Tattle | Tooth be told, Britney crisis was inci-dental

TATTLE was packing up for the night Sunday when word came in that

Britney Spears

had been rushed to an L.A. hospital.

It had to be true. A blog said so.

We checked our usual cadre of blurry-eyed witnesses and anonymous sources and, finding nothing, we went home.

Later Sunday night, TMZ.com reported that Britney had been admitted to Century City Hospital for emergency work on her teeth.

One would expect TMZ.com to be all over this - one of Brit's own moles is a TMZ mole.

The Web site said the rehabbed ex-pop tart was having pain in one of her molars.

She was seen leaving the hospital less than one hour later.

Sort of. Yesterday, "Extra" tweaked the story.

Britney was having mouth trouble, but she did not receive treatment at a hospital - but at a dentist's office near the hospital.

You see, the hospital is at 2070 Century Park East. Britney's emergency dentist, William M. Dorfman, of Century City Aesthetic Dentistry, is at 2080 Century Park East.

And if Dr. Dorfman (whose Web site does not list Sunday hours) sounds familiar, you may have seen him creating new smiles on ABC's "Extreme Makeover."

Which Britney needs.

* Sunday, before her molars act-

ed up, Britney attended services at Bel Air Presbyterian Church.

There was a touch of drama, however, when, according to video on "Extra," security personnel apparently pulled a gun on one of the paparazzi. He was detained, but later released.

Tattle docket

* Former Page Six contributor

Jared Paul Stern, who lost his job at the New York Post in the wake of accusations that he had tried to shake down billionaire Ronald Burkle in exchange for good press, last week sued Burkle, the New York Daily News and former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Stern accuses the Clintons of attacking him in an effort to suppress negative stories about themselves.

The Philadelphia-born Stern is

being represented by Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and a longtime critic of the Clintons.

Stern alleges that the defendants defamed and inflicted emotional distress on him and wrecked his job as a contributor to Page Six.

He seeks unspecified damages.

"Jared did not commit extortion," Klayman said. "He did not conduct a shakedown. The bottom line is that Burkle is in deep, hot water."

We're guessing Burkle can afford his water bill, but his spokesman, Michael Sitrick, called the lawsuit "preposterous."

The Daily News and the Clintons declined to comment.

The Clintons are friends with Burkle, and Stern's suit claims they were active participants in a plan "to destroy Page Six of the New York Post and the New York Post in general."

"This was intended as a prelude to Hillary Clinton's run for the Presidency in 2008 as Page Six and the New York Post, owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch, were perceived as significant impediments to a successful candidacy," the suit alleges.

In an unexpected political twist, the Post endorsed Hillary in her most recent Senate run.

* Busta Rhymes (aka Trevor

Smith) will face trial on two assault charges after Manhattan judge Tanya Kennedy withdrew a plea offer yesterday that would have let the rapper remain free.

Kennedy cited Busta's arrest for driving with a suspended license as the reason.

* Tony Yayo (aka Marvin Ber-

nard) of the hip-hop group G-Unit pleaded not guilty to harassment and to endangering the welfare of a child after police accused him of slapping and hitting a 14-year-old boy.

Yayo was released Sunday on $5,000 bail.

"We adamantly deny the allegations," said Yayo's lawyer, Scott Leemon.

Drugs, what a surprise

In one of the most anticlimactic autopsies in history, Anna Nicole Smith's death was ruled an accidental drug overdose.

Smith had too much of the sleep med chloral hydrate in her system, combined with at least eight other prescription drugs. She also recently had a bacterial infection from injecting drugs into her butt, authorities said yesterday.

Broward County (Fla.) Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said Anna Nicole had been taking a lengthy list of medications, including methadone and valium.

Chloral hydrate is a sedative used to treat insomnia and alcohol withdrawal, to relieve anxiety and to ease post-surgery pain.

Dr. Chip Walls, a forensic toxicologist for the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, said the drug is rarely prescribed and is "very toxic if you mix it with any other central-nervous-system-depressant drugs," which, of course, Anna Nicole was taking.

Perhaps to counteract all the interacting meds, Anna Nicole also was taking longevity medications, B12 and growth hormone.

Basically, she was a human pharmacy.

The detailed autopsy, however, showed no evidence of disease.

Tattbits

* As a follow-up to the hotel

brawl reported yesterday between Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland and his wife, Mary, Mary was arrested for torching Scott's clothes outside their Toluca Lake, Calif., home.

Fortunately, Scott was not in them at the time.

Mary was booked for investigation of felony arson vandalism.

According to police, Scott said the wardrobe was worth $10,000.

* In a court hearing yesterday in

Michigan, off-again couple Eminem and Kim Mathers agreed that for the sake of their 11-year-old daughter, they would be nice to each other in public.

If only we could get Sunnis and Shiites to also agree. *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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