Tattle: Salma Hayek weds Francois-Henri Pinault

THEY'LL PROBABLY end up

divorced, but at least actress Salma Hayek and her off-again/on-again financier - oops, make that fiance - Francois-Henri Pinault, will always have Paris.

The two wed there on Valentine's Day.

Sounds romantic, but it was a low-key, Saturday-morning civil affair at a town hall in the city's elegant rive gauche 'hood, the Sixth Arrondissement. They met in 2006, got engaged, had a daughter - 1 1/2-year-old Valentina - got unengaged, then reconnected last summer.

Luggage probably isn't on the bride's gift registry. Pinault, 46, heads PPR (PRTP.PA), a stuttery mess of letters that translates into the retailing juggernaut that owns the luxury Gucci brand, not to mention Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Puma, too.

Hayek, 42, has an Oscar nomination for "Frida" and is exec producer on the hit TV comedy "Ugly Betty."

Go to bed early Oscar night

We've got yer winners right here.

Having wowed all with his spot-on election predictions, statistician Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight.com) decided to apply his talents toward the forces of good (or is it evil?) with winner projections for the Academy Awards, airing from 8 p.m. to God- knows-when Sunday on ABC.

Supporting actor? The late Heath Ledger by a mile for "The Dark Knight," a movie we found unwatchable.

Supporting actress? Taraji P. Henson gets more than half the vote for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a movie we didn't bother to watch.

Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler") punches out Sean Penn ("Milk") for best actor. Kate Winslet ("Revolutionary Road") bests Meryl Streep ("Doubt") for best actress, a category so lackluster, the three other nominees got zero votes in Silver's calculations.

Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" (finally, a good one!) grabs director and best picture.

Silver used historic Oscar data, as well as stats on the nominated films, to come up with his predictions.

Rap party

got rough

A beating has left rap producer Marion "Suge" Knight hospitalized in Arizona. Police say it happened early yesterday at a private party in a hotel in Scottsdale.

Two men were arrested, including a man who said he is the business manager for hip-hop singer Akon.

Scottsdale police spokesman Sgt. Mark Clark says Akon was not present when the scuffle occurred.

Clark says officers arrived and saw a man identified as Robert Carnes Jr., 38, of Bethlehem, Pa., twice punch Knight in the face.

Police booked Carnes and a man identified as Thomas Leon Anderson Jr., 33, of California, on suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct.

Jay-Z on Rihanna

He found her, signed her to Def-Jam and made her a star.

So Jay-Z must have some thoughts about Rihanna being an abuse victim, allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend rapper/actor Chris Brown, right?

"You have to have compassion for others," Jay-Z said, speaking in Phoenix at an NBA All-Star Weekend event. "Just imagine it being your sister or mom and then think about how we should talk about that. I just think we should all support her. She's going through a tough time. You have to realize she's a young girl, as well. She's very young."

Shoulder pads are back

Designers Miss Sixty, Diane von Furstenberg, Herve Leger, BCBG, Jason Wu, Nicole Miller and Alexander Wang all went there in their fall designs unveiled at Fashion Week in New York City.

There's acid wash on the runway, too. And jumpsuits. That's "1984" creepy.

Reports from the scene are that much of "young Hollywood" - Kristen Bell, Amanda Bynes, Michelle Trachtenberg and Minka Kelly, to name a few - is attending the shows.

"Old Hollywood's" probably back home searching through their closets, wondering where the heck they put their shoulder-padded, acid-washed jumpsuits.

Zenescope a hit at NYCC

Daily News Comics Guy Jerome Maida reports that Fort Washington-based Zenescope hosted two panels at New York Comic-Con earlier this month - a sign of its increasing stature.

The buzz and zaniness flowed like Red Bull, Maida says. Some highlights:

_ On possible films: "We actually did option 'Return to Wonderland' as a film, but we don't know," said Zenescope President Joe Brusha. "The whole TV-to- movie thing is tricky . . . Everyone write Megan Fox and tell her she would make a great Callie [the lead character in 'RTW']."

"We had Summer Glau ['Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'] and that fell through," said Zenescope VP Ralph Tedesco. Brusha also disclosed that "Straw Men" has "just been optioned as a film property."

_ On their "Wonderland" franchise: " 'Wonderland' is like 'American Beauty' on crack," Tedesco said.

_ On their upcoming "Salem's Daughter" series: "It's basically 'X-Files' meets 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in the Old West. Does that make any sense?" Tedesco asked. "Dave Wohl will be writing."

_ On licensing other projects: "Licensing is tough," Brusha said. "You have to know it's going to sell well. We got offered 'Gladiator.' We got offered 'Days of Thunder.' How do you do that as a comic book?"

Tedesco added. " 'Top Gun,' I think. Does anybody want to see a 'Top Gun' book?" *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

HOWARD GENSLER has the day off.