According to TMZ, 40-year-old Aretha Wilson, the lady who slashed Leonardo DiCaprio’s face open with a drinking glass in 2005 is finally behind bars.

She originally fled the country after the attack and has now been extradited back to the United States where she will be sentenced for her crimes.

The incident took place at Paris Hilton’s former lover Rick Salomon’s home in 2005. Aretha reportedly hit Leo in the face with a drinking glass.

DiCaprio needed 17 stitches to close up his face and ear. Ouch! That is no small cut.

Wilson has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon. She is in custody awaiting trail.

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Leonardo DiCaprio might be a little leery of working with controversy-mired Mel Gibson – RadarOnline.com is reporting Leo has withdrawn from a Gibson-directed viking film.

Asked if Leo still planned to be involved in the project, a source close to the ‘Inception’ star told Radar, “Not a chance.” The film would have been the first collaboration between the two.

If officially confirmed, DiCaprio pulling out could be a major signifier of professional repercussions for Gibson in the wake of his alleged violent and racist rants.

“Leo has earned the right to pick and choose who he works with and Mel Gibson is not one of them,” Radar’s insider said, citing DiCaprio’s worries of risking his reputation by associating himself with Gibson.

Shooting was slated to begin this fall.

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The movie may be the trippiest, most mind-bending thriller in years, but it is also a hit. Director Christopher Nolan opens up in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly about his 10-year odyssey of getting it to the screen. The sci-fi psycho-thriller, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about thieves who steal secrets from people’s dreams, may be too confusing to be a crowd-pleaser. “This is a real nail-biter,” Nolan says of the perception that it might be too confusing. “I really want this to work for an audience. They just need to relax and go with it. Yes, afterward there could be disagreements about what things mean. But hopefully there will be a unified response to the roller-coaster ride of it all.”

Nolan doesn’t have to worry – the movie took in $62.8 million during its opening weekend, an impressive haul for a 148-minute live-action extravaganza that isn’t a sequel or in 3-D or both. The credit can go to DiCaprio’s box office clout, Nolan’s growing reputation, an ad campaign showcasing the film’s dazzling images of crumbling skyscrapers, cityscapes, and zero-gravity fisticuffs.

The first half of Inception is dense with exposition, while the second half dives from dream to dream to dream to dream. How one feels about Inception most likely depends on how one feels about the pitch that hooked DiCaprio. Says the star: “When you hear that Chris Nolan wants to make a film that’s about four different stages of the subconscious, that’s a psychoanalysis of a character coming to terms with his past, that’s set around the world, that’s a combination of Insomnia, Memento, and studio-system spectacle, you say, ‘This is gonna be a unique experience.’”

For Nolan, Inception is a true dream project. His producer and wife, Emma Thomas, recalls that her husband has been fascinated by the subject of dreams since their days in college. Once The Dark Knight happened and his film grossed $1 billion worldwide, Nolan found himself in a position where he didn’t need to downsize his ambitions at all. “It’s hard to convince a studio to give you a large budget to shoot an epic movie,” says the director. “When you’ve done it a couple times, there’s a lot more confidence.”

And the film was very personal to him. “[The script] had a lot more emotion packed into it than anything Chris had written before,” says his longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister. “Right away, it felt much more like Memento than one of the Batman pictures.” But Nolan admits that Inception reflects an evolution of philosophy. “As a filmmaker starting out, there was a resistance to emotion, because you so often see the insincere version of it in movies,” he says. “Yet over time, and during the Batman movies in particular, I was forced to reexamine my own process of watching a film. What I realized is that what I respond to most is emotion – which is what audiences respond to the most as well.”

Nolan was lucky enough to land a leading man with a track record for helping high-minded directors connect with audiences via complex characters. “I like playing unreliable protagonists,” says DiCaprio, who spent three months working with Nolan to flesh out a credible back story for his character Cobb. “I couldn’t take a traditional approach to preparation. There were no references that I could grasp onto in the real world. To keep that story line consistent was difficult. Then again, if I’m on set, and there’s nothing to think about, that’s not a fun day at work for me.”

Now if only the hype can make Inception a certifiable hit. The opening is proof of the public’s interest, but the film still has a long way to go to recoup its production and marketing costs for Warner Bros. and co financier Legendary Pictures. Nolan believes that at a time when Hollywood studios focus on sequels and franchise reboots, they need to produce new ideas, too. “It’s definitely a risk for studios to support original material. But it’s an even bigger risk not to,” says Nolan. “Even in making a sequel, you have to be fresh. You have to be different. You have to take risks.”

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He’s so hot! I love him! He’s probably my favorite actor, he’s one of those actors that no matter what movie he’s in, I’ll see it. (Same goes for Brad Pitt…no matter what the movie is about, I’ll see it). I think he’s incredibly talented, and Inception was genius.

In the box office smash Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio spends most of his time inside people’s dreams. But what’s going inside DiCaprio’s head in real life? In the new issue of Rolling Stone, on sale at newsstands today, associate editor Brian Hiatt finds out. “[My stomach churns over] really stupid stuff,” DiCaprio reveals. “Things that shouldn’t make you anxious whatsoever. It’s crazy how your mind will become this database to make you worry about things that are so arbitrary. I have a well-organized life, and I’ve put a lot of thought into the things that I do, and then, you know, my stomach will be…I’ll just be sitting there, totally anxious about something ridiculous.”

In one of the most intimate portraits yet of the intensely private actor, DiCaprio relaxes enough to smoke a few cigars, have some beers, sing the Cheers theme song (badly) and open up on everything from his wild youth as Hollywood’s hottest heartthrob to a recent brush with death:

On growing up:
“I was essentially a dwarf with the biggest mouth in the world. I would talk back to anyone and be up for any fight, and when you tell a kid that’s three years older than you to shove it, you’re going to get your ass beat…I was a real punk, there’s no question about it.”

On partying in the pre-TMZ age:
“I got to be wild and nuts, and I didn’t suffer as much as people do now, where they have to play it so safe that they ruin their credibility. I didn’t care what anyone thought…. It was also about avoiding the tornado of chaos, of potential downfall. It was, ‘Wow, how lucky are we to not have hung out with that crowd or done those things?’ My two main competitors in the beginning, the blond-haired kids I went to audition with, one hung himself and the other died of a heroin overdose… . I was never into drugs at all. There aren’t stories of me in a pool of my own vomit in a hotel room on the Hollywood Strip.”

On dating:
“I had better success meeting girls before Titanic. My interactions with them didn’t have all the stigma behind it, not to mention there wasn’t a perception of her talking to me for only one reason.”

On dealing with his Titanic fame:
“It was like there was a separate entity out there,” he says. “Not to use a James Cameron reference, but it was like being in a little bit of an avatar.” He cringes. “That’s going to sound extremely self- indulgent. It’s going to sound like, ‘Oh, I was a frickin’ avatar,’ give me a break, I’m already vomiting.”

Um, yes please!

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The cast of stars in the new movie Inception took to the red carpet for the movie’s London premiere.

On hand were Michael Caine, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, among others.

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Leonardo DiCaprio kept his head down while supermodel girlfriend Bar Refaeli didn’t seem to mind paparazzi attention as they left Samy’s Camera in West Hollywood.

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The man behind the madness seen in this trailer for the contemporary sci-fi action flick, Inception, is Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan (love him!), whose Memento forced us to think so much it hurt, but nevertheless made it feel so good at the same time.

Such seems to be the case here too, where we’re presented with a number of very surreal images and a voice-over by Leonardo DiCaprio that includes such tantalizing lines as, “What’s the most resilient parasite? An idea…Which is why I have to steal it.”

Prepare your brain for a workout when Inception opens July 16.

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