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Heatherette, the fashion label former club kid
Richie Rich set up with his friend Traver (stupid spelling!) Rains, may be splitting. Richie Rich was a no-show at Vienna's ridiculous
Life Ball this weekend. The organizers blamed "a family thing" but the consensus rumor among the coked-up partygoers was that the partnership between Rich and Rains was over. "People were talking about Richie on the plane, saying he's turned into a full-on diva (surprise, surprise) and has been pulling some major shitty stunts (like booking Life Ball and not showing up)."
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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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From today's Page Six, Ex-pornstar "Jenna Jameson and Heatherette designer Richie Rich are opening a bar together in Chinatown—and they couldn't have picked a better spot, although they won't say exactly where. 'It used to be a whorehouse," Richie told Page Six. The bar [is] to be called The General Store.'" [NYP]
