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Michelle Williams Spooked by Things Other Than ‘The Dark Knight’
The starlet still lives in fear of the paparazzi. Plus, all the dish from today's gossip columns!
Posted 08/14/08 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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PETA Causes a Ruckus in the House of Donna Karan
A PETA protester accosted designer Donna Karan inside her Central Park West apartment after an assistant mistakenly let her in. Kyle MacLachlan and his wife are expecting a child. Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lopez, Demi Moore, and a host of other stars all turned out for Madonna's "Raising Malawi" (Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon did not, however, after learning that the event was sponsored by Gucci). Rachel Zoe came to Fashion Week with eight suitcases, two of which were for accessories. R.E.M. played a series of impromptu shows on the Lower East Side earlier this week.
Posted 02/08/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Steve Schwarzman Takes the Fun Out of Buybacks
FINANCE • Steve Schwarzman found yet another way to stiff his investors, using the GSO deal as an elaborate cover to buyback shares of Blackstone without the typical benefit a buyback program gives to other shareholders. No wonder the Chinese, who have lost $1 billion on Blackstone, hate him. [DealBook/NYT] • Bank of America bought Countrywide Financial, the huge mortgage company teetering at the edge of bankruptcy, for $4 billion in stock. Some observers worry the deal will take the bank down, but considering Countrywide was worth $30 billion before the mortgage meltdown, it may yet make B of A CEO Ken Lewis a king. [Deal Journal/WSJ] • Merrill Lynch will likely take a $15 billion write-down next week, far in excess of the $12 billion some already bearish analysts had predicted. John Thain is looking to rescue the bank with still more foreign investment capital, but with the Senate getting anxious, that stream dry up. [NYT, NYP]
Posted 01/11/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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The Seth Tobias Case Gets (A Little Bit) Hairier
A gay porn star named Angel is now claiming that he used to shave deceased gay hedge-fund manager Scott Tobias's genitals. New York Giant Michael Strahan said that he wouldn't mind dating Tony Romo's girlfriend, Jessica Simpson. Oprah Winfrey showed up to watch Chaka Khan's Broadway debut in The Color Purple. Robert Kennedy wants Hillary Clinton to remain in the public life even if she loses her presidential bid. Donna Karan failed a bunch of her classes at Parsons, including typing and draping. Jim Neal is coming to New York to raise money for his Senate run in North Carolina (he's gay!).
Posted 01/11/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Donna Karan Accepts Cougarhood
Fifty-five-year-old Donna Karan's boy toy is 30-year-old model J.J. Biasucci. Ethan Hawke allegedly started dating "secret" girlfriend (his former nanny!) Ryan Shawhughes before he was divorced from Uma Thurman. Steve Martin played the banjo and read funny poems at the Cutting Room. Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin shared a happy dinner at BLT Fish. Eighty-eight-year-old Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau may step down from his post, which would allow Governor Spitzer to appoint Cyrus Vance Jr. Michael Kors served mini-cheeseburgers at his store opening in Soho. Madonna kicked 25 yoga students out of a studio at the Reebok Sports Club on Columbus so she could practice by herself. Howard Stern is annoyed at Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner for bringing paparazzi to his Upper West Side block.
Posted 12/12/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Calvin Klein and Donna Karan's Bentley Accident: Hilarious!
Donna Karan rear-ended Calvin Klein's Bentley while in her own Bentley. And get this, she was actually driving herself! Don Imus will have a co-host for the first time in his career when he returns to the air on December 3. Bryant Park charges the crew of Sex and the City $100,000 for each day they film there. (Also, the film's ending is supposedly not yet written.) NBC Universal Jeffrey Zucker bought Kitty Carlisle Hart's East 64th Street co-op for $12.3 million, "Page Six" reports, making us happy to see that they're catching up on two-month-old Daily Intel posts. More Secret Service guards have been hanging out on Barbara Bush's West Village block, perhaps because Janeane Garofalo gabbed on Bill Maher's show that she's Bush's neighbor. Downtown promoter Ivy Supersonic spent a night in jail after being accused of stealing $7,000 by the owner of the Plumm. 'Mocialite Kristian Laliberte hosted a party with BlackBook magazine for Carlos Campos at Upstairs in Soho.
Posted 11/26/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Stan O'Neal Disinvited to the Literal and Figurative Party
FINANCE • Stan O'Neal wasn't invited to a big Merrill Lynch reunion party thrown by Evelyn Juan, the son of a Merrill founder. Guess Stan will just have to drink himself to sleep in his board-provided office. [DealBreaker] • Goldman's unbelievable success is forcing all the other top banks to dig deep into the honey pot and pay out a record-setting $38 billion in bonuses, despite losing $74 billion in market value. Goldman, of course, accounts for almost half of the bonus pool. Let's just say it's good to be Goldman. [Deal Journal/WSJ, Bloomberg] • Steve Schwarzman spared no expense for his son's wedding and the tab ran to $150,000, including a $20,000 BBQ supper, $7,000 for drinks, and $50,000 to rent an entire hotel and keep the riffraff out. Still pales in comparison to Schwarzman's $3 million birthday bash. [NYP]
Posted 11/19/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Closing the Box
Some Lower East Siders are trying to get the Box closed because it's more a nightclub and less the "cultural institution" its owners promised it would be. (And also, we presume, because it's utterly insufferable.) At the age of 50, Kelly Klein, ex of Calvin, is finally having a baby. Hillary Clinton raised $500,000 at a fund-raiser at Ted Danson's house on Martha's Vineyard. The beach is eroding in front of Tina Brown and Harry Evans's place in Quogue. John McEnroe is in talks with Larry Ellison to establish a tennis training center in Flushing Meadows. Andy Roddick had stage fright when asked to say a few words at a party in his honor at Tenjune. A bunch of guests got lost en route to Donna Karan's house in East Hampton. Tom Petty played two gigs in the Hamptons for $1.7 million. (Paul McCartney and Renée Zellweger were there.) Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning looked for the entrance to La Esquina.
Posted 08/28/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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At ‘The Good Night’ Screening, Celebs Share Their Dreams
At the Cinema Society's screening of The Good Night, in East Hampton on Saturday, celebrities had dreams on their minds. That's because Jake Paltrow's film is all about them; the hero even falls in love with a girl who exists solely in his sleep. The part of said lass is played by Paltrow's sister, Gwyneth, who showed up at the party and mingled with East End A-listers like Bob Balaban, Billy Joel, Stella McCartney, Donna Karan, and Ed Burns. "I actually keep a dream diary," Christie Brinkley told Daily Intel. "I actually created a dream club, where we'd all get together and tell each other out dreams." Wait, really? "Oh, it was way back in the day when I used to be on tour with Billy [Joel]'s band, so we would all get together for dream clubs." Mm. Touring with a rock band doesn't sound quite like we imagined it. —Alex Gartenfeld Bonus Party Lines: Read more about what goes on in celebrities' heads in our coverage of The Good Night screening.
Posted 08/20/07 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Donna Karan and Mira Nair, Ladies Who Hunch
Tuesday night, after the New York premiere of The Namesake, filmmaker Mira Nair — who was born in India and today divides her time between Manhattan and Uganda, her husband's home country — will join pal Donna Karan to host a benefit for Nair's Maisha Film Lab, which trains East African and South Asian filmmakers, and also Chelsea's Iyengar Yoga Center which both women swear by. (Karan does Iyengar every morning; Nair goes three times a week on her own and on Sunday with her husband and son.) We talked to them about yoga, relaxation, and competition.
Posted 03/02/07 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Rudy No Longer Thanking God George Bush Is Our President?
A high-level Republican official says that Rudy Giuliani, should he decide to run, won't have the blessing of Bush or Rove. Recently fired Citigroup exec Todd Thomson, who got himself in trouble for flying Maria Bartiromo around, has flown his wife to Montana, on vacation. Diddy has been partying a lot with "friend" Sienna Miller while his wife Kim Porter stays home with the twins. Martha Stewart is a Hillary supporter, and the launch of high-profile Condé Nast business mag Portfolio may not be going as smoothly as planned.
Posted 01/30/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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