Tattle: Hugh and cry: Braxton in Playboy, Love in court

AT 43, PERPETUALLY bankrupt

Toni Braxton

may be too old to marry

Hugh Hefner

, but she's not too old to pose for his magazine.

With a new TV reality show, "Braxton Family Values," set to premiere in April, Toni is also considering showing off her family values in Playboy.

"New Year, New opportunities," she tweeted Tuesday. "So I have been considering taking up Playboy's offer to feature me on their cover this year. What you think?"

We not care.

Toni said that the pictorial would feature "Just a lil T and A" and, of course, would be "tastefully done."

Go tweet yourself!

You do not want Courtney Love mad at you.

Catfighting with Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer who was demanding payment for a few thousand dollars' worth of clothes, Courtney took to her Twitter account in March of 2009 and began aiming invective at the designer known as the "Boudoir Queen."

The Hollywood Reporter says that Courtney tweeted that Simorangkir was a drug-pushing prostitute with a history of assault and battery who lost custody of her own child and capitalized on Courtney's fame before stealing from her.

"She has received a VAST amount of money from me over 40,000 dollars and I do not make people famous and get raped TOO!" Courtney wrote.

(Must be one or the other.)

Add to that similar tirades on MySpace and Etsy.com and, on Jan. 18, Courtney will be the defendant in the first high-profile defamation trial over a celebrity's comments on Twitter.

"There has never been anything like this case before," says Simorangkir attorney Bryan Freedman.

"We don't believe there's any defamation, and even if there were defamatory statements, there was no damage," says James Janowitz, an attorney for Love.

Aren't all attorneys in it for Love?

Tattbits

* Less than a week after John Mellencamp announced a split from his longtime wife, Elaine Irwin, People.com reports that Meg Ryan is involved with the rocker.

It's a rare sighting of one cougar dating another.

* People also reports that Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal have split.

There's a shocker. Ten more break-ups to go to write enough songs for her next album.

* The FBI says that a man who bragged about hacking into Miley Cyrus' e-mail account and distributing revealing pictures of her has been arrested on unrelated charges.

According to federal-court documents, 21-year-old Josh Holly was arrested last Thursday in Nashville and charged with possession of unauthorized credit-card account numbers.

So, he's the guy who ordered 1,000 copies of "Hannah Montana: The Movie" on our AmEx.

* Actor Gary Collins was released from custody yesterday after being charged with a felony over accusations that he left a Mississippi restaurant without paying his $59.35 tab, police said.

Who knew you could run up a $59 restaurant bill in Mississippi?

Obviously not Collins.

Actually, Jazzeppi's David Mattina told the Sun Herald that he wasn't present Tuesday night, but regretted the incident. He told the newspaper that Collins had been a customer for a while and that he would seek to have the charge dropped.

Hope Gary can wash dishes.

* Lindsay Lohan's busy attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, insists that the 24-year-old actress didn't drink alcohol or do drugs during her 90-day stint at the Betty Ford rehabilitation center.

Guess that means that Lindsay has a lot of catching up to do.

* According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 40,000 players won money in the Mega Millions lottery drawing Tuesday night by playing 4, 8, 15 and 22 - the numbers played by Hurley on "Lost."

Hurley won $114 million. These winners won $150 each.

* With the Internet rumor mill heating up over a teen-heaven linkage between Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, Justin's crazed fans have taken to venting toward Selena in the Twitterverse.

One posted: "I'll kill you I swear on GOD!!!!(sic)"

Another angry fan wrote: "If you are the Girlfriend of Justin I will Kill you I HATE YOU :@ !!!(sic)"

And one more: "w---- cancer w----. Iike i'm kill myself cuz i saw you and Justin kissing well thankyou Selena thankyou now i'm killing myself (sic)."

To that we say, "Justin's fans r just sic."

BANGShowbiz.com and Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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