Well, it took law enforcement authorities almost a year after Robert Blake’s wife, Bonnie Bakley, was shot to death in her car, to arrest the former “Baretta” actor, naming him as the gunman. Police chief Bernard Parks sez he’ll recommend the actor be charged with one count of murder with “special circumstances,” (that is lying in wait) and two counts of solicitation of murder – charges that could result in the death penalty. (Also arrested was Blake’s bodyguard and chauffeur, Earle Campbell, who will probably be charged with conspiracy to commit murder). Just like a chilling plot played out on the boob tube, Blake claimed that the murder happened while he returned to the restaurant they had dined in, to retrieve a gun he had left behind. Blake claimed he had been using the gun for the couple’s protection. Blake’s attorney, Harlan Braun, claimed Bakley had made numerous enemies throughout her jaded past and that it was most likely one of these enemies – not the actor - who killed her. (Blake originally met Bakley in a nightclub. He eventually agreed to marry her after a DNA test showed that Rosie, the daughter Bakley bore in June 2000, was his. She had also been, reportedly, seeing Christian Brando, son of actor Marlon Brando, at the time).

Meanwhile, Marlon Brando’s former maid gave him a summons the other day he couldn’t refuse. She slapped him with a $100-million palimony suit, claiming she had a nearly 14-year affair with him, that resulted in three children before they split in December. Marina Christina Ruiz sez that her affair with the movie legend started in 1988, when she was 29 and he was 63. Reportedly, they actually lived together as husband and wife, and Brando gave her a ring, though they never actually married. At the end of last year, Ruiz, now 43, claims Brando suddenly cut off “all support and maintenance” to her, save for child support. So far, Brando hasn’t mumbled a word.

Tongues are wagging in Hollywood about Kelly McGillis dumping her husband for a radical new lifestyle. Spies tell me she’s been spotted strolling the streets holding hands with another woman. The “Top Gun” star left the home she shared with her businessman-husband, and their two daughters, in Key West, Fla., and moved to an apartment above a deli in a small Pennsylvania town, before moving into a house. (In the controversial flick, “The Monkey’s Mask,” Kelly played a lesbian who had a passionate affair with her co-star, Susie Porter. The movie role helped fuel the rumors that she prefers girls in real life as well. But, the actress sez it doesn’t bother her one little bit).

In case you wanna go out shopping for baby booties…I hear Michael Jackson has secretly adopted a baby boy. Michael, who was involved in all those vicious child molestation charges in 1993, (for which he, reportedly, shelled out $20-million to settle), supposedly, has the infant at his Neverland ranch and has not taken him out yet in public. The bi-racial baby joins Jackson’s other two children – Prince, age five, and Paris, age four, who live with him at the Neverland compound in California. Both Prince and Paris were born to Jackson and his second wife, Debbie Rowe. Apparently, Jackson decided to add to his “family” and didn’t want to
re-marry to get the additional children. The third child caused some nanny problems, however. Michael specified that he wanted a Jehovah’s Witness for the job. (Michael’s mother and other family members are Jehovah’s Witnesses, even though he no longer is).

Stephen Williams, the former MTV “Real World” star, who viciously struck a female co-star on the show for calling him gay, turns out to not only be gay, but a gay hooker as well. Williams was busted when he tried to hustle a male undercover cop. He offered sex to a plainclothes detective in Hollywood, and then hopped in a car, later, to get it on with the dude.

If you wanna believe what you hear, Mamie Van Doren, supposedly, slept with tons of handsome men during her heyday as a sex star - including the likes of Tom Jones, Burt Reynolds and the late Howard Hughes - but now sez she regrets the day she let the late Elvis Presley slip through her fingers. According to Mamie, they once necked and fooled around a bit, then later made a date, but, she, reluctantly, had to back out when her husband, big band leader Ray Anthony, hit town. According to Mamie, things were never serious between them, but she and Elvis had a lot of sexual chemistry going.

Shame…shame…shame. Liza Minnelli, fresh from her recent marriage, is, reportedly, trying to evict her 94-year-old stepmother from her residence, so she can sell the home that the old woman is living in. And, they say she has resorted to some rather unscrupulous behavior to do so – she didn’t pay the electric bill, for instance, leaving the woman in the home without electricity. And, speaking of bad-rapping Liza, critics termed her recent show in London “disgraceful,” after the star was accused of lip-syncing several of her numbers. Commenting on her three-octave range voice, one show biz insider said she sounded like she could only make one. The show’s producer confirmed that Liza did, indeed, mime some of her numbers, but was quick to point out that they were her dance numbers.

Paul McCartney may have done everything possible, but, it seems there is yet one “artistic expression” the former Beatle wants to do – appear nude in concert! The rock legend observed the other day: “I’m thinking of just wearing the boxer shorts on stage, then maybe whip them off during the second number, ‘Let It Be, Let It Be.’” Meanwhile, critics are saying, “Let it be, Paul, let it be.”

NYPD Blue cop Charlotte Ross got a little public exposure recently by appearing in the nude for an animal rights group benefit.

Guess who rushed right out and ordered a real-life Panic Room just like Jodie Foster? Why, Madonna, naturally. The superstar singer, who was once threatened by a maniac stalker, shot down after invading her LA estate, spent a whopping $21-million on a steel-walled stout sanctuary to rival the one in Jodie’s movie. The room, located just behind her private office at Maverick Productions in LA, has steel walls five inches thick. When she sequesters herself inside the room, one push of a panic button locks the room and automatically alerts the LAPD. The room has an outside phone, TV monitors and enough food and water rations to last several days. Madonna is, reportedly, so happy with the room, she’s ordered them for all her mansions throughout the world.

I’m told sexy star Jennifer Lopez had a wild weekend fling recently with some 10,000 raunchy gay guys at a California drug-infested fest. Her hot performance, bumping and grinding her much-publicized buttocks with eight hunky bodybuilders at the controversial White Party in Palm Springs, reportedly, had even many of the gay dudes turned on. The bash was a benefit for AIDS research. J.Lo performed her half-hour set gratis, because she wanted to thank her big gay fan base for helping her become a major mega-star.

Poor Liz Hurley nearly lost her baby and her life following bizarre threats in England from a nutty stalker. Only days before she was due to give birth, the “Austin Powers” star was rushed to London’s Portland Hospital for an emergency cesarean section. Her son, Damian, was delivered two weeks premature. The stalker was arrested on the day Liz gave birth. He claimed to have once lived in Hollywood. When officers apprehended him, he was carrying a Dalmatian puppy doll and a note claiming he was the real son of Marilyn Monroe.

How’s this for a novelty: Tori Spelling spelled it out when she dumped her director-boyfriend Rick Alvarez by pecking out on her cell phone “I don’t want to see you any more. It’s over!”