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Stormy Daniels is champing at the bit to destroy a family horse business, of course, of course ... according to a new suit.

A married Texas couple who run Pegasus Eventing claim Stormy's been on the warpath to trash their reputation and ruin their careers due to the deaths of a few of her horses ... but they say her accusations are outright slanderous.

According to the docs ... Stormy and her husband, Glendon Crain, were boarding as many as 7 horses with Pegasus, and one of them named Bailey tragically died in a flash flood in 2015. Stormy allegedly kept working with Pegasus after the flood, but removed her horses from their stables about a year later when another horse named Ziggy suffered an injury in a hail storm.

Pegasus claims, after Stormy pulled her horses and started boarding them elsewhere, Ziggy and another one of her horses died in a freak galloping collision ... which Stormy blamed on Ziggy's injury while at Pegasus.

According to the suit ... Stormy then went on a social media smear campaign against the Pegasus owners, accusing the wife of being "autistic and mentally challenged" and calling the husband a drunk. She also allegedly claimed the couple kills horses with no regret, denies them proper vet care and drugs them.

The Pegasus couple, repped by Christine Renne, says these allegations are all lies, and the lies are ruining their business. They're suing Stormy and her husband for up to a million bucks.

Stormy's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, says the lawsuit is "complete nonsense and entirely bogus."

That was fast. Not long after Roseanne said she wanted to have Valerie Jarrett on her new talk show, so they can hash things out, the former Obama aide happily rejected the disgraced comedian with 1 simple word -- NO!!!

We got Valerie at JFK Airport on Wednesday and straight-up asked if she'd be willing sit down with Roseanne. As you know ... Roseanne compared Valerie to an ape, prompting ABC to cancel her show. Roseanne tried apologizing and later said, "I thought the bitch was white!" Valerie's African-American.

Roseanne wants to clear things up with Valerie (in the nude, no less), but it's crystal clear Valerie wants nothing to do with her. Valerie even took a subtle swipe at the comedian ... pulling a Mariah with a "Roseanne who?" when she joined the gals on "The View."

Demi Lovato's overdose came at the end of a party at her home that lasted all night, but when EMTs and police arrived to help her ... the partygoers were nowhere in sight ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.

Our sources say when first responders arrived at Demi's Hollywood Hills home Tuesday just before noon, they were told there had been a party. We're told members of Demi's team were present when first responders arrived, but provided no information about the drug or drugs that caused her to OD.

It's unclear when the party broke up, or if people scattered once it became apparent Demi was in trouble.

TMZ broke the story ... the night before the emergency, Demi was at the Saddle Ranch restaurant/bar celebrating the birthday of one of her backup dancers and she seemed happy and lucid. We don't know if the people who were at her home were part of the group that partied at Saddle Ranch.

President Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is no more -- again -- after police say a man smashed it to smithereens with a pickax. That's right ... ANOTHER pickax!

Police reportedly took a man into custody early Wednesday morning after turning himself in to Beverly Hills PD for vandalizing Trump's star. The dude who axed the star reportedly called cops to report the crime ... but was nowhere to be seen when they arrived.

Witnesses and police say the man arrived on Hollywood Blvd. with a guitar case in hand, from which he pulled out the pickax. Then ... he allegedly went at it and crushed the star to rubble -- causing far more damage than James Otis did in 2016.

Speaking of Otis ... it's unclear if he was involved. The current suspect's identity has yet to be revealed.

Between this and George Lopez's fake peeing on the often-screwed-with star ... the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce -- which oversees and maintains the stars -- might wanna consider a long-term solution for this. We still got at least 2 more years, folks.

Roseanne Barr wants to hash things out with Valerie Jarrett once and for all, but she doesn't want anything to come between them ... like clothing.

Roseanne was at LAX Wednesday morning when we asked her about the new content she's working on with her son, Jake Pentland, for her YouTube channel. We raised the possibility of a tete-a-tete with Barack Obama's former aide ... considering ABC canned Roseanne over her racist tweet about Valerie.

She says she's down for it, with one major caveat -- nudity. Sounds bizarre, but still ... much better way to reach out than what she said last week.

We're pretty sure she's joking about going au naturel for her new show, but Roseanne got serious the instant we compared her to James Gunn ... the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' director who got fired over his own scandalous tweets.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney just learned that sometimes you gotta fight the good fight to get what you want -- and in this case he (and his female staffers) got it ... 500 boxes of tampons, and counting!!!

We got the New York Congressman Tuesday at his office in D.C., and he says folks across the country heard his message on TMZ loud and clear ... that the GOP had told him he couldn't use public funds to buy feminine hygiene products for his staff.

Maloney tells us tampons have been pouring in ever since he got on TMZ, and he's now dishing them out to anyone and everyone in Congress who wants some. Don't panic -- he's got plenty to go around.

Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child had a pep in her step the day after her birthday ... and not long after she received treatment at a mental health facility.

We got Michelle and her fiance, Chad Johnson, out Tuesday night and she looks great. It's the first time we've seen her out since we broke the story last week she checked herself into a mental health facility for depression.

Michelle turned 38 Monday and our camera guy wasn't the only one to wish her HBD. Kelly Rowland also gave her a shout-out on Twitter, but not before Michelle posted on Instagram a few days earlier, "I feel the [love]. I just wanted to let you guys know I'm better!"

Demi Lovato's overdose was not a shock to some of her friends, who say there were big warning signs for weeks that she had lost her battle for sobriety.

Friends of Demi tell us ... even before she released her song, "Sober," confessing she had fallen off the wagon, it was apparent to them she had slipped back into her drug use. They say the signs became more alarming as the days passed, and one friend says he knew for weeks she was in the danger zone ... when he saw her this week it was apparent she was in trouble.

Another warning sign ... she had a big falling out with her sober coach earlier in the month, accusing him of betraying her.

It seems Demi was able to compartmentalize her social life, because other friends say they didn't see this coming. One friend says he was at her home less than 2 weeks ago and she seemed great.

TMZ broke the story ... Demi OD'd at her home Tuesday and law enforcement sources say it was an apparent heroin overdose, but a source close to Demi says it was NOT heroin. When they arrived, she was unconscious and they used Narcan to bring her back. Narcan is used to counter overdoses of opioids.

Britney Spears brought Andy Cohen onstage during her concert in New York City Tuesday night, but the question is: did she even know who the heck the 'Watch What Happens Live' host was?

Cohen crawled across the stage in bondage at Radio City Music Hall as Spears performed "Freakshow." She pulls someone out of the crowd at every show, but it's an impressive performance on Cohen's part -- he REALLY seemed like a regular.

Also interesting is the fact Brit never said his name. Instead, she went with, “I think you all know who this is … Give it up for him!”

Macklemore offered Demi Lovato some strong words of encouragement because -- as the rapper said at his concert while dedicating a track to her -- he's been there before.

Macklemore was performing at Xfinity Center in Massachusetts Tuesday night when he dedicated "Otherside" to Demi following news she'd been hospitalized for an overdose. The 2009 track touches on drug addiction and what it's like to fall into a seemingly hopeless downward spiral.

Macklemore -- who went to rehab at 25 -- called addiction a disease "that ties us addicts together." He called Demi his "sister in recovery" and added he knows what it's like to slip. The Seattle rapper not only dedicated the track to Demi, but to anyone else struggling with addiction.

Sacha Baron Cohen has taken down his first politician ... Georgia lawmaker Jason Spencer is stepping down after showing his bare ass and yelling the n-word on Cohen's show.

The Republican state assemblyman initially said he would not resign, but bowed to pressure from other state lawmakers who threatened a special session to oust him if he didn't quit.

Spencer embarrassed the hell out of himself on Sunday's episode of "Who Is America?" when he appeared in a segment where Cohen pretended to be an ex-Israeli military officer offering anti-terrorism training. Spencer repeatedly yelled, "N***er!!" as a way to attract attention during an attack ... and also dropped his pants to weaponize homophobia. Yeah, it was freakin' bizarre.

The assemblyman said Cohen took advantage of his "paralyzing fear that my family would be attacked."

Taylor Swift is going all in on this cats thing, not only starring in the "Cats" movie ... but making some cash off her actual pet cats.

Every Swiftie knows Taylor's 2 cats, Olivia Benson and Dr. Meredith Grey ... and now Taylor is making cash off their fame. She applied for a trademark, "Meredith & Olivia Swift" ... and she's already slapped it on a bunch of merch.

Taylor's website features the feline logo on shirts, earrings, pens, and makeup cases ... but the docs indicate there's way more to come. She's applied to put the kitty names on musical recordings, jewelry, handbags, cushions and pillows, clothing ... it goes on ... and on.

Most notably ... there's a possibility of a Meredith & Olivia live show ... based on Taylor's application. Brace yourself.

It was just announced Taylor's been cast in the upcoming "Cats" film, based on the play. Word is she might play Bombalurina ... the flirtatious cat who breaks up with lots of boy cats and then writes songs about them.

Randy Couture and his wife have a message for their friend, Demi Lovato -- "We love Demi and we're going to do whatever we can to help."

Couture has been helping Lovato train at Jay Glazer's Unbreakable gym in West Hollywood for years -- she's even credited him with helping her achieve her blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Randy says everyone in the gym has been well aware of her struggles with addiction -- and he was crushed to hear about her overdose on Tuesday.

But, Couture says the singer can count on his support and love as she begins to bounce back.

"Sometimes there are setbacks. We're here to help her get through them and keep moving forward."

Jenelle Evans keeping a loaded gun in her car -- in reach of her children -- proves she's not using sound judgment as a parent and doesn't deserve to have custody ... so says her ex and 2nd baby daddy.

We spoke with Nathan Griffith -- who shares 4-year-old Kaiser with Jenelle -- and he tells us he's incredibly concerned for his kid's safety in light of Jenelle's recently aired road rage incident on "Teen Mom 2."

He believes the video shows her kids are being raised in an unstable and hostile environment ... so his fight to get custody of Kaiser is well justified.

There's also this ... Nathan actually sides with Jenelle's husband, David Eason, who berated her for following someone home and confronting them. Nathan says it could've turned into a bloodbath, which is true ... 'cause the other driver told us he was armed.

A taped conversation between Donald Trump and his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, discussing financial payments has been released ... and this is going to get interesting.

CNN just released an audio recording it obtained of the Prez talking to Cohen, which it says is a convo between the 2 about buying the rights of former Playboy model Karen McDougal's story of an alleged affair with Trump.

On the tape, you hear Cohen say ... "I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, David," who CNN suggests is a reference to David Pecker, the head of America Media, which publishes National Enquirer.

Then, after some more financial discussions, Trump is heard saying what sounds like either "Pay with cash" or "Don't pay with cash" ... and the debate over what this all means is born.

The audio's release comes on the heels of reports that Cohen had recorded them talking about the Karen McDougal situation, followed by Trump tweeting it was "perhaps illegal" for a lawyer to record a client.

Nikki Bella's taking a big step in her relationship with John Cena ... a step AWAY from him.

Sources close to Nikki tell TMZ ... she's started shopping on her own for a home in the La Jolla area of San Diego. Despite their breakup, we're told she's been living at John's place in that area ... but he's been traveling in China.

As we've told you, Nikki and John have been trying to reconcile since she broke off their engagement in April, but when we last saw them together on a dinner date last month ... things didn't look so good.

Our sources say Nikki really wants to have her independence back and "figure herself out" -- a sign things may be over with Cena, at least for now. We're told she's looking to stay in the same area to be close to her sister, Brie.

Nikki's a first-time home buyer, and we're told her budget is just over $1 mil. We're told she wants a place with at least 4 bedrooms, good security and a pool. She's already scoped out 2 homes in gated communities.

As for the breakup -- the moment Nikki called off the engagement happened on camera, and it's airing on Sunday night's season finale of "Total Bellas."