It's a life less colorful without Sharon Stone, Hollywood's First Lady of Crazy, in the regular rotation, sharing her latest demented ramblings on the art of onscreen naked-traipsing and how it can promote a reduction in suicide bombings. Sadly, with her Basic Instinct 2 promotional obligations fulfilled, unhinged Stone items have slowed to a dribble lately, and some that are being reported aren't even true:

Sharon Stone has accepted an undisclosed sum in libel damages from a British newspaper that alleged she had left her 4-year-old son in a car while dining at a London restaurant.

Kirsty Howarth, a lawyer for the owners of the Daily Mail, told a judge at London's High Court on Thursday the newspaper now accepted that the allegation was untrue, and apologized to Stone for the distress and embarrassment it had caused. [...]

In an article last June, the Daily Mail alleged that Stone had left her 4-year-old son Roan asleep in a car with her driver for more than two hours outside The Ivy restaurant a London celebrity hangout while she dined with a "mystery male companion."

The fabricated story shares similar themes of child neglect as another in which she reportedly flew first-class as her infant son Laird flew in coach with the nanny. Could there be a global media conspiracy to throw Stone's fitness as a mother into question? Or were Laird and his nanny really made to suffer with a cash bar and tiny bags of Chex Mix as Stone dined on fine bone China and made neighbors uncomfortable by laughing too loudly at in-flight movie Just Like Heaven? We hope it's not more Sharon lies: With so much crazy to give, there's really no reason to make this stuff up.

• Sharon Stone Accepts Libel Damages [ABCNews.com/AP]

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