Hollywood headlines: A celebrity week in review

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Helen Mirren's star gets a prime spot on Hollywood Walk of FameDid Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie secretly marry on Christmas Day?NeNe Leakes engaged anew to ex-husband Greg LeakesLady Gaga will offer mental-health counseling before concertsSupermodel Naomi Campbell mugged, injured on a Paris streetJulianne Hough reveals childhood abuse suffered while overseasGerard Depardieu granted Russian citizenship by Vladimir PutinHugh Hefner, Crystal Harris finally marry on New Year's EveKim Kardashian is pregnant, expecting a baby with Kanye WestKatie Holmes and Jake Gyllenhaal? Really? OK, not really.

Gerard Depardieu now has Russian citizenship, courtesy of President Vladimir Putin, who Thursday delivered on a promise made a couple of weeks ago.

Russia's main state-run TV station broadcast an open letter reportedly from the "Green Card" star (via the BBC), saying, "I filed a passport application and I am pleased that it was accepted. I love your country, Russia -- its people, its history, its writers. I love your culture, your intelligence."

The actor is well-known in Putin's country. "You have to understand that Depardieu is a star in Russia," Vladimir Fedorovski, a Russian writer living in France, told the network Europe 1 on Thursday. "There are crowds around Depardieu. He's a symbol of France. He's a huge ambassador of French culture."

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Gerard Depardieu granted Russian citizenship by Vladimir Putin

( EPA / January 4, 2013 )

Gerard Depardieu now has Russian citizenship, courtesy of President Vladimir Putin, who Thursday delivered on a promise made a couple of weeks ago. Russia's main state-run TV station broadcast an open letter reportedly from the "Green Card" star (via the BBC), saying, "I filed a passport application and I am pleased that it was accepted. I love your country, Russia -- its people, its history, its writers. I love your culture, your intelligence." The actor is well-known in Putin's country. "You have to understand that Depardieu is a star in Russia," Vladimir Fedorovski, a Russian writer living in France, told the network Europe 1 on Thursday. "There are crowds around Depardieu. He's a symbol of France. He's a huge ambassador of French culture."

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