Leighton Meester headed into the DKMS 5th Annual Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Thursday, April 28th.

The Gossip Girl star chose a lovely chocolate satin one shoulder dress from Vera Wang.

The 25 year-old actress is the latest face for Vera Wang fragrance and spent the day lighting the Empire State building in red and white to raise awareness for the need for bone marrow donors.

Photos of Leighton are under. (Read the article)

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Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester and her mother, Constance Meester, are battling it out in court with dueling lawsuits.

Leighton’s suit against her mother claims that Constance has been misusing funds that Leighton had sent to help with medical and education costs for her younger brother, Alexander.   Alexander, a cancer survivor, recently had brain surgery.  Leighton was also helping pay for his private school tuition.   Instead of using the money for her child, Leighton claims:

“Constance has been using the money … to pay for cosmetic procedures for herself, including plastic surgery on her face and stomach, Botox injections for her face, fillers for her hands and hair extensions.”

But that’s not all.   The suit continues:

“…Sadly, Leighton is also informed and believes … that Constance has an alcohol and substance abuse problem that is clouding her judgment. Leighton was recently informed that Constance has been taking pain medication prescribed to Lex following his recent brain surgery.

Although she is healthy and physically able to work, Constance refuses to do so. Instead, Constance expects her daughter to support her financially.”

Well, Mom didn’t like this at all, and filed her own suit on Monday.  She claims that her daughter promised to pay her “a one-time payment of $30,000 and then $10,000 a month” thereafter, and without this money, she can’t take proper care of Alexander.  She also claims that in December 2010, Leighton beat her with a bottle and threw her to the ground.

For her part, Leighton says that she is happy to continue helping with Alexander’s bills, but maintains she owes her mother nothing.

This might all sound completely crazy, but it sounds pretty par for the course for the Meester family.  Her mother, father, maternal grandfather and an aunt all went to federal prison in the early 1980s on drug smuggling and distribution charges.   Constance was released from prison to a halfway house to give birth to Leighton, and was allowed three months to bond with and breastfeed her daughter before heading back to the big house.  Leighton and her older brother, Logan, were raised by their paternal grandparents until Mom and Dad got out of the pen.

Yikes!  Compared to all that, these current legal issues are small beans.  Let’s hope it all works out for the best for the family.

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Filming for Gossip Girl got under way at the end of last week in New York City on a sunshine filled day and that wasn’t the only bright spot to light up the streets.

Leighton Meester donned a yellow ruffled top and a skirt with citrus print of oranges and lemons from Stella McCartney for her return to her Blair Waldorf character.

The costumer for the show added punches of orange with a Riki Rosetta handbag and Brian Atwood pumps. Gold accessories including bangle bracelets and a Harry Wintson canary ring finish off the pricy fashion her fashion-conscious (and mega rich) character wore.

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Leighton Meester sparkled in silver on the red carpet for the 2011 MTV Movie Awards at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles.

The Gossip Girl star chose a pretty bling-ed out dress from Balmain which was covered in beads, sequins, studs, pieces of mirror and crystals for a mosaic look. She picked a pretty pair of Pierre Hardy heels to complete her look. Sensational.

Meester took the stage with her Monte Carlo costars Selena Gomez and Katie Cassidy to present.

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Leaning over the balcony like a modern day Juliet, Leighton Meester is ready for her Romeo (Tommy Dunn) to sweep her away in the romantic new ad for Lovestruck by Vera Wang.

The 25 year-old actress was named the new face of the fragrance – a floral mix of roses, pink guava and angelica – and this is the first commerical for the third perfume from Wang.

Meester swoons in her fairy tale Wang burgundy mermaid gown with strapless corset-style bodice and waves of ruffles at the hem. She looks gorgeous on her Mercer Street balcony, waiting for her man.

And let’s be honest, Romeo is pretty darn good looking.

Check out her commercial below. (Read the article)

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Jessica Szohr and Taylor Momsen are not returning to Gossip Girl as series regulars next season.

Szohr’s Vanessa and Momsen’s Jenny have had little to do this season and TVLine is reporting both actresses will not return except in possible guest starring episodes.

Blake Lively, Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Penn Badgely are returning and new addition Kaylee DeFer (Serena’s cousin Charlie) will be a regular for season 5.

Momsen is currently touring and promoting with her band The Pretty Reckless and has said repeatedly she is happier with her music career than acting.

Szohr has several big screen projects coming up including the September comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It with Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan and Olivia Munn.

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Leighton Meester arrives in style for the 2011 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City on Monday, May 2nd.

The 2011 Met Gala, as it’s more commonly known, featured an exhibit, the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty retrospective, which honored the late designer’s body of work.

The Gossip Girl actress went short instead of the long gowns most women chose and picked a Louis Vuitton banded black dress with some peek-a-boo cut away at the waist line. She slicked back her hair into a ponytail and kept the accessories minimal for the best look.

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Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating today, April 9th, including:

1926 – Hugh Hefner, Playboy publisher & founder
1939 – Michael Learned, actress
1954 – Dennis Quaid, actor
1957 – Martin Margiela, fashion designer
1963 – Marc Jacobs, fashion designer
1965 – Mark Pellegrino, actor
1965 – Paulina Porizkova, model
1966 – Cynthia Nixon, actress
1979 – Keshia Knight Pulliam, actress
1986 – Leighton Meester, actress
1987 – Jesse McCartney, actor
1990 – Kristen Stewart, actress
1998 – Elle Fanning, actress

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Gossip Girl is new tonight with episode 4.14 “Panic Roommate.” Last week’s episode saw Dan sabotage Blair at W (after he assumed she would do the same to him,) only to confess later when he realized how badly Blair wanted the internship and to repair their friendship. But things aren’t going smoothly for Miss Waldorf. It seems Blair is in need of help. Here is the official synopsis:

FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE PERFORMS / ANDREW MCCARTHY DIRECTS — Blair (Leighton Meester) enlists Nate’s (Chace Crawford) help to win over her high-strung boss, Epperly (guest star Caitlin Fitzgerald), at W Magazine. Damien (guest star Kevin Zegers) stirs up more drama on the Upper East Side. Chuck (Ed Westwick) finds himself torn between business and pleasure. Florence and the Machine performs an acoustic version of “Cosmic Love.” Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star. Andrew McCarthy directed the episode written by Jake Coburn.

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Leighton Meester is everywhere these days!  She makes a sassy and candid cover girl for Nylon’s February 2011 issue.  She talks about her role in Country Strong, and also gives this curious quote:

I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.  If they think I’m being an a*****e I’d like them to tell me, but if I’m fat or something I’m like, “Well, so?  OK?  Great!”  It doesn’t even matter; it’s like, “What if I am fat? Does it matter?”… I’m a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know!  Am I alone there?  Not really!

Yeeeaaahhh….. OK, Leighton, if you WERE actually fat, you would not be alone.  But since there’s probably not an ounce of fat on your entire 24 year old body, let’s not go there, shall we?

Read more of Leighton’s interview here, and be sure to click through for more hot photos.

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