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Originally published Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Andy Dick arrested

Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services.

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Andy Dick was arrested early Wednesday for investigation of drug use and sexual battery after the comedian allegedly pulled down a teenager's top, police said. The former co-star of the TV sitcom "NewsRadio" was released from a detention center after posting $5,000 bail. Police described Dick as "extremely intoxicated" and said they found marijuana and Xanax in his pockets. Dick, who has a reputation for crude behavior, reportedly exposed himself to audiences at least twice and was taken off the set of the show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" last year after he repeatedly touched guest Ivanka Trump without her permission.

Mansion nets $100M

The real-estate market might be slumping, but not for Donald Trump, who sold his Palm Beach mansion for $100 million to Russian fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, his spokesman said Wednesday. After buying the 60,000-square-foot oceanfront home called Maison de L'Amitie for about $41 million in 2004, Trump assigned renovations to "Apprentice" winner Kendra Todd, who dressed it up with marble and 24-karat-gold fixtures.

Stones star in rehab

Ronnie Wood entered a rehabilitation facility Wednesday for help with alcoholism, said a spokeswoman for the Rolling Stones guitarist. Wood, 61, has fought a long battle with alcoholism during his rock 'n' roll career, which started in the 1960s when he played with the band The Faces.

Remembered

Dr. Michael DeBakey

Pioneering heart surgeon Michael DeBakey was remembered at a memorial service Wednesday in Houston as not only a brilliant physician and medical innovator but also a friend and humanitarian. Many of the medical professionals among the 1,800 in attendance wore their surgical scrubs or white coats to honor the father of modern-heart surgery, whose body also was dressed in doctor's garb. DeBakey died Friday at the age of 99. DeBakey, a World War II veteran, was scheduled to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday.

Today in History

1821: Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

1918: Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

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1938: Aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from New York, saying he was headed for California; he ended up in Ireland, supposedly by accident, earning the nickname "Wrong Way Corrigan."

1944: 322 people were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded in Port Chicago, Calif.

1948: Southern Democrats opposed to the nomination of President Truman met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond.

1955: Disneyland opened to the public in Anaheim, Calif.

1996: TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard.

Today's Birthdays

TV personality Art Linkletter, 96. Comedian Phyllis Diller, 91. Actor Donald Sutherland, 73. Actress-singer Diahann Carroll, 73. Actress Lucie Arnaz, 57. Actor David Hasselhoff, 56. Television producer Mark Burnett ("Survivor," "The Apprentice"), 48. Singer Regina Belle, 45. Actor Eric Winter, 32.

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