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Ivana Trump on her famous yacht
 

 

My favorite glamoricious socialite IVANA Trump plans to walk down the aisle once again. This will be the third marriage for The former Mrs. Donald Trump. 

Ivana  is now wearing a “ginormous” pink diamond, reveals a source yachting with her in St. Tropez. Who is the lucky guy? Her on and off again lover and now “fiancé 35 year old Rossano Rubicondi,  Ivana’s publicist Catherine Saxton, confirmed the rumors and revealed to The Post’s Braden Keil, “It will be officially announced when she returns from the Mediterranean.” Her eldest offspring, Donald Trump Jr., said, “You probably know as much as I do.”

Congratulations dahlink, Ivana.

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 Anne Hathaway
 

ANNE Hathaway has issues about watching herself on the big screen as most actors do so at the Cinema Society screening of “Becoming Jane” in East Hampton on Saturday night, she and her boyfriend  Raffaello Follieri, went to Nick & Toni’s for dinner while the film was being screened. Onlookers and witnesses say the young Hollywood couple had an argument but quickly made up for the after-party at the Drew Lane manse of Jerry Della Femina and Judy Licht, where she sat on his lap and they strolled on the moonlit beach.

Celebrities that came to show their support for the actress were Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky, Donna Karan, Heather Graham, Julia Stiles, Rudy and Judith Giuliani, Tiki Barber, Rosanna Scotto, Patrick Demarchelier and Chuck Scarborough. The soiree was getting so rowdy that the cops had to come to close it down at 1 a.m.

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Paris Hilton

 

 

 
To prove that there is no such thing as bad publicity in Hollywood darlings, take a i look at Paris Hilton.  When we all thought her career would be over in Hollywood after her recent jail sentence the Hilton heiress landed a starring role in a movie
 
Paris will act and sing as she portrays the spoiled rich daughter of Paul Sorvino in “Repo! The Genetic Opera” - a musical set in the year 2056, “when a plague nearly destroys the human race and survival is dependent upon being able to finance a pricey organ transplant,” Variety reports. Paul Sorvino, who has been serenading restaurant patrons with his operatic voice, will portray the evil organ transplant magnate.

Paris had her share of bad movies, “House of Wax” and “Raising Helen,” “Repo!” director Darren Lynn Bousman, is positive this film will be a hit and the ex-jail mate  is the perfect leading lady.

“This movie has become my life,” Bousman, reports to Variety. “I have auditioned at least 30 actresses for this role - Paris came in and owned it. She is this role.” 

This is perfect for Paris because the E! Network brass revealed yesterday that the   “The Simple Life” is a done deal.

In one of the last episodes of “the Simple Life” Barron Hilton, is totally disgusted with Paris’s behavior.

“He’s felt incredibly embarrassed. He and the broader Hilton family are just disgusted that the Hilton family name has been sullied,” “House of Hilton” author Jerry Oppenheimer revealed to The Post. “It’s been a total embarrassment for him.”

The elder Hilton’s opinion might not matter much to Paris, because billionaire Barron has always made it known he’s giving almost all his fortune to charity, Oppenheimer announces.

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 Donna Karan at Super Saturday 10

 

Hello darlings, The Hamptons were hot, hot, hot with Celebrities, Movie Stars, Hip-Hop Stars and Fashionistas attending an assortment of red carpet events.  One such event held annually is the much anticipated Super Saturday.  This high profile event is underwritten personally by Fashion Designer Donna Karan and sponsored by In Style. Target was also a generous supporter for this year’s event and all proceeds from Super Saturday benefit OCRF’s important scientific research programs.

 Sociallite Tinsley Mortimer attends the 10th Annual Super Saturday hosted by Donna Karan

Donna Karan, Kelly Ripa and In Style Magazine Editor in Chief Charla Lawhon, hosted Super Saturday 10. Super Saturday is famous for being an adventurous daytime  fundraiser for the entire family, complete with a one-of-a-kind designer garage sale, kids’ carnival and activities, raffle and entertainment to benefit The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF).  The fashionista garage sale included items from over 200 of the most elegant designers including: Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Vera Wang, Theory, Marc Jacobs, Hugo Boss, Tory Burch, Diane Von Furstenberg, Botkier, Lambertson Truex, Hudson Jeans, Rebecca Beeson and Kenneth Cole, along with the In Style Accessories Salon and In Style Home Salon. 

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Russell and Danny Simmons present an award to Honoree Academy Award Winning Actor Forest Whitaker at the Art For Life Event in East Hampton

Hip-Hop Mogul Russell Simmons and Danny Simmons’ Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (RPAF) raised a whopping 1.4 million dollars on Saturday, July 28th at their Eighth Annual “ART FOR LIFE” Not So Mellow Yellow East Hampton fundraising gala to benefit the organization. Russell Simmons has been instrumental in bringing Hip-Hop to every facet of business and media since its inception in the late 1970’s. The organizations supports under served New York City youth through arts education. The star studded sold out event and one of the hottest summer tickets, held at Russell Simmons’ East Hampton home, welcomed close to 900 leaders from the entertainment, arts, business, and philanthropic communities. Land Rover was this years Platinum level sponsor contributing a special edition luxury Land Rover for live auction that was held during the evening. Ciroc Vodka was this year’s Silver Sponsor and HSBC Bank USA was this year’s Valet Sponsor.

Academy Award Winning Actor Forest Whitaker, Keisha Whitaker and Hip-Hop Mogul Russell Simmons

Keisha Whitaker wearing a dress designed by Fashion Designer Rachel Roy at the Art for Life Event in East Hampton

“I’m always inspired by the generosity of the Hamptons community,” announced Russell Simmons, founder and Chairman of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. “Because of this community’s grace, many young people will imagine themselves out of what may seem to be unbelievably difficult conditions. Art education saves lives and transforms communities and countries, and the cultivation of creativity is the most important kind of education.”

Sandy Lomax and Kevin Liles at the Art For Life Event in East Hampton

The Simmons’ East Hampton palatial estate was transformed by David Beahm of David Beahm Designs and showcased butterflies, spinning sunflowers, luminous lighting, golden tablecloths and lavish centerpieces. Movie stars and celebrities sipped tasty cocktails and sample Ciroc’s new vodka champagne, Nuvo, as they swayed to the soul music of DJ M.O.S and perused live and silent auction items like platinum sponsor Land Rover’s 20th anniversary limited edition Range Rover; the “Eighth Wonder of The World,” a luxurious 11-day all expense paid trip to South Africa; and the Victoria Secret Fashion Show Weekend in Los Angeles.

Movie star Ally Sheedy, Russell Simmons and daughter Aoki Lee Simmons

Event honorees Forest Whitaker with wife Keisha, Alvin Ailey’s Judith Jamison, The Brooklyn Academy of Music executives, Karen Brooks Hopkins and Joseph V. Melillo, entrepreneur Tracy Maitland and Unifund’s David Rosenberg hobnobbed with guests Rev. Run and family from MTV’s “Run’s House”, Petra Nemcova, Lyor Cohen,  Antonio “L.A.” Reid, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Kevin Liles, Chamillionaire, Cathy Hughes, Ally Sheedy, Nia Long, Deborah Cox, Rocco Dispirito, author Terry McMillan, and artists  Kehinde Wiley, Victor Mathews and others.

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“We didn’t have arts education or drama at my school and it was a teacher who introduced me to that world,” explained Forest Whitaker when presented with his award by Danny Simmons and Russell Simmons. “The work Rush Philanthropic is doing is so important because they are exposing kids just like I was to these great opportunities which can change a child’s life.”

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As an addition to the night’s festivities a special wardrobe was designed in honor of this year’s color theme “Not So Mellow Yellow,” and fashion and accessories designers came on board contributing splashes of yellow from their personal collections. Designers Rachel Roy, Catherine Malandrino, B Michael, Giuseppe Zanotti and Lorraine Schwartz were some of the fashion designers who gave gorgeous pieces to the event’s luxury auction.

Fashion Designer b michael at the Art for llife Event in East Hampton

Fashion Designer b michael and Mark Anthony

Returning in full force again this year was one of Rush Philanthropic’s Community Grants Recipients, the Brooklyn Steppers Marching Band, who kicked off the program, entertaining attendees at the close of the cocktail hour with a triumphant performance of Rihanna’s newest hit song “Umbrella”. World-renowned Simon de Pury, chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, added excitement as the gala’s auctioneer.

Olympic Gold Medalist Angelo Taylor at the Art for Life Event in East Hampton

One of the most significant parts of the evening,The Rush Kids Live Auction allowed patrons to sponsor New York city youth for one year of arts education through Rush’s educations programs. Each child was represented by one yellow balloon going for $1,000. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, President/CEO of H3 Enterprises, Inc. (”HTRE”), the first publicly traded hip-hop company, as well as President/CEO of HSAN (Hip Hop Summit Action Network), made a special donation on behalf of H3. “As we prepare to raise money for the Rush Kids program, I’m pleased to make this announcement,” Simmons stated. “I’d like to ask Dr. Benjamin Chavis to please stand up.  He, on behalf of H3 Entertainment, Inc., has generously donated one million shares of company stock to Rush Education, valued today at $170,000.” The Rush Kids program raised $66,000 in addition to the in kind donation of the H3 shares.

Russell Simmons with daughters Aoki Lee and Ming Lee at the Art For Life Event 

During our interview on the red carpet Danny Simmons revealed the organization is currently in a fundraising campaign for an 11,000 square-foot arts education and resource center it will open next year in East New York, Brooklyn. The building was a gift from Ron Hershco of United Homes. This year’s theme for the event was “Not So Mellow Yellow” introducing a fabulous Yellow Wardrobe for the luxury silent auction. Clothing designers Rachel Roy, Catherine Malandrino and b michael, jewelry designers to the stars Lorraine Schwartz, Jeri Cohen and Ana Reign, shoe designer Guiseppe Zanotti, among other top fashion designers, have signed on, each donating a special yellow item for the auction. I had the chance to interview both Fashion Designers b. michael and Edwing D’Angelo who has designed for legendary R&B Singer Patti LaBelle. Another famous Hollywood star that attended the event was 80’s movie star Ally Sheedy. I inquired “Ally how did you find out about this event and what was your favorite 80’s flick that you starred in?” “I was invited by Russell and I went to College with Forest Whitaker who is receiving an award tonight so I wanted to be part of that and my favorite flick is the Breakfast Club.” The highlight of the evening was when I interviewed honoree and Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker and his lovely wife Keisha and he expressed “The work Rush Philanthropic is doing is so important because they are exposing kids just like I was to these great opportunities which can change a child’s life.

Some of the other celebrities that attended were Olympic Gold Medalist Angelo Taylor, kevin Liles, Deborah Cox and Rocco Dispirito.

For more information please visit www.rushphilanthropic.org

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Tom Snyder

 

 

 

Anchor Tom Snyder, who was a late night staple of television and Dan Aykroyd’s inspiration on “Saturday Night Live,” has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71.  Snyder died Sunday in San Francisco from complications and a  long battle with the disease at the age of 71.

Tom began his career as a radio broadcaster in the 1960 in Milwaukee.  He later moved on to television news. He anchored newscasts in Los Angeles and Philadelphia before moving to late night.  His favorite phrase was “Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air.” Snyder smoked throughout the broadcast filling the air with cigarette smoke during his famous interviews.  Snyder penned on his Web site  that he had chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2005.”When I was a kid leukemia was a death sentence,” he wrote then. “Now, my doctors say it’s treatable!”  Producer Horowicz reports “He was a great guy and very talented.”

In 1982 Horowicz was introduced to Tom Snyder and worked with him at WABC  network in New York prior to going on to produce the “Tom Snyder” television show.

 

He will be missed darlings!

 

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Star Jones Reynolds

 

 

TV  STAR Star Jones announces  “Women still make 70-something cents to every man’s dollar, as if my bread somehow costs 30 cents less than his bread. That p - - - es me off,” she reveal in next month’s issue of Marie Claire. “Donald Trump told me, ‘Star, they’d never have given you a hard time if you were a white guy.’ We have to live with who we are. We’ll always be thought of as the chick in the skirt.”
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Courtney Love

 

 

 
Porn Star Courtney Love reports she is getting plastic surgery so she can appear more like she did prior to her earlier plastic surgery. On her blog, is written: “My mouth still looks wonky. I think I got to go back to Paris to the doctor - he fixes bad surgery and serious [bleep].” Courntey reveals, “I’m hating that I did that to my mouth . . . I just want the mouth God gave me back. It was perfectly cute and I had nice big lips . . .”

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Hours before Ms. Lohan was arrested by Police  early Tuesday morning, she hijaced a car and took three men hostage — this, according to the three men who were in the car with her.

TMZ interviewed all three, and here’s the lowdown: Rewind to Monday afternoon. Dante Nigro, Jakon Sutter and Ronnie Blake drove to Malibu with the boyfriend of Lindsay Lohan’s assistant. Lindsay and her assistant ran into Dante and friends. Later, the assistant text-messaged Dante, saying Lindsay wanted to invite him to a Malibu party that night.

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Later, Dante says, he and his comrades drove to the event. Dante and the assistant’s boyfriend were let in, but Jakon and Ronnie were rejected and stayed outside. Dante says Lindsay was never without a drink during the the whole scenario.

The story is reported that Lindsay’s assistant and her boyfriend removed themselves from the party and were arguing. Lindsay also came out and got into a heated argument with the assistant. The assistant then announced, “I quit.”  This is all according to these three men who describe the circumstances in detail to TMZ.

 

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Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez at the Premiere of “El Cantante” in Manhattan at arrival at the AMC on 42nd Street

 

 

Just another Manhattan Premier of a new HOT MOVIE starring Jennifer Lopez and husband Recording Artist  Marc Anthony.  The Hollywood couple attended the premiere of their movie “El Cantante” in New York last night.  The glamorous actress was ensembled in a asymmetrical salmon chiffon gown

 

 Jennfer Lopez on the Red Carpet

 

Jennifer Lopez Next to the Movie Poster “El Cantante” at the Premiere  

 

 

Salsa great Hector Lavoe is the subject of this biopic starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez. Spanning three decades in the Puerto Rican singer’s life from his 1963 New York arrival to his 1993 death from AIDS.  The film tells Lavoe’s (Anthony) story in flashback from the perspective of his Bronx-born wife (Lopez). Chronicling both the good (the music) and the bad (the drugs), the film provides a riveting portrait of a passionate artist. The film will be released in  theaters nationwide on August 3rd.
 

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