A 33-year-old woman by the name of Emily Leatherman pleaded no contest Friday in Los Angeles to a felony count of stalking Hollywood star John Cusack.

By accepting a plea deal she avoided state prison, but was sentenced to five years’ probation and mandatory psychiatric counseling, according to Fox News.

Leatherman was arrested a few months ago after lurking around actor John Cusack’s Malibu home despite a restraining order.

When Cusack filed for the restraining order, he accused the woman of throwing a bag containing rocks, love letters and screwdrivers (!) over his fence.

This same woman was also arrested on suspicion of violating a restraining order a year or so ago. That time it was outside Tom Cruise’s home in Beverly Hills.

Actor Joe Son (who played Random Task in “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”) has been charged in connection with a brutal gang rape.

Earlier this year, 37-year-old Son pleaded guilty to felony vandalism. This required him to give a DNA sample to the authorities, which in turn connected him to an unsolved 1990 gang rape, Fox News reports.

And the list of charges against Son is both long and disturbing. According to the Orange County DA’s office it includes: five felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible sodomy, two felony counts of sodomy in concert by force, seven felony counts of forcible oral copulations, one felony count of sexual penetration by foreign object by force.

According to TMZ.com, Son faces a maximum sentence of 275 years to life if convicted.

Academy Award-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal and actress Farrah Fawcett’s 23-year-old son Redmond O’Neal, who was arrested together with his father on Sept. 17 on suspicion of methamphetamine possession, was ordered into rehab yesterday, E! Online reports.

LA Superior Court Judge Scott Millington reportedly told Redmond that he was a stand-up guy for coming to court and dealing with his problem, but that he had to say clean.

Redmond and his famous father were arrested in Ryan’s home in Malibu last month after police during a routine probation check allegedly uncovered a stash of methamphetamines.

No criminal charges have yet been filed against Ryan and Redmond O’Neal. At the time of their arrest, Redmond was on probation for both DUI and drug possession.

Yesterday, a three-judge panel in Los Angeles decided not to throw out the misdemeanor charge against Britney Spears for driving with an invalid license, according to E! Online. The case is now scheduled to go to trail on Oct. 15.

A pretrial hearing is according to some online reports set for tomorrow, but Spears is not expected to appear.

The pop star was charged with not having a valid California driver’s license after she hit a parked car and then left the scene in August last year.

The Associated Press reports that the jurors in the O.J. Simpson trail found him guilty on all charges yesterday. Coincidently, the jury began their deliberations 13 years to the day after the former football star was acquitted of stabbing his ex wife and her friend to death in Los Angeles. But this time he did not manage to fool the jurors…

After deliberating for more than 10 hours, the jurors found Simpson guilty on all charges, which included kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, stemming from a robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas about a year ago.

Simpson, 61, is now facing five years to life in prison. Simpson (and his co-defendant Clarence Stewart) will be sentenced in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 5, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. PST.

History keeps repeating itself…

”Keeping Up With the Kardashians” co-star Khloe Kardashian appeared in a California court yesterday for a progress hearing in her DUI case. And according to E! Online, the judge was not happy about her progress.

The judge reprimanded Khloe for not completing her required alcohol-education program in a timely fashion. But instead of revoking Khloe’s probation, the judge gave her until Nov. 17 to complete all the classes (according to her lawyer she only has one class left to complete).

Earlier this year, Khloe pleaded no contest to driving under the influence and was sentenced to 36 months probation and community service. She was also ordered to enroll in an alcohol-education program. But for some reason she did not complete the alcohol program and ended up behind bars for 4 hours and 37 minutes (!).