AUTHOR DEALS WITH DIRE STRAITS
YOU'VE read author JT LeRoy's been sued by a multimillionaire film exec utive who bought his life story "Sarah" then learned Mr. JT LeRoy was, in fact, a lady named Laura Albert. Claiming "hoax . . . fraud," this exec won a judgment of $110,000 plus...
'BRAINIAC' BRITNEY BUMPS CARS
THE Britney Spears meltdown continued this week when the pop tart mother-of-two crashed her black Mercedes into a parked station wagon in Los Angeles, and then told the paparazzi, "I'm a brainiac!" No one was hurt in the fender-bender Monday - but...
KITCHEN UPGRADE
JEFFREY Chodorow has decided to keep his flagship restaurant, China Grill, "closed for a couple of days." Eater.com reported yesterday that the Health Department closed the West 53rd Street eatery Monday night due to "improperly maintained walk-in...
SIGHTINGS
BILLION-heiress Anna Anisimova and sister Angelina flanked by "huge bodyguards carrying their bags" while shopping for diamonds at Hollis Reh & Shariff jewelry store in Southampton . . . PHILIP Seymour Hoffman and Cynthia Rowley celebrating dual...
DOWN & DIRTY
STEVE Nash will not be denied. The Phoenix Suns star, who has been spotted playing pick-up basketball in a TriBeCa playground, went to Central Park yesterday to play soccer against some of the Red Bulls, led by Claudio Reyna and Juan Pablo Angel...
STELLAR VICTIMS
THE burglary rate continues to skyrocket in the celeb-filled neighborhoods of Beverly Hills, Bel-Air and Brentwood - thanks to at least two gangs who've targeted more than 150 homes over the past four years and made off with more than $20 million in...
AUTHOR MORT'S MEXICAN MUSE
TALK about out-sourcing. Buried in the recent long and winding profile of Mortimer Zuckerman in The New Yorker was this little nugget of how the pipsqueak publisher's weekly column in U.S. News & World Report is created: "He writes early in the week...
HELP FROM DAD
DON'T worry about little Djuna, the 2-month-old daughter of gal-about-town Taylor Stein. The child's father, William Lauder - Estee Lauder's grandson and the CEO of the Lauder cosmetics empire - is said to be in discussions about providing an...
FINDERS KEEPERS
HILLARY Clinton wasn't the only one who got richer at the fund-raiser at Ronald Perelman's Wainscott home on Saturday. (She netted $500,000.) While guests were chatting after dinner with the presidential candidate and her husband, Bill, Chevy Chase...
ONCE AND FOR ALL THE REAL MENA
LET'S set the record straight about Mena Suvari. When an English director referred to the "American Beauty" star as "an immensely talented thespian," some dimwitted Internet posters thought she'd switched her sexual orientation. Then, this week...
WE HEAR . . . WE HEAR
THAT rail service in France was disrupted after bedbugs (punaises de lit) attacked passengers on a Nice-to-Metz sleeper train. Cracked one expat, "No wonder [French president Nicolas] Sarkozy is vacationing in America" . . . THAT the party Sean...
PATAKI EYED FOR ENVOY JOB
AMBASSADOR George Pataki? New York's former governor, now with international law firm Chadbourne & Parke LLP, is being checked out for a "possible presidential appointment," Post State Editor Fredric Dicker learned first-hand yesterday. Dicker was...
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