Lillo Brancato, who played a bumbling aspiring mobster on “The Sopranos,” was cleared Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty policeman during a drunken, late-night search for drugs. The jury convicted Brancato of a lesser charge of attempted burglary. … Samantha Ronson says on her MySpace blog that she’s doing fine after visiting an L.A. hospital Sunday, People reports. “[I] was just pretty exhausted from traveling and working too much to buy Hanukkah gifts and my Jewish mother was worried about me,” Ronson wrote. … Kirsten Dunst has won court protection from a man who she says has recently trespassed at her home, according to The Associated Press. A Los Angeles judge granted Dunst’s request to order 25-year-old Christopher R. Smith to stay away from her and her personal assistant.
