JUDGE RAINS ON UMBRELLA LAWSUIT
THE judge wasn't amused when restaurateur Nello Balan sued a model for $1 million because she broke his designer umbrella. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden ruled Balan's claim against model Le Call and her then-boyfriend, Nat Rothschild...
CELEB HISSY FITS ARE IN FASHION
FASHION Week always brings out the worst in people - even violence. Nicole Richie kicked off the diva fits at an after-party for Charlotte Ronson by grabbing a fan's camera and smashing it to the ground. While Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson were...
LATENT BIGOTRY
JUST in case anyone harbored the delusion that anti-Semitism no longer exists in France, the Paris bureau of the Reuters wire service carried a story this week about French President Nicolas Sarkozy's son getting married, which mentioned the bride...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT Doubles, the private club on Fifth Avenue, will unveil its new decor by designer Tom Britt on Wednesday . . . THAT Gary Ginsberg, the News Corp. exec v.p. of global marketing and corporate affairs, will be honored at the American Friends of the...
SIDELINE SPY
TONGUES were wagging outside Milk Studios Wednesday night when Elle editor Anne Slowey was hanging around before her rival Nina Garcia's party got under way. Slowey, the star of Elle's new fashion reality show "Stylista," was "outside for 20 minutes...
SIGHTINGS
ELIZABETH Banks, who plays Laura Bush in "W," and pal David Zinczenko greeting a wary Barbara Bush at the Phillip Lim fashion show. "I play your mom in the movie," the gracious Banks explained . . ELTON John and Barbara Walters at separate tables at...
WANTED
BRITTNY Gastineau hardly has time for her rumored romance with "The Hills" co-star Doug Reinhart. While she's reluctant to discuss her love life, we hear the sultry reality-show siren has had plenty of suitors to star in a new TV series, rumored to...
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