Richard Branson’s Private Necker Island Estate Destroyed In Fire; Family Survives – Virgin tycoon Richard Branson and his family — including his 90-year-old mother — and houseguests including actress Kate Winslet were forced to evacuate late Sunday night after his $100 million private compound on Necker Island burned to the ground. [forbes]

Gaddafi’s Sons Free – Claim Father Is Safe – Two of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons, who had been reported captured over the weekend, were free early Tuesday. Saif al-Islam Gadhafi showed up at the Rixos Hotel and in a brief interview with CNN, he said his father and several of his sisters were safe in Tripoli, and that loyal troops had “broken the back” of the rebels who moved into the capital over the weekend. [cnn]

Where In The World Is Gaddafi? – Muammar Gaddafi, who for decades enjoyed strutting before the public in his finery, has disappeared from the stage as rebels take over his former stronghold Tripoli. The rebels want to get their hands on him and so does the International Criminal Court. But they must find him first. [reuters]

Massive Cloud Music Copyright Decision – The disk drives powering Dropbox, Amazon’s Cloud Drive, and Google Music likely issued a small sigh of relief Monday, after a federal court judge found that the MP3tunes cloud music service didn’t violate copyright laws when it used only a single copy of a MP3 on its servers, rather than storing 50 copies for 50 users. [wired]

Francois Louw Could Become P Divvy’s Saviour – Named in a preliminary 49-strong Springbok squad two months ago, Louw was injured, quit Western Province for English club Bath and disappeared off the World Cup radar. But the need to cover outstanding but injury-prone open-side loose forward Heinrich Brüssow has forced coach Peter de Villiers to reconsider 26-year-old Louw. [mail&guardian]

Face-Making Boy Is Kardashian Wedding’s Breakout Star – This boy decided to share his thoughts on the biggest wedding of the month by forcing his way into CNN’s excessive coverage. Somebody better give him a reality show, because we’re definitely more curious about this young ingenue than any of the Kardashians. [jezebel]

Head Of Standard & Poor’s To Resign – Standard & Poor’s President Deven Sharma is leaving the credit-rating firm at the end of the year, the company said Monday night. Mr. Sharma will step down as president on Sept. 12 and be succeeded by Douglas Peterson, chief operating officer of Citigroup Inc.’s Citibank unit. The moves come as S&P faces questions about its controversial downgrade earlier this month of the US Triple-A Rating. [wallstreetjournal]

Latest Post-Childbirth Trend: Eat The Placenta – Jennifer Hughes’s placenta was delivered ten minutes after her first child and she specified that she wanted to keep her placenta, for cultural reasons. Complying with New York State health regulations, which says that hospitals “may, at the request of a patient or patient’s representative, return a healthy placenta for disposition by the patient,” the hospital allowed her to take it home. In some cultures, it is customary to bury the placenta and plant a tree over it. Hughes had other plans. She was going to eat it. [nymag]

Andy Coulson Still Paid By News International After Cameron Hired Him – David Cameron is facing fresh questions about his decision to hire Andy Coulson in 2007 after it was reported that his former communications director received several hundred thousand pounds from his former employer News International after he was hired by the Conservative party. [guardian]

Benicio del Toro, Kimberly Stewart Expecting a Baby – Kimberly Stewart is expecting Benicio del Toro’s baby. “Kimberly is pregnant. Benicio is the father and is very supportive,” his rep confirms to PEOPLE in a statement. “Although they are not a couple, they are looking forward to the arrival of the baby.” [people]

Twitter Enhances User Profiles With Image Galleries – Should you post photos to Twitter via its new photo-uploading tool, or through a third-party photo-sharing service such as yFrog, TwitPic or Instagram, your photos will soon be featured on your Twitter profile in an image gallery. [mashable]

Marc Jacobs In Talks To Succeed Galliano At Dior – Dior speculation continues this morning — and not because of errant tweets or a frenzied race in the fashion blogosphere to announce the winner of Galliano’s old job before LVMH can. WWD reports Marc Jacobs is in “serious” talks to succeed Galliano. [nymag]

Denmark Moves To Claim North Pole – Denmark on Monday presented its “Arctic Strategy” for the next decade, confirming that it intends to lay claim to the North Pole sea bed by 2014 at the latest. The 58-page report said Denmark and its autonomous Arctic territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands had agreed on a common strategy for the region. [news24]

Brad Pitt Lists Malibu Beach House – In March 2005, about the time Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston called off their short marriage and he hooked up with earth-momma/actress Angelina Jolie, superstar Brad Pitt shelled out a very a-list $8,410,000 for a very contemporary and glassy ocean front bachelor pad perched on 1.26 bluff top acres on the rugged but extremely swank Encinal Bluffs area in Malibu, CA. He fixed it up over time and now it’s on the market again for $13+ bar. [realestalker]

Fosters To Return At Least $520 Million To Shareholders – Foster’s Group Ltd. (FGL), Australia’s biggest brewer, will return at least A$500 million ($520 million) to investors as it resists SABMiller Plc (SAB)’s hostile takeover bid. The return may include a capital reduction or share buyback and will be done this financial year subject to market conditions. [bloomberg]

Megan Fox Explains Why She Removed Marilyn Monroe Tattoo – Megan Fox Explains Why She Removed Her Marilyn Monroe Tattoo
Megan Fox has officially stepped down as president of the Marilyn Monroe Society for Unoriginal Starlets. In an interview with Italian magazine Amica, Fox explains why she’s removing her Marilyn tattoo. [gawker]

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