Applegate on People’s ‘Most Beautiful’ cover

New York — A smiling Christina Applegate graces the cover of People magazine’s “Most Beautiful” issue.

The 37-year-old actress, who recently battled breast cancer, certainly has much to celebrate: She says she’s finally found her “perfect type” in her new beau, Dutch musician Martyn Lenoble.

Applegate had a double mastectomy last July and reconstructive surgery months later. The star of ABC’s “Samantha Who?” calls Lenoble an “angel” who loves her “from head to toe.”

According to Applegate, Lenoble has been her “rock” and gave her reason to live — and smile.

The annual “Most Beautiful” issue features 100 famous faces, including Michelle Obama, Zac Efron and Cindy Crawford posing without makeup. It hits stands Friday.

Attorney: Rihanna will get jewelry back

Los Angeles — Rihanna will get back $1.4 million in borrowed jewelry she was wearing the night she was allegedly beaten by Chris Brown.

Prosecutors agreed to have the jewelry photographed for evidence if it is needed at a trial. The 21-year-old singer’s attorney had requested a judge’s order for the items’ return, but an agreement was reached Wednesday morning.

Donald Etra said after the hearing that it will allow Rihanna to return the items to companies that lent them to her. She wore the jewelry, described as a pair of earrings and three rings, to a pre-Grammy party.

“Rihanna just wants the owners to get their goods back,” Etra said.

Brown was arrested Feb. 8 and charged nearly a month later with assault likely to produce great bodily injury and making criminal threats.

Actor Lane Garrison released from prison

Los Angeles — Lane Garrison, who was serving a sentence of three years and four months for a drunken driving crash that killed a 17-year-old Beverly Hills High student, has been released from prison.

The former “Prison Break” actor was paroled and picked up at 3:50 a.m. Wednesday from the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, Calif., Lt. Jon Bartelmie said.

He participated in a substance abuse program while at the prison and is eligible for a similar program now that he’s been released, Bartelmie said.

Garrison was charged after a December 2006 crash in which he rammed his Land Rover into a tree, killing Vahagn Setian and injuring two other teenage girls.

He later pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and misdemeanor counts of drunken driving and giving alcohol to a minor.

Bartelmie said Garrison was released before serving his full sentence because he received credits for good behavior, which is a common practice.

Banks testifies at stalking trial

New York — Supermodel-turned-TV host Tyra Banks, facing the man accused of stalking her, testified Wednesday that she feared for her safety when she learned he had entered the New York City building where she tapes her show.

Banks, 35, said her staff would not let her leave the building on March 18, 2008, because defendant Brady Green, a stranger to her, had shown up.

“I was about to leave and a bunch of people from my staff were saying, like, ‘No, you can’t leave.’ They said he was in the building,” Banks testified.

Banks said that her staff had previously shown her Green’s photograph, told her he had threatened one of her employees and was “somebody I should watch out for.”

Police arrested Green, of Dublin, Ga., in a McDonald’s near Banks’ studio in Manhattan’s Chelsea section.

Police said he told them that he had come from Los Angeles on a bus to see Banks and that “we had a thing together.”

Green, 39, is on trial in Manhattan Criminal Court on misdemeanor charges of stalking, harassment and criminal trespass.

Bennett gives museum painting of jazz great

Washington — Tony Bennett donated a watercolor he made of longtime friend Duke Ellington to a Smithsonian museum on Wednesday, the 110th anniversary of the jazz great’s birth.

The painting depicts Ellington with a bouquet of pink roses in the background. The jazz musician made a habit of sending Bennett a dozen roses when he wrote a new tune in hopes that Bennett would record the piece.

“Every time the roses came, I said ‘Oh, Duke wrote another song,'” Bennett said.

The 15-time Grammy Award-winning singer said Ellington told him years ago to maintain a second art form beyond music.

“It became a way of life for me because if I sang too much, I’d kind of get burnt out from traveling on the road. So I would go over to painting and there would be a lift — a nice, fresh start,” Bennett said. “That balance, it’s kept me in a creative zone my whole life.”

Bennett, 82, has been a lifelong painter and still takes up a brush every day. He gave the watercolor to the National Portrait Gallery, the third painting he has donated to the Smithsonian Institution, following a portrait of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and a painting of New York’s Central Park.