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By Times staff and wire reports

© St. Petersburg Times,
published August 9, 2001

Carey leaves clinic

Mariah Carey has checked out of the clinic where she was recovering from a nervous breakdown.

"MC is feeling better," Carey's spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, told the New York Daily News. "She's resting under a doctor's care at an undisclosed location with her mother."

Carey had treatment for the past two weeks at Silver Hill, an exclusive Connecticut hospital specializing in mental illness and addiction. She checked out Tuesday.

The case of Justin's license

It seemed like a simple case of lost and found except that in this case, the person alleged to have lost something is a pop star.

Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync is the star, and the lost item is a Florida driver's license found in Tampa, not far from Raymond James Stadium, where 'N Sync performed July 31.

The finder and the owner talked with each other by phone Wednesday morning. The conversation was aired live on WFLZ-FM 93.3's MJ Morning Show.

Host MJ Kelli got involved when the woman who found Timberlake's license called the station Tuesday asking for advice on what to do with it. Melba Dumay-Skinner of Tampa found the license at her workplace, not far from the stadium.

Kelli convinced Dumay-Skinner to give the license to a morning show staffer, who in turn put it on the program's Web site.

Calling from Orlando, Timberlake said it's not his current driver's license. "It's a previous one," he said. "I got one re-issued because I had to get a motorcycle endorsement. What I think happened is somebody sold it."

Timberlake said he got a new license this summer at an Orlando Department of Motor Vehicles location and someone there probably sold the old one.

In exchange for the license, which Kelli agreeded to send to Timberlake's management office in Orlando, the singer is sending autographed photos to Skinner's 8- and 19-year-old daughters.

-- PAMELA DAVIS

People

French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, 68, was admitted to a Paris hospital Wednesday in serious but stable condition after a suspected stroke left him paralyzed on the right side of his face while on holiday in Corsica, French media said. Hospital officials would neither confirm nor deny the report. . . . Author JK Rowling said she is "writing happily away" on the next Harry Potter book and definitely is not suffering from writer's block. The Scotsman newspaper said Rowling was suffering from writer's block, which had delayed publication until July 2002. Rowling said no deadline had ever been set for the manuscript's delivery. . . . On the eve of their divorce becoming final, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise arrived separately Tuesday for the premiere of Kidman's new movie, The Others, in Los Angeles. Cruise is one of the film's executive producers.

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