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Who's the 'Hippie-Chic' NYC Socialite Whose Husband's Banging Bimbos?
"WHICH former ambassador (and big Democratic fund-raiser) tried to deliver a beautiful orchid to a Danish envoy at a fancy co-op on Park Avenue, only to be told by the doorman to use the service entrance? 'It's the only building with a separate entrance for servants and diplomats,' laughed a neighbor . . . WHICH hippie-chic New York socialite's family is falling apart? Her mother found out the man of the house has a fondness for bimbos, and he refuses to desist from his dalliances . . . WHICH local beauty queen went on a recent weekend-long drug binge? The young pageant winner was so wasted at a friend's apartment, she could hardly speak." [P6]
scandals
Radio Jock Will Give You $100K For A Sex Tape
Yesterday Page Six published a terrible rumor that there's a sex tape floating around featuring Jackass star Bam Margera and the fiancee of the radio personality "Opie," of "Opie and Anthony." Calling into question the sanctity of a radio shock jock's relationship, can you imagine? Now Opie has struck back at the "scumbags of the media" (that's you, Page Six!), offering $100,000 to anybody who can produce the alleged tape. You know what that means: Bam Margera is tearing his apartment upside down right this minute. Kidding! He sounds pretty sure he's on safe ground. After the jump, listen to Opie and Anthony excoriate those with even lower journalistic standards than themselves: More »
new blog smell
New York 'Post' Finally Launches Inevitable Gawker Clone
The New York Post killed poor PageSix.com after something like ten internet minutes, but now we just discovered this weird new blog they have (we know it's new because it has a big NEW BLOG sticker on it) called, uh, POPWRAP. The internet is running out of names for things that are obvious clones of five other things! Anyway, if PageSix.com was their TMZ-killer, this is their scaled-back Gawker/Daily Intelligencer/maybe-Best Week Ever-copier. The whole damn thing is edited solely by one guy (like us, back in the golden era!)—former InTouch "lifestyle editor" Jarett Wieselman (ten posts today, Jarett—you can get it up to 12 by Monday!). Oh, wait, we remember that name! Wieselman was brought over from InTouch with Kathy Campbell to run PageSix.com. And then that imploded and now they've given him this. Anyway we didn't read very many of the "words" but the pictures look pretty and the headlines are suitably sarcastic-ish. Also there is a caption contest feature because bloggers are for some reason never happy with the captions photos come with. (So far: one comment on this one. Go help 'em out!) Now you have one more source for mildly irreverent takes on celebrity news. [POPWRAP]
Gossip War?
What's the Post's Problem with Aretha Franklin?
First, someone at The New York Post selected this open-mouthed photo of Aretha Franklin to illustrate a tiny item about the singer in today's Page Six online. Then, some Sixer began said item with, "PAPS, get your wide lenses ready—Aretha Franklin is coming to the Hamptons this summer!" In the next sentence, Franklin is referred to as "The large and in-charge diva." Okay, we get it: Someone, or several someones, at the often thuggish paper doesn't like the singer and wants to point out that she's fat and demanding. Except, the rest of the item is pretty obviously a space-filling favor drop for Franklin's own agent. More »
the rich
Which Rich People Didn't Pay to Attend Charity Balls?
Charity ball season recently concluded, and as it turns out, they are a complete scam: did we know that practically none of the big names pay to attend these big-ticket events? Former Gawker Joshua Stein and his rented tux infiltrated the world of charity balls in the latest Page Six mag (which is not online, but certain clever writers scan their articles!) More »
celebrity gossip
Jobs At X17 And Associated Press
Good news for budding gossip reporters, or writers desperate enough to pretend Britney Spears rehashes are their life's ambition: some media organizations are still hiring. More »
Why Did Page Six's Website Fail?
Because the site, which launched last December and closed last week, was "two or three years too late," according to Richard Johnson of Page Six. "We missed the boat." But New York Post's gossip brand already launched once before on the web, during the internet bubble. That, presumably, was two or three years too early. These internet booms, like London buses, never come when you want them.
Because the site, which launched last December and closed last week, was "two or three years too late," according to Richard Johnson of Page Six. "We missed the boat." But New York Post's gossip brand already launched once before on the web, during the internet bubble. That, presumably, was two or three years too early. These internet booms, like London buses, never come when you want them.
laziness
Where Does Page Six Get Its Sterling Prose?
Here's the lead to Page Six's item today about Dr. Pepper's Guns N' Roses PR stunt: "TIRED of a world in which Americans idolize wannabe singers, and where musicals about high school students pass as rock 'n' roll, Dr Pepper is begging Axl Rose to finally release this year his 17-years-in-the-making album, "Chinese Democracy." Such powerful language! Now here's the lead to the press release announcing the same event: More »
tabloids
You Have to Hand it to Them
Whatever your feelings toward the New York Post, the feisty tab sure does have a way with headlines. And, of course, Page Six has no problem boasting about it—or cross-promoting tasty corporate products. Harper Entertainment, which, like the Post, is owned by monolithic News Corp., is publishing Headless Body in Topless Bar, a celebration of some of the paper's greatest hits. Page Six's top picks after the jump. More »
Evil!
The New York Post Just Tried to Kill Me!
Okay. I was browsing Page Six online just now when a screamy virus warning jumped up and the page I was reading disappeared. I haven't looked at the Post's website in forever, but this MacBook is only two months old and this is the first virus scare it's ever had. So if there's anything good over there, lemme know, coz I'm not going back. Too scary! [NYP]
breaking
Page Six Shutters Web Site After Three Months
History is repeating itself. During the last internet bubble, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation used its Page Six brand to launch a new entertainment website, Pagesix.com. The property has had an even shorter life this cycle: Pagesix.com, which was largely independent of the newspaper's Page Six print column, is being shuttered immediately; it had been live only since December. The URL already redirects to the New York Post's main website, and the site's staff have had their access to email cut off. Managing Editor, David Boyle, told the site's Los Angeles staff. "Given the difficulty in the economy, it was not the right time for this launch," said Jennifer Jehn, one of the site's managers. A total of 18 editorial and support staffers will be let go and three reassigned within the New York Post. More »
nightlife
PR Magic Turns Stabbing Into Cute Foible Of The Rich
Former nightlife big shot and current honest blogger Steve Lewis reminisces today about his experiences with the clubland PR business. He starts out by saying, "When I used to hire PR it was for damage control." Not for strategic brand building outreach? Such a forthright man! Then he tells a story about a long-ago high profile stabbing incident that made its way onto Page Six; it sums up everything you need to know about spin, gossip, and the dangers of imaginary caviar forks: More »
Friends With Benefits
Girls Gone Wild visionary and Ronn [sic] Torossian client Joe Francis is out of jail and back on Page Six! The nicey-nice item today says Francis has no time for naked underage girls any more, now that he has an important literary magazine to produce. Hey, looks like Joe's hosting of P6 boss Richard Johnson's bachelor party (which was only somewhat marred by a rape allegation against Francis) is still paying dividends. [P6 via Radar]
Girls Gone Wild visionary and Ronn [sic] Torossian client Joe Francis is out of jail and back on Page Six! The nicey-nice item today says Francis has no time for naked underage girls any more, now that he has an important literary magazine to produce. Hey, looks like Joe's hosting of P6 boss Richard Johnson's bachelor party (which was only somewhat marred by a rape allegation against Francis) is still paying dividends. [P6 via Radar]
gossip
PageSix.com Not Sure What A Blog Is
PageSix.com: a name that carries weight not only in the corridors of gossipdom, but in the virtual corridors of the internet blog-o-world. The Post's gossip site knows that it needs to spread its influence throughout the online realm in order to remain competitive. But they're not so clear on what a blog is. The following email from Page Six was sent to a MAGAZINE—NOT A BLOG—which really undermines its call for solidarity amongst gossip bloggers: More »
justice
Regan Sued By Dismissed Lawyers
Judith Regan, former high-powered publisher with News Corp.'s HaperCollins, who notoriously carried on a gross affair with disgraced criminal former top cop Bernie Kerik in a Ground Zero apartment, and who was fired for, among other things, embarrassing the company with her O.J. Simpson book (and some alleged anti-Semitic comments), and who settled a wrongful dismissal suit with News Corp. for a rumored $20m–$25m (or maybe $10m) will need that money to pay off her old lawyers, whom she dismissed in favor of showbiz law legend Bert Fields. Regan's old lawyers at Dreier LLP say they worked 1,200 hours and received only $125,000. Fields says the suit brought by the old attorneys is without merit. And it was reported in Page Six, a happy part of the News Corp..jpg)
perez hilton
When Gossips Turn On Their Own
In the brotherhood of gossip columnists, there is or at least used to be an unwritten rule: don't go after the personal lives of rivals, because they can always retaliate. So why would the New York Post's Page Six publish sex chats between corpulent blogger Perez Hilton and one of his online admirers? (Yes, he has them, amazingly.) More »
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