Every year, the most awful people in New York jet to Vienna for the Lifeball, a fancy-dress fundraiser for HIV/AIDS research. On the Austrian Airlines private charter this year: pseudo-heiress
Lydia Hearst, the character upon whom
Ugly Betty's Amanda Sommers should have been based; ubiquitous plump-lipped tranny
Amanda Lepore; club kid
Richie Rich; gender-bending party promoter
Andre J.; scene photographer
Patrick McMullan; and a disgusted Gawker spy. The Lifeball's worthy cause typically protects the absurd celebrity freeloaders—but not this time. Here's Lydia Hearst at the first night's cocktail party, abandoned by her airplane snog-buddy,
Markus Schenkenberg. After the jump, our correspondent's shocking tale of mile-high blow and blow-jobs.
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