by DANIEL KREPS

Rolling Stone
An all-new Michael Jackson collection featuring 10 unreleased songs will be released this November, a rep for the Jackson estate exclusively tells Rolling Stone.

At the time of his death Jackson reportedly left hard drives filled with unheard music, much of it recorded during the King of Pop’s ’80s peak. Jackson’s manager Frank DiLeo told RS that he estimates that Jackson’s vaults contain more than 100 completed and unreleased songs, including collaborations with Akon, Will.i.am and Ne-Yo.

“There are a couple of songs we recorded for the Bad album that we had to cut that are just sensational,” DiLeo said.

Joey’s gone gray!  Six years after the finale of Friends — and four after spinoff Joey ended — fans might be shocked to see Matt LeBlanc, now 43, sporting silver hair.  But LeBlanc has a big secret bottled up. “I dyed my hair the whole time on Friends,” he admitted Thursday at a Television Critics’ Panel in Beverly Hills for his new Showtime series Episodes. “I just was sick of doing it,” LeBlanc explained of darkening his locks.  And his 4-year TV hiatus was just what the doctor ordered, he said. “When Joey ended, I took a lot of time off…I just really was kinda burned out. I just wanted to be a dad.”   LeBlanc has a 6-year-old daughter, Marina, with his ex-wife Melissa McKnight. “We have a great bond, and it’s the best thing in my life.”  On Episodes, LeBlanc plays a character named…Matt LeBlanc. “It’s a character,” he added. “It’s not me. It’s the public’s perception of me more than really me.”   Will LeBlanc reunite with Friends cohort Courteney Cox for a cameo on her ABC hit Cougar Town? “I haven’t been asked!” he admitted, laughing.

Supermodel Heidi Klum says fellow Victoria’s Secret angel Miranda Kerr will have no problem balancing modeling with motherhood.  “I think she’ll be great!” Klum, 37, said at the Project Runway Season 8 Premiere Party in NYC. ” She’s very calm, a smart little cucumber that one, and she’ll do just fine.” A source says that Kerr, 27, is “thrilled” to be expecting and has been “telling all her friends, mostly other models, about it.”  The news comes after the Aussie model and longtime beau Orlando Bloom, 33, secretly wed one month after announcing their engagement in June.   “She’s a beautiful young lady who just got married, and they seem like a handsome couple,” Klum, told Us. “They’ll make a handsome baby, that’s for sure!”   Klum — who has four children and is married to husband of five years, Seal — has one tip for Kerr: “The children show you most of the time themselves what you have to do to. You’ll learn by watching them, keeping your eyes and ears open.”

Sources connected with the “American Idol” negotiations tell TMZ Kara DioGuardi has judged her last contestant on “American Idol” — because she’s been fired.  We’re told the show will be going back to a three-judge format and assuming all deals are finalized, the judge’s panel will consist of Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler. 

We’re told the only way Kara could get a reprieve is if the J-Lo deal falls apart — but we’re told that deal is done.

Ellen DeGeneres announced earlier Thursday that she was leaving the show after just one season.

Ellen DeGeneres is leaving American Idol. In a statement Thursday, Ellen said, “A couple months ago, I let Fox and the American Idol producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me. I told them I wouldn’t leave them in a bind and that I would hold off on doing anything until they were able to figure out where they wanted to take the panel next.”

Source: TMZ.com

Jessica Simpson has had “several meetings” with the brass at “American Idol” in the hopes of taking over Simon Cowell’s judging duties … and sources involved say there’s “mutual interest.”  “Idol” is expected to make an official announcement regarding the judge situation sometime around the beginning of September.  

So far, FOX has no comment on the situation.

Source: Radar Online

Leonardo DiCaprio is withdrawing from a Mel Gibson-directed flick about vikings in the wake of the domestic abuse scandal.  “Not a chance,” said a source, close to the Inception star, when asked if he was still planning to star in Gibson’s next project.  The decision is a major setback for the Oscar-winning actor/director, who is facing allegations of domestic abuse and child endangerment.  It also lends support to critics who are suggesting Mel won’t be able to recover from the Oksana Grigorieva scandal.  Oksana, 40, has accused Gibson, 54, of punching her in the face twice as she held their infant daughter Lucia during a domestic dispute at his Malibu mansion on January 6.  After allegedly hitting Oksana on the head and mouth, she has claimed, Mel then choked her.

Mel Gibson isn’t taking any chances.  As the custody battles with his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva over their 9-month-old daughter Lucia rages on, the actor recently requested that an independent observer accompany his visits with Lucia.  Although the move was not requested by the court, Gibson was eager for an unbiased set of eyes to witness his interactions with the child, the source says, so that “Oksana couldn’t lie.”  The observer, who has family law-related credentials and was approved by Department of Children and Family Services, was present this weekend when Gibson and Lucia hung out on the grounds of the actor’s church.  “[The chapel] is a safe place for them to be together, run around, have fun and play,” says a Gibson pal.  A source close to Grigorieva confirmed there’s a monitor and she “has not expressed an opinion on that one way or the other.”  Gibson is allowed unsupervised visits with Lucia, but voluntarily requested the monitor during the all-out custody war and legal battle that includes allegations of domestic violence, extortion and child endangerment.

Luke Perry and Jason Priestley are teaming up on the small screen again!  The two — who haven’t worked together since 90210 went off the air about 10 years ago — are involved in a Hallmark Movie Channel Western flick called Goodnight for Justice. It airs in 2011.  Perry, 45, will serve as executive producer of the film, which is about a small boy in the American Old West who witnesses the violent murder of his parents. He grows up to become a circuit judge who is “hell-bent on justice,” according to the network.  Priestly, 40, directs the movie, based on material developed by Perry, which goes into production Aug. 4 in Vancouver.

A woman who claims to be Michael Jackson’s illegitimate love child — conceived when MJ was a minor — has filed legal documents claiming there was a diabolical plot to cover up her existence … involving murder, abduction and Diana Ross’ sister.   The alleged MJ spawn — Mocienne Petit Jackson — has filed documents with L.A. County Superior Court claiming she will surely be in line for a serious inheritance check … if a judge will give the go-ahead on a DNA test.  Here’s the story — MPJ claims back in 1975, 17-year-old Michael Jackson secretly impregnated her mother Barbara … who happens to be Diana Ross’ sister. 

MPJ claims when she was 9 years old, Katherine Jackson hatched a plan to “abduct” MPJ and send her to Belgium to protect Michael’s “reputation.” She claims all 7 of her abductors were later murdered.

Now MPJ — who currently lives in the Netherlands — has decided to come forward with her story … so she can “formally claim my part of my father’s inheritance.” She also wants custody of MJ’s kids so she can give them a “more normal life.”

MPJ also claims she was diagnosed with Vitiligo … so, there’s that. 

Calls to Diana Ross, Barbara Ross and MJ’s camp have not been returned.