Jessica Simpson gives birth to a baby girl

NEW YORK The Jessica Simpson baby watch is finally over.

Simpson gave birth to a daughter named Maxwell Drew Johnson in Los Angeles on Tuesday, said publicist Lauren Auslander.

Maxwell weighed 9 lbs. 13 ounces.

Since announcing her pregnancy last Halloween over Twitter, Simpson posed nude for the cover of Elle magazine, shared her cravings like salted cantaloupe and pop tarts and joked about her excess of amniotic fluid on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Maxwell is the first child for 31-year-old Simpson and her 32-year-old fiance Eric Johnson, a former NFL player.

The name is a tribute to the couples families: Maxwell is Johnsons middle name and the maiden name of his mother, and Drew is Simpsons mothers maiden name.

We are so grateful for all of the love, support and prayers we have received, Simpson said in a statement on her website. This has been the greatest experience of our lives!!

Simpson had come in for some ribbing about her seemingly endless pregnancy. She kept up public appearances, including on NBCs Fashion Star, and used Twitter to send pregnancy updates, such as her dream of wearing a leopard caftan in the hospital.

Recently even celebrities like Katy Perry and Chelsea Handler posted tweets asking if the singer and fashion designer had given birth yet. Im getting frightened, Handler said.

Simpson addressed the rumor mill herself in April, tweeting: To everyone who keeps congratulating me on the birth of my baby girl Im still pregnant!

Bobby Vee reveals he has Alzheimers disease

ST. PAUL, Minn. Former 1960s teen pop idol Bobby Vee says hes been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease.

The 69-year-old, born Robert Velline in Fargo, N.D., says on his website that he was diagnosed last year.

Vee was catapulted to stardom after the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Big Bopper Richardson in a 1959 plane crash en route to Moorhead, Minn. Vee and his friends filled in for the trio at the Moorhead performance and so! on after that he recorded his first single, Suzie Baby, for Soma Records in Minneapolis.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press says Vees wife of 48 years, Karen Velline, is also dealing with health issues. Shes on a waiting list for a lung transplant.

Octomom files for bankruptcy, owes $30,000 in rent

SANTA ANA, Calif. Octomom Nadya Suleman has filed for bankruptcy, saying in a court filing that she has as much as $1 million in debt.

Suleman wants a fresh start and said in a statement that filing for bankruptcy Monday is whats best for her children, according to the Orange County Register.

I have had to make some very difficult decisions this year, and filing Chapter 7 was one of them, Suleman said.

The La Habra mother of 14 reports up to $50,000 in assets in federal court filings, which means she owes more than 20 times her net worth.

Suleman is filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which means a court-appointed trustee would liquidate her assets to pay off creditors before she is discharged from most of her debts.

Among others, Suleman owes money to her father, the citys water department, DirecTV and Whittier Christian School, where at least some of her children are students.

Suleman also owes more than $30,000 in rent payments on her four-bedroom house.

The homes owner, Amer Haddadin, says his own credit has suffered as he allowed the home to go into foreclosure proceedings by not making the mortgage payments.

A foreclosure auction that was scheduled for Monday has been postponed for a week.

Suleman was in financial dire straits before the January 2009 birth of her octuplets brought her notoriety.

She lived with her mother in a three-bedroom house in Whittier that was in foreclosure proceedings at the time of the octuplets birth.

The unemployed single mother had been supporting her six other children with the aid of food stamps and Social Security disability payments sources of income that she continues to rely on.

Since the birth, she ! has cut deals with media outlets and posed in tabloid photo spreads to get by, touting a book and exercise videos that never materialized.

She earned $5,000 for promoting spaying and neutering for an animal rights group and was paid to take a beating in celebrity boxing matches.