You'd think that with one foot in the Payola Six scandal and the other soaked with ties to Anthony Pellicano, billionaire Ron Burkle would want to lay low. Au contraire, darlings — he's out and about and, according to our embedded reporters in LA, having quite a good time with the Us Weekly freebies:
Ron Burkle made a surprise appearance at the Us Weekly Hot Hollywood style party last night in LA at Republic. He ate dinner with a bunch of models beforehand at Bridge, then came and seemed really smug and laid back. But his eyes lit up when he went into swag suite set up at the party by M. Frederic. He went through the whole suite, and was super happy to be getting his free Solstice sunglasses and jeans. Was taking pictures on his personal camera with his friends. He then was hanging out with Jamie Lynn Discala and later was hanging out with his guy friends. He was telling all of his friends he was having a great time..he was just freaking over the gift suite!!! Yep, a billionare going nuts over free jeans and free sunglasses.
We'd make a "billionaires — they're just like us" joke here, but we're not even allowed near the swag suites.
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