Angelina Jolie has defeated Jessica Simpson in the first round of HDTV ‘Hottie Hysteria’ — TVPredictions.com’s elimination tournament to determine who’s the hottest female in High-Definition TV.

TVPredictions.com is posting a daily reader poll pitting one celebrity babe against another. Readers are being asked to vote on which female looks best in high-def. Then, based on their votes, each winner will move to the next round until only one woman is left standing.

In the Jolie-Simpson contest, Angelina, the star of the Lara Croft films, captured 56 percent of the vote to Jessica’s 44 percent. (2,173 readers voted in the poll.)

Jolie, the top seed in the Plasma division of Hottie Hysteria, will now face the winner of the Vanessa Williams-Jennifer Love Hewitt contest in the Plasma Division finals.

To vote in today’s match-up, click Hottie Hysteria.

The $1,000-an-hour prostitute reportedly hired by New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer may soon make much more than that, turning her 15 minutes of infamy into a tidy sum of money.

Since 22-year-old Ashley Alexandra Dupre was identified by The New York Times late on Wednesday as the governor’s paramour, the prostitute and aspiring singer’s songs have become the most popular downloads on a music-sharing Web site and at least one magazine is prepared to pay her for a nude photo spread.

Proving the adage there’s no such thing as bad publicity, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt told the Access Hollywood television program on Friday that he plans to offer Dupre $1 million to pose nude in his magazine.

Earlier this week, the woman told the Times she was worried about paying her rent this month after the escort service she worked for was shut down by federal officials.

The newspaper reported Spitzer was heard on a federal wiretap last month arranging a tryst with a prostitute called “Kristen,” whom the paper identified as Dupre.

Spitzer resigned on Wednesday and apologized for his “private failings,” but did not refer specifically to the report.

According to Dupre’s MySpace page (www.myspace.com/ninavenetta), she left home at 17 and moved to New York, where she is trying to pursue a music career.

Her R&B- and pop-tinged songs “What We Want” and “Move Ya Body” are ranked as the two best-selling songs on the AimeStreet.com music sharing Web site.

A spokesman for Aime Street, which uses a demand-price model where users pay more for popular songs, would not confirm how many times Dupre’s songs had been downloaded. But he said “Move ya Body,” which was uploaded to the site around 2 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Thursday, rose to the highest download price (98 cents) faster than any other song in the site’s history.

Dupre’s page on the site has been viewed more than 300,000 times and artists get a 70 percent cut of sales. If 1 million copies were sold, as some media outlets have estimated, then she’s already made more than $680,000 from her notoriety.

New York radio stations, including the top-rated Z100, have been playing her music on the airwaves. Her profile on the social networking Web site MySpace has had over 7 million page views.

Penthouse Magazine Group president and publisher Diane Silberstein has said the men’s magazine would consider offering Dupre a nude cover shot.

On Friday, The New York Post ran five pages of revealing pictures of Dupre from a 2007 photo shoot purportedly to promote her music career.

A new report claims that Britney Spears keeps a shrine to ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake at her L.A. home.

An insider tells a U.S. publication that the troubled singer has hoarded mementoes from her relationship with Justin.

“She’s obsessed with him,” a source who has seen the ‘shrine’ tells OK!

“She has pictures of them together and has devoted a private area just to celebrate him.”

The pop wreck is said to have texted a pal, “I’m so bored. I hate my life,” after being virtually confined to her Mediterranean-style villa in Studio City for the past six weeks.

After being banned by her father, Jamie, from her usual routine of pointless trips to gas stations, fast food joints and hotels, a friend says that Brit spends most of her day trying on different outfits.

“Changing clothes all day long must seem harmless enough, so her dad doesn’t interfere with that,” says the pal.

“She’ll change three or four times on days when she’s not leaving the house.”

On the plus side, the loose-lipped friend adds that while Brit’s life “may seem out of control”, her home ”is very ordered.”

Pussycat Dolls singer Carmit Bachar has confirmed she’s left the girl group. Bachar was the only original member of the Los Angeles-based burlesque dance troupe from which the band was formed.

She writes on the Pussycat Dolls’ website: “I wanted to be the first to tell you that I’m no longer with the Pussycat Dolls but we will always be sisters forever.”

Pussycat Dolls have no plans to replace Bachar and will carry on as a five-piece.

Bai Ling pleaded guilty Wednesday to disturbing the peace in a case stemming from her arrest at LAX for stealing two Star magazines and a package of batteries, totaling $16.22.

Although she was formally charged with petty theft Monday, prosecutors agreed to let Bai plead to the alternative charge, said L.A. City Attorney rep Frank Mateljan.

The actress was ordered to pay a fine and penalties totaling $700.

“What happened was an innocent mistake on my part and I am confident that the truth will be told since I never had any intention of taking items without paying for them,” she wrote on her Web site Monday.

Bai, 37, has appeared in The Crow and Anna and the King among other film and TV roles.