Cindy Adams has the highlights of an upcoming Glamour magazine article she wrote that unveils the reasons behind most celebrity breakups. They’re typical but interesting:

Adams says that New York-based celebrity couples fare better, and cites examples like Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, and Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. Based on some of Parker’s recent statements, we’re not so sure.

In “The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating” evolutionary psychologist Richard Buss outlines the reasons why people stray: men need to spread their seed and woman want a well-off man to provide for them. These are prototypical gender-based strategies that people use to increase their chances of passing on their genes to offspring.

Jennifer Aniston had yet to bear biological children for Brad Pitt after four years of marriage so he moved on. According to anthropologists, four years is the average amount of time that a childless relationship lasts.

When looked at from an evolutionary perspective, it’s not surprising that Hollywood marriages don’t last. There’s a lot of temptation around and not much of a stigma attached to divorce.

Mischa Barton has stopped smoking up long enough to realize that she’s out of Cisco Adler’s league. Adler was said to be unhappy with Barton’s partying, which led the actress to break up with the Whitestarr frontman:

The two were said to be engaged last fall, but that seems to have been short lived. Page Six, hardly known for its accuracy, reported that they first split on February 26. They were spotted together since, suggesting they had reconciled.

This time Barton seems to have wised up. She’s hardly as foolish as most other actresses, and Adler must have had some redeeming qualities, but she’s likely to move on to better fare now that she’s single.

Barton is also said to want to leave “The O.C.” now that the show is not doing as well in the ratings.

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Here is Mischa in New York on March 31st, and in California last week. And a glimpse at what she’s missing in these pictures of Cisco Adler performing at the Celebrity Rock and Bowl on April 6th.

Jessica Simpson needs to work on getting her own identity. First she admits that she apes Angelina Jolie in everything she does - and poorly, we might add - and now she’s copying her estranged husband, Nick Lachey, by chronicling her breakup pain in her new album:

It makes sense that she would want to sing about her pain, but it’s more likely that she heard what Nick’s new album was all about and thought it sounded like a good idea.

Here’s Jessica Simpson on April 30th at a grocery store in Sana Fe, NM, where’s she was filming “Employee of the Month.” She seems to be back in NY at this point.

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Eminem’s estranged wife, Kim Mathers, spoke to a Detroit radio station yesterday morning about the couples second divorce. Eminem filed for divorce from Mathers after just three months. Mathers said she hadn’t spoken to him in over six weeks, but that the divorce was unexpected. She also claimed that he is addicted to pills again:

For his part, Eminem has released a statement saying that Kim’s claim that he’s back on drugs is not true and that she knew he was divorcing her ahead of time:

Mathers has had her own problems with drug addiction and has a lengthy arrest record that includes allegations of assault, cocaine possession, and drunk driving.

Everyone knows that you can’t get back together with your ex and expect it to work unless you both get serious therapy. The same problems come up again in different painful ways. His wife realized that they needed counseling, but Eminem was unwilling to do it. It sounds like he was just stubborn, and thought he could get back with Mathers for the sake of his daughter without doing any of the emotional work required. It’s ironic that he can tell the world his most intimate problems through his lyrics but is too much of a pussy to talk to a shrink.

Eminem has filed for divorce from Kim Mathers after a mere three months of marriage. It was his second marriage to the mother of his 10 year-old daughter, Hallie. Eminem should have studied his own lyrics, because he revealed much about his private life and his dysfunctional relationship with Mathers in his music:

Eminem may have also revealed the reason why he reunited with Kim - fear of mortality and a feeling of responsibility for his daughter - in the lyrics to his single “When I’m gone”:

Hopefully Eminem’s daughter is cushioned from the blow of her parents’ second divorce and this is not too hard on her.

Eminem and Mathers were married for the first time in 1999 and split up in 2001. Eminem received two years probation for pistol whipping a man he saw kissing Mathers outside a club after their first breakup in 2001.

In a move we never saw coming, Teri Hatcher has said that she’s not with Ryan Seacrest. I made up the part about her admitting that it was a publicity stunt. Hatcher was at the Comedy for a Cure benefit for Tuberous Sclerosis on April 2nd and found a business card for a singles dating service in one of the purses she donated for auction. She joked about its meaning, saying it signifies that she’s still single:

She skirted the question by saying “she’s not a liar” and wouldn’t “say that it wasn’t me” but still maintained that she’s single. That’s a strange way to deny that you’re with someone. If it didn’t work out between the two of them, wouldn’t she say “We were looking for different things?” In fact, she could have used that excuse anyway!

Seacrest was seen on Saturday taking in a basketball game with Hatcher’s costar, Eva Longoria. The two cheered on Longoria’s boyfriend, at the Spurs game in San Antonio, TX.

Matt LeBlanc and his wife, Melissa McNight, have split up after three years of marriage. LeBlanc filed divorce papers in LA this week, and LeBlanc’s reps confirmed the news.

The couple has a daughter, Marina, 2, who is said to have a neurological disorder that causes her to suffer from seizures. LeBlanc has two stepchildren from a previous marriage.

LeBlanc’s sitcom, Joey, has not been officially cancelled, but is expected to be let go by NBC as it has suffered from poor ratings.

Just a week ago we reported that In Touch claimed that Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe were going to renew their vows. It turns out In Touch was wrong, and they’re really over, uh maybe:

It can be hard to make a relationship work when a woman is much more successful and high-profile than her husband. If this is true, it’s too bad that they couldn’t work it out. It certainly seemed like Hilary wanted to try.

Well Kimora Lee Simmons is too rich and fabulous now to spend the time needed to work on her marriage. Now that she has her own money thanks to her husbands support she can kiss him goodbye.

Kimora runs Baby Phat, put out that god-awful book Fabulosity, and has said things like “I represent luxury.” No, Kimora, you represent vanity and wastefulness and we hope that you get a lousy settlement in the divorce.

According to Life & Style Magazine, Simpson has been calling Lachey repeatedly to warn him that Kristin Cavalleri (who is now supposedly back with her ex) is using him:

This is not the first time we’ve heard that Jessica has called Nick after their split. In January she was said to be drunken dialing Nick and talking to him in a baby voice.

Jessica is presumed to be single after Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine dumped her by SMS three weeks ago.

She is currently in Albuquerque, NM filming “Employee of the Month.” Here she is on March 26. Although Jessica has some friends with her including her best friend, CaCee Cobb, she may be lonely and wistful for what could have been.

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