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LITTLE ROCK — Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis are getting married. Wilde’s spokesman, Joy Fehily, confirmed the engagement this weekend. This will be the second wedding for both actors. Wilde finalized her divorce from documentarian Tao Ruspoli in 2011 after eight years of marriage. Sudeikis was previously married to Pitch Perfect screenwriter Kay Cannon. They divorced in 2010. Wilde, 28, rose to fame on TV’s House M.D. Her film credits include Tron: Legacy and Cowboys & Aliens. Sudeikis, 37, is a star of Saturday Night Live and appeared in the film Horrible Bosses.

Crime writer Patricia Cornwell is suing her former financial management firm and business manager for negligence and breach of contract, claiming they cost her and her company millions in investment losses and unaccounted for revenue during their 4 1/2-year relationship. The intensely private Cornwell has listened from the front row of the courtroom while a lawyer for the management firm described her spending habits for the jury: $40,000 a month for an apartment in New York City, $5 million for a private-jet service, $11 million to buy properties in Concord, Mass. Cornwell’s spouse, Staci Gruber, a neuroscientist who is an assistant psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, testified about the couple’s relationship with Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP, a New York accounting and wealth management firm, and Evan Snapper, a former principal in the firm. Cornwell fired the firm after discovering in July 2009 that the net worth of her and her company, despite having eight-figure earnings per year during the previous four years, was a little under $13 million, the equivalent of one year’s net income. Anchin and Snapper claim there is no money missing from Cornwell’s accounts, that any investment losses were caused by the financial and housing crisis at the time, and that the fees they charged her were reasonable for the services they provided, including everything from business management to taking Cornwell’s clothes to the tailor to arranging care for her mother. Attorney James Campbell described Cornwell as “a demanding client” who “tends to push off responsibility and assign blame when things go off track.”