Britney Spears got married for the second time this year this time to dancer Kevin Federline in a private ceremony in Studio City, California, “Access Hollywood” reported on Sunday.

Spears, 22, and Federline, 26, surprised their parents with the unexpected ceremony, which took place in a private residence, according to a publicist for the syndicated entertainment news program.

On Jan. 2, Spears married high school sweetheart Jason Alexander in an impromptu ceremony in Las Vegas. But the ill-fated marriage was annulled just three days later.

Spears’ record label, Jive, released a statement saying that Spears and Alexander took a joke too far. The bride wore a baseball cap and torn jeans down the aisle and was escorted by a casino limousine driver.

Spears and Federline announced their engagement in June. Federline has two children with former girlfriend, “Moesha” star Shar Jackson.

Madonna made pilgrimage

Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early Sunday, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage, reports The Associated Press.

The singer is in Israel on a five-day spiritual quest along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism. Following her graveside visit, Madonna went to the Western Wall, a part of Judaism’s holiest site where the biblical temples once stood.

The arrival of Israel’s biggest celebrity visitor in years has created a frenzy among her fans and the media. Others have been critical of the star’s interest in the esoteric Jewish mysticism.

Madonna was raised a Roman Catholic, but she has become an avid devotee of Jewish mysticism in recent years. She has adopted the Hebrew name Esther, wears a red thread on her wrist to ward off the evil eye and reportedly refuses to perform on the Jewish Sabbath.

No screaming fans were waiting for Madonna Sunday as she arrived with her husband, Guy Ritchie, at the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, flanked by black-clad police escorts, assault rifles slung over their shoulders.

The blue and red revolving lights of the patrol cars cast an eerie glow over the terraced, hillside graveyard as the couple walked past the tombstones to the grave of the Kabbalist sage Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag.

Polish-born Ashlag is the renowned author of the Sulam, the ladder, a commentary on the core Kabbalistic text, the Zohar. He died in 1954.

Madonna, wearing jeans, a black-and-gray checkered sweater with a matching cap and a large diamond encrusted letter E on a chain to symbolize her new name, spent more than an hour inside the stone mausoleum, placing candles on the tomb, praying and chanting.

After leaving the cemetery, Madonna traveled to the Western Wall but remained inside her vehicle and did not go down to the sacred site, where some young worshippers were chanting “She has no right to be here.”

Designer stays cheap

PARIS (AP) – Usually, clothing chain H&M nabs ideas from top designers. This time, it snatched the designer himself Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld.

Lagerfeld’s cheap but chic winter collection for the masses will debut in malls Nov. 12. It’s sleek, silky and mostly black. But the real buzz is the price.

The least expensive piece, black silk georgette knickers, will sell for about $20 while the most expensive, a double-breasted black wool coat, goes for $150. That’s a far cry from prices at Chanel, where the average tweed suit costs somewhere around $5,000.

Lagerfeld, who appeared at a late-night launch party Friday in Paris wearing his trademark black sunglasses and white ponytail, said he admires the Swedish retail chain for making “the inexpensive desirable.”

“I’m versatile, and fashion is too,” he told reporters. “I did this (collection) with the same kind of seriousness as for Chanel. Just because it’s less expensive doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care.”

Lagerfeld also designed H&M accessories and a unisex fragrance called “Liquid Karl.” He’s not the first designer to adapt his clothes for the masses Target tapped designer Isaac Mizrahi, for example.

Nelson holds concert

SEATTLE (AP) – Willie Nelson’s new Mercedes has never had a drop of gas in it, but it drives as well as any car he’s ever had. So, he wonders, why aren’t foreclosed family farms in the United States being used to grow soy, corn and other vegetables for environmentally friendly fuels?

“We don’t have to be out there fighting wars all over the world,” he says. “We can give a young couple a way to make a living on a 200- or 300-acre farm.”

Making family farms profitable was a major theme of Farm Aid’s 17th concert, held Saturday at the White River Amphitheater. This was Farm Aid’s first appearance west of the Rockies a change suggested by Seattle resident Dave Matthews.

Besides board members Nelson, Matthews, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, Farm Aid 2004 featured Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and others.

Nelson, Young and Mellencamp founded Farm Aid in 1985. Since then, the group has raised more than $26 million to help farmers stay on their land. Saturday’s eight-hour show raised more than $1 million, the Seattle Times reported.

The country still loses about 15,000 family farms a year, and the average age of farmers is in the upper 50s, according to Farm Aid.

Nelson said he’s angry there’s a need for a Farm Aid. “We’re not treating our raw producers in this country very well,” he said.