After Charlie Sheen's marijuana bikini model lover dumped him, he consoled himself with an orgy. Jennifer Aniston goes on a strange double date. Lindsay Lohan shoots another Vanity Fair cover. Monday gossip bounces back.
Gisele singlehandedly keeps a party alive by whispering sweet nothings. Britney's conservatorship is phasing out. Kelly Osbourne sees herself in a bikini and cries. John Oliver gets engaged. Monday gossip is impervious to seduction.
• Madonna is reportedly "taking a more active role" in promoting boy toy Jesus Luz's career. She turned up to hear him spin at the Valentino party the other night, danced with "some hot fashion guys," mingled for a little, and then they left together. But that doesn't mean she's offered to do a song with him. "There…
• New details have emerged about Mischa Barton's involuntary trip to the hospital last week: According to the Post and the Sun, Barton was "so high on coke following a marathon three-day bender" that friends thought she might kill herself, and contacted the police. [NYP, Sun]
• Yet another fashion publicist is in…
It's a big day for Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter: He celebrates his 60th birthday today! (Gifts, flowers, and cards can be directed to 4 Times Square, 22nd floor.) Others marking off another year today: hedge fund manager Phil Falcone (and the husband of Lisa Maria) is turning 47. Music impresario Tommy Mottola is…
♦ Tommy Mottola and his wife Thalia have reportedly sold their 12-acre Westchester estate for $15 million. The 15,000-square-foot Aspen-style home in North Salem was first listed in 2006 for $21 million. [NYP]
♦ Hugh Jackman has closed on the triplex apartment at 176 Perry Street he was in negotiations to buy…
Two weeks ago the news surfaced that Viacom chief Sumner Redstone and his second wife, Paula Fortunato, were divorcing after five years of marriage. Much was made of Redstone and Fortunato's 39-year age gap and the couple's pre-nup, which will provide Fortunato with a $5 million fortuno for the five years she spent…
Ever wonder why the CEO at your company has a $10,000 telescope parked in the corner of his office? It's not to admire the birds. Or even to peek at the woman in the neighboring office building who changes her blouse at precisely half past five. It's to look in the offices of other CEOs, obviously.
If you happen to work in the Conde Nast building, might we suggest stopping off at Graydon Carter's office to wish him a happy birthday? The Vanity Fair editor turns 59 today. He'll be so pleased to accept your good wishes.
The music heavyweight who once ran Sony Music, Mottola is the former husband of pop diva Mariah Carey.
• After having unprotected sex with a green beret and trolling the web for the finest young men available, Clay Aiken is now looking for some female company. If only Penelope Cruz were available. [Page Six]
• Director Kevin Smith will not be casting Reese Witherspoon or Nicole Richie in any forthcoming films, as he…
• The Catholics respond to the Kanye West's Jesusy Rolling Stone as exploitation of a poor soul, and the work of a "morally and mentally challenged" person. Personally, we'd never talk about Jann Wenner like that. [R&M]
• Ellen Barkin is in the process of moving her life out of soon-to-be-ex-hubby Ron Perelman's…
Maer Roshan's new mag Radar isn't even on the stands yet, and it's already stirring up controversy. Radar reporter John Connolly was assigned an investigative piece on Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music Group. Ex-Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola has been trying to negotiate some sort of deal with UMG and wants the…
Howard Stringer, chairman of Sony Corporation of America and Tommy Mottola's nemesis, has been called many things, by Mottola and others. But never this: "a big strapping Welsh dude who I bet has a nice huge..."
Howard Stringer [The Data Lounge]
· Club owner David Marvisi (Exit, Spa, Capitale, Butter, and Estate) is part of an ongoing money-laundering probe and may be headed for the same fate as '80s club owner and impresario Peter Gatien. [Page Six] architecture critic Herbert Muschamp: "I'd kill him on the spot." [Page Six]
· Bono is buying Steve Jobs's…
· According to the upcoming issue of NY Magazine, Tommy Mottola lost his job through "a combination of lousy record sales, a penchant for presidential-type security, and lack of reverence for his bosses." [Page Six]
· Gotham Editor Jason Oliver Nixon was offered Us Weekly's "Scene and Heard" section, but declined…
Ousted Sony honcho Tommy Mottola will be producing a reality show for VH1 called "Destination Diva," in which young hopefuls are sent to "diva bootcamp" and taught how to be a "diva." (We assume that's code for "whiny, narcissistic, and childishly demanding.") Watch the monsterettes in-the-making learn to add obscure…
· A store in Harlem sells its own "more special" version of Manolo Blahniks (read: fake ones) and charges more. [Page Six]
· Matthew Kenney closes Commune to make room for Jeffrey Chodorow's Red Square. [Page Six]
· NBC was offered a discount on "The West Wing" if they picked up "The Ellen Show" as well. [Page Six]
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An execution at Sony Music. According to Roger Friedman, Tommy Mottola didn't know what hit him. The Sony Music head arrived Thursday morning at 550 Madison, was told to see Sir Howard Stringer, the charming Brit who runs Sony Entertainment. Mottola was given a couple of hours to clear out his office. Mariah Carey and…
