Richard Gere's actress wife Carey Lowell initially rejected his plans to turn a farmhouse in upstate New York into a luxury inn as she feared he would leave her to do all the work.

The Pretty Woman actor and his Law & Order star wife restored the building in Westchester County and opened the Bedford Post Inn in 2009, but Lowell wasn't keen on the idea at first as Gere had so many movie projects in the works.

Gere tells CNN, "She said no in the beginning. She said absolutely not."

Lowell adds, "It was crazy. It was a crazy thought. And to take it all on. And as I recall, Richard had to go...

Oscar-nominee Griffin Dunne married his girlfriend of two years, Anna Bingeman, in a star-studded New York ceremony last week. The actor/filmmaker and his Australian stylist bride tied the knot at their house in upstate New York with a glittering guest list including Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and Uma Thurman.

The My Girl star's father Dominick Dunne tells the New York Post, "It was absolutely beautiful. They're so in love."

Bingeman is 54-year-old Dunne's third wife. He has a 19-year-old daughter, Hannah, with his second spouse Carey Lowell.

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Who hasn't heard the infamous rumor about Richard Gere and the gerbil? Is it true that Michael Jackson sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber? Did Tom Cruise really use sperm specimens of late Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to father Suri?

These are simply a taste of some of the wacky, tacky and downright bizarre celebrity rumors that have circulated the mill at some point. So which of these celebrity myths can be debunked and which hold a grain of truth?

DEBUNKED

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