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Sideshow: Life in prison for rapper C-Murder

Big Easy rapper C-Murder (Corey Miller), 38, was sentenced yesterday to a mandatory term of life in prison without parole in the '02 beating and fatal shooting of 16-year-old fan Steve Thomas at a Harvey, La., nightclub.

Big Easy rapper

C-Murder

(

Corey Miller

), 38, was sentenced yesterday to a mandatory term of life in prison without parole in the '02 beating and fatal shooting of 16-year-old fan

Steve Thomas

at a Harvey, La., nightclub.

C- was found guilty in '03, but the conviction was overturned. He was retried and convicted Tuesday. The rapper recently pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder in a separate fight at a Baton Rouge club in '01.

Judge Blige on 'Idol'

Mary J. Blige

will replace

Paula Abdul

replacement

Victoria Beckham

as a judge when

American Idol

rocks into Atlanta for its next set of auditions.

Sonic Youth on 'Gossip'

Post-punk Gen-X rock gods

Sonic Youth

will play an acoustic version of "Starpower" from their third LP, '86's

EVOL

, in a guest appearance this fall on the fifth episode of that Generation Zero favorite,

Gossip Girl

. (

Why?

)

A Gosselin spat

Guess they'll try anything to make headlines. RadarOnline.com says

Jon Gosselin

was with his eight kids Thursday at their house in Wernersville, Berks County, when Kate showed up. Anon sources say she yelled about Jon's alleged fling with nanny

Stephanie Santoro

, 23. Jon would not open the door. Someone called the cops. Kate went to a motel.

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"Sometimes at night, I think of myself with a big belly. That's my happy place. I want to have a huge belly - I crave that!" So says

Shakira

in Latina mag. The singer said she wants babies, but has no plans to marry beau

Antonio de la Rúa

.