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Vic Mensa got pulled over for a traffic violation, but ended up spending the night in jail for having a gun in his car with a permit -- the wrong one, allegedly.

The Roc Nation rapper was stopped in Beverly Hills last week for running a stop sign and having tinted windows ... according to law enforcement sources. We're told he informed cops he had a gun in his car and showed them his concealed carry permit. The problem is ... cops say the permit is for another state.

According to the police report ... Vic was arrested and booked on a felony count of carrying a concealed weapon. After one night in jail, he was released on $35,000 bail.

Robin Thicke and Paula Patton have decided it's better to get along than wage war, and that's why they are on the verge of settling the mega custody war.

Sources familiar with the situation tell us, Robin and Paula are far along in working out the details of their custody arrangement.

TMZ broke the story ... Paula got a restraining order against Robin after their 6-year-old son, Julian, complained to school officials his dad was using excessive physical force. Robin was limited to 3 visits a week with a court-appointed monitor present.

Cops have been called and accusations hurled, including Paula's claim Robin was trying to influence the monitor by giving him free sushi ... something Robin denied.

They were scheduled to continue their legal battle Monday, but the case was taken off calendar.

Neither side would comment, but we're told they're now very close to resolving custody.

Ciara's Artsy Pregnancy Photo Checklist:

-- Strip down to undies to show off belly? Check.

-- Nude baby Future? Check.

-- Possibly naked Russell Wilson pressing his face into your back while reaching around to caress belly? Check and mate.

Hollywood celebrities are being hit left and right by burglars ... but as far as the crooks are concerned they're nobody special, because high-end break-ins are out of control this year.

TMZ broke the story, Dodgers star Yasiel Puig was the latest to be hit, with thieves making off with more than half a mil in jewelry. Other celebs hit include Alanis Morissette, Cesar Millan and Derek Fisher.

Law enforcement tells us ... they believe the celebs were not targeted because they flaunted their jewelry and other riches on social media. The sources say these celebs all live in ritzy areas of L.A., and there has been an influx of criminals because California has recently opened the prison doors.

Recent laws have addressed terrible prison overcrowding by ordering the release of a number of non-violent criminals. There are also drug offenses that have been reduced from felonies to misdemeanors.

Our sources say a number of the people released are burglars, and now that they're out they're going back to what they know. As a result, there has been an explosion of burglaries in the L.A. area.

President Trump just made a scene ... and Hillary Clinton approved!

The prez gave a bunch of White House tour guests a big surprise Tuesday when he made a brief appearance on the first day tours resumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

The cheering crowd was all smiles ... same as Hillary in that First Lady portrait.

Rae Sremmurd's Swae Lee isn't giving up on dating Malia Obama, and now he has a very specific plan to sweep her off her feet -- but he knows he'll have to get through Barack first.

The "Black Beatles" rapper was at LAX talking about his dream collabs -- in music and with Malia. Swae made a plea to us a few months ago for the then-First Daughter to holla at him, and it's clear he's been thinking about it ever since.

Swae broke down every detail of their first date, and he's already on cloud nine.

Casey Anthony believes her dead daughter, Caylee, would be a rock 'n' roll loving, sports-playing 12-year-old right now -- but is also sticking to her story ... she has no idea how Caylee died.

Anthony says, "I don't give a s*** about what anyone thinks about me, I never will." She was speaking for the first time about her acquittal nearly 6 years ago, and also about her daughter, saying ... Caylee "would be a total badass."

Anthony did admit in the AP interview ... she understands why the public thinks she's a monster, but blames it on the media, and not on the fact she was caught repeatedly lying about her missing daughter.

It's unclear if she was asked directly about the judge from her case theorizing last week that Caylee died when Anthony accidentally used too much chloroform to sedate her. She did say, "Everyone has their theories, I don't know. As I stand here today I can't tell you one way or another."

George Michael died of natural causes related to his heart and liver ... what's unclear is if alcohol played a part.

The Coroner in Oxfordshire said the precise cause of death was dilated cardiomyopathy -- a heart muscle disease which stretches the muscles and thins them so blood flow in the body is restricted." Cardiomyopathy can be inherited but can also be triggered by excessive drinking.

Michael also suffered from fatty liver, which can be caused by excessive drinking but also excessive weight gain.

And Michael suffered from myocarditis, which is an inflammation in or around the heart, often caused by infection.

Michael was found dead in his bed on Christmas Day.

The 53-year-old singer had suffered from alcohol and drug addiction over the years and had gained a significant amount of weight in the months leading up to his death.

Kim Kardashian's pretty transparent these days ... quite literally, actually.

The reality star showed off some serious skin in this see-through lace gown while filming a cameo in "Ocean's 8" in downtown L.A. Serena Williams and Sports Illustrated model Kelly Rohrbach also rocked some fancy threads for their cameos.

It's interesting ... the flick's about a jewelry heist targeting celebs.

Yasiel Puig is the latest victim in a string of celeb burglaries in L.A. -- this time, crooks broke into the baseball star's L.A. home while he was in Arizona with the Dodgers for Spring Training and made off with more than half a million bucks in bling.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Sports ... burglars forced their way into the home while it was empty and made off with 3 high-end Rolex watches and other pieces of expensive jewelry.

The thieves may have been inspired by the Kim Kardashian robbery, where she flaunted ultra-expensive jewelry on social media. Puig, who's almost always dripping in gold, is also a big fan of flaunting it on social media.

Sources tell us Puig had tapped a relative to stay in the house while he is away -- but the crooks made their move when that person was away.

Kendall Jenner, Bella and Gigi Hadid just proved modeling does require some brains -- or at least planning a modeling show with a rocket launch does.

The 3 of 'em were in Paris this week strutting around with Chanel gear on, and with a giant rocket ship behind them -- which took off at the end of the show.

The faux spacecraft only got about 30 feet in the air -- still kinda cool to see hot models coming together in the name of science!

Well, fancy clothes with a science-ish backdrop, anyway.

Tyga was just ordered to pay the steepest cover charge EVER for club-hopping in Vegas ... all because he flaked on a lawsuit.

Tyga got hit for nearly $65,000 in a case where a promoter sued him for allegedly breaking a performance contract. It wasn't hard for the promoter to win ... Tyga never showed up in court.

We broke the story ... Z Entertainment claimed Tyga had signed on with them in 2015 to perform at a show in Vegas, also promising not to perform at competing clubs around the same time frame.

Lo and behold they say Tyga did just that ... not to mention screwing them by being a no-show the year before at another gig.

Seems Tyga has even bigger legal fish to fry in 2017.

Louis Tomlinson is in for a legal battle with the paparazzo he allegedly attacked ... because the guy has sued in the past for a similar incident.

TMZ broke the story ... Karl Larsen -- the photog who says Tomlinson smashed his head on the floor Friday at LAX -- sued a company that produced a Lana Del Rey music vid in 2013, claiming 3 of its employees roughed him up for snapping pics of the shoot.

Larsen was taking photos of LDR near the L.A. river when 3 men from Black Hand Cinema allegedly accosted him. As you can see from the video ... things got pretty intense.

Larsen claimed the men shoved and jerked him and used a box cutter to slice his finger and take his camera ... then made him erase the memory card. He sued for $1 million, but the case was later dismissed ... which is generally code for settlement.

As we reported, Larsen has already lawyered up in the Tomlinson case, hiring Gloria Allred.

After 3 more solo dates and a whole lotta private time with Raven, Rachel and Vanessa, it was finally time for Nick Viall to narrow it down to the final 2 on "The Bachelor" ... and it was between Rachel and Vanessa for rose #2.

Rachel Lindsay's already been named the next 'Bachelorette' so it shouldn't come as a huge shock that she's going home. Still, as a fan favorite and the first black woman to make it this far ... this one stings.

It's all good though ... now it's her turn to have the pick of the litter.

The first woman featured in Playboy wearing a hijab says Gigi Hadid can't bridge the Muslim world to the U.S. for one simple reason ... she's not really Muslim.

We spoke with Noor Tagouri, who appeared in Playboy's October issue -- fully clothed -- and she had her own take on Gigi's veiled cover shot for Vogue Arabia. Unlike Tommy Hilfiger, who thinks Gigi could be an ambassador of sorts ... Noor's not willing to put that kinda pressure on the model.

Yes, Gigi is half Palestinian, and she marched against Trump's Muslim ban and she has millions of social media followers -- but Noor says that hardly makes her a revolutionary.

However, Noor -- who stars in the Newsy docu-series, "A Woman's Job" -- admits the supermodel could be a powerful voice ... IF she wants to be.

Your move, Gigi.

RuPaul doesn't want the LGBTQ community to get down about the Supreme Court decision to let lower courts rule on transgender rights -- he has his own idea about how to keep the progress rolling.

We got Ru in NYC, hours after SCOTUS rejected the high-profile bathroom rights case of a Virginia high school student ... sending it back to the court of appeals. He took the news well, insisting the Justices are stuck in the 20th century.