Barkin is an enduringly sultry actress and ex-wife of Ron Perelman.

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Ellen Barkin, already the reported recipient of a eight-figure divorce settlement, grabs billionaire ex-husband Ron Perelman by the ankles and shakes him until the $3.4 million she says he owes her production company falls out. [TSG]

To: Ron Perelman
From: Ellen Barkin
Re: In your ass

The date: May 13th
The place: 79 Greene Street
Sighted: "Ellen Barkin with 14-year-old daughter Romey at upscale sex toy emporium Kiki de Montparnasse. Only Hollywood stars can bring in their kids to adult stores without losing custody of them."

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How can you not love Ellen Barkin's 2nd floor balcony? When she first moved in to her West 12th Street townhome, Barkin erected a miserable privacy fence around the balcony, blocking her neighbors' courtyard view. Then she had a change of heart, and the fence has since been removed. Alas, without a privacy fence,…

We've an important, feel-good Friday update for the little people! Ellen Barkin, who had erected a privacy fence on her second-floor balcony and thus destroyed the courtyard views of her less-moneyed neighbors, seems to have come around:

Yesterday, a reader alerted us to an injustice surrounding Ellen Barkin's new townhouse on West 12th Street: The actress had reportedly erected a privacy fence around her second-floor balcony, thus blocking her neighbors' courtyard views. Today we have visual confirmation of Barkin's mission to ruin the happiness of…

With her overly publicized divorce from billionaire Revlon guru Ron Perelman pending, actress Ellen Barkin has moved out and found property elsewhere. A reader so fortunate as to be Barkin's new neighbor writes:

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Sensing an opportunity to linger in the fleeting spotlight of a cameo in yesterday's Page Six item about CAA agent Kevin Huvane saving actress Ellen Barkin from a pre-Oscar choking death, former action star Sylvester Stallone today set the record straight on his non-intervention in the esophageal blockage:

If the death that soon followed CAA bigshot Bryan Lourd's pre-Oscar party last year didn't prove that socializing with agents the night before the ceremony is a potentially fatal undertaking, this item from today's Page Six should serve to remind us of the spectre of imminent doom that accompanies each encounter…