Could 2008 be the year of the bitch?

A few months into 2008, one trend is emerging: nice girls finishing last. (See: Silda Wall Spitzer.) After all, when Tina Fey declared "bitch is the new black" on Saturday Night Live, she was giving a screaming endorsement of Hillary Clinton, one lady who has shown that bitches—and here we mean women who don't feel obligated to play nice, especially when the stakes are high—don't go down easy. Love them or hate them (and there's plenty of both to go around for everyone on this list), we salute our nominees for the top 10 bitches of 2008. And it's only April!

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10. Tracy Ullman
The British Bitch
Watching Tracy Ullman's new Showtime series, Tracy Ullman's State of the Union, might make you start to wonder. Does she have a personal vendetta against Laurie David? And Arianna Huffington? And Renée Zellweger? The British comedienne's irreverent imitations aren't earning her any friends on Hollywood's A-list. But, hey, maybe she's actually helping those she's targeting. Appearing on David Letterman recently, Renée Zellweger joked that watching Ullman's impersonation sent her to therapy. No shame, Renée. Checking in with your shrink never hurts.

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9. Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz (formerly Cécilia Sarkozy)
The French Bitch
While the world was fawning over what Carla Bruni was wearing on a diplomatic visit to Britain and calling her a new Jackie O, Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz wasn't crying into her coq au vin. Au contraire. She was plotting revenge ... a revenge wedding. The former French first lady moved up her nuptials and wed PR exec Richard Attias in March, the better to counter the whirlwind Sarkozy-Bruni wedding. And, lest you forget, it was Cécilia who left Nicolas in the first place, not the other way around. She initially became involved with Attias in 2005, when she was still married to Sarkozy but on a marriage break. Love is sweet, but payback is a ... well, you know.