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Leighton Meester Is a Text Addict
The ‘Gossip Girl’ star spent a party in her honor on her BlackBerry, and more bad behavior in our daily gossip roundup.
Posted 10/01/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Kelly Killoren Bensimon and Elle McPherson Share Taste in Husbands, Underwear
Plus, Britney's mom shares her secrets, the mystery of Rosario Dawson's appearance at the RNC, and more, in today's gossip roundup!
Posted 09/05/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Beyoncé's Reps Are Kind of Awesome
Is Beyoncé pregnant? "We'll perform an ultrasound and get back to you," her reps say sassily. That and the results of other probing in our daily roundup of the city's juiciest gossip.
Posted 05/21/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Bloomberg Knows No One Will Ask Him to Be VP
Plus, "Page Six" invents a really terrible new euphemism for getting AIDS and dying, and more in our daily gossip roundup.
Posted 05/08/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Naked Pictures of Gisele and Carla Bruni Sell for Big Bucks
Which one of these models is worth nearly $100,000 more than the other naked? What recently divorced Romeo is already trying to get his new lady knocked up? And did the tabloids miss out of Jay-Z and Beyoncé's wedding because they couldn't get pictures? Or are they racist? All this and more in our daily gossip roundup.
Posted 04/11/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Christiane Amanpour Is Kinkier Than We Thought
Did Blair kick Kati off 'Gossip Girl'? Does Gwyneth really eat? Is Diane Von Furstenberg really a dominatrix? (Christiane Amanpour says so!) The answers to these questions lie in today's roundup of gossip.
Posted 04/09/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Bruce Willis Acts Like Liz Smith Was Born Yesterday
Bruce Willis says he's dating a model because she's pretty on the inside. Plus, Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling go on a date, as do Silda and Eliot Spitzer, in our daily roundup of the juiciest bits from New York gossip columns.
Posted 04/08/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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The Beyoncé and Jay-Z Nuptials Could Be Happening Right This Very Second!!!!!
Okay, we take it back. Yesterday we said we didn't care that Beyoncé and Jay-Z were maybe getting married. But that was before the Insider reported that they were getting married this very afternoon at 195 Hudson, a loft-y office building that is right near the New York Mag offices!!!!!!!
Posted 04/04/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Jay-Z's Record Deal Questioned on Happiest Day of His Life?
Industry insiders tell the 'Post' that Jay isn't worth the $150 million he got from Live Nation. But what does he care: He might be getting married today!
Posted 04/04/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Beyoncé and Jay Z Might Get Married Again
We've been told about impending Beyoncé-Jay-Z nuptials so many times, their wedding has become like an urban legend.
Posted 04/02/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Cumming Sprays Everyone at Le Royale
Heath Ledger allegedly did so much coke and heroin that Michelle Williams kicked him out of their Brooklyn home. (His publicist denies that he opted not to check into rehab.) Farrah Fawcett got $500,000 for allowing The Insider to videotape her chemotherapy. Alan Cumming ripped the disco ball off the roof at Le Royale, and then sprayed partygoers with Champagne.
Posted 01/31/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Giants Player Has ‘Abandonment Issues’
New York Giant Osi Umenyiora, who is dating Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks, says he's a difficult guy to love because he has "abandonment issues." Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudy, was arrested for doing 39 mph in a 30 mph zone in Florida. An upcoming reality show on the Mojo Channel forces a handful of semi-prominent New Yorkers to survive without their cell phones and computers. Julia Stiles sat down and ordered a bunch of food at Indochine but requested that it all be doggy-bagged so she could take it home. CNN has been getting better daytime ratings than MSNBC over the past two months, though Fox News still does better than both. Georgina Chapman on fashion: "I'm like a magpie. I like anything that sparkles."
Posted 01/23/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Eliot Spitzer Makes Hilarious Faux Pas
Governor Spitzer lauded Kerry Kennedy during a speech his rival Andrew Cuomo was at, knowing that Kennedy and Cuomo went through a bitter divorce after she cheated on him. CNBC "Street Sweetie" Erin Burnett is catching heat at the network for the Men's Health story she wrote titled, "Eight Things That Would Impress Me," which made her look like, well, a girl who likes to be around money. New Jersey Net Jason Kidd's girlfriend, Hope Dworaczyk, is pregnant. Stars and publicists hate working with Men's Vogue because the magazine double-books covers. Jessica Seinfeld may or may not have plagiarized from a third cookbook. Cindy Adams claims a New Hampshire pollster told her before the primary that Hillary Clinton was gonna win by six points.
Posted 01/10/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Cloudy Future
As thousands of European budget travelers swarmed the rainy city and prepared to gaze at the big crystal ball in Times Square, many New Yorkers had already moved on to 2008. Bill Clinton worried about Mayor Bloomberg’s buying his way into the presidential race: “He could spend $1 billion and hardly miss it,” said the former president.
Posted 12/28/07 in Daily Intel : It Happened This Week
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Def Jam Wants Its Turn to Retire Jay-Z
The true story of what is going on with Jay-Z at Island Def Jam seems to be unfolding in the gossip pages. Murmurs that the hip-hop impresario was set to leave the label have been buzzing since last year. In July, Ben Widdicombe's "Gatecrasher" column reported that "he is in negotiations to jump to rival Columbia," citing this year's appointment of Jermaine Dupri to head up Island's Urban group as one cause of strife. At that point, it looked like it was all Jay's idea to look for a new job. But now, in "Rush & Molloy," we learn that maybe the Island Def Jam brass aren't that happy with their 2005 hire:
Island/Def Jam CEO L.A. Reid and his boss, Doug Morris, are said to have found Jay's demands "excessive" in light of the time he's been spending on tour. "People have lost count of how many times he's come out of retirement," the source says. "Everybody knows he's not around the office much. Everybody at Universal loves him, but they can't justify paying him the money he wants when so many people have been laid off." His contract is said to expire at the end of this month. Friends of the rapper, who last night was celebrating his 38th birthday in Paris, scoffed at claims that Reid and Morris had thrown in the towel.
We've heard a lot on this topic: That Jay's longtime girlfriend, Beyoncé, wants him to quit. That Jay's singles are tanking. That L.A. Reid is tired of Jay getting all the attention. Which makes us want to yell about something we've been wondering for years: When will Jay make an honest woman out of Beyoncé!? Jay-Z in Jam over Contract [NYDN]Posted 12/06/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Rejecting the Celebrity Transfusion
Earlier today, we noted that the Us Weekly set seems to be migrating from Los Angeles to New York, what with Lindsay Lohan and Brangelina and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Brandon Fucking Davis all settling in, and Jennifer Aniston talking about moving. We don't know exactly why this is happening. Could the Second Gilded Age, with its luxury apartment buildings and $400 omakase menus, have created a kind of reverse gold rush, with the very rich moving here to liquidate? Are they really running from the paparazzi, as they say? Or are glare of TMZ's klieg lights, combined with the massive brown pollution cloud that hovers over Los Angeles, just really bad for your skin?
Posted 10/16/07 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Clinton's Party Guru Also Likes Ladies
Bill Clinton buddy Amed Kahn threw a party at Tenjune for Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's son that consisted of 30 models and five guys. Greenhouse, New York's first-ever "green" nightclub, gets an eco-preview tonight in Paris. Tory Burch and Lance Armstrong amicably broke up because they lived too far apart from one another. Sean Penn, John McEnroe, and Lance Armstrong hung out at the Soho House bar. Artist Geoffrey Raymond's latest Wall Street–inspired work depicts Maria Bartiromo as the Virgin Mary. The New York City Partnership power breakfast caused so much commotion outside the American Express headquarters that many CEOs had to walk a few blocks just to get in. Alex Rodriguez and his wife are expecting another kid.
Posted 10/03/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Jay-Z Smells Beautiful (He Says) at Diddy Perfume Party
Sean "Diddy" Combs probably wasn't even aware that the air at the party for his perfume, Unforgivable Woman, smelled bad. The combination of the packed crowd and oddly rank steam machine on the fourth floor overpowered efforts by guests to have any scent of their own, unforgivable or otherwise — but Diddy was up above the clouds on the fifth floor, with Ashton Kutcher. Stuck waiting at the foot of the stairs for two hours, we asked passing celebrities what they imagined they themselves smelled like. "Oh, I smell incredibly beautiful," Jay-Z told New York. "I smell like you just got out of the shower, you have on the towel and you just got your sheets on your bed and you're laying and you wrap yourself up. I smell like that." We tried to follow up with Beyoncé, but she only had the time to say that she was "hot," which we had an easier time believing. "If a man falls in love with me, I would rather he fall in love with me than the perfume," Eartha Kitt mused. "But if you need the perfume to help you, then that's why I'm here. Because I want to see if Sean's perfume is beautiful for somebody that I would like to have." When we were finally allowed up to see His Diddyness, he deigned to answer a couple of simple questions. So what does Unforgivable smell like? "Confident, seductive, understated," he told us. After two hours at the foot of the stairs, we begged to differ. —Amy Odell
Posted 09/20/07 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Another New York Recording Studio Shutters
Hell's Kitchen's legendary Sony Studios closed last week, and its remaining contents will be auctioned off on September 10. It's the latest in a string of big private studio closings (smaller or home recording rooms are now preferred, as they are cheaper and easier for record companies), and some fear it's the death of a creative tradition that fostered unique collaborations and chemistry. “Walking down the hallways, Mariah Carey would be in one room and Marc Anthony in another,” recalls producer Phil Ramone. “There’s a community side to making music, so it’s a huge loss.” Indeed, former Sony manager Tony Drootin recalls Jay-Z and Beyoncé recording in side-by-side rooms (resulting in his rap on “Crazy in Love”), Michael Jackson stuffing a spare studio room with video games and a Stairmaster, and rappers from Busta Rhymes to Lil’ Kim guesting on each other’s records. When Drootin would leave at 3 a.m., “You’d see all these Bentleys and Lamborghinis on the street outside.”
Posted 09/05/07 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Is Marc Jacobs Engaged?
Marc Jacobs may have given a Cartier engagement ring to his on-again, off-again boyfriend, Jason Preston. Tyra Banks dropped her manager, either because he was a prima donna or because her investment-banker boyfriend told her to. Britney Spears backed out of recording a Timbaland-produced duet with Justin Timberlake. It's unclear why. No cameras or cars are allowed at the fund-raiser Oprah is throwing for Barack Obama at her California ranch, which is expected to draw George Clooney, Halle Berry, and Jamie Foxx. Harvey Weinstein is offering $100,000 to anyone who can identify the Upper East Side mom who inspired The Nanny Diaries. (Some speculate it's Preppy Handbook author Lisa Birnbach.) Marc Ecko's CEO threw $500 in cash around during a company-sponsored booze cruise. Norman Reedus, Helena Christensen's baby daddy, is making a movie in which Richard Nixon sleeps with a hooker and then kills her. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon dined at Le Cirque with two tables' worth of security guards.
Posted 08/22/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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