Christie Brinkley spent the Fourth of July “blowing off some steam” at ex Billy Joel’s Sag Harbor, N.Y., house, a source tells PEOPLE.

Brinkley, whose ugly divorce from Peter Cook has been heating up in court, arrived with daughter Alexa Joel, 20, and “seemed good,” says a friend of the supermodel’s. “She was just blowing off some steam, being with family. It was just a relaxing little get-together. Nothing special. Just what everyone does on the Fourth.”

Another onlooker says Brinkley, Alexa, Billy and about a dozen friends “were having a blast,” eating barbecue ribs and corn and sipping white wine.

At one point Alexa dropped her first plate of food – “they were all laughing about that,” says the source.

As for Brinkley, “she was hugging the kids there, they were all laughing and eating. They seemed really relaxed.”

The day before, Brinkley also surrounded herself with family and friends, enjoying a midday lunch with her son Jack, 13, and a girlfriend at Gosman’s Dock in Montauk, N.Y.

“Christie looked beautiful in a white floral sundress, but she wasn’t exactly upbeat,” says a fellow diner. “Maybe just a little tired but she seemed relaxed – kind of just getting away from it all and having a nice lunch.”

“She seemed OK, said hi to a few friends,” says the source. “She was very pleasant – calm and casual.”

Meanwhile, Cook spent the holiday with his 13-year-old son Jack and girlfriend Suzanne Shaw. After picking up Jack from Brinkley’s house, the trio went for a ride on Cook’s boat, The Sweet Freedom.

“He seemed fine, relaxed,” says an onlooker at Island Surf shop in Sag Harbor, where Cook stopped in with Jack to pick up T-shirts and “stuff for camp.” Adds the source: “He’s always in here with his son. He’s a good guy – and a great dad.”

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Lovebirds Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey share everything — even bathing suits!

McCarthy, 35, donned the sexy black one piece on the beach in Malibu on the Fourth of July. Later that day, Carrey, 46, stepped out in the same look!

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The “Entourage” actor and the pint-size “Blade” star were both at the “Public Enemies” wrap party at Bon V lounge in Chicago the other night. “They had a bit of a tiff,” said our spy. “Dorff was p - - - ed because it was ‘his’ wrap party and he thought Piven crashed it.” Dorff has a role in “Public Enemies” and Piven was in Chicago, his hometown, for a fund-raiser. In 2006, we reported the two had a screaming match at Bungalow 8 after Dorff cut in front of Piven in the bathroom line and Piven called him a “has-been.” Piven’s rep confirmed they were both at the party, but said they “did not interact.”

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To children of the ’70s, she was a glamorous TV icon with her bullet-proof bracelets and Star-Spangled corset.

But now Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has turned the “Lasso of Truth” on herself, admitting publicly that she’s an alcoholic.

“I was so good at hiding it too,” the 56-year-old mother-of-two tells TV’s The Insider. “Brilliant.”

But, she says, she could not keep the secret from her family: Her attorney husband Robert Altman and their two children, Jamie, 20, and Jessica, 17.

“My husband asked me … ‘Can’t you just stop this for the children and for me?’ ”

His plea prompted her to seek treatment at a rehab facility near her home in Washington, D.C. “I needed help – I begged God in heaven to help me figure this out,” says Carter, now sober for nearly ten years.

What has the recovery process taught her? The best measure of a human being, she says, is “how we treat the people who love us, and the people that we love.”

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Soul diva Amy Winehouse sipped from a glass of red wine and looked a bit unsteady on her feet as she appeared in front of a large audience at the Rock in Rio music festival southeast of Madrid on Friday.

Then, as tens of thousands cheered, she threw off a pair of high stiletto heels in favor of white moccasins, donned a white electric guitar and settled into an intense rendition of some of her best known songs, including “Rehab.”

Winehouse delivered a strong vocal performance accompanied by her octet plus two male backing vocalists.

There was no hint of the controversy that saw the Grammy-winning singer scuffle with a fan at the Glastonbury festival in Britain and show up an hour late looking the worse for wear last May in Portugal.

The singer won five Grammy Awards, including best record, best song and best new artist, in early February, but her musical success has been overshadowed by her tumultuous private life and public struggles with drugs and alcohol.

Last month, her father said she developed emphysema from smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine, although her spokeswoman has said Winehouse only has pre-emphysema symptoms.

Once finished at Rock in Rio, she did not stay for an encore and left the outdoor concert venue by helicopter.

Winehouse’s manager, Michael Jobson, told national broadcaster RTVE that the singer had looked forward to singing in Madrid after appearances in Portugal and Hyde Park, London.

English band Jamiroquai followed Winehouse on stage, with Colombian pop singer Shakira topping the bill.

The Police, Bob Dylan, Lenny Kravitz, Alejandro Sanz and Franz Ferdinand were all due to perform over the weekend.

Organizers said around 350,000 people were expected to have enjoyed music at the newly inaugurated concert site by the end of the festival.

She gained more than three stone while pregnant with twins Max and Emme, but less than five months later Jennifer Lopez has slipped back into a bikini.

The 38-year-old singer stripped down to a string two-piece while holidaying aboard a luxury boat in Italy.

She was joined by husband Marc Anthony, who showered her with affection as she cooled off in the sea, as well as friend and fashion designer Stefano Gabbana.

After giving birth in February, Jennifer said she was in no rush to lose her baby weight, revealing she even liked to ‘play with my little leftover belly.’

She slowly reintroduced a fitness regime, working out three times a week with celebrity personal trainer Gunnar Peterson.

Her program now includes 20-30 minute walks with sets of push-ups and lunges.

The couple’s summer holiday marks the end of Anthony’s European tour, which took in Spain, Belgium and Italy.

Jennifer, who has barely been apart from the Latin star since their marriage in 2004, joined him on the road along with their children.

When announcing his plan to make the tour a family affair, Marc said: ‘When I perform… they will inspire me.’

Jennifer is expected to resume work later this week, and has already has a number of film projects lined up including the romantic comedy Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.

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Pop icon Madonna is using kabbalah to brainwash Yankee star Alex Rodriguez into believing they are “soulmates,” the ballplayer’s estranged wife is telling friends.

Cynthia Rodriguez, who has bolted to rocker Lenny Kravitz’s Paris pad to avoid the limelight, is blaming the Material Girl for breaking up her five-year marriage, a close friend told the Daily News. The 34-year-old stunner has revealed to close confidants that she discovered a note her husband wrote professing his true feelings to Madonna.

“I believe he was having an affair with Madonna,” she told a friend, who spoke anonymously for fear of angering A-Rod. “She said she found a letter where Alex told Madonna: ‘You are my true soulmate.’”

The friend said Cynthia Rodriguez, who gave birth to the couple’s second daughter about 10 weeks ago, is teary and heartbroken over the split. Despite the sleepless nights and jags of tears, Cynthia Rodriguez is telling friends, “I still love my husband.”

The startling revelations come just days after reports that Rodriguez, 32, had been dumped by his wife and has been seen making late-night visits to the 49-year-old Madonna’s upper West Side home.

While Madonna’s flack has vehemently denied any hanky-panky, insisting the slugger and the singer “are just friends,” Cynthia Rodriguez is convinced otherwise. She has privately insisted to pals that the “Hard Candy” singer beguiled A-Rod by introducing him to the mystical Jewish teachings of kabbalah.
“I feel like Madonna is using mind control over him,” Cynthia Rodriguez told the friend. “I don’t recognize the man he’s become. He was a sweet, beautiful, loving husband and father. Today he’s very cold and calculating.”

The Bombers’ $275 million third baseman upset his wife in April by showing up 10 minutes after she gave birth to their daughter, Ella Alexander. He only exacerbated her hurt feelings by spending only a day with her and their newborn before rejoining the Yankees.
“This all started with kabbalah,” said the friend. “Alex told Cynthia that he’d discovered that he’d been looking for his soul mate. And now, he said, he’d found her.”

Simultaneously, Madonna has been hounded by reports that her seven-year marriage to filmmaker Guy Ritchie is on the rocks.
‘I believe in family more than anything’.

At first, Cynthia didn’t find it odd that her brawny husband was spending so much time with the married pop star, whose daughter, Lourdes, shares his mother’s name.

“Cynthia was so innocent,” said the friend, adding that the scorned wife believed A-Rod and Madonna were hanging out simply because they share the same manager, Guy Oseary. “Cynthia thought he just respected the woman,” the friend said. “Cynthia told me, ‘I respected her, too - her creativity and ability to reinvent herself. I grew up listening to Madonna songs. I never dreamed this 49-year-old woman was anything more than a friend.’”

Three weeks after the birth of their daughter Ella, A-Rod dropped a knee-wobbling bomb on his wife, the friend said. Alex “came to Cynthia and claimed their marriage was over,” the friend said. “That was news to her. She’d had no clue. She said, ‘I was devastated,’” the friend said. “I’ve been with him for 13 years,” she told her friend. “I stood beside him through all his struggles.”

Despite the public humiliation of his romps at strip clubs and seeing photographs of him with Scores dancer Joslyn Noel Morse, “Cynthia has been a faithful wife,” the friend said. “She said, ‘I believe in family more than anything in the world.’”

Friends of Cynthia Rodriguez suspect A-Rod, or his allies, floated the story this week that she was having a fling withKravitz in Paris. Kravitz who was playing a gig in Belgium last night, was forced to issued a public denial Thursday.

“There is absolutely no affair between Cynthia Rodriguez and myself,” he said in a statement. “This is unequivocally 100% not true. Cynthia is a friend and is here with the godfather of her baby, who is also Alex’s trainer, his wife and their baby girl.”
A-Rod suggested a Paris respite

HER FRIEND told The News that Cynthia Rodriguez bolted to France because she “wanted to escape the stress and clear her head.”

“It was Alex who suggested she go to Paris for a few days,” the friend said. “He said, ‘Why don’t you stay with Lenny?’ He said to stay as long as she wanted. A day after she got there, the paparazzi were waiting outside the poor guy’s house. Alex, or somebody in his camp, tipped them off.”

The friend confirmed that Cynthia Rodriguez was in Paris with her daughters and their godparents, Dodd and Sabina Romero, and their daughter. “It was a family vacation,” said the friend. “Lenny Kravitz is a gentleman who opened his home to her in a time of crisis. For people to portray him as an adulterer is sick.”

Cynthia Rodriguez has declined to talk with friends about whether she’s ready to get a divorce. “She keeps saying, ‘I love him, or at least the man he was when I married him.’ “But he’s forced her to defend herself and their children. It’s a very emotional time for her.” A spokesman for Cynthia Rodriguez refused to comment, saying only, “This is a private matter.”

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Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer were together again for the second stop on his summer tour, which hit St. Louis Thursday night. But rather than acknowledge her presence in the crowd, Mayer teased his audience about interest in his personal life.

“[Fans] send me links from PEOPLE,” he said, marveling at the coverage of his remarks the previous night when he – with Aniston in tow – joked about being the subject of Internet rumors. “That just tempts me to say things.” The audience at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights roared its approval, but Mayer would not divulge any intimate details.

Instead, he playfully peppered his nearly two-hour concert with dubious confessions designed to feed those who were curious about his private life: He fears the color green. He weighed 400 pounds when he was 12. He wrote the lyrics to the Kenny Loggins hit “Danger Zone” – at age 9. And he was “33 percent done” with building a time machine.

“When I was a child I would kill small animals and wear their teeth as necklaces,” he deadpanned. “True. Print that. And I’ve always felt deep down that I was born a woman.”

Aniston remained out of sight during the show, but she watched Mayer’s pre-concert soundcheck from the fifth row of the amphitheater, according to radio contest winners who sat a few rows farther back. She wore a slate-colored dress and a cardigan in the damp, late-afternoon air. “She looked like Colbie Caillet,” said a witness, referring to the “Bubbly” singer who served as Mayer’s opening act. “But it was definitely Jen.”

Other fans clearly had Aniston on the brain.

During musical breaks between acts, the twin video screens flanking the stage displayed anonymous notes sent via text message from the crowd. “Team Aniston!” wrote one.

The most brazen of the bunch, preceding Mayer’s own onstage joking: “John, I’m pregnant. – Jen.”

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