Thank goodness for freedom of speech in America. Here’s more:

Victoria Beckham accepted undisclosed damages Monday from a celebrity magazine that claimed the crew of her U.S. TV show considered her "picky, demanding and rude."

Victoria sued Star magazine over an April article that claimed staff working on the NBC show had also described her as "full of herself and not very nice."

Beckham’s lawyer, Gerrard Tyrrell, told Britain’s High Court that filming hadn’t started at the time the story was published.

"The story was therefore completely inaccurate and defamatory of Ms. Beckham," he said.

Northern & Shell PLC, which publishes the magazine, apologized and agreed to pay Beckham’s legal costs and "substantial" damages. The amount of damages wasn’t disclosed.

"Victoria Beckham: Coming to America" will air July 16.

Another case that hinged on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

When AOL is bankrolling your operation you can afford to legally piss off everyone to get the story, and that may eventually cost TMZ. Here’s more:

A court-appointed bankruptcy trustee wants a gossip web site held in contempt for its publication yesterday of the entire manuscript of "If I Did It," O.J. Simpson’s purportedly fictionalized account of the murder of his ex-wife and a male friend. The "exclusive" posting of the 235-page book by TMZ.com came days after a federal judge ruled that the work’s copyright can be pursued by the family of the late Ron Goldman, who was murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson in June 1994 (Simpson was acquitted of the killings). According to an emergency motion by Drew Dillworth, the federal trustee, the web site’s posting of the manuscript in a downloadable PDF format has likely "diminished or destroyed" the value of the book, which the Goldmans may eventually publish (and promote) as Simpson’s confession. Dillworth estimated that the PDF, which remained online for about two hours, was downloaded by "tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people." As seen below, the posted copy of the book was emblazoned with a watermark of TMZ’s logo and included the manuscript’s copyright notation. Jonathan Polak, a Goldman family attorney, said the web site "literally reached into the bankruptcy estate and stole this asset for its own profit." A hearing on Dillworth’s contempt motion is scheduled for this afternoon in a Miami bankruptcy court. The fight for the book’s copyright landed in federal court after a Simpson company, Lorraine Brooke Associates, filed for Chapter 7 protection in April. On June 15, Judge A. Jay Cristol ruled that the incorporation of Lorraine Brooke was a fraudulent bid to shelter the book’s proceeds from Simpson’s debtors, namely Goldman’s heirs. Dillworth was appointed to administer the bankrupt firm’s assets, so that he could maximize eventual payments to secured and unsecured creditors. In a statement, TMZ said it "did nothing wrong," though the site did not address questions about its publication of the entire copyrighted manuscript. While TMZ did not detail how it had "obtained" its exclusive, it appears that the book was simply downloaded from a file sharing service where the PDF was first made available last Thursday. Data embedded in the PDF shows that the version posted on the gossip site is identical to a copy that was first made available June 14 on The Pirate Bay site. The manuscript, in the e-book format, was still available for download this afternoon.

Click here to see the TMZ story.

The New York Daily News reports that the girls had extra security measures in place at their birthday bash.

The Olsen twins demanded that guests check cell phones and BlackBerrys at the door at their 21st-birthday party Friday, lest any illicit pictures get out and ruin their six-figure asking price for photos.

As if these two aren’t already making millions for their likenesses and the endless array of Olsen Twin products.

Now their own friends can’t memorialize that time they held back the hair of both twins as their celebratory woo-woo shots came back up?

This is a slippery slope. What’s in store for Mary-Kate and Ashley’s future partying pals?

Confidentiality agreements? Blindfolds? Memory-loss drugs?