The Real Housewives Successfully Stretch Their Fifteen Minutes Into at Least Twenty

They were sniping at a viewing party for the show's reunion special earlier this week. That, and all the rest of the city's best gossip in our daily roundup.

Posted 04/25/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger

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Ashley Alexandra Dupré Continues to Haunt New York

Real celebrities are riled by sightings of Eliot's lady friend; Simon Doonan gets his own TV show and pretty people buy expensive homes in our daily roundup of the news from New York's best gossip columns.

Posted 03/24/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger

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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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Rihanna the Only Must at ‘EW’ Event

We've rarely seen product whoring as skillfully integrated with event design as it was at last night's Entertainment Weekly "Must List" party. Some of the décor didn't quite make sense, like the two lifeguard booths smack in the middle of Gotham Hall. There was a giant sculpture of the number 25, which we later discovered was made of Diet Coke bottles. (You'd think Coke was having an anniversary or something.) And Garnier Fructis was in charge of the margaritas, which not only looked like shampoo but kind of tasted like it, too.

Posted 06/22/07 in Daily Intel : Party Lines

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Special Needs

Paris Hilton will spend her 23 days in jail in a "special needs housing unit." Steve Martin is not pleased at being portrayed as a killer in the satire Who's Killing the Great Writers of America. Ian Spiegelman says the Post's Richard Johnson accepted cash from a frequent "Page Six" subject. Filmmaker Michael Moore anonymously paid a critic's medical bills.

Posted 05/18/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger

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