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David Spade Dragged Into Sheen-Richards Crap-Flinging

The accusations of violence, drugs, gay porn, whoremongering, lying, bad mothering, and publicity-whoring in the Great Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards Divorce War (please assign the preceding transgressions to either party as you see fit) were already damaging enough. But if you doubted for even a second that Sheen and Richards were hurtling toward mutually assured tabloid destruction, consider the gossip Apocalypse that Team Richards is calling down from the heavens by invoking David Spade's love life. (Quick recap: Richards is angered that Spade--who is seeing Richards ex-bff Heather Locklear, we think--called the gay divorcée a backstabber for dating Richie Sambora, who is divorcing Locklear. Got it? Good. We're shooting ourselves in the gut with a nail gun for typing that out.) Says Page Six:

A source very close to Richards tattled to Page Six: "David is notorious for preying on married women like Heather Locklear and Rebecca Romijn and Krista Allen, who goes back and forth between David and George Clooney . . . And Heather was seeing David last year." (While we didn't want to interrupt our source, we should point out that Allen is not married.)
By way of comparison, our Richards intimate insisted that the "Wild Things" actress only began dating Sambora in March, after both of their marriages had fallen apart.

Spade's spokeswoman, Meredith O'Sullivan, said of our source's claims: "These remarks are completely false and unfounded. It is unfortunate that anyone would feel the need to attack the character of someone who has done nothing wrong and isn't involved in this situation."

Perhaps the only thing less savory than being forced to contemplate Spade's Hollywood sexual history is having to contemplate it a second time, scrubbed up and filtered through a publicist's denial. But as long as we're on the subject, they may have missed some easy PR points by not going with a more honest and straightforward, "David Spade is shocked and saddened that he's being punished for finally having sex with a woman that can't be impressed by his career."

DENISE TURNS KNIFE ON SPADE

May 2, 2006 -- DENISE Richards is turning her formidable wrath on "The Showbiz Show" host David Spade after he called her a backstabber for romancing Richie Sambora, the estranged hubby of Richards' ex-best friend, Heather Locklear.
Richards - who recently kicked off a custody battle with husband Charlie Sheen by accusing him of threatening to kill her and being addicted to drugs, gambling and teen porn - has seen an erosion of public sympathy since pictures of her smooching Locklear's husband surfaced last week.

Spade is now said to be seeing Locklear. When he cracked to reporters last week that she was "home nursing the knife wound in her back," Richards' camp contacted us to accuse Spade of dating Lock- lear when she was still married to Sambora.

A source very close to Richards tattled to Page Six: "David is notorious for preying on married women like Heather Locklear and Rebecca Romijn and Krista Allen, who goes back and forth between David and George Clooney . . . And Heather was seeing David last year." (While we didn't want to interrupt our source, we should point out that Allen is not married.)

By way of comparison, our Richards intimate insisted that the "Wild Things" actress only began dating Sambora in March, after both of their marriages had fallen apart.

Spade's spokeswoman, Meredith O'Sullivan, said of our source's claims: "These remarks are completely false and unfounded. It is unfortunate that anyone would feel the need to attack the character of someone who has done nothing wrong and isn't involved in this situation."

Last week, Sheen's manager, Mark Burg, defended Sheen to Page Six, claiming Richards was punishing him for seeking joint custody of their two young daughters, Sam and Lola.

But our Richards authority counters that Burg has an ax to grind with the actress because she fired him after the two squabbled over a TV deal he was negotiating for her.

As for Locklear, our source says that she and Richards "grew apart" before Richards took up with Sambora. "I think they just had very different interests," said our source cryptically. "Denise's focus is on her children right now."