A lawyer for Taylor Lautner says the “Twilight” star has settled a lawsuit with an RV dealership he claims didn’t deliver a $300,000 coach in time for a movie shoot.

Attorney Robert Barta said Friday that McMahon RV of Irvine, Calif. will pay $40,000 to Lautner, who will donate it to Lollipop Theater Network, a children’s charity.

The 18-year-old Lautner sued the dealership Monday, saying it missed a June deadline to deliver the 2006 Affinity Country Coach for use on the set of the movie “Abduction.”

Dealership owner Brent McMahon had offered to compete in a push-up contest to solve the dispute.

A phone message seeking comment on the settlement was not immediately returned.

Lautner will reprise his role as Jacob Black in the two-part “Twilight” finale.

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Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern’s radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.

Schimmel’s spokesman, Howard Bragman, says Schimmel died Friday evening in a Phoenix hospital.

Schimmel was a passenger Thursday in a car driven by his 19-year-old daughter Aliyah. Bragman says Aliyah Schimmel swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle she was driving rolled to the side of the freeway. Bragman says she is hospitalized in stable condition.

Robert Schimmel lived in Scottsdale. The 60-year-old comedian has been a frequent guest on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and on Howard Stern’s radio show. His 2008 memoir, “Cancer on $5 a Day,” chronicles his battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year — and he’s expressing his pain all over Twitter.

West unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official Twitter account Saturday, acknowledging once again that he was wrong for jumping on stage, taking the trophy that Swift won at the MTV Video Music Awards and saying that it should have gone to Beyonce.

But the rapper-producer said that he has experienced enormous pain, been the subject of death wishes and suffered tremendous setback to his career.

“How deep is the scar … I bled hard … cancelled tour with the number one pop star in the world … closed the doors of my clothing office,” he tweeted.

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A witness in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial has recanted statements critical of the former model’s lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern, a defendant in the case.

Ford Shelley testified Friday in Los Angeles that he never saw Smith abuse drugs, never saw Stern force medication on her, and believes Stern shouldn’t be on trial.

Shelley had previously suggested to investigators that Stern overmedicated Smith.

Shelley, a resident of South Carolina whose family became involved with Smith, described co-defendant Dr. Khristine Eroshevich as a good woman who was trying to help Smith.

Stern, Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor have pleaded not guilty to providing Smith with excessive drugs and other charges.

Smith died of a drug overdose in 2007. The defendants are not charged in her death.

Brendan Fraser is the latest Hollywood celebrity to take a turn on the Great White Way.

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The 41-year-old actor is set to make his Broadway debut in the upcoming comedy Elling, co-starring Jennifer Coolidge, Denis O’Hare and Richard Easton.

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The show is based on the popular Norwegian novels that tell of a pair of mismatched roommates, their friendship and their relationships with food, poetry and women.

The production is scheduled to begin preview performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Nov. 2 and open on Nov. 21.

Walter Scott asks … Joe Manganiello (star of HBO’s True Blood, 33)

WS: Did you get cast as the werewolf Alcide Herveaux thanks to your muscles?

JM: In the books he’s physically imposing, but if he had a beer gut and a comb-over and was missing his teeth, that’s how I’d look in the part.

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WS: You were an athletic kid. How did your dad react when you wanted to become an actor?

JM: Any father who has a 6-foot-5 kid who can run, throw, catch, dunk, and slide — I mean, you’re gonna be upset. But recently he wrote me a poem about a werewolf and framed it and brought it to me. I started crying. It was just this magical moment.

WS: Are there any similarities between you and Alcide?

JM: Yeah, there’s an episode where I cook a steak and walk off to eat it without a fork. That’s me — but not on a date. At least not on a first date.

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Ne-Yo says T.I. has had many chances — and it’s time he gets his act together.

Ne-Yo told the Associated Press the fellow performer makes a lot of poor decisions when it comes to the people that he surrounds himself with.

T.I., who is on three years’ probation, was taken into custody with wife, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, on suspicion of possessing methamphetamines after police pulled them over in West Hollywood. They were released on $10,000 bail early Thursday.

Ne-Yo says he’s not familiar with the company T.I. surrounds himself with, but says “nine times out of 10 when he gets in trouble, it’s not him, it’s the people that he’s with.”

Ne-Yo says it’s time for T.I. to get his life together.

Paris Hilton may owe investors in her 2006 movie “Pledge This!” about $160,000 for failing to do enough promotion.

U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno in Miami ruled Thursday that the 29-year-old celebrity socialite didn’t live up to her contract when refusing interviews with publications in Russia and the United Kingdom.

Hilton’s spokeswoman had no immediate comment.

Moreno preliminarily valued those lost opportunities at $160,000. But the judge wants more information about Hilton’s contract before finalizing the amount. The investors initially wanted $8.3 million.

The judge’s decision follows Hilton’s arrest last weekend in Las Vegas on cocaine possession charges. Hilton told police the small amount of cocaine was not hers.

Actor Paul Hogan, star of the “Crocodile Dundee” movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last month from leaving Australia because of a disputed tax bill, his lawyer said Friday.

The 70-year-old Australian-born actor, who currently lives in Los Angeles, arrived in Sydney on Aug. 20 to attend his mother’s funeral and was served with an Australian Taxation Office order barring him from leaving Australia until he settles a multimillion dollar tax bill, lawyer Andrew Robinson said last week.

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Jesse James and his new girlfriend Kat Von D have officially stepped out as a couple.

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The pair, who first hinted they were dating two weeks ago on Twitter, attended the opening of Von D’s Wonderland gallery in West Hollywood Thursday night. At the event, Von D wasn’t shy when it came to discussing their new love.

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“Jesse is only my ninth boyfriend. I don’t hang out with anybody unless I am in love,” she told People.

When asked if she thinks James is “The One,” she answered, “I believe he is, so yeah.”

And despite the rumors and headlines surrounding his recent divorce from Sandra Bullock, Von D said she’s keeping away from the drama.

“I stayed away from that as much as possible, and when we connected recently, it was such a positive thing,” she said. “It was just like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I haven’t spent this much time with you the entire time I’ve known you.’ Now I’m just embracing it and enjoying it.”