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Ivanna Ortiz -- the woman accused of shooting up Rihanna's house earlier this week -- allegedly sent her estranged husband messages about the singer weeks before the shooting.

In new court documents, Jed Valdez Sangalang attached an email he says Ortiz sent to him on January 26 that reads ... "I need you to renounce Rihanna and confess that I'm better than her. Let it be done. You gotta let me know so that door can be closed."

Sangalang says he learned of the Sunday shooting Monday after receiving calls and emails about Ortiz ... including some from news agencies asking for more information.

Retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland went missing last month … and his wife is fed up with all the misinformation about his disappearance. He vanished two weeks ago, on February 27, from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Neil's disappearance has been getting some attention because he spent his final two years in the USAF as a commander at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio … which has a lot of lore when it comes to UFOs.

Here’s where the conspiracy theories come in -- many people believe the base contains evidence of aliens from a mysterious 1947 crash in Roswell, NM.

But Neil’s wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, took to Facebook to insist her husband “does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt.”

She wrote … “This connection is not a reason for someone to abduct Neil.”

She also acknowledged Neil had access to some pretty classified stuff during his time in the Air Force, but thinks it’s “quite unlikely” that someone kidnapped him in order to learn his "very dated secrets."

The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office in New Mexico says Neil was home and spoke to a repairman at 10 AM on Feb. 27, a Friday. Susan left for a doctor’s appointment around 11 AM … but her husband was gone when she got back about an hour later.

Police say his phone and glasses were still at home, but his hiking boots and wallet were gone … along with a .38-caliber revolver.

Investigators found a gray USAF sweatshirt just over a mile away from Neil’s home, but no one’s confirmed if it’s actually his.

In her post, Susan mentioned there’s “absolutely no sign” of her husband, adding … “Maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership. However, no sightings of a mothership hovering above the Sandia Mountains have been reported.”

Heidi Fleiss is speaking out after her neighbor called the police and animal control on her two parrots ... telling TMZ she plans to speak to her neighbor later today.

The former "Hollywood Madam" and animal lover tells TMZ she bought her Nevada home for her two parrots, Gin and Juice.

Heidi’s neighbor Shauna Cordova told local news and local law enforcement that Heidi’s birds are loud in the mornings and roam the area.

“It has woken me up,” Shauna said. “Nobody likes to get woke up. So when you get woke up, it puts you in a bad mood. You’re like, what in the heck is going on?”

Heidi tells TMZ ... “She hates me. Who the f*** calls the news because [parrots] are waking you up?”

Kyrsten Sinema says she did in fact sleep with her bodyguard while he was still married ... admitting as much in legal docs -- though she says his estranged wife shouldn't be allowed to sue her in North Carolina for it.

The former Arizona senator filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in which she's being sued by her lover's estranged wife in North Carolina on Thursday. In the papers, she admits she and Matthew Ammel began an affair about five months before he separated from his wife, Heather Ammel. The filing was first reported on by an Arizona reporter named Brian Anderson.

Sinema says she and Ammel became "romantic and intimate" in late May 2024 ... engaging in physical intimacy for the first time on May 27 in Sonoma, California ... adding that they were also physically intimate in New York City, Washington, D.C., Aspen and Phoenix in subsequent months.

Harvey Levin is counting his lucky stars on Friday -- the TMZ boss came face-to-face with former UFC champion Henry Cejudo ... and somehow talked his way out of getting put in a headlock.

Hear that?? The newsroom just let out a collective sigh.

The playful interaction went down in the middle of the "TMZ Live" stream just minutes ago ... when Harvey got a text from a former staffer warning him that Triple C was around and looking to put an MMA move on him.

President Trump just confirmed he really did break up a fight involving Kobe Bryant back in the day ... telling Jake Paul it probably wasn't a smart thing to do -- but it worked out in the end.

POTUS sat down with El Gallo for just under half an hour while they were in Kentucky for a rally this week ... and they talked about a number of topics like the war in Iran, the 2024 assassination attempt, Jake's boxing success and even his possible political career.

At one point, Jake asked Trump if he had ever been in a fight himself ... which led to the longtime rumor that he had a role in a scrap involving the late NBA legend in 1998.

Laken Snelling's Snapchat could hold the key to prosecutors securing a conviction in their manslaughter case against her.

Local news station WKYT-TV obtained Snelling's full case file ... and, in it, cops asked a judge to sign off on a warrant for the former University of Kentucky cheerleader's Snapchat account.

When explaining why, cops cited the Snapchat group message the roommates used to communicate ... in which one of the roommates asked about a sound they heard at 4 AM on August 27, 2025 -- and another confirmed they heard it too.

Laken later responded in the chat -- just before 9 AM -- that she passed out and fell, causing the noise. After leaving the house, her roommates told cops they went to her room and found a deceased baby in a bag in the closet.

'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' star Demi Engemann has no regrets after suddenly dropping out of filming Season 4 ... telling us she's unfazed by costar and former bestie Jessi Draper's judgmental comments.

We caught up with Demi and her fine fella Brett in New York, where she made it clear she’s totally at peace with her choice to step back from the cameras ... saying she feels good about where things landed and did what was best for her mental health.

Catch the clip ... Demi also addressed comments from fellow cast member Jessi -- who’s been critical of her abrupt exit -- but Demi tells us she’s not concerned about the judgment at all, and revealed she's taken a step back from the "MomTok" group.

A public relations team working for Rebel Wilson allegedly plotted to take down a Hollywood producer by accusing her of sex trafficking ... and they might've been caught on audio doing it.

A new recording allegedly captures Jed Wallace, the head of a crisis public relations firm, telling publicist Melissa Nathan to claim Amanda Ghost -- a co-producer on Wilson's film "The Deb" -- worked as a "madame," procuring young girls for sex with rich men.

Take a listen for yourself ... Wallace suggests exposing Ghost as the "new Heidi Fleiss" ... who, of course, infamously ran a Hollywood prostitution ring in the early '90s.

A prison guard working the night Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide has been called to testify before the Congressional House Oversight Committee.

The committee sent Tova Noel -- the guard who was fired from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City after Epstein was found dead in his cell -- a letter requesting her to testify on March 26 at 10 AM ET.

The House Oversight Committee has members who believe Noel has "information that will assist in its investigation" into Epstein's shocking death.

Awkward moment for Keke Palmer at SXSW ... she was doing a panel for her new movie when a man in the crowd approached the stage and asked her to marry him ... and it's all on video.

TMZ obtained footage of the super awkward proposal ... the guy is sitting in the front row and then he walks to the edge of the stage, drops to one knee and proposes.

Keke looks shocked and stunned ... ditto for the rest of her "I Love Boosters" costars who were also on stage ... including Demi Moore, Naomi Ackie and Eiza Gonzalez.

The actress plays it cool and calmly tells the man she can't marry him ... because she doesn't know him. Overall, Keke's pretty nice about denying him.

Scary scene inside the wrestling ring Thursday night in Kentucky ... when a referee suffered a medical emergency after taking a brutal hit during the match, which his girlfriend says resulted in a brain injury.

It all went down during a "four corners of chaos" match, when wrestler Brendan Balling made his way up to the top rope, ready to hit opp Tony Evans with a move. Evans, however, grabbed the ref and pushed him into Balling's path instead, sending him crashing to the mat.

The ref -- identified as Dallas Edwards -- hit his head hard. Balling checked on him, but instead of the match stopping, the guys continued. Edwards remained down, and at one point, started convulsing, in a super scary scene.

Swing and a miss for Blake Lively ... she tried to get legal sanctions against one of Justin Baldoni's lawyers ... but a judge wasn't buying it.

Here's the deal ... Blake's legal team filed a motion back in August, complaining to a judge about what Bryan Freedman was saying about her in the media. She asked the judge to sanction Freedman.

Well, on Friday, the judge denied Blake's motion ... according to new legal docs obtained by TMZ.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is daring Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, to show his face ... accusing him of hiding amid claims he's been disfigured, instead of speaking publicly.

Hegseth ripped into Khamenei after the 56-year-old’s first message since taking power aired on Iranian state TV ... a written statement calling for unity that was read aloud by a presenter.

In a Friday briefing, the Pentagon chief questioned why Khamenei didn’t appear on camera himself ... suggesting he’s scared, injured, or on the run after the recent strikes that killed his father.

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Serena Williams is proudly declaring she is "perfectly" herself ... and is celebrating the self-love by posting new Instagram photos in a swimsuit, flexing her toned body!

The tennis legend shared several pics with her 18+ million followers on Friday -- rocking an olive green one-piece bathing suit outside in the sun.

She was all smiles as she modeled for the camera ... writing in the caption, "I am not perfect….but I’m perfectly me."

"Take out time today to celebrate being perfectly you! 💋"