Mary-Kate update

Los Angeles — After six weeks at a treatment facility for a health-related issue, Mary-Kate Olsen, the brunette half of the Olsen twins, is “doing well” and her fans can “expect her to return home soon,” publicist Michael Pagnotta said Tuesday.

The 18-year-old actress has been reported to be battling an eating disorder.

People magazine said that Mary-Kate will be released this weekend, return home to her family and begin preparing for college in the fall.

Mary-Kate and her blond twin sister, Ashley, turned 18 in June. They plan to attend New York University in the fall.

A big visit

Jerusalem — Chris Noth, who played Mr. Big on HBO’s “Sex and the City,” greeted fans in Israel at Judaism’s holiest site, the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Noth is on a 10-day tour of Israel, sponsored by the Israeli Tourism Ministry. He also filmed a commercial Monday for a brand of Israeli deodorant.

“I feel great solidarity, as a New Yorker, being here in Israel,” the actor told reporters Tuesday. “I hope to show Americans that they should come here.”

“Sex and the City,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker, was shown on a local TV channel and gained wide popularity among Israelis. Noth played one of Parker’s boyfriends on the show, which ran for six seasons.

Sid and Nancy, revisited

London — A London art gallery plans to document the doomed punk romance between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.

Among the items in a retrospective punk show opening at the Hospital gallery in September is a blood-splattered poster from Room 100 of New York’s Chelsea Hotel, where Vicious allegedly stabbed Spungen to death on Oct. 12, 1978.

Art dealer Paul Stolper and editor Andrew Wilson, who own a trove of original Pistols’ posters, T-shirts and handwritten lyrics displayed in the show, told the Independent on Sunday newspaper that items from the couple’s hotel room had been sold by Vicious’ mother, Anne Beverley, who died in 1996.

They couldn’t say where the blood on the poster for the Pistols’ album “Never Mind the Bollocks” came from.

Vicious was charged with second-degree murder, but died of a heroin overdose, at age 21, before standing trial.

Britney’s beau has new baby

Los Angeles — Almost-stepmom Britney Spears’ rather complex family tree just sprouted another branch.

Actress Shar Jackson, the ex-girlfriend of Spears’ fiance Kevin Federline, gave birth Tuesday to her second child by the pop star’s future husband, reports E!Online.

Jackson, who played Niecy on “Moesha” during the teen sitcom’s 1996-2001 run, went into labor at an Orange County, Calif., hospital.

Federline, a dancer, missed the delivery, but arrived at the hospital a few hours later. Spears did not accompany him.

It was not known whether Jackson and Federline’s latest production was a boy or girl. The ex-couple already have a 2-year-old daughter, Kori. In all, the 27-year-old Jackson now has four children.