First, Donald Trump’s candidacy for president tore apart the Republican party. Now it has thrust Trumpettes USA, Palm Beach’s premier organization for talking about Donald Trump while sipping white sangria, into a brutal power struggle over naming rights with Trumpettes Global, a Palm Beach-based Trump “support…
A Russian hacker who claims to have broken into the personal computer of a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office investigator named Mark Lewis did have access to Lewis’s email account at one point, an email released to Gawker this week shows. The hacker, who goes only by the pseudonym BadWolf, previously claimed to have…
On Monday, Mark Dougan, a former deputy with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, noticed a truck that had been idling outside his Palm Beach Gardens home for an unusually long time. He stepped outside to question the driver and was quickly surrounded by at least a dozen FBI agents.
Earlier this week, LawNewz.com unearthed a $125 million federal sexual assault lawsuit, filed against Donald Trump in 1997, which alleges that the real estate developer violated the plaintiff’s “physical and mental integrity” by touching her intimately, without her consent, after her boyfriend entered into a business…
In Palm Springs, Florida, on Tuesday, a small plane crashed into the Mar-Mak Colony Club, a mobile home park, setting two homes on fire and injuring an “unknown number of victims,” authorities said.
Vicky Ward, the Vanity Fair contributor who profiled Jeffrey Epstein back in 2003, says even then it was obvious something was very off with the mysteriously well-connected Palm Beach sex offender.
It's an age-old and vexing question: How much is it fair to shave off the tip at a high-end restaurant to signal dissatisfaction with the waitstaff? Two percent? Five percent? Should you stiff them? For leveraged buyout king John Castle the other night, the answer was easy: Just crack the little fucker's finger.
If Alexander Pratt and Clara Pearson were ever to write an illustrated manual together, they should call it The Joyride of Sex. On Thursday night the feisty twosome allegedly stole a Honda Civic so they could have a quickie. Sadly, they never got the chance.
Florida authorities have arrested a trio of dental hygiene heisters, peridontal purloiners accused of stealing $3 million worth of electric toothbrushes and whitening strips from more than 60 retail stores.
Here are some more photos from our flight over Rush Limbaugh's wedding yesterday. Here's hoping the assembled guests—a list that included Karl Rove, Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity, and Fred Thompson—all enjoyed.
Rush Limbaugh and his bride, Kathryn, have tied the knot. We weren't invited to the exclusive event this evening. But, as you can see above, we were there in spirit! The winner of our plane-banner contest—and 15 runners-up—below.
So it looks like our plane-based message of congratulations will be soaring high above The Breakers in Palm Beach this evening. That's where Rush Limbaugh's super-secret wedding will now be taking place. And Elton John is supposedly performing! What?
Rush Limbaugh is getting married in a super-secret ceremony at his Palm Beach mansion on Saturday. We wanted to wish him well. So we rented a banner-toting plane to fly over his house during the event. What should it say?
Rush's beachfront estate in Palm Beach consists of five buildings. Four are for guests; the main house—the one Rush lives in—is 24,000-square-feet. (Rush has described the property as "quite modest by Palm Beach standards.") The estate also comes with access to a private beach.
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• Hedge funder Steve Stuart, who left Fortress Investment Group in 2007 to found his own firm, has finally found a buyer for his 35th floor apartment at the Park Laurel on West 63rd Street. The four-bedroom condo, which Stuart bought for $5.4 million in 2004 and put on the market for $10.8 million in October 2008,…
All of Bernie Madoff's luxurious old shit is for sale. You've seen his Montauk getaway home and his UES penthouse; now, thrill to the sight of his Palm Beach vacation home! Buy it for $8.5 mil. Full of knick-knacks!
• Gisele Bundchen red-brick townhouse in the West Village is up for sale. The supermodel paid $5.8 million for 42 Barrow Street in 2005. (She bought the home under the name Casa Vida LLC; "Vida" also happens to be the name of her dog.) Now it's been listed with Prudential Douglas Elliman's Raphael De Niro for…
Robert Jaffe was one of Bernie Madoff's most prominent fundraisers. Shuttling between Boston and Palm Beach, the well-coiffed, car-collecting financier with a weakness for $5,000 suits was responsible for raising countless millions over the years, funds he funneled into Madoff's $65 billion scheme. Jaffe is…
Another sign that Palm Beach is truly reeling in the wake of the Bernie Madoff mess: Rooms at the most luxe hotels in town—including Bernie's personal fave, The Breakers—are now just $19. [HotelChatter, NYT]
The New York Times' David Segal has gone to Palm Beach, the collapsing redoubt of vile and petty aristocrats, and brings an alternatively joyous and revolting tale of corroded souls and disappearing fortunes.
