Kimora Lee Simmons has been awarded sole custody of her and Russell Simmons’ two daughters Ming, 8, and Aoki, 5. The couple is splitting after almost 10 years of marriage.

Russell will be paying $40,000 a month in child support for the two girls until they’re 19 1/2 years-old, are emancipated, married, joins the armed forces or stops living with Kimora.

Russell will get the girls one night of the week every eight days plus extra time during the summer and holidays, according to papers obtained by The Insider.

The crew of “The Dark Knight” blew up the Brach building the other day for a scene. This week is the last week for the filming of “Batman” in Chicago.

Boots Girls BFFs Kristen Tischhauser and Lindsay Hays of Grace Public Relations hung out with Russell Simmons last night at Rednofive in Chicago for their event celebrating the launch of his new book Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success. How is it that the babes look happier to be hanging with Simmons than he does with them? Hellllllloooo Russell. It should be the other way around.

Meet Amy Crawford. She’s my new intern and a fabulous Boots Girl. Crawford conducted her first interview with R. Simmons Thursday. You’ll be able to read about it in my RedEye column this coming monday.

Gotta love the pap shots!

I My Spaced John Edwards and he actually My Spaced me back! My Washington sources tell me that myspace.com/johnedwards really is the My Space page for the former vice presidential candidate. Here’s the response I received:

Liz-

Thank you for adding me as a friend and for taking the time to send me a message.

In response to your question, I helped create this profile with the assistance of my staff at my One America Committee and I continue to provide updates to it. However, I must admit that I sometimes have to rely on my staff to assist with the day to day operations and up keep of the page!

Thank you for your support and keep up the good work!

God bless
-John

Here John is cool chillin’ like a villain with Russell Simmons. I thought Simmons hated me since he told me I am “worse than Bill O’Reilly” after I asked him some tough gangsta questions a couple years ago at a press conference at the Chicago State Street Marshall Fields. However, when I saw Simmons this past February at an Oscar party at Sky Bar in L.A. he told me he “loves” me. I guess we are all BFFs now! John + Liz + Russell = BF Forever!