United Technologies Chairman George David will buy his hard- won freedom from his countess wife by tossing her a few extra million bucks — in the $10 million range. That's on top of the $45 million coming to her via their bitterly dis puted 2005 postnuptial agreement, according to sources on both sides of the talks.

Let us tip our hats to the lady for taking significantly less than the $100 million she initially demanded, which would have been only fair recompense for spending a few years with an older rich dude. Pray tell, will her meager sum be sufficient to fulfill her $650 weekly dry cleaning bill, and her $8,000 weekly "travel" bill, not to be confused with her $700 weekly car service bill? We must hope.

Any greedy, predatory younger men looking to soak an older rich woman for millions, now's your chance.
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Why does George David attract so many of the ladies? Because he is a generous sucker. He bought his mistress thousands and thousands of dollars worth of fancy items at La Perla, though he probably did not foresee the fact that one day he would have to have this exchange about it in open court:

"And La Perla is a women's — uh — lingerie store?"
"Bathing suits," said the mogul.
"High end?" asked the lawyer.
"I don't know enough to know that," the mogul snapped at the well-dressed lawyer, whose brightly colored socks are something of a trademark. "I suppose you know more than I do."
"Well, do you buy clothing for yourself there?" the lawyer asked, apparently trying to pin down just whose posteriors the purchased La Perlas were destined to barely cover.
"As far as I know, not," the mogul answered.
"What does that mean?" asked the lawyer.
"Well, I don't think they have clothing for men."

This is why most fabulously wealthy corporate titans just buy themselves sex trafficking victims and stash them in prison-like apartments in various third world countries, I imagine. Far less legal peril than cheating on countesses. Anyhow Andrea Peyser also reports that George David wears bad suits, is "insane," and is the World's Biggest Pussy.
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George David is the former CEO of United Technologies, and he's worth $300 mil. So his wife thought it was only fair that she get $53K per week in their divorce, just to survive. She had to put up with a man who used divorce filings as foreplay, after all. And the guy's such a tightwad he kept the title to her engagement ring in his name!

But she's no great prize either: she once served him with divorce papers during a marriage counseling session; he compared talking to her to talking to a yapping dog; and—according to him—raped him, although he outweighs her by 100 pounds.

So we know George David is not exactly The Fonz. But perhaps you will have more sympathy when you hear what he had to put up with, as the man of the house:

"She spoke in an imperious, demanding, aggressive, assaultive way," complained the bachelor wannabe, United Technologies honcho George David, 67, of his 37-year-old wife, Swedish countess Marie Douglas-David, who these days uses the couple's $39 million Park Avenue penthouse as her temporary castle.

"I was subjected to an imperious, aggressive attack," David said of a 2006 spat at their $425,000-a-year beachfront rental in Sagaponack, LI. "It was tough!" he said of the "ugly experience."

Fascinating how rich men think nothing of trading away every shred of manhood, in public, in order to save a little in divorce payouts. George David, you are the beautiful, fragile vase in this marital China shop.
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1.) Paris Hilton's My New BFF
Love. On the premiere episode this week, Paris eliminated a girl because Wayne Newton's tiger didn't like her. I miss her already. She was fun to watch.

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And she did good drawings.

2.) Paris was on The View, and Babs wasn't buying her whole "it's Pilates" act.

3.) Babs seems to to think that Paris Hilton and Paris Is Burning are one and the same. To be fair, it's an unsurpising mistake for some to make.

4.) Digging for gold, picking a winner.
A two-year old little boy purported to be an expert pool player was invited on The Yenta Hour of Today, where he picked his nose and ate his boogers.

5.) Why did she deliver her baby alone? Why is her baby not related to her? How did her baby die? Why is her baby alive? Why didn't she question anything!?

6.) "Betty White is a raging bitch."

7.) The magic behind Bridget's Sexiest Beaches is that watching Bridget Marquardt is like watching the joy of a toddler discovering the world, like how doorknobs work, or how food on a spoon is sometimes like an airplane flying into your mouth.

8.) That, and the cultural learning experience that comes with shopping abroad.

9.) Heidi Pratt is very much into Christianity. She strives to be like Mother Teresa, and thinks that material possessions are not important.

Unless, of course, it's dry shampoo.

10.) "I don't play well with others."