It’s no secret that Jack Nicholson likes the ladies, particularly the young ones (he was once linked with “The Practice” star Lara Flynn Boyle).

However, some one-line news has been leaked over the weekend, that the Oscar-winning actor asked Jessica Simpson on a date. There’s been no deeper details other than the rumor that Nicholson put the query out, i.e. we don’t know if he sent a handwritten note to Simpson, if he texted her, if he was a fan of her VH1 show, etc. While Perez Hilton first reported the rumor, Gossip Cop put the cuffs on the blogger: