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Mel Gibson’s Divorce To Be Finalized By Today…Ladies?

If The Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger woke up last night out of a dead sleep drenched in cold sweat, now we know why: Mel Gibson is about to be single and…well, he was always ready to mingle, wasn’t he? According to TMZ, Mel Gibson’s divorce from wife Robyn Gibson will allegedly be finalized today; Robyn filed for divorce in April 2009. That’s right! In case you had forgotten that one pesky detail, Mel was in fact still married during every part of his public meltdown: the anti-Semitic rant, the relationship and child with mistress Oksana Grigorieva, and, perhaps worst of all, The Beaver.

Gibson’s ongoing legal battle with Grigorieva aside, we’re assuming his divorce took so long because the couple married in 1980 without a pre-nup; as such, the mother of seven of Mel’s eight children stands to earn a sizable chunk of well-earned change. So…anyone willing to deal with Mel Gibson as your girlfriend’s crazy-eyed ex? Gentlemen? Hmmm?

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The Puzzling Story Behind Mel Gibson’s Massive Tip

When Mel Gibson leaves a huge tip at a restaurant, it kind of throws us for a loop. He is the bad guy right now. He cannot have any (so far) hidden shades of grey come up at us because we’ve spent a lot of time angry with him! But it all changed over a meal.

He was at a joint called Bravo Bistro in Scottsdale, Arizona, yesterday, where he dined with the owner of the restaurant and two women. After eating shrimp cocktail and osso bucco and chilling for three hours at dinner, the check amounted to $170. Mel not only paid the bill but also left a $ 150 tip! Now do you see our conundrum? It’s such a nice thing to do that with anyone else we’d want to give them a hug. But this is Mel, who has been in the news for the better part of two years, for the most appalling behavior. So what’s he up to, really? Help, guys! Tell us what to think!

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Mel Gibson Pays His Ex’s Son $100,000 In Legal Settlement

We hope you didn’t think that just because you hadn’t heard about Mel Gibson’s lawsuits in a while that they had all disappeared into the annals of time. Mel’s legal trouble is like gravity: you can’t see it with your eyes, but the world would be a virtually unrecognizable place without it.

According to TMZ, Mel Gibson paid Oksana Grigorieva’s son Alexander Dalton $100,000 as part of a new settlement, which would allegedly guarantee the 14-year-old will not sue Gibson over “trauma” he sustain as a witness to Mel’s domestic disputes with Oksana. Grigorieva initially asked for $500,000, in addition to alleging Gibson pushed Alexander into a table, before taking the reduced sum. So, in retrospect, we guess Mel is like gravity, if gravity was something that made you deeply, deeply depressed about the state of the world as it is today.

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Mel Gibson Making Film About Jewish Hero

All together now: hoo boy. Despite Mel Gibson’s anti-semitic remarks coming to light in 2008…then again in 2009…and then maybe once or twice in 2010…Mel Gibson’s Judah Maccabee movie, about the historical Jewish hero, is on the way from Warner Bros. At least we can safely say this doesn’t sound any crazier than The Beaver. That being said Gibson hasn’t been seen in public making vicious anti-woodland creature remarks. Yet.

Gibson is working on the film with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who has reportedly been lauded for his work in bringing attention to the atrocities of the Holocaust. On the other hand, Eszterhas also wrote Showgirls. Any chance this film is Mel’s way of saying, “Sorry about all that horrible stuff I said about you guys over and over again?” If so, maybe next he’ll be bringing us Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass biopics to make up for…all that other horrible stuff he said.

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Mel Gibson In Talks For Next Post-Beaver Role

In his next new role that isn’t a direct cinematic analogy to Mel Gibson‘s breakdown, the star of Jodie Foster’s The Beaver is in talks to join Sleight of Hand with Kiefer Sutherland, where they’ll play French burglars who must tangle with a gangster. At least that’s not quite so on-the-nose as an emotionally disturbed man who channels his feeling through an animal puppet. Although, we guess if you really think about it…the gangster could be Mel’s hidden rage and the French language, the rose garden where Mel buries….no, forget about it. It’s just a caper movie. Also joining the stars is French actor Gerard Depardieu, or as he’ll be known on set, Gerard Depardon’t let any of the leading men sneak booze on-set. Sleight will be Gibson’s third post-breakdown movie, second being How I Spent My Summer Vacation, where Mel’s nine-year-old costar could be read as an analogy for Gibson’s lost youth. Don’t even get us started on What Women Want, unless you have about three hours to kill.

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Mel Gibson Steps Out For The Beaver At Cannes

With Mel Gibson interviews tending to get a little tangential and dark these days, director/co-star Jodie Foster has been handling most of the promotional duties for their film The Beaver. But now that the film’s officially a megaflop, making only $300k after two weeks in theaters (it cost $21 million), the actor has decided to take what applause he can get. Though Mel skipped the press conference for The Beaver at Cannes this morning, he showed up alongside Foster on the premiere red carpet, looking just a little amped. Proving just what Mel probably fears, a festival reporter managed to ask him how he prepared to play such a scary, mentally disturbed person. “I faked it,” he said. “Hey, I don’t know. It doesn’t bear too much analysis.” Oh, Mel—you bear plenty of analysis.

See photos of the supremely good friends in the gallery below.

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Mel Gibson’s The Beaver Bombs At The Box Office (Finally!)

Looks like it’ll take more than teary interviews by pals like Jodie Foster to bring folks to a Mel Gibson movie. Mel’s long-awaited The Beaver finally made it to 22 theater screens this weekend, scoring about as much per-screen as the similarly budgeted Something Borrowed—except that Kate Hudson rom-com is playing at nearly 3,000 screens (and not doing so amazing either). The Beaver is still scheduled to expand its scope next week, but the numbers suggest people aren’t lining up see Mel win back his family after an emotional breakdown with the help of a puppet. After all, it’s not like the puppet kept him from splitting with his long-time wife Robyn and getting violent with ex-girlfriend/babymama Oksana Grigorieva…drama that already delayed the film’s release.

Execs at Summit Entertainment are blaming the subject matter, rather than Mel, for the mediocre numbers (“As it turns out, I think the film is more of an art-house speciality kind of movie than a broader commercial film…I don’t know whether it’s going to transcend that art-house audience”), though it’s debatable whether the film even scored that “art-house audience.” Mel’s next movie, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, about a career criminal who teams up with a young boy in a Mexican prison, has yet to be given a US release date, so who knows if the art-house will even get to see it.

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Oksana Grigorieva Drops Domestic Violence Claim Against Mel Gibson

Does this mean we can go see The Beaver and not feel like horrible people? Don’t get us wrong, we’ll still be people with horrible, horrible taste, but seeing as how Oksana Grigorieva dropped her Mel Gibson domestic abuse charge in court today, maybe the slow, grim nightmare of Gibson’s court room drama is finally drawing to a close? And we love movies with puppets in them!

TMZ reported earlier today that Griorieva also asked to have the protective order against Gibson dropped as well, possibly as a sign that she is willing to settle their custody case over daughter Lucia. Regardless of the outcome of their current legal battle, Gibson plead “no contest” to a misdemeanor battery charge back in March. So we’ll hold off on getting tickets to The Beaver for now…at least until they invent a time machine capable of taking us back before this tawdry saga ever took place.

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Mel Gibson Finally Opens Up About His Angry Phone Calls, Racism, Career

Mel Gibson hasn’t spoken publicly about his vicious verbal attacks and angry phone calls with his ex Oksana Grigorieva until now. In an interview with Deadline.com, Gibson broke his silence and talked about everything he’s been through in the past year, from his career, to his celebrity friends, to those “edited” tapes that leaked. Here are a few of the choicest quotes from the interview:

On the leaked tapes released by Grigorieva: “Who anticipates being recorded? Who anticipates that? Who could anticipate such a personal betrayal? … I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality—period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited.”

On how the bad publicity has affected his career: “I don’t care if I don’t act anymore.”

On his most vocal celebrity supporter: “I knew Whoopi before she was Whoopi. And, as she’s great and I always liked her and loved her. I like her even more now because she got it.”

And those supporters who chose not to speak up: “Why would anyone want to speak publicly and drag themselves through this crap? It seems to add fuel to the fire. Very many people are supportive, of course, but you find out who your friends are. I have many friends and they’ve been great.”

On his friend-love for Jodie Foster: “I’d give her a pedicure every day of the week if I could.”

Check out the entire (long!) interview with Gibson, who tried to redeem himself and honestly discuss his difficult personal issues as best he can. Sure, it won’t make you forget that he knocked Grigorieva’s teeth out, but he does seem to show remorse for some of the stuff he’s done.

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Oksana’s “Ex-Bodyguard” Writes Sexy Tell-All, Accused Of Con Artistry

Remember that ex-bodyguard of Oksana Grigorieva who accused her of faking Mel Gibson‘s taped rants and practicing “sexual sorcery” on him? Well, hey may not just been lying about the erotic witchcraft. While Kristian Herzog is promoting Storm Surge, a tell-all about his alleged affair with the singer, her lawyers claim he was never actually hired as her bodyguard. “This man is a convicted felon and an impostor…he insinuated himself into her life in order to attempt to destroy her reputation which he continues to do with this ‘book’ filled with outrageous lies,” said her rep, pointing out that Herzog wouldn’t give a deposition to Mel’s lawyers when asked, and that the other stars he claims to have worked for (Jack Nicholson, Jon Voight) merely posed for pictures with him.

Not that we needed this evidence to suggest Herzog’s tale is more than questionable. His description of his “affair” with Grigorieva reads like bad slash fiction. “[She] played my instrument like a cheap instrument, her soft warm inviting mouth and sorceress tongue controlled me…The Bodyguard becomes the Lover, making love to Oksana. If lips were ships, her lips were the S.S. Titanic, dragging men down deep.” “[These] sleazy sexual references, they are too absurd for words,” said Grigorieva’s rep. Maybe Herzog should stick to posting his stories on web forums.

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