"'Excuse Ms. Kitt, do you mind if I take your photo for Paper magazine' I asked as I've done countless times. Keeping a chill demeanor always did the trick -- even with notoriously anti-photo types like Lou Reed and his SO Laurie Anderson. Kitt just stared at me -- with a terrified expression I might add. 'It's just a website...one photo is all I'd need,' I said, gently as only a meek Canadian could... feeling increasingly uncomfortable because of her silence. Again, she just stared like a deer in the headlights and without saying a word, scurried off to her backstage. What a weirdo, I thought. Classic WTF moment. Maybe I reminded her of some swarthy ne'er-do-well who pulled some shady Ike Turner-type juju on her back in the day." (Rapspace)
"2008 was like herpes, very hard to get rid of. 2009 will be worse, trust me, as Bernie Madoff used to tell the suckers. This one, incidentally, is not over. The greatest scam ever perpetrated will go on and on. Madoff was not alone, and if the crooks in the SEC who turned a blind eye to his Ponzi scheme are ever forced to come clean, some pretty big names will hopefully end up in striped suits sewing buttons. Madoff scammed small investors, billionaires, hedge fund idiots, charities, pension funds and multinational banks. What is incredible is that his fund was repeatedly brought to the attention of the SEC, and every time he was given a clean bill of health. The fact Madoff’s niece was married to an SEC regulator has to play a role in the investigation. Libel laws prevent me from naming names, but they’re out there, being talked about by everyone who can smell a rat after the fact .. Maybe he’s got something on them, or so say my Wall Street spies. The evil Madoff is skulking around free in (NYC), and smirking at the paparazzi even after failing to come up with his ten million dollar bond. (This was an obvious trick. As was the ploy of his two sons reporting him to the Feds. His stolen billions I suspect are safely deposited in off shore accounts to be enjoyed later on by his numerous grandchildren.) Here’s my crystal ball for 2009: The Madoff swindle is the first major scam of the current financial crisis .. I know many of the losers, at least three of the major ones live in Gstaad, and last week I was informed by my bank that I, too, had been granted the right to buy Madoff shares. (Not too many, thank God, but a seven figure sum all the same.)" (Takimag)
"RYAN Seacrest, Charlie Walk and Ben Silverman chatting about TV show ideas during a holiday lunch at Thomas Keller's Napa Valley eatery Bouchon." (PageSix)
"Peaches Geldof has hit back at claims her wedding to Max Drummey was a publicity stunt — saying she did it for love. She also denied her marriage in Las Vegas last August had angered her father, Bob Geldof." (Thisislondon)
"Yesterday in New York a banker and hedge fund investor Rene-Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, 65, committed suicide in his Madison Avenue office by slitting his wrists and taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Mr. de La Villehuchet’s fund was a major loser in the Madoff swindle. He was from an historic French family (the Magons) and his fund was associated with several high profile European names such as Philippe Junot, the first husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, and Prince Michel of Yugoslavia, the twin brother of Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. According to associates, Mr. de La Villehuchet was at odds over how to right his clients’ enormous losses." (NYSocialDiary)
"Author/humorist David Sedaris turns 52 today. Jared Leto is 37 .. America's Most Wanted's John Walsh is 63." (Cityfile)
"Seventies-era Brit punks The Damned are playing a free concert at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square on December 30 at noon." (NYC, Papermag)
"Paris Hilton has turned into a amateur sleuth, combing surveillance video and beating the bushes for clues to crack a $2 million jewel heist at her California mansion. The millionaire hotel heiress and reality TV star says her investigation makes her think it was an inside job. 'I think whoever did this definitely has been there before,' Hilton told E! News. 'We have some suspects.'" (DailyNews)
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