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Brooke Shields has come to an agreement with the National Enquirer after alleging a reporter and photographer from the tabloid checked her elderly mother, who suffers from dementia, out of a New Jersey nursing home last month.

“Two weeks ago, Brooke Shields was forced to make a public disclosure about her mother, Teri Shields’s health, when we learned that Mrs. Shields had been taken out of a care facility by a reporter and photographer working for the National Enquirer and I was told that the National Enquirer was going to print information about her condition and whereabouts,” Shields’s attorney, Gerald B. Lefcourt told People.com.

“I am very pleased to report that [the] National Enquirer was prevailed upon not to publish a story,” says Lefcourt. “Further, it has or will be apologizing publicly. Finally, it has agreed to make a generous donation to further research on dementia and to encourage others to do so.”

At the time of the incident, the actress was alerted by Old Tappan Police that her 75-year-old mother had been signed out of the facility by two National Enquirer reporters who claimed to have been friends of the elderly Shields.

According to the Enquirer, “Teri has long considered this reporter a friend. At no point did the facility, which had given its permission for the outing, contend that there had been any wrongdoing in a situation where two people who had known each for more than a decade.”

The tabloid says that the reporter, who took Shields to lunch next door to the nursing home, was not on assignment at the time but has often worked for them as a freelancer.

Police officers found Shields unharmed and walked her back to the assisted living center.

“I am glad that Brooke Shields and her family can consider the matter now closed,” Lefcourt said.

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Brooke Shields says she wishes she learned to “love the way” she looked “earlier.”

Why?

“I think I would have had sex a lot earlier!” the actress jokes in the June issue of Health magazine. “I think I would have lost my virginity earlier than I did at 22.

“I had the public and this pressure, and I wish I had just gotten it over with in the beginning, when it was sort of OK. I think I could have been much more in touch with myself,” Shields — who was a child model — continues.

If she had sex earlier, “I think I wouldn’t have had issues with weight — I carried this protective 20 pounds [in college],” she says. “It was all connected. And to me, that’s a health regret.”

Shields, 43, also opens up about aging.

“The older I get, the younger I feel,” she says. “Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn’t feel like a kid.

“The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good,” she goes on. “I always thought when you get older, you’ll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.”

She’s also become easier on herself as she ages.

“As I’m getting older, I’m enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I’ve deserved them,” says Shields, who loves to treat herself to a “good hunk of dark Belgian chocolate.”

One thing she’s strict about: sunscreen. The actress had a “sun scare” — a mole near her upper left lip that “keeps coming back,” she says.

“I’ve had it for awhile, but a year ago my doctor froze it off and it turned out it was precancerous. I was panicked. I thought, Of course!” she continues. “Everything’s started to be in place, and now I have to get that?

“When everything is going well, my Catholic guilt rears its ugly head and says, ‘No, you’re not allowed to be that happy, ‘We’re gonna give you cancer now!’” she moans.

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Brooke Shields’s mother, who suffers from dementia, was checked out of a New Jersey nursing home Thursday by a journalist seeking a “tabloid story,” the outraged actress said.

Teri Shields, 75, was later found unharmed at a restaurant next door to an assisted living center in Old Tappan, N.J., talking to a freelance reporter, according to police, who say no arrests have been made but that the case remains under investigation.

“I intend to take every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act,” Brooke Shields says in a statement.

A Call from Police
The actress claims her mother was targeted by the National Enquirer.

“My mother Teri Shields has been diagnosed with dementia. For her safety, she has temporarily been in a senior living facility, a very difficult decision for me,” she says. “Late Thursday afternoon, I was alerted by Old Tappan Police that my mother had been signed out of the facility by two reporters of the National Enquirer … who falsely claimed they were friends of hers.”

She adds: “They then drove my 75-year-old mother around looking for a tabloid story. As anyone knows who has a parent who suffers from dementia or Alzheimer’s, it is one of the most difficult experiences you can go through as a son or daughter. The idea that the National Enquirer took advantage of her state is reprehensible and disgusting.”

In a statement, the National Enquirer responds: “A freelance reporter who has known Teri Shields for more than 10 years visited her Thursday at the assisted living facility where Brooke says she moved her. Teri asked the reporter to take her out to lunch and to run some errands. The freelance reporter then got permission from the facility to do so.”

Investigation Continues
According to Old Tappan Police Department Capt. Thomas Shine, officers were called to the assisted living facility at 3 p.m. Thursday to look for Teri Shields. A supervisor at the facility said the elder Shields had been checked out.

“It was more along the lines that she had been allowed to leave, based upon their protocol or policy,” Shine tells PEOPLE. “It had been an extended period of time” since she left.

“Our officer located her with some form of a journalist, I think a freelance journalist, in an eatery right next door,” Shine continues. “She wasn’t harmed in any way shape or form. She was fine. The officers discussed the circumstances with her. And she literally walked with one of my officers next door to the assisted living center.”

Police Interviews
Shine did not identify the journalist or a media outlet.

The journalist was interviewed by police, as was a photographer who was working with the reporter but wasn’t on the scene at the time officer arrived.

No charges have been filed, and the Shields family had not yet sought a criminal complaint, says Shine.

“The part we’re investigating here is who allowed her to leave the facility,” says Shine. “It appears that there were some permissions that were given for Mrs. Shields by the family, be they written, be they verbal – we’re investigating – to allow her visitation for a variety of different reasons.”

Shine says he believes the journalist “was familiar to Mrs. Shields” and that the journalist “did sign her out and was allowed to leave by personnel.”

As for whether the elder Shields was driven around, Shine says, “We’re still investigating that.”

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Brooke Shields must think a head-butt spells “chivalry.”

The former “Lipstick Jungle” star is coming to pal Kiefer Sutherland’s defense after he was charged with assaulting designer Jack McCollough in her honor on May 4, just after the Costume Institute gala at the Met.

Shields’ attorney, Gerald Lefcourt, issued a statement yesterday stating, “While at [the after-party at SubMercer,] Brooke was bumped into by Jack McCollough, and Kiefer Sutherland became concerned. Kiefer has always been a gentleman in her company.”

A source familiar with the situation echoed Brooke’s statement, saying that McCollough “may have shoved Kiefer first.”
Meanwhile, Sutherland’s reps are confident that the investigation will prove he “was neither the instigator nor a wrongdoer in this incident.” Police, however, have failed to see Sutherland’s side of the story and have charged him with third-degree assault.

As for the title of “gentleman,” some beg to differ. One of Sutherland’s former co-stars told us how the actor would “go to the bar immediately after he’d finish working. He’d sit there for hours, putting them back. When it was time to go home, he’d be cantankerous and ornery. He was not a pleasant drunk.”

We heard another tale involving a private jet ride back from an event Kiefer attended recently. After sticking to water while in the spotlight, Sutherland boarded the plane and consumed “six alcoholic beverages within a span of 45 minutes,” an insider tells us. “He was so bombed, he got violent and threatened bodily harm to another individual on the plane.” Thankfully, the flight landed before fists flew.

Sutherland — who is on probation in L.A. for five years due to DUI convictions — faces a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail on the fresh charges. He’s due in Manhattan Criminal Court for arraignment on June 9, when the L.A. district attorney will decide whether his allegedly violent behavior constitutes a violation worthy of sending him to jail.

Meanwhile, the actor is expected at an Emmy Awards panel in L.A., and back in NYC next week. “Kiefer will continue everything he was planning on,” his rep told us. “He’s going back to work.”

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BROOKE Shields, who has been dealing with the press since she was a pre-pubescent model, had no trouble deflecting a Page Six interrogation about the Kiefer Sutherland head-butting two nights after the “24″ star busted fashion designer Jack McCullough’s nose. Shields — who was seated next to Page Six at the party for Jay McInerney’s latest book, “How It Started,” at 21 Club — deftly avoided multiple inquiries, before explaining she had a date to talk to the police the next morning. Meanwhile, McInerney noted his book had gotten the kind of rave review in the New York Times normally reserved for dead authors. “I’m going to be very careful crossing the street now so I don’t get hit by a bus,” the writer said to laughter from the dinner’s host, Texan-born investment advisor George Farias, Jay’s wife Anne Hearst, Candace Bushnell, Harry Benson, Nina Griscom, Valesca Guerrand-Hermés, Cornelia Guest and Morgan Entrekin, who was exhausted from Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera.

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False eyelashes are not your friend. Just ask Brooke Shields and Debi Mazar, who instead now use Latisse — an FDA-approved treatment that enhances and lengthens eyelashes.

“I was driving once with my best friend — this was when I was in my 20s,” former “Lipstick Jungle” star Shields told us. “I remember ripping my faux eyelashes off because they were driving me crazy, and sticking them under her dashboard.”

It seemed like a good idea — until a week later, when Shields got a call from her pal.

“She said, ‘Um, Brooke? I found your fake eyelashes stuck under my dashboard — why the hell did you put them there?’” says the star. “I was so embarrassed!

But then she goes, ‘And then I decided to put them on, so I’m wearing them today!’ I was hysterical. How gross, right? I used to use so much glue to keep those things on.”

“Entourage” star Mazar had her own bad experience with falsies, too. “It was the second time I had ever made love to my boyfriend — who’s now my husband — and he had no idea what false eyelashes were because he’s a Tuscan farmer,” she recalled. “It was a hot summer day and after everything was over and we were chilling out, he was like ‘Debi, what’s that on your face?’ And it was my eyelash!”

At least both stories had a happy ending — apparently, best friends and Tuscan farmers take beauty mishaps in stride.

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With the Lipstick Jungle premiere next week, I wanted to let you and your readers know that Brooke Shields will also be appearing Monday 9/22 at 8pm on Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo.

In the clip below Brooke talks about her postpartum depression:

You can catch more of Brooke Shields on Inside the Actors Studio, Monday 9/22 at 8pm on Bravo!