ENGAGED
Genevieve Gorder, 30, a designer on TLC'S Trading Spaces, and Tyler Harcott, 36, the host of FOX's The Complex: Malibu, recently became engaged. The couple have been dating for more than two years and plan to tie the knot in November.

LEGAL MATTERS
On Dec. 30 in San Francisco, a federal appeals court ruled that model Anna Nicole Smith, 37, is not entitled to $88.5 million from the estate of her late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, who died in August 1995 at age 90. The justices upheld an earlier ruling by a Texas probate court, which found that Smith's stepson E. Pierce Marshall, 66, is the sole heir. Smith was married to J. Howard Marshall from June 1994 until his death. In a statement, her attorney called the ruling "an absolute injustice."...On Jan. 4 in Chicago, a judge dismissed a civil lawsuit filed against William Kennedy Smith, 44, by his former personal assistant Audra Soulias, 29, who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1999. Smith contends that his sexual relations with Soulias were consensual. Soulias's attorney plans to file an amended complaint and said, "It was a boss requiring sex of his employee."

SENTENCED
On Dec. 29 in Salisbury, Md., Olympic-gold-medal-winning swimmer Michael Phelps, 19, was sentenced to 18 months probation after pleading guilty to driving while impaired by alcohol on Nov. 4. Phelps said, "I recognize the seriousness of this mistake."

SUED
On Dec. 29 in L.A., a breach-of-contract suit was filed against actress Debbie Reynolds, 72, and her son Todd Fisher, 46, by TrizecHahn Hollywood, the former owner of a shopping center. TrizecHahn Hollywood alleges that in 2001 Reynolds and Fisher leased space in Hollywood to house their collection of memorabilia, including Marilyn Monroe's dress from the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, but the mother and son failed to make lease payments. Reynolds and Fisher were unavailable for comment.

DEATHS
Bandleader and inventive jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw, 94, who rose to fame in the swing era with such memorable hits as "Stardust" and the Cole Porter tune "Begin the Beguine," died Dec. 30 of complications from diabetes at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The big band legend and rival of Benny Goodman had tied the knot eight times. Two of his marriages were to stars Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.... Sci-fi illustrator Frank Kelly Freas, 84, whose work graced the covers of books and magazines, died at his LA. home Jan. 2 of undisclosed causes. Freas, who designed the album art for Queen's News of the World (1977), was a cover artist at MAD magazine and helped create the freckle-faced mascot Alfred E. Newman.

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