Tattle: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez break up

WHAT WITH all the juicy, men-behaving-badly gossip relegated to national (former CIA Director

David Petraeus

: need we say more?) and business news pages (Lockheed Martin honcho

Christopher Kubasik

resigned last week over a relationship with an employee), Tattle has to make do with . . . boys behaving mysteriously.

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have broken up - yes, our world hiccupped on its axis, too, when we heard the news over the weekend.

But why they've come undone is still in question. The usual sources confirmed the break, which happened last week, but nothing more.

She's 20 and he's 18 (there's a clue). They'd been together since forever ago - February 2011.

Given that their schedules often kept them apart, it's sorta sad both were reportedly in New York City Sunday. He had a show last night in Brooklyn; she's working on a "Wizards of Waverly Place" reunion for the Disney Channel.

E! News was first up on the split and came back later with this exclusive, very 18-year-old-sounding quote on the situation from the Bieb: "I don't know what's going on in my life. To even assess that, it doesn't make sense 'cause I have not made any comment."

Deceased actor

Sherman Hemsley

's longtime friend can proceed with his burial and estate affairs, a Texas judge ruled Friday over the objections of his half-brother from Philadelphia.

Hemsley - George Jefferson on the TV sitcom "The Jeffersons" - died July 24 of lung cancer. His body has been in refrigerated storage at an El Paso, Texas, funeral home since.

Judge Patricia B. Chew sided with Flora Enchinton Bernal, named in Hemsley's will as the executor of his estate.

DNA tests showed that 78-year-old Richard Thornton is Hemsley's half-brother. (Thornton testified that Hemsley was born from their father's extramarital relationship.) He wanted to bury his brother at a veterans cemetery in Philadelphia, where Hemsley grew up. Hemsley lived in El Paso the last 20 years of his life.

Thornton's attorney promised an appeal.

Court documents indicate Hemsley's estate is worth more than $50,000, but Thornton's daughter, Louise Thornton, said her father "didn't come after money."

"He came to bury his brother," she said. "And they turned the whole thing into a three-ring circus."

Handwritten letters from Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his former lover Marsha Hunt will be auctioned in London Dec. 12.

Hunt is an American singer who was the inspiration for the Stones' 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" and bore Jagger's first child.

Sotheby's says she has tasked the auction house with selling 10 letters written from the set of Jagger's film "Ned Kelly" as it was shooting in Australia.

Sotheby's says the "passionate and articulate" letters sent in the summer of 1969 show a "poetic and self-aware" 25-year-old Jagger.

The auction house said the collection, which includes song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist, is expected to fetch between $111,300 and $159,000.

* In other news from the auction block, the blue pinafore dress Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz" has sold for $480,000.

Auction house Julien's Auctions says the gingham dress fetched the highest price of any item during a two-day auction of Hollywood memorabilia that attracted bids from around the world. The auction ended Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Steve McQueen's racing jacket sold for $50,000, as did a purple skirt worn by Marilyn Monroe while filming "River of No Return" in Canada. Julie Andrews' "Sound of Music dress" brought $38,400.

Bidders also snapped up pieces of royal wedding cakes. Prince William and Kate Middleton's cake sold for $7,500 while Prince Charles and Princess Diana's cake sold for just $1,375. Guess it was a little stale.