Oh, Azrouël is very attractive, we're not disputing that, but we just aren't so sure that he's straight. Sure, it's reinforcing negative stereotypes that all male fashion designers are gay, but if he's so hot to trot, then where are all the ladies who are sleeping with him? Neither the write-up on The Daily Beast nor the profile in Page Six Magazine reveal a single lady who'll cop to dating him.

Azrouël is most famously linked to Katie Lee Joel, the former pianowoman of Billy Joel. However, she only says "Yigal Azrouël is a great friend of mine." There is a name for that, and it's called a beard. Of all the socialites Page Six says he's bagged, only one — Zani Gugelmann — would go on record and says, "Yigal is a dear friend, however I have not dated him." The Beast has several ladies saying he's straight, but none who ever claimed to have gotten undressed for him other than to try on one of his creations.

After all, being straight seems to be doing wonders for business. What does the world need with another queer dress draper? Here is his gimmick and the press has come calling. In his store he flirts with the ladies and gets them to buy his dresses in the hopes that he will take them to bed. Well, good luck with that. You have about as much chance of going for a piggyback ride on the Loch Ness monster.

So, when was the last time that "Fashion's Hottest Playboy" actually scored a piece? So, short of a sex tape or a nice woman who will attest to his prowess on the record, we're not going to believe it. Pictures or it never happened.

• A new Vanity Fair article on Farrah Fawcett excerpted on their website details how Ryan O'Neal unwittingly hit on his daughter Tatum at Farrah funeral. It's just all kinds of creepy and downright gross. [Vanity Fair and New York Post]
  
  
• Sad old Billy Joel is supposedly distraught over losing his wife to some young European swordsman and is doing everything he can to get her back. [Page Six]
  
  
• Jude Law thought that the actress/model he recently knocked up was on the pill. Ha! What an idiot. Jude, you always wrap up and pull out, especially if you're Jude Freaking Law! Did the thought never enter your head that perhaps someone, especially an aspiring actress, might lie to you in order to have your child? [Mirror]
  
  
• You have to admire Shaquille O'Neal's diligence in booking challenges against other prominent athletes for his new reality show thing. Too bad David Beckham is such a wanker. [Page Six]
  
  
• Mischa Barton must be really heavily medicated these days because she's just smiling all over the place. [Sun]
  
  
• Are you sitting down? Are you sure? Are you really sitting down? Ass firmly planted in a seat, right? Ok, now here's something that will shock you—Jude Law sleeps with a lot of women. [Page Six]
  
  
• Here are a bunch of pics of Jessica Alba wearing a bikini in the wet surf. Go ahead, you know you want to. [Sun]
  
  
• Kate Moss' vegan boyfriend Jamie Hince flipped out over her wearing a rabbit fur coat or something. [Mirror]
  
  
• Liza Minnelli is not scheduled to appear on Ugly Betty. We repeat, Liza Minnelli is not scheduled to appear on Ugly Betty. [Page Six]

• Britney Spears is a woman who is dedicated to her man/agent. So dedicated that she's converting to Judaism to show Jason Trawick how much she loves him. She's been wearing a star of David around her neck and has enlisted a rabbi to tour with her to teach her the religion. As a Cajun/Louisianian, I'd like to offer a trade to the Jews. You guys take Britney off our hands, and we'll take Natalie Portman. Sound good? Sweet. Have fun with her. [UK SUN]
  
  
• Gwyneth Paltrow, faux-lifestyle expert, physician, chef, dietician and Jim Jones in training, sent out a message to her GOOP death cult raving about some detox clease she did where she didn't eat anything for three weeks. In other news, Chris Martin probably isn't an ass man like Barack Obama. [Daily News]
  
  
• Jerry Seinfeld, apparently not content with the billion or so dollars he's banked from Seinfeld, is doing wacky commercials for some bank in Australia. [Page Six]
  
  
• Jeremy Piven says he hasn't eaten a piece of fish in 9 months since his horrible mercury poison thing. Now he's all into yoga and is all about achieving "balance." Whatever. Still a tool. [Gatecrasher]
  
  
• Katie Lee Joel isn't wasting any time since dumping sad old man Billy Joel for some swarthy lothario—Now she's opened up a burger spot in West Village near her townhouse called "Burger County." [Page Six]
  
  
• Jamie Foxx just can't contain his unrelenting cheesedickery. The other night he was at a party at Tao in Vegas when he took over the mic from the DJ and starting taunting Rihanna, who was dining with Jay-Z, to the point where she got up and left. [Page Six]
  
  
• 19 year-old Harry Potter star Emma Watson bought a $3,000,000 London home for her and her boyfriend, some 26 year-old "financier" named Jay. [Mirror]
  
  
• Katy Perry is running around Turkey in a bikini with some mystery guy just putting his hands all over her and we have to admit, we're kind of jealous. She looks damn good! [Daily Mail]

Page Six runs a salacious item about the child of Zion today, in which we get this juicy, if evasive, tidbit:

"He's been known to sleep with fashion editors who can help his career," a source told Page Six, adding that Azrouel has had relationships with higher-ups at both W magazine and the New York Times. "He loves to have women over for small, intimate dinner parties and to play video games. That's his big thing."

Added another source: "Obviously, there just aren't that many straight guys in fashion. So when one comes on the scene, everyone lines up."

OMG, who???

Also, video games? Really dude? We guess if it works, it works, but... dag. There are also, we suppose, the man's bedtime good looks to be considered. Plus the fact that he makes clothes. "Hey, can we make exotic love to one another, then I will dress you," probably goes pretty far in some circles.

Moves, man. Moves.

• Megan Fox said that she was blinded by the paparazzi flashes going off and all the people calling her name and she was so confused by it all that she didn't see the kid trying to give her a flower in the now infamous moment captured on film and circulated everywhere. Of the incident she said, "I feel so sad for him...that kills me," and offered to send him and autograph to take his virginity or something. She's so cool, isn't she? [Collider]
  
  
• Ryan Seacrest and Lindsay Lohan are developing some sort of reality show starring Lindsay that helps out people who have messed up their lives and gives them a million bucks to start over again. We just hope that Lindsay doesn't steal all the money. [Daily News]
  
  
• Kate Moss got into a fight with her new rocker boyfriend and got so pissed that she tossed his laptop into a swimming pool. Unfortunately, the laptop had six new songs by his band, The Kills, on it that weren't backed up anywhere else, and now they're gone forever. Such are the perils of rockers who date coke-addled supermodels. [Mirror]
  
  
• The dude who's been banging Katie Lee Joel, Yigal Azrouel, has apparently been spreading the love all over the place with multiple women. Page Six reports today that he especially loves to bone fashion magazine editors who he thinks can help his career as a designer. [Page Six]
  
  
• Harvey Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black says that he knew growing up Mormon that God didn't love him because he's a gay man, and that he even contemplated suicide. [Gatecrasher]
  
  
• Rihanna is set to take the stand and spill the beans against Chris Brown in court today about his vicious assault against her earlier in the year. [Daily News]
  
  
• Sarah Jessica Parker got pulled over in the Hamptons the other night for driving her Mercedes minivan without the headlights on. Her son James was in the back seat. Kate Gosselin would be proud. [Page Six]
  
  
• Cristiano Ronaldo said that he had a great time "talking" to Paris Hilton during their recent hookup that sent the London tabloids into a hysterical frenzy. [Sun]
  
  
• Poor little Mercy. Madonna latest African adoption, already looks confused and bewildered as all hell. [Daily Mail]

33 years older, in fact. Katie Lee, at a spry 27, has been seen all over the society pages lately. And we guess the failed Top Chef host and irksome blogger's partying ways were just too much for old William Joel, so he's cutting and running.

There's also the embarrassing fact that maybe K-Lee was stepping out with an Israeli fashion designer named Yigal Azrouel. The two have been seen canoodling in Miami (of course), and one time he called her his girlfriend. Oops! And sorta surprising. Apparently the status-crazed Katie found some fashion dude named Yigal to be a better time than a 60-year-old guy who, yes, crashes cars into houses fairly often, but is also very very rich.

For what it's worth, they're supposedly still friends. Oh, and, everyone's pretty sure there's a prenup. Sorry to hear that, Katie.

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Someone asked me the other day if I thought dinner parties were a lost art. My first instinct was to say yes. After all, we live in a fast-paced society. Everything is now, now, now, gimme, gimme, gimme. We drink our coffee on our way to work, while talking on our cell phone, and simultaneously writing an email on our Blackberry. Do people really take the time, or more importantly have the time, to plan and coordinate a dinner party? I think the answer is in fact yes.

Thank heavens, though, Katie has now learned how to use all four of her ovens and she has also devised some other tips she'd like to share with you, to ensure that the art of throwing dinner parties is not lost to you, you little BlackBerrying commuter, drinking your coffee there, with no outlandishly rich songwriter to support you! Tips such as: "Designate time for yourself to get ready. I always allot for one hour to primp before my guests arrive. It's essential to present yourself in a stylish manner when entertaining so that you feel confident."