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The rivalry between tennis stars Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova has spilled off the court into mutual personal attacks. Williams was quoted in a Rolling Stone interview criticizing a “top-five player” for being “boring” and dating a “guy with a black heart”—supposedly a reference to Sharapova and her boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov, a tennis player to whom Williams had previously been romantically linked. Sharapova fired back at Williams, who is currently dating her coach Patrick Mouratoglou, in a press conference. “If she wants to talk about something personal, maybe she should talk about her relationship,” she said, “and her boyfriend that was married, and is getting a divorce and has kids.” Williams said this week she had apologized to Sharapova for her comments.

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez had an affair with a married woman, whisking her away to the Caribbean for a romantic tryst at a private resort, according to a report in the New York Post. The newspaper charged that the New Jersey senator traveled to Puerto Rico in 2007 with Cecilia Reynolds, a Spanish-language newspaper publisher. The Post says it was shown saucy pictures of the two on vacation, including one of a naked Reynolds posing seductively on a beach. Reynolds, 50, called the allegations “false and malicious.” Menendez, one of the “Gang of Eight” senators behind the Senate’s immigration bill, said the claims were “questionably timed smear tactics.” The senator is currently being investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee for allegedly accepting free trips to the Dominican Republic from a wealthy donor.

A source close to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian has told TMZ.com why they named their infant daughter “North West.” The name is “more inspirational than directional,” according to a friend of the couple. North represents Kim and Kanye’s “highest point together as a couple,” said the source. “What’s north of North?” the couple has supposedly told friends. “Nothing.”

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