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Kathy Griffin may have been joking when she posed with what looked like the bloody head of Donald Trump, but the Secret Service isn't laughing.

Law enforcement sources tell us the Secret Service has launched an investigation into "the circumstances surrounding the photo shoot."

TMZ first posted the pic, shot by famed photog Tyler Shields. We're told the Secret Service does not jump to conclusions that incendiary photos or writings are serious or in jest. They also will not automatically pass the photo off as art. They routinely investigate and that's exactly what they'll do in this case.

We're told agents will most likely attempt to interview her and Tyler.

Kathy apologized Tuesday evening for the images.

Mary Kay Letourneau is nothing if not true to form ... she's now filed a bizarre petition with the court to have her husband's separation case dismissed.

TMZ has obtained a document filed just hours after we broke the story Vili Fualaau filed documents declaring the couple has separated after 12 years of marriage.

Mary Kay's documents do not cite any basis for her move to dismiss the case. We spoke with Vili's lawyer and she said he will move forward with his petition and has done nothing to suggest he wants it dismissed.

We also asked Vili's lawyer if his separation petition was a prelude for divorce, but she had no comment.

Unless we're missing something ... Mary Kay has no basis to object to Vili's decision to separate.

8:50 AM PT -- The Secret Service says at no time during Moles' time in D.C. were any of the people they protect at risk. Obviously, that includes President Trump.

8:30 AM PT -- A rep for D.C. Metro PD says the department got word from Pennsylvania State Police about Moles heading to the area and possibly looking to check in to the Trump Hotel. PA cops got the man's name and vehicle description from a tipster, which was quickly communicated to D.C. officials, including the Secret Service.

A Trump International Hotel guest in Washington D.C. was busted early Wednesday morning when cops found 2 guns and 90 rounds of ammo in his car.

According to cops 43-year-old Bryan Moles left a gun in plain view inside his car. A second gun was found in his glove box. The weapons are a Glock and a semi-automatic Carbon 15 Bushmaster.

Police responded to the hotel -- just blocks from the White House -- after getting a tip that Moles had the weapons.

Nicole Murphy got a big laugh at Kathy Griffin's pic holding a bloody, beheaded image of President Trump ... and she even thinks he was asking for it.

We got Nicole at LAX Tuesday and she was quick to say Trump "set the bar" for Griffin's photo shoot with Tyler Shields.

As you know, Griffin has since apologized, saying she crossed the line, and Trump has blasted her ... saying 11-year-old Barron was traumatized by the pic.

So far, Tyler has been mum.

8:30 AM PT -- Later in the day, after we saw Nicole, she saw Kathy's video apology. She tells us, "I know she's a comedian and I always like Kathy, but the pic is a little too graphic ... and I apologize for saying it was kind of funny. Because it really isn't."

John Daly still supports Tiger Woods in a big way -- and says the best way to hush critics after his DUI arrest is to get back on the golf course.

TMZ Sports spoke with Daly -- who's famously battled alcohol issues in the past -- and John dished out some sincere advice to Tiger when it comes to avoiding DUIs in the future.

Apollo Nida's now taking aim at "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" in his quest to get his prenup with Phaedra Parks rendered null and void.

Apollo filed docs saying the court should scrap the prenup he signed in October 2009 because several months after the ink dried ... Phaedra was cast on 'RHOA' and the money started rolling in for the couple.

In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Apollo says their financial situation drastically changed for the better, and that should be taken into consideration when it comes time to divvy up the dough in their contentious divorce.

Translation: The numbers don't add up in Apollo's favor under the prenup, so he wants a do-over.

As we've reported ... Phaedra insists their prenup is ironclad, and Apollo's just trying to weasel out of it.

Phaedra had no comment on her ex's latest filing.

The roof. The roof. The roof ... and the rest of the house was definitely on fire.

Debbie Rowe and the woman whose home she burned down learned a hard lesson about spontaneous combustion.

Michael Jackson's ex was in Vermont, recovering from breast cancer treatment at a friend's cottage. The cottage was awesome ... built in 1937. Debbie and the owner were refinishing crown molding with linseed oil.

Debbie decided to take a break last Thursday and left a rag soaked in the oil in the living room. She took a long break, went to the main house and started knitting. Unbeknownst to her ... the cottage erupted in flames. She didn't hear a thing because of the wind.

Turns out the fumes from linseed oil are highly flammable ... the process of the oil turning into fumes creates heat, and the combo of that on rags is a fire waiting to happen.

Debbie's friend is supremely understanding ... grateful that Deb wasn't hurt.

Extreme Flammable Home Makeover ... anyone?

Ying Yang Twins' rapper Kaine admits he was messed up at a show this past weekend, but he has an excuse -- someone switched out his preferred alcohol for Diddy's!

Kaine's hilarious explanation goes like this -- he told us he's a tequila man, but at their Little Rock show Sunday night, he was served Ciroc vodka ... with "all the fruity flavors. " He calls this "Puffy Juice."

The rapper also says his health condition makes him look like he's already intoxicated even when he's not ... so it looked worse when he was, umm ... helped off stage.

Don't mistake any of this as an apology, though. As Kaine put it, he was just "doin' what I'm supposed to be doin'."

Kathy Griffin is throwing herself on her sword ... apologizing for the gory photo she took with a bloody Donald Trump mask, and vowing to remove the image.

Kathy posted a video mea culpa, saying, "I moved the line, and then I crossed it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people."

She chalked up the decision to pose for famed photog Tyler Shields as the latest in a line of professional mistakes she's made. Kathy said she'd ask Shields to take down the image.

Only one problem with that, of course: The Internet.

The accused Portland train murderer made an extremely creepy appearance in court where he rambled like a madman and declared, "What you call terrorism, I call patriotism."

Jeremy Joseph Christian was arraigned Tuesday in Portland. He entered the courtroom with a determined stare, and immediately started ranting, "Free speech or die, Portland! You got no safe place!"

2:30 PM PT -- Chelsea Clinton's weighed in too, and she's decidedly Team Trump on this one.

Donald Trump Jr. is blasting Kathy Griffin, and all liberals, for her photo op with a bloodied mask of President Trump ... but admits he's not all that shocked.

Don Jr. called the gory Tyler Shields shot of Kathy ... "Disgusting but not surprising. This is the left today. They consider this acceptable."

He also said, "Imagine a conservative did this to Obama as POTUS?"

For her part ... Kathy's not backing down. She borrowed the now infamous Trump quote about Megyn Kelly, saying ... "There was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his ... wherever."

She added she doesn't condone violence and was merely mocking "the Mocker in Chief."

Tiger Woods' girlfriend is sticking to her own form of therapy in dealing with her man's DUI bust -- more shopping ... and lots of it.

Kristin Smith was in Dallas Tuesday loading up a hefty bag full of what looked like shoe boxes. While her face looks bummed out, Kristin seems to be getting through by doing what she does best ... shopping.

She's a stylist.

As we reported, Kristin broke out in hysterics Monday upon learning Tiger had been arrested and charged for DUI in Florida. That didn't stop her from finishing a $5,000 shopping spree though.

In the immortal words of no one ... Keep Calm and Shop On!

Erin Moran died purely from complications of advanced cancer ... according to the Harrison County Coroner, whose final autopsy results confirmed what Erin's husband had said.

The coroner's report says, "no illegal narcotics were involved in her death" ... and she was stage 4.

Erin's huband, Steve Fleischmann, had written an open letter describing Erin's months-long battle with squamous cell carcinoma.

The "Happy Days" and "Joanie Loves Chachi" star died last month, at the age of 56.

Steve and Erin were together for 25 years. He says she died holding his hand.

Tiger Woods' car was a wreck when cops found him during his DUI arrest -- with 2 flat tires, a broken tail light and mangled bumpers ... this according to the police report obtained by TMZ Sports.

The officers at the scene reported, "Both rims on the driver's side of the vehicle are damaged and both tires on the driver's side are flat."

Tiger was behind the wheel of a 2015 Mercedes AMG S65 at the time of the incident -- repairing that kind of a car ain't cheap.

Cops noted the damage appeared to have been inflicted recently.

In the report, officers say Woods -- who was a groggy mess -- told cops he believed he was in Los Angeles and was driving to Orange County.

There's more ... when officers arrested Tiger and confiscated his belongings, they noticed the golfer had a concealed weapons license.