(CBS) Reality TV star Nicole Richie is expecting her first child, the Web site TMZ reports, citing sources close to Richie.

In Touch magazine is also reporting that Richie, 25, is planning to marry her boyfriend, Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden, this summer.

A rep for Richie told The ShowBuzz in an email on Tuesday that "we have nothing to report."

Rumors have been swirling for weeks that the "Simple Life" star — the daughter of Lionel Richie — is pregnant.

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A source told Celebrity Baby Blog on June 17 that Richie and Madden were expecting a baby due in January.

"We received a tip from a source who had been very reliable in the past that Nicole was still in her first trimester and that although she and Joel had hoped it would keep her out of jail for her DUI charge, it wasn't why she got pregnant," Celebrity Baby Blog's Danielle Friedland told The Showbuzz.

The news comes just days before a scheduled court appearance. Richie was arrested in December for driving while under the influence after she was spotted driving the wrong way on a highway. She entered a not guilty plea in February and is due in court on July 11.

Richie recently told David Letterman that she's hoping she won't follow her friend Paris Hilton to the slammer.

"I'm just keeping my fingers crossed, of course," she said on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" last month. "I'm scared also, but I'm willing to face whatever consequences come my way and I take responsibility for what I've done."

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