Photo: Jeffrey MayerNicki Minaj and Hot 97 New York air personality Peter Rosenberg have finally buried the hatchet and settled their long-brewing beef. It began last year when Rosenberg dissed her track "Starships," prompting Nicki to bail on her scheduled appearance at the radio station's 2012 Summer Jam festival.

Before the Pink Barbie even spoke a word during her appearance Tuesday on the Hot 97 morning show, Rosenberg greased the wheels by saying his association with Minaj has made him more popular and admitting that "Starships" was played at this wedding. He then apologized, explaining that he never had any "ill feelings about" Minaj as "a human being," he was just expressing his "distaste for the song" and hyping up the festival crowd.

We didn't see this coming. The Stone Temple Pilots filed suit against Scott Weiland Friday and are asking for a judge to stop him for using the band's name and songs.

We expected legal action to result from the band's tiff, but thought Weiland would be the one to fire the first shot, since he was "terminated" in February. Then STP turned up last weekend at KROQ's 21st Annual Weenie Roast as surprise guests with a surprise new lead singer, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington.

STP perform with Bennington (Photo: C Flanigan)Weiland finally broke his silence on the matter on Friday in an open letter on his website, saying his old band's performance with Bennington was a "surprise" and it "hurt," and his former bandmates were misleading the band's millions of fans by calling their collaboration with Bennington Stone Temple Pilots.

Strangely, the band makes some of the same points in their lawsuit about the group's name as Weiland did in his letter. The group's other members — brothers guitarist Dean and bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz — claim they own the rights to the band's name, songs, copyrights and trademarks and Weiland has no right to play the band's music in his solo shows.

Photo: Skip BolenAlmost everyone loves Oprah, but don't count Billy Joel among them. In a new interview published in The New York Times Magazine, the "Piano Man" comes clean about his 2008 appearance on "Oprah," that ended up focusing on his drinking, car accidents and divorce.

When interviewer Andrew Goldman notes that Joel looked "uncomfortable," the superstar confirmed that was the case, saying, "I was very uncomfortable. I was in shock. I didn't realize behind me there were these screens of, like, auto accidents and things about driving and divorce. I thought I was going to come talk about music."