Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"Ivanka Trump was the toast of the Hearst Tower on Thursday night, when she was fêted by Town & Country editor-in-chief Pamela Fiori, whose July cover she graces for the first time .. While the cocktail party was originally planned for Trump's eponymous jewelry store on Madison Avenue, a leak nixed that idea, and well-wishers instead gathered on the 44th floor--with a nifty view of Richard Parsons's private gardens at the Time Warner Center--for the first of what the company hopes will be several branded 'Ultimate Access' events that began when the magazine shot Katie Lee Joel's closet several months ago. With cases of her diamond, onyx and pearl jewelry collections on display, the statuesque blonde mogul was on cloud nine, surrounded by friends and admirers including Vanessa and Donald Trump Jr., Fe Fendi, Zani Gugelmann, Elie Tahari, Marjorie Gubelmann and Kristina Stewart Ward, who penned the accompanying story .. 'I remember a long time ago, I think in 1984, my mom did a Town & Country cover at Mar-a-Lago and I was wrapped in sheets and lingering on the sides of all the shots,' the younger Trump reminisced. 'So now to have grown up and been on the cover is a tremendous honor.'" (Fashionweekdaily)

"I was so stunned by last week's headline 'Heather Locklear Institutionalized' that I forgot to, er, commit to a written reaction. I have to say I worship that woman! She's been a TV constant my entire adult life, from commercials ("And I told a friend...and so on and on") to the shoulder-padded bitchery of Dynasty to the eyeball-rolling witchery of Melrose Place and beyond. But I have to admit I always wondered when Locklear's glinty veneer was going to crack." (Musto)

"AS if writing a tell-all book about his famous sister wasn't enough, now Christopher Ciccone is going one step further to hurt and embarrass Madonna. He's been shopping a reality show based on the fact that he's her brother, a publishing insider tattled - 'He hasn't gotten a deal yet, but he's been pitching it around.' Meanwhile, the exposé is said to be so under wraps, there are only six bound copies in existence - and they get messengered around, with no one allowed to keep a copy." (PageSix)

"Jann Wenner is said to be quietly exploring a sale of celebrity magazine Us Weekly to Condé Nast and the price tag could hit $750 million. 'Jann is definitely trying to sell Us Weekly,' said an industry source. Speculation about a sale of the magazine began to swirl yesterday after Wenner, during an appearance earlier this week on 'The Charlie Rose Show,' was asked by the show's host, "So what's this story that Condé Nast wants to buy Rolling Stone?' Though Rose was wrong about the magazine that's for sale, he wasn't off the mark about Wenner's desire to sell a Wenner Media asset to Condé Nast - the lucrative Us Weekly." (NYPost)

"Today we’re running three new additions (four, technically speaking) to The List: Debbie Bancroft, Reinaldo and Carolina Herrera, and Kathy Sloane. When one is more than passing familiar with someone, as it is with me and the aforementioned, it is a challenge at times to describe them accurately to someone who may not know them at all." (NYSocialDiary)

"Hillary Clinton wasted no time in hitting the campaign trail as a surrogate for Barack Obama after their joint appearance earlier in the day, telling an auditorium of black teenagers that Obama sends 'each and every one of you his best wishes.' Speaking Friday evening at Columbia University for the first graduation of The Eagle Academy For Young Men, a school she helped start, Clinton said, 'Earlier today I had the great pleasure of being in a place called Unity, New Hampshire.' She added, 'We declared that we would go back together to Unity, New Hampshire to pledge our commitment, together, to change this country.'" (Observer)



"Caged hens and pigeons are hardly the backdrop one imagines for a Hamptons benefit, but nevertheless, the East End's influential social set turned out at Hans van de Bovencamp's Twin Oaks Farm and Sculpture Garden on Saturday, raising $100,000 at the first-annual benefit for NARSAD, a mental health research charity ..Karen Larrain and Alejandro Santo Domingo, Inca's Stephanie Hirsch, Fernanda Niven, Wendy McClure, Dan Baker Jr., Dylan Lauren and Sari Gueron were among the guests. 'Our entire house played caps before coming,' Gueron laughed. 'I had half a glass.' Rae Dawn Chong and Gary Jourdan (with daughter Nyla in tow) were among the performers who read bits from noted personalities afflicted with mental disease." (Fashionweekdaily)