Justin's dates give photogs hell

Sunday, July 8th 2007, 4:00 AM

What a difference a date makes!

Cameron Diaz has become a new favorite of the paparazzi after years of scowling on the arm of Justin Timberlake.

But his latest girlfriend, Jessica Biel, whom one pap said used to be a "sweetheart," has started to resent the attention.

"She's been rude and surly," gripes one snapper.

"She used to pose for us nicely, and now that she's with JT, she flips us off, hides her head and swears at us."

"We call it the 'Justin Timberlake Affliction'!"

A case of Globenfeldt warming

Who knew IMDB.com could be used for debt collecting?

On June 13, film investor Arturo Globenfeldt posted a message on that Web site's page for Simon Monjack, a filmmaker married to Brittany Murphy. Globenfeldt alleged he was owed $16 million by Monjack, and that he was trying to find him.

After this column looked into the claim, Globenfeldt now tells me the matter has been resolved.

"I managed to get my court fees and original investment compensated, as well as a certain sum in goodwill," Globenfeldt e-mailed from his yacht (La Machisma) in the Atlantic.

Monjack acknowledges the "$16 million misunderstanding" has been resolved.

Not that one should believe everything written on the IMDB.com message boards. "Mr. Monjack is using stolen money to fund a secret Zombie Creation Program," a separate post claims. "Yes, he is actually funneling cash into a project thats [sic] goal is to create genuine hordes of walking dead."

"Brittany and I had a huge laugh about that," Monjack said when he called Friday. "We thought maybe the zombies had been blogging."

Whipping up the fireworks crowd

Here's something that you probably won't see on July 4 in the suburbs.

A friend who was watching the fireworks from a rooftop on the lower East Side tells me of a woman he had assumed was a local news reporter. She was stationed, with a camera crew, on the northwest corner of Ridge and Stanton Sts.

"Five minutes into the fireworks, the raincoat comes off, and she's wearing only a bustier," he writes.

Then: "She pulls out a whip and starts cracking it. More gyrating, a little more whipping — lots of bending over and grabbing the breasts."

Gosh.

"Obviously, by this time, the whole roof has diverted its attention from the fireworks to this crazy woman down the block. This goes on for about 30 minutes or so, then they wrap up about five minutes before the end of the fireworks."

If anyone has any information about who that was, let me know!

New York Minute

A casually dressed Beyoncé and Jay-Z lunched with about nine friends at Serendipity 3 on E. 60th St. The group had just come from a baby christening, they remarked to a manager. The songbird enjoyed a foot-long hot dog with chili and cheese and a "coward's portion" banana split, while her main man had chicken nachos and a strawberry shake.

Broadway's "Inherit the Wind" is expecting special guest John Scopes Jr. for its final performance today. He is the son of educator John Thomas Scopes, whose teaching of evolution in 1925 sparked the infamous "Scopes Monkey Trial," which inspired the play.

"I suppose it would make for a more interesting story if I dropped my wife for Jennifer Aniston," Jon Bon Jovi muses in Glamour magazine's "Man Issue." "But that is a pretty shallow existence. Maybe it's a better story, but it's not my reality," he says of his happy marriage.

Don't Shoot the Messenger

Which Hollywood horndog is developing a reputation for driving drunk from the clubs for 3 a.m. assignations?

With Laura Schreffler