Rihanna, Chris Brown set to release a duet

First came the revelation that Eminem will be featured on Rihanna's new album, "Unaplogetic." Now the Instagram photo of the track list Rihanna shared with fans Monday confirms she's also been making sweet music with Chris Brown.

It's fitting that Em is showing up on RiRi's seventh album, out Nov. 19. The pair's 2010 collaboration, "Love the Way You Lie," was nominated for five Grammys, topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts for seven weeks and helped make Em's "Recovery" the best-selling album of 2010.

And it shouldn't come as a complete surprise that Rihanna, 24, and Brown, 23, are putting out a song called "Nobodies Business." Though the two split up in 2009, they staged a musical reunion of sorts in February when Brown was featured on a remix of Rihanna's song "Birthday Cake" and she sang on a remix of his hit "Turn Up the Music."

Rihanna said then that the tracks were released to help unite their fans, many of whom had been divided since Brown attacked his former girlfriend before a pre-Grammy Awards party in 2009. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge and is serving five years of probation.

"I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye, my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different," Rihanna said in the August issue of Harper's Bazaar about the pain of ending her relationship with Brown.

Rihanna is planning to celebrate the release of "Unapologetic" with her 777 Tour. While details have been hush-hush, she plans to kick it off with a seven-night mini-tour of seven countries. She'll be traveling in a Boeing 777 with about 150 journalists, a handful of fans and members of her crew.

Lohan facing new charge

Looks as if there's more trouble brewing for Lindsay Lohan.

The actress will be charged with a misdemeanor -- the charge is expected later this week -- for allegedly lying to cops about a June accident in Sant! a Monica, Calif., according to www.tmz.com.

Although Santa Monica police declined to confirm the report Tuesday, Sgt. Richard Lewis told the New York Daily News that "it's an open, active investigation."

During the incident, Lohan was behind the wheel of a Porsche Carerra she was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway when she rear-ended a truck.

The truck driver told TMZ that Lohan jumped out of the wrecked car and climbed into another vehicle while one of her associates offered him money to keep the incident out of the media. The driver said he called 911 because he feared Lohan and her pals would leave.

During an interview with the police at the hospital where Lohan was treated for minor injuries, she reportedly said she wasn't driving the vehicle.

Lohan still is on probation for an incident involving a stolen diamond necklace. She could face jail time if convicted of lying to police.

Brooke Shields' mother dies

Brooke Shields' mother, Teri Shields, died at age 79 on Oct. 31 in New York following a long illness related to dementia, the New York Times reports. Teri Shields began promoting her daughter as a model when she was 11 months old, arranged for a photographer to take nude photos of her daughter when she was 10 and allowed her to be cast as a child prostitute in the 1978 film "Pretty Baby."

Brooke Shields, 47, did not comment on the Times obituary. She said in a 1994 Times interview that her relationship with her mother was strained when she decided to manager herself when she was in her 20s. She also said her mother had issues with alcohol.

Briefly

Classical music composer Elliott Carter, who was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes during his career, died Monday at 103, the Associated Press reports. His music publishing company, Boosey & Hawkes,! did not ! provide a cause of death.

The Detroit Historical Society said Tuesday that its Nov. 17 reopening gala at the Detroit Historical Museum will feature Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, boxing legend Tommy Hearns, hockey great Ted Lindsey, Motown artist Martha Reeves, WDIV-TV (Channel 4) anchor Devin Scillian, recently retired WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) anchor Diana Lewis and WJR-AM (760) host Paul W. Smith, who also will serve as the event's emcee. Ticket packages ($150-$1,000) are available for the event, which will launch the countdown to the official public reopening of the museum Nov. 23. To buy tickets or learn more, call 313-833-1801 or go to http://detroithistorical.org.

In advance of Tuesday's release of "I Will Always Love You -- The Best of Whitney Houston," RCA Records has put a previously unreleased track "Never Give Up" online. You can hear it at www.whitneyhouston.com. Houston died Feb. 11 at 48.

Heather, 25, and Adam Rousseau, 26, owners of SugarHigh Bakery in the River Place Shops in Frankenmuth, were awarded $10,000 after their shop was named the winner of the Nov. 4 episode of Food Network's "Cupcake Wars." The Rousseaus, who have owned the bakery since 2010, won after creating cupcakes to celebrate the return of the animated series "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Their winning episode will be replayed throughout the week. For more on the show, go to www.foodnetwork.com/cupcake-wars/index.html .

T! o check o! ut the tasty goods online, go to www.sugarhighllc.com.

WRIF-FM (101.1) personality Suzy Cole announced to her fans on Facebook that she has signed off of the Motor City rock station after eight years. She's off to Los Angeles, where she will be working for Beats by Dre, the headphone manufacturing company founded by hip-hop artist Dr. Dre and Interscope-Geffen-A&M Records chairman Jimmy Iovine.

COMPILED BY B.J. HAMMERSTEIN, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER. CONTACT HIM AT 313-223-4528 OR BJHAMMERSTEIN@FREEPRESS.COM.


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