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DMX is making a point of getting to know the bars everywhere he goes.

The beleaguered rapper was arrested for the third time in two weeks Wednesday when he landed in Phoenix and deplaned right into the cold embrace of an outstanding warrant issued when he, among other things, missed a court hearing.

DMX was flying in from Florida, where he was busted twice last week—on June 23 for driving with an invalid license and then four days later for allegedly trying to purchase marijuana and cocaine from an undercover cop.

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Rikki Rockett can go back to nonchalantly tossing his hair around.

Rape charges against the Poison drummer have been dropped after Mississippi prosecutors established that Rockett was in California when the alleged crime was committed.

The 46-year-old rocker was arrested in March at LAX upon his arrival from New Zealand and booked at Los Angeles County Jail on a felony fugitive sexual assault warrant issued in Neshoba County, Miss.

"We got a call form the DA, and he had received a phone call that said, to the effect, that they knew they had the wrong person," Rockett told TMZ.com, which caught up with the rocker on the street Saturday.

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DMX can run, but he can't hide from trouble. Especially if he walks right up to it and demands it kick his butt.

The rapper, who's currently facing animal-cruelty charges in Arizona, was arrested Friday afternoon in Miami after he allegedly tried to buy drugs from an undercover cop.

According to the police report obtained by the Miami Herald, DMX approached the officer and asked for ''30 powder and 15 weed," aka $30 worth of cocaine and $15 of marijuana.

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Aly & AJ have dodged a potential uh-oh.

Authorities are accusing an Ohio man of stalking the tween-fave pop queens, otherwise known as Alyson Michalka, 19, and Amanda Michalka, 17.

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Another familiar refrain for Mindy McCready.

The arrest-prone country songbird was busted in Tennessee Monday night after turning herself in for probation violation.

A spokesman for the Williamson County Sheriff's Department told E! News the singer was held for just a few hours and released later that night.

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He didn't get you, babe. And that's a good thing.

An apparently drunken fan who harassed Cher at a famed Nashville honky-tonk was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication early this morning, authorities confirm to E! News.

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UPDATE: During a hearing Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge ordered that Raffaello Follieri be held on $21 million bail on charges of bilking investors out of between $2.5 million and $6 million by pretending to be a real estate point man for the Vatican.

"In short, your honor, he is a con man," U.S. Attorney Reed Michael Brodsky said in court. "He was able to con a lot of people out of a lot of money over a long period of time."

Until he posts bail, at least $16 million of which must come from his own liquid assets, Raffaello is confined to his New York home.

"This is one the stiffest bail packages I have ever seen," his attorney, Flora Edwards, told reporters outside the courthouse. "We are going to do everything we can to meet it."

Meanwhile, a rep for Follieri told the New York Daily News that he is planning to "vigorously" defend himself against the charges.

A status hearing has been set for July 9.

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Call it tit for tat: Fresh off of the U.K.'s denial of entry to Martha Stewart, the U.S. has banned Boy George from its shores.

Somehow, it doesn't quite feel like a fair trade.

The "Karma Chameleon" purveyor has been refused a visa for the U.S. leg of his summer tour, which was to include a special performance for his former colleagues at New York's Department of Sanitation, over complications arising from the singer's criminal past and pending his London trial this November.

If they really wanted to hurt him, it's a job well done.

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Nate Dogg's being accused of making like a pit bull.

The Prodigal Son rapper was busted this morning in Los Angeles for threatening to deep-six his estranged wife, the California Highway Patrol confirms.

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House of Stuart? Yes. House for Stewart? Not a chance.

Connecticut blue blood Martha Stewart has been refused entry to Britiain, with the U.K. Border Agency reportedly denying her a visa as a result of her insider-trading conviction four years ago.

According to the Daily Telegraph, which first reported the rebuff, Stewart was due to touch down across the pond this weekend, and was booked to speak at the Royal Academy as well as meet with several fashion and leader industry heavyweights.

"It is a bit silly given some of the other people allowed into the country," an official told the paper.

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This Go Getta went and got himself a DUI.

Rapper Young Jeezy was collared at 2:30 a.m. in Atlanta for allegedly driving under the influence and some bad motoring skills, authorities tell E! News.

According to police, the hip-hopster was behind the wheel of a white Corvette on the ATL's Buford Highway thoroughfare near Interstate 85 when he was pulled over. Along with the DUI, officers cited him for speeding, reckless driving, missing tags, driving with an open container and failing to show proof of insurance.

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Now Anthony Pellicano is a stickler for protocol.

The disgraced private investigator, who after serving as his own lawyer was convicted last month on 76 of 77 counts of wiretapping, computer fraud, racketeering and other sins he commited for his powerful clients, has filed a motion requesting a new trial, alleging that jury misconduct tainted the proceedings the first time around.

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