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Powerball winner Mavis L. Wanczyk is gonna have some extra manpower guarding her Massachusetts home from any crooks thinking about making a move.

Cops in Mavis' hometown of Chicopee tell us they'll be making extra patrol rounds each shift to make sure no funny business goes down on the heels of her HUGE win.

As for what cops are worried about ... they think Mavis is now a magnet for leeches, crooks and scammers who want a piece of the pie. Police are on the lookout for people casing her home, loitering on or around her property, or harassing her or her family.

Cops think the visibility of extra patrols may scare people with bad intentions away.

Mavis, a single 53-year-old mother of 2, won Powerball's largest ever solo payout on Wednesday night. She's expected to take home $336 million after taxes, according to lottery officials.

It's now obvious Taylor Swift's been sharpening her lyrical knives during her hiatus -- she whipped 'em out for Katy Perry AND Kanye West in her new track, "Look What You Made Me Do."

Tay Tay just dropped a music video for the track, and the lyrics leave no doubt who she's attacking. She sings, "I don't like your little games ... don't like your tilted stage" in the opening verse -- a clear reference to Kanye's last tour.

Taylor also clearly refers to 'Ye calling her a bitch in, "Famous" -- "The role you made me play of the fool ... no, I don't like you."

The 2nd verse seems to be targeting Katy for their feud over tour dancers -- and she plays off those snake teasers she's been posting. They're all over the animated music vid.

The track is dripping with revenge shots like ... "Maybe I got mine, but one day you'll get yours" and "I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined."

It's always the quiet ones.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is having a bad reaction to his old TV partners at Disney, which is why he's suing them for $9 million!

Bill filed docs Thursday in L.A., saying Disney -- which marketed and distributed his show -- cut him a check in 2008 for back-end profits. The check was for $585k, but a couple months later he says Disney drastically changed it's story ... and claimed he needed to return $496,000!

According to the docs, Disney told Bill it made an accounting error, and informed him he wouldn't get any future checks until it recouped the $496k.

All of this made Bill suspicious, and he called for an audit of Disney's book in 2016. In the docs, Bill says the auditor found he'd been shorted by $9.3 mil since signing his deal in 1993.

Bill's now retained attorneys at Hamrick & Evans to get his dough. We reached out to Disney, but no word back.

George Foreman is changing course on Colin Kaepernick -- saying there's NOTHING wrong with his decision to protest and even hailing him as a "great football player" who belongs in the NFL.

Foreman appeared on "TMZ Live" on Thursday and addressed previous comments in which he seemed to question Kaep's patriotism and suggested his protest was misguided.

"There's nothing wrong with a guy voicing his opinion," Foreman told TMZ Live ... "When you're young you gotta have an opinion. What's the use of being young if you can’t protest?"

Foreman then went to bat for Colin ... "This guy’s a great football player. I can’t see why he doesn’t have a job. He’s that good."

Mel B is accusing her ex of putting media exposure ahead of their children's well-being, and now she wants her legal battle with him sealed from the public.

Mel filed docs asking the court to seal her ongoing domestic violence case against Stephen Belafonte because it's attracting so much media attention, it's harming her kids.

Mel says reporters and photographers are waiting whenever she drops off their daughter to visit Stephen, and suspects he's alerting media to the visitation schedule. She says, "While [Stephen] may enjoy the media attention, the minor child of this marriage did not ask to be placed in the center of this mounting storm."

Sources connected to Belafonte tell us he absolutely denies exploiting the case or giving the media a heads up.

In the docs, Mel also says testifying about the alleged abuse in open court would be "further abuse" against her.

A hearing's set for next month for the judge to decide whether to seal the case.

Usher wants one of those pesky herpes lawsuits tossed out, because the woman suing him has no proof he gave her anything ... TMZ has learned.

The singer has responded to the $20 million lawsuit filed by a Georgia woman who claims he gave her genital herpes back in April.

In Usher's legal docs, obtained by TMZ, he notes her lawsuit says nothing about whether she had been tested prior to their alleged sexual encounter. He says, "A previous sexual partner very well may have already infected her."

And, Usher says, she could have contracted the STD after their alleged encounter.

And he takes another shot, saying she assumed the risk of getting herpes by having "casual, unprotected sexual intercourse and/or oral sex."

It's interesting ... Usher did not attack the lawsuit by saying he couldn't have given her herpes.

One more thing ... Usher's lawyer grouses the woman is suing under a pseudonym, claiming there's no cause for her to secretly file her lawsuit.

He's asking the judge to throw out her lawsuit.

The Kardashian sisters' 3 year-long war over their makeup line is finally over -- and the ladies are coming out on top ... partly, anyway.

Kim, Khloe and Kourtney were sued back in 2014 by the European branch of Kroma Makeup because the K sisters initially launched their company as Khroma Beauty. Kroma wasn't amused by the name game, and scored an injunction to shut down the Kardashians.

Kim & co. and their partners, Boldface, went ahead and relaunched as Kardashian Beauty -- but also settled, for an undisclosed amount of dough, with Kroma's founder, Lee Tillett.

According to docs, obtained by TMZ, Tillett never cut the European arm of the company in on the settlement cash ... so it sued to get a slice of the pie. No dice though. A judge threw out the lawsuit, saying Euro Kroma didn't have a dog in the fight ... only Tillett did, and he already settled.

Bottom line ... Kardashians won't shell out anymore cash. Except to lawyers.

Jesse Williams is firing back at his estranged wife's claim he's not involved enough as a parent -- saying, essentially, she only gets to be at home with the kids because HE has to bring home the bacon.

Jesse filed docs responding to Aryn's allegations ... and says she has the "incredible privilege of being a stay-at-home mom with a full-time nanny" ... purely because he's putting in hard work every day. In the docs, he goes on to say Aryn is punishing him for providing for his family.

The punishment? He says Aryn restricts and "micro manages" the time he gets to spend with their 2 children since their split. He says his FaceTime calls to them frequently go unanswered, and when Aryn does answer ... she sometimes leaves the TV on to distract the kids.

As for Aryn's claims Jesse bullies her ... he says the only aggression the children have witnessed is Aryn screaming at him. According to the docs, Aryn once repeatedly slammed the front door on Jesse's leg while yelling at him.

We spoke with Aryn's lawyer, Jill Hersh, who tells us "it is a shame that Mr. Williams chose to place the children and his family's transition in the public domain."

Hersh added, "Aryn has been working tirelessly to maintain Mr. Williams' bond with their children and it is important to remember that his one-sided allegations are made with a specific goal in mind. The judge is fully informed on both sides and will be making the final decision."

Worth pointing out ... Hersh's comment is an almost word-for-word duplication of comments Jesse's team made in response to Aryn's filing last week.

Jay Thomas who starred in roles on "Murphy Brown," "Cheers," "Mork & Mindy" and "Ray Donovan" has died after battling cancer.

Thomas' agent, Don Buchwald, confirmed the news, saying, “Jay was one of a kind, never at a loss for words and filled with so much fun and wonderfully whacky thoughts and behavior.”

Thomas caught his first big break as Remo DaVinci on "Mork & Mindy" from 1979-1981. However, he was best known for playing Jerry Gold on "Murphy Brown" for nearly 10 years.

Thomas' wife and two sons were reportedly by his side when he passed.

Jay was 69.

RIP

Mavis L. Wanczyk ... that's the name to love or hate or try to hit up for a cool million or 2 because she's the lucky Massachusetts woman who won Wednesday's $758 million Powerball jackpot!!!

Mavis, who worked at a medical center, quit her job Thursday morning after claiming the winning ticket. Lotto officials estimate she'll take home $336,350,655 after taxes.

Mavis bought the winning ticket at the Pride Station and Store in Chicopee, MA. She is now the winner of the largest single ticket Powerball jackpot.

She picked the winning numbers based on the birthdays of family members.

As for Mavis, she's 53, a mother of 2 and single.

Any takers???

"Straight Outta Compton" actor R. Marcos Taylor -- who played Suge Knight in the flick -- allegedly went on a rampage at a New Jersey bank, threatening to kill employees and lunging at police.

Cops say they were called to a TD Bank August 8 to handle an enraged Taylor. We're told the actor had an issue with a bank card and needed a new one, and he was hostile from the get-go.

A witness tells us Taylor threatened an employee, saying, "I will f***ing kill you."

Cops say when they arrived, Taylor squared off in a fighting stance so they pepper sprayed and then arrested him.

Taylor was charged with terroristic threats, obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct.

Mike Epps has probably lost more money on a high-stakes table than he'll have to dish out in fines for beating down a dude in a New Orleans casino.

Epps pled no contest Thursday to misdemeanor battery charges stemming from the February brawl at the NOLA Harrah's. He got a 30-day sentence but it was suspended, so no time behind bars.

He also has to pay a $175 fine and $125 in court costs. Bottom line -- he's walking away for the low low price of $300.

Christina Milian's done some work with "The Voice" ... but nothing as hot as what she's doing now with one of the show's judges ... in France. she's shoving her tongue down on a yacht off St. Tropez.

The dude she's tongue kissing is Matt Pokora -- France's answer to Adam Levine, even down to the tats and frosted 'do. He's not only a huge French pop singer ... he's held a spinning seat on two 'Voice' spin-offs in the land of baguettes and fromage.

Not sure how they met, but they've been chilling in the South of France for a few weeks now.

Looks like Christina's mastering the tongue language.

The winner of the Powerball lottery has, in an instant, amassed a bigger fortune than some of the biggest celebs in the universe.

Someone in Massachusetts hit the jackpot ... $758.7 MILLION. The maximum federal tax rate is just shy of 40% and the max Massachusetts tax rate is a hair over 5%. The winner has chosen the cash payout, so she will score roughly $336 MILLION after taxes. Filthy, stinking rich.

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