While 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto ushered in the new year by partying at Miami's SkyBar at Shore—along with AnnaLynne McCord and Gerard Butler—he was snapped earlier in the day walking on the beach with a mystery blonde and some pals.

Leto, 37, is known to have a penchant for fair-haired females. The Requiem for a Dream actor embarked upon a four-year relationship with Cameron Diaz, from 1998 to 2002.

He was also spotted around New York City in September with a leggy Lydia Hearst.

Witnesses say Leto and his Miami maiden were holding hands at various points, though they seemed to be playing it cool once the paparazzi showed up.

Perhaps Jared's new sunglasses-clad gal pal will be a good friend and tell him that pink and flannel, well...not really such a great combo!

At the End of the Party, Jared Leto Goes Home Alone

Jared Leto hits on ex-girlfriend Scarlett Johansson at Golden Globes party.

Scarlett Johansson ran into ex-boyfriend Jared Leto this week at the Golden Globes after party in the Sunset Tower Hotel, reports MSN Entertainment. A witness told OK! Magazine that the 30 Seconds to Mars rocker “spent most of the evening hitting on Scarlett Johansson, who certainly didn’t seem to mind.”

Johansson and Leto broke up in 2004. Since then, the actress has married fellow actor Ryan Reynolds. Leto, however, is not attached to anyone. According to MSN, he was turned down several times at a pre-Golden Globes party Saturday night. “He went up to girl after girl after girl, put his arm around them and said, ‘Let’s go [bleep],’” a source at the party told the New York Post.

Cameron Diaz, who also dated Leto, was at the Sunset Tower Hotel as well, but apparently Leto wasn’t interested. Diaz did not seem to mind, however, because according OK!, she was too busy talking to 300 star Gerard Butler. Ever wonder if these blonds still wear 30 seconds to Mars t-shirts?

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30 Seconds to Mars bassist Matt Wachter has left the band in order to spend more time with his family, according to the group. There's no word yet on a replacement. "We love and support him completely and accept his decision with respect and understanding," the band said in a statement. "This is not an end, it is a new beginning." ...

30 Seconds to Mars and the Smashing Pumpkins Tribute Project

The Smashing Pumpkins have been gone for seven years, but they've got a much-anticipated new album called Zeitgeist due in about two months. So what better time to pay tribute to Billy Corgan and company than ... well, right now?

That's the thinking behind an upcoming Pumpkins tribute project, spearheaded by MySpace and featuring acts like Panic! at the Disco, 30 Seconds to Mars, (+44) and the Academy Is ... taking cracks at their favorite SP tracks.

According to a source at MySpace, the project (currently known as, uh, "The MySpace Smashing Pumpkins Tribute Project") will launch on May 14, when each of the participating bands will post a Pumpkins cover on their respective MySpace pages. The songs will then be collected onto a CD, which will be included in newsstand editions of July's Spin magazine (that issue will feature each of the bands talking about the Pumpkins' influence on them).

And who exactly are those bands? Well, early reports linked My Chemical Romance to the project, but according to both MySpace and MCR's management, the band has not contributed a song. MTV News' source at MySpace provided a list of 12 of the participants plus the songs they've chosen to cover. Note: 30 Seconds to Mars haven't announced their song yet — we know of no Pumpkins song called "(track TBD)."

· Panic! at the Disco: "Tonight, Tonight"
· (+44): "I Am One"
· The Academy Is ... : "Mayonaise"
· Deftones: "Siva"
· 30 Seconds to Mars: (track TBD)
· The Bravery: "Rocket"
· Young Love: "1979"
· The New Amsterdams: "Thirty-Three"
· Test Your Reflex: "Ava Adore"
· Ben Kweller: "Today"
· Hawthorne Heights: "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
· Gliss: "Rhinoceros"

Read more of the 30 Seconds to Mars discography and watch my favorite 30 Seconds to Mars video.

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