Jessica Simpson loses her best friend

Cacee Cobb, Jessica Simpson’s closest friend and personal assistant for over two years, has moved on to other things. She celebrated her last day on the job May 7th:

After more than two years as Jessica Simpson’s personal assistant, CaCee Cobb finally told her childhood friend that she wanted out. On May 7, Cobb celebrated her last day on the job with friends at Arnie Morton’s Steakhouse in L.A. Fighting tears, Simpson, 25, raised her glass and said to Cobb, “You are my best friend. I will be your best friend forever.” Simpson’s rep conCOURTNEY HANDEL, 23, told a number of jewellery and cosmetics companies that she was CACEE COBB (corr) in an effort to procure free items and gifts.firms the professional parting of ways to Us, “It’s true. They remain close.”

A woman impersonating Cacee was arrested last summer after scoring nearly $12,000 in free stuff by capitalizing on Cacee’s association with Jessica Simpson:

COURTNEY HANDEL, 23, told a number of jewellery and cosmetics companies that she was CACEE COBB (corr) in an effort to procure free items and gifts.”

Jessica seems to have replaced Cacee as a best friend with hairstylist Ken Paves. They’re photographed everywhere together.

Here’s a nearly ten-minute clip from Newlyweds featuring Cacee after she moved in briefly with Nick and Jessica. The best part is Jessica saying that male ballerinas are called “Ballerino,” the “masculine form” of the word.

People are saying that Cacee has hooked up with Nick Lachey, since she spent nearly a half hour talking to him at a club last week. They know each other well, and it doesn’t seem like it means much.

Here is Jessica outside a NYC recording studio yesterday. [via] and [via]