Tattle: Alleged DeMentri vandalism a 'nonissue'

LOWER MERION police have ended their investigation into an alleged incident that took place in the parking lot of NBC 10's Bala Cynwyd headquarters recently in which the station's 4 p.m. anchor

Vince DeMentri

is believed to have vandalized the car of reporter/anchor

Lori Delgado

, reports the People Paper's

Dan Gross

.

Yesterday, Brenda Viola, spokeswoman for Lower Merion police, told Gross she could not deny that there had been an investigation, but that the matter was "now a nonissue."

As Gross reported on PhillyGossip.com yesterday, Lower Merion police told news crews gathered outside the police station in Ardmore that they should go home as there was no story.

The crews had showed up chasing a rumor that DeMentri would be turning himself in to police. DeMentri was kept off the air Thursday and Friday after a meeting with news director Chris Blackman. He was previously scheduled for vacation this week, said NBC 10 spokeswoman Eva Blackwell, who declined to comment on when he may be back on air or whether DeMentri had vandalized Delgado's car.

DeMentri and Delgado, who is married, have in the past enjoyed a particularly close friendship. In May 2007, we reported that DeMentri was in the process of a divorce from wife and QVC host Pat James DeMentri.

Delgado declined comment yesterday when asked about the vandalism and the status of her relationship with DeMentri. DeMentri did not return several messages Gross left on his cell phone.

The hot-headed newsman, who joined NBC 10 in 2003, was suspended for a week in 2006 after nearly coming to blows with meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz.

The Uma-n condition

Back a handful of years ago, when it broke that Uma Thurman was tossing hubby Ethan Hawke out of the nest because he had apparently been cheating on her, we all probably had the same thought: Is he frickin' nuts, or what?! Cheating on Uma Thurman? That's like . . . well, it's like cheating on Uma Thurman. There's no real comparative.

Anyway, he went on to a well-received writing career, and continued developing as an actor, appearing in such films as "Before Sunset," "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" and other films without the word "before" in them, and onstage in Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia," and a production of "Hamlet."

Thurman went on to kill Bill and continue to be Uma Thurman. Which, frankly, trumps "Hamlet" in our book.

Now comes simultaneous word on their current relationships.

Hawke, according to People, has married his pregnant girlfriend - who, in a very Robin Williams-y twist, used to be the nanny for his and Thurman's two kids. Her name is Ryan Shawhughes, they were probably married a few weeks ago, quietly, in New York, and they're having a girl.

Not to be outdone, our Uma, hallowed be her everything, just got engaged to her Swiss multimillionaire boyfriend, Arpad "Arki" Busson.

It will be her third legal coupling; preceding Hawke, Thurman was married to actor Gary Oldman. Before a 2005 split, Busson was married to supermodel Elle Macpherson.

Who do you have to bribe to get these kinds of lives?

_ While we're on the subject of connubial bliss, here's a nice story out of Malibu. Olivia Newton-John, 59, was married over the weekend to fellow environmentalist and Australian rich guy John Easterling, 49, in a ceremony that was nearly called off when some of that expensive California real estate suddenly went up in flames.

According to the Australian newspaper Daily Telegraph, guests thought they'd been invited to a Fourth of July barbecue.

Surprise! Pass the slaw.

All we are saying . . .

A lot of us lately have been pondering the price of peace.

Well, it's official: It's $833,654.

That's what Christie's auction house was able to gavel down for John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance."

The lyrics were written during Lennon's 1969 Bed-in protest for peace at the Queens Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

Christie's spokeswoman Zoe Schoon said that Lennon gave the sheet to 16-year-old Gail Renard during the eight-day Bed-in.

Lennon wrote the lyrics and recorded the song in the hotel room with about 50 guests, who included singer Petula Clark and beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

Tattbits

_ In the gonzo-nutso bidding wars to be the first rag on the block to get and publish close-to-embryonic photos of celeb spawn, the madness to snap the Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt twins is the current Holy Grail of gotcha. But, according to TMZ.com, one set-in-stone part of any deal between the happy couple and the highest bidder is that they won't be called "Brangelina." Apparently, the two hate that name. She more than he, reportedly.

_ From the What Zen? Dept: "Kung Fu Panda" has reportedly broken box-office records for animated films in . . . where else? . . . China. It's said to have made 135 million yuan (that's about $19.6 million) in its first three weeks, making it the first animated flick to top 100 million yuan.

_ If you had your sights set on chowing down and star-gazing at Jennifer Lopez's popular six-year-old Latin restaurant, Madre, next time you were in Pasadena, you'll have to take your expense account elsewhere. Notice went out to staff and patrons last week that the place is kaput. *