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Donald Trump dissed Twitter -- the company that, arguably, played the biggest role in getting him into the White House.

Trump invited the heads of huge tech companies to Trump Tower for a summit Wednesday -- Tesla's Elon Musk, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Apple's Tim Cook were among the attendees. Even Uber's CEO was at the adult's table.

Twitter honchos were notably absent ... which struck a lot of people as odd since the Prez-elect is almost constantly giving the world his 140 characters-worth. A Trump aide told Business Insider Twitter just wasn't big enough to get the nod.

While Twitter's reportedly valued at about $13.85 billion, that's small change compared to the likes of Google, Apple and FB. Twitter's not said anything about the slight. Yet.

And then there were 4 -- Fifth Harmony went on in Brazil without Lauren Jauregui ... who was clearly grounded after her marijuana bust at Dulles Airport.

The group performed Wednesday night at the Fun Pop Fun Festival in Sao Paulo, proving that old adage about the show going on ... even in Lauren's absence.

We broke the story ... she got popped Tuesday night at TSA. She was trying to board a flight for the Brazil concert. She was cited for possession and released, but not in time to make the show, obviously.

Lauren's attorney says she'll be rejoining the ladies for all future performances.

Gilbert Arenas got a huge assist from the judge in his child support case ... his monthly payments to his ex were just slashed big time.

Sources close to the former couple tell us ... Gilbert's child support checks to his baby mama, Laura Govan, will now be under $10k a month ... a huge drop from around the $40k he claimed he was paying. Arenas has recently said he's not as rich as everyone thinks ... and apparently there's some truth to that.

Gilbert admittedly has no chill, though ... so he took the opportunity to gloat about his big win in court and troll Laura at the same time.

Sources close to Govan tell us she has no idea why Arenas continues to insult and torment her -- since she's not doing it to him -- but all she wants now is for him to leave her alone.

Akon was not down to share the wealth from his hits, which is why he kept one of his producers in the dark ... according to a lawsuit.

Leland Clopton claims Akon's record label, Konvict Entertainment, hid financial stats from him for years to avoid paying his royalties. According to the docs, he produced a number of songs for Akon, but only saw some income statements for a few.

In the suit, Clopton alleges the cover-up was intentional, so Akon could keep Clopton's royalties from himself. He accuses Akon of a "pattern of racketeering activity."

Clopton says he's potentially lost millions since he started working with Akon in 2008. He's asking for at least $1 mil in damages and for his contract with Akon to be terminated.

Ryan Lochte's crappy 2016 is ending on a high note -- he just announced he's expecting his first kid with his Playboy model fiancee Kayla Rae Reid.

Alan Thicke went to a Christmas party at John Paul DeJoria's house on Sunday ... and people there say he was happy, healthy and looking forward to the holidays.

Alan, his wife, Tanya, and his son, Brennan, mingled with celebs like Smokey Robinson, Jane Seymour and Clint Eastwood at the Malibu shindig which had everything -- live band, petting zoo, photo booth, Santa Claus, real snow AND an In-N-Out truck.

When it came time to chow down, we're told Thicke ditched his burger bun and ate it with just lettuce. His pal Ron White was also there and tells us Alan was health conscious about his diet, and avoided carbs.

Kanye's tete-a-tete with the Prez-elect doesn't change a thing between him and Common, even though the two friends don't seem to be on the same page.

Common was leaving Equinox in West Hollywood when he did an interesting dance with our photog. It's clear he has 'Ye's back no matter what -- he reiterates it several times -- but it's also clear marching into Trump Tower is NOT something Common would decide to do.

That said, Common did give his version on how to make the world a better place. Not shockingly, his plan doesn't involve a sit-down with Donald Trump.

Josephine Skriver ain't gonna sell a lot of bras posing like this ... but Victoria's Secret's bottom line isn't really our problem.

Josephine went au naturel up top during a VS shoot in Miami. Her fellow models, Taylor Hill & Lais Ribeiro, were also there, but a bit more covered. But not much.

Fifth Harmony had only 4 members who were free last night, because Lauren Jauregui was busted for weed Tuesday night while trying to get on a plane at Dulles Airport.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Lauren was stopped at a TSA checkpoint and forced to submit to a secondary search, when a TSA staffer found what appeared to be a bag of marijuana in her carry-on luggage.

Cops were flagged down in the terminal and they promptly arrested the singer.

It appears Lauren was heading for Brazil where the group is set to perform Wednesday night.

9:20 AM PT -- Lauren's attorney says the singer was not arrested or detained, but was "simply given a citation for possession of marijuana and released on her own recognizance." She adds, "This will not interfere with any future scheduled performances or activities."

10:30 AM PT -- Sources connected with Jackie tell us her mom jumped the gun. We're told the Bocelli duet was discussed as a possibility, but nothing's written in stone -- especially because Andrea hasn't yet signed on the dotted line for the inauguration -- but everyone has their fingers crossed.

Donald Trump didn't just land Jackie Evancho for the National Anthem at the inauguration -- we've confirmed he's also locked down Andrea Bocelli for at least one song, maybe 2.

Jackie's mother, Lisa, tells TMZ ... the Donald himself called Jackie's manager to invite Jackie to sing the National Anthem on Jan. 20th. We're told it was sorted out Tuesday and Jackie excitedly accepted.

Lisa also says the 16-year-old was asked to do a second performance with Bocelli. It's unclear if he's doing a solo, but it's Andrea Bocelli ... so we're guessing yes.

Jackie's no stranger to big stages. The "America's Got Talent" runner-up performed for Prez Obama twice. She also performed at a charity event Donald attended when she was 11 -- and she even sang with Bocelli last year in Italy.

Congrats!

Justin Bieber doesn't like stupid questions, and if he thinks you're asking one ... he might say a thing or two about your stupid face.

We got the Biebs shopping in Bev Hills Tuesday, and he was very sensitive about paparazzi talking to him about anything. Hockey, Kanye ... it's all off the table.

5:50 AM -- Robin Thicke posted on Instagram about his father's passing.

TV icon Alan Thicke has died ... TMZ has learned.

We're told Alan had a heart attack while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter. He was transported to Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center around noon Tuesday, and pronounced dead there.

Law enforcement sources tell us ... a company that recovers organs was contacted, so some of Thicke's organs could be donated.

He's survived by his 3 sons -- Robin, Brennan and Carter ... and his wife, Tanya.

Alan played hockey regularly at a rink in Burbank. We're told he and Carter were on the ice around 11 AM when he started having chest pain, then got nauseous and vomited. The ambulance picked him up around 11:30 and took him to the hospital.

The Canadian born actor was most famous for his role as Jason Seaver, the dad on the '80s sitcom, "Growing Pains." Most recently, he was on the Netflix reboot, "Fuller House" ... and also had a cameo on the first episode of "This Is Us."

Alan also hosted game shows, talk shows, and wrote several famous TV show theme songs for "Diff'rent Strokes," "Wheel of Fortune" as well as "The Facts of Life."

He was 69.

Gilbert Gottfried was a regular on Alan Thicke's late night '80s talk show "Thicke of the Night" and they spent a lot of time cracking jokes about Alan's singing.

Gilbert was out in NYC just hours after TMZ broke the news about Thicke's sudden death -- and he says Alan loved calling himself the "affordable William Shatner." You gotta see Gilbert's impression.

They even did an episode of "Celebrity Wife Swap" ... so they were good friends, but Gilbert clearly never nailed a spot-on impression of Alan's singing voice. 'A' for effort though.

John Mayer celebrated Taylor Swift's birthday not by throwing a party, but by throwing MAJOR shade her way.

John tweeted a not-so-subtle diss at his ex Tuesday -- her 27th born day -- calling it "the lamest day of the year." He pulled the classic post-and-delete ... which only makes it more obvious it was a shot at Taylor.

Dear John clearly still has some bad blood with T Swift.

On a happier note -- happy birthday, Taylor? Belatedly.

Lamar Odom checked himself into rehab out of fear he'd go on a major bender as his deceased son's birthday approached ... TMZ Sports has learned.

Lamar's son, Jayden, was born Dec 15, 2005, but died the following June from SIDS. We're told his son's death was the primary reason he started doing hardcore drugs ... and he was keenly aware the birthday might push him over the edge again.

As we reported, our Lamar sources say he went to a San Diego area facility late last week.

We're told Lamar's also struggling with the fact his divorce from Khloe will be final on Saturday, and he didn't want to be tempted to use.

Lamar is shooting for a 60 day rehab stint. He bailed after 3 weeks when he attempted rehab in 2012.

Mike Posner's got jokes but either the good folks at the Grammys don't get it or they REALLY get it ... which we doubt, but would be cool.

We caught up with the "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" singer Tuesday at LAX and he explained why his song getting nominated for Song of the Year is like the ultimate inside joke.

Mike -- who's also written for the likes of Justin Bieber -- is clearly enjoying the irony.