomon.

According to police, she mistook DiCaprio for an ex-boyfriend and attacked him with the bottle.

DiCaprio later filed a formal criminal complaint with authorities and a warrant was issued for Ms Wilson’s arrest after she failed to report to a police station.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Hilleri G Merritt ordered Ms Wilson back to court on 11 August, where she will face the charges.

The judge also raised her bail from $60,000 (£38,000) to $150,000 (£95,000) stating concern about her “willingness and ability to come back to court”.

The prosecutor said Ms Wilson was on probation for a previous offence in Canada at the time of the attack.

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Caroline Giuliani, 20, was taken into custody at a branch of the Sephora skincare and makeup store near the home on the tony East Side of Manhattan she shares with her mother, Donna Hanover, a former newscaster who divorced from Giuliani in 2002.

She was allegedly caught by a store security camera shoplifting five cosmetics items worth more than $100 — including Aqua Cream, Dior Skinflash Primer, Bliss hydroderm cream, a rollerball funnel and a hairnet — and escorted out of the store in handcuffs, according to police sources.

Giuliani is currently being held by police. Charges have yet to be filed, but police sources told ABC News that she is expected to be charged with petit larceny and released. She will be required to appear before a judge at a later date, sources said.

“Caroline is a lovely young woman,” her attorney, Michael Bachner, said in a statement. “Still, it would be inappropriate for me to comment while her matter is in the legal process.”

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She has been in jail in Texas on charges of forgery, fraud and breaking her probation, and her trial began on Monday.

But in a shocking new twist, Cristal told a reporter from ‘Dallas Morning News’ in a telephone interview: “I am pregnant.”

German giant Nowitzki (30) is said to be in shock!

According to Taylor, the pregnancy only came to light when she was examined whilst in prison: “”I didn’t even know,” she told the newspaper. “Nobody knew until they tested me in Dallas.”

Now the Dallas Mavericks star finds himself in a tricky situation.

He broke up with Taylor after the accusations were made against her and immediately stopped contact – he even changed his phone number and said he wanted nothing more to do with her. Now he must stand by the woman who let him down.

In the interview, Taylor said: “I didn’t tell him everything about my past, because I was afraid that he might leave me. Now I’m pregnant and alone and broke because he is my only source of income.”

That’s a bit rich! Some are saying that the pregnancy is all a big stunt.

An official confirmation of her statement is still pending. There has been no word from prison management.

Nowitzki’s coach Holger Geschwindner (63) told BILD: “If she is really pregnant, then Dirk will behave accordingly.”

Dirk is staying in the US but is supposed to return to Germany soon, where Crystal will surely follow if she gets the chance…

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But her recent nude scene in her hit Showtime series “Weeds” went too far: “I didn’t think I needed to be naked,” she tells MORE magazine. “I fought with the director about it, and now I am bitter.

“I knew it was going to be on the Internet: ‘Mary Louise shows off her big nipples.’ I wish I hadn’t done that. I was goaded into it.”

Thanks for telling us. We missed that episode. Did you see it? Were you shocked?

Time to download Mary Louise’s whatever-she-called-them on ITunes.

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Winfrey’s apology was first reported on the Web site of Vanity Fair, with the author saying he felt “grateful” for Winfrey’s gesture. The two have a tumultuous history.

Winfrey had been one of Frey’s most vocal boosters, naming his 2003 drugs-and-alcohol memoir “A Million Little Pieces” one of her “book club” choices in 2005 and propelling it to bestseller status.

But the next year, after it was revealed Frey had invented some details in the supposedly non-fiction memoir and written that he once spent three months behind bars when in reality it was a few hours, Winfrey lambasted him as a guest on her show.

“It is difficult for me to talk to you, because I really feel duped,” Winfrey said on the 2006 broadcast.

She went on to accuse the author of betraying his readers. Her berating of Frey was among the most public embarrassments for the author, who apologized for “lying.” A month after the broadcast his publisher Riverhead Books dropped him.

But Winfrey and Frey appear to have reconciled.

Frey said Winfrey called him last fall to tell him “I felt I owe you an apology,” and she explained that her lambasting of him sprang from her sense of feeling betrayed, according to the Vanity Fair report.

“It was a nice surprise to hear from her, and I really appreciated the call and the sentiment,” he told Vanity Fair.

Angela DePaul, a spokeswoman for Winfrey confirmed that the chat show host had called to apologize.

There are no immediate plans to bring Frey on the show for another episode, because the program has stopped taping new episodes for the season.

Frey’s latest book “Bright Shiny Morning,” a work of fiction, came out last year from HarperCollins to mixed reviews and was reissued on paperback this month.

Oprah apologizes for slamming author James Frey