• fashion week

    Fashion Week: Rock & Republic Afterparty @ Hiro Ballroom

    If we learned anything on Saturday night, it's that wearing four-inch heels induces its own version of vertigo — meaning you still feel like you're wearing them forty-eight hours after you took them off. The shoes in question were promptly thrown out of the window of Editorial Assistant Heather's apartment upon her return home; the event that she - accompanied by Gawker point-camera-make-clicky guy Nikola Tamindzic — attended them in was the Rock & Republic show afterparty at Hiro Ballroom. Also in attendance? Lady Sovereign's drum kit, Russell Simmons, some Romanian aristocracy, the arsitocracy's cat and the cat's nanny. It was that kind of party. More »
  • andrea peyser

    Russell Simmons Drives Andrea Peyser To Drink

    Nutty Post scourge Andrea Peyser's column today about Russell Simmons' icky endorsement of the diamond mining industry, which he calls "99 3/4%" clean, seems unusually . . . inspired. Seriously, you have to respect a writer who can continually froth with outrage and also come up with turns of phrase like this one:
    They came separately for a bling-is-good press conference yesterday - he in baggy jeans, she in a clingy dress and heels so high, I could hear her arches disintegrating.
    Sarcasm aside, that is just kind of awesome. Why come Andrea's writin' so good today? A clue may be found in her lede:
    Sometimes, you want to throw up your hands, spit out your lungs and take a stiff drink at the shamelessness of it all.
    Andrea, we heartily advocate taking this approach to every column you write from now on. But maybe next time drink first and then spit out your lungs; we hear it fucks up your liver the other way. More »
  • A reader emails us that her friend who works at the Daily Show suggested sending us the sign above because it was just so funny. Wow, working at Comedy Central must be really depressing. More »
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  • russell simmons

    Yelp Co-Founder Has a New Ride

    Over the weekend a tipster sent us this: "Over the weekend, spotted Yelp co-founder Russell Simmons speeding around Portrero Hill in his brand new 2007 Audi S4." More »
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  • lance bass

    Gossip Roundup: Lance Bass Admits to Long-Simmering Crush on JC Chasez

    • Yes, former N'Sync member Lance Bass — formerly known as the "one that wasn't Justin" — is out of the closet. Go and watch video footage of him being gay! [TMZ] More »
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    Comment by kenneth212: Wait -- I thought Ellen already came out. more » | Other threads

  • gay

    Remainders: George Michael, Master of Cruising

    • We really ARE overdue for a George Michael assfucking scandal, aren't we? Don't worry, it's about to get much better: the former pop star was caught having a "seedy liason" in a public park with the hot piece of twat pictured at right. 58-year-old unemployed van drivers who live with their cat sure are irresistible, aren't they? [Sun UK] More »
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    Comment by savethemax: Re: Regal Union Square - maybe the smell is from RAT PISS. the last time i was there i made an... more » | Other threads

  • people magazine

    Gossip Roundup: Barron Trump Sells Out Young and Cheap

    People magazine scores the first baby pics of Barron Trump, to be revealed in next week's issue. Barron, however, is no baby Brangelina — he only fetched mid-six figures. Not even a month old and already a failure. [Page Six] More »
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  • kimora lee simmons

    Gossip Roundup: Russell and Kimora Not Quite Separated, But Not Quite Married, Either

    • Though they announced their separation on Friday, Russell Simmons claims that things are rather cozy between him and Kimora, and there's still a chance for reconciliation. But don't tell that to Denise Vasi, the 23-year-old who's been dating Russell. [Lowdown] More »
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    Comment by grandenchilada: Yo, It's not called Unforgivable for nothing, yo. more » | Other threads

  • divorce

    Kimora and Russell Break America's Heart

    We'd be lying if we said we weren't recently watching VH1's Fabulous Life of Celebrity Wives (or some similarly titled mind-numbing show), so today's news leaves us particularly devastated: Kimora Lee and Russell Simmons are filing for divorce. If you want to stay in tonight, wrapped in a Baby Phat sweatshirt and sobbing into your Chubby Hubby, we understand. More »
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    Comment by pipharper: I heard she's a lesbian... Maybe Ellen needs someone to lavish? more » | Other threads

  • betsey johnson

    Gawker stalker

    · "I sat next to Betsey Johnson (designer) at Pastis in the meat packing district. She was with two obvious sycophants who were drooling all over her, despite the fact that she looked beyond horrid in a multicolored coat that looked like a leprechaun had vomited on it. She had terrible hair with nylon-looking extensions and black raccoon eye makeup. Didn't smell great either." More »
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  • p. diddy

    Blue Flame and product placement

    A reader on P Diddy's marketing arm, Blue Flame, and product placement in rap songs: "Apparently, Russell Simmons runs a firm called dRush that quietly does these paid name-drops in hip-hop tracks all the time and has been doing it forever. There's a bunch of similar outfits as well. A lot of people think that Simmons set up the 'Pass the Courvoisier' name drop, but the rumor I hear is that while Simmons was working with Courvoisier, he didn't have anything to do with that particular track. So it's not just P Diddy; more or less all of hip-hop has openly sold out, and is pretty proud of it. And to think...all of that money going to baby blue velour track suits and ugly cars."
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