CATFIGHT CAN'T STOP 'EMPRESS'
THE book "Empress Bianca" deals with two husbands who appear to have gone bye-bye under mysterious cir cumstances. In 2005, this work became a cause célèbre when Lily Safra, married four times and worth hundreds of millions, claimed it...
LIBERACE THE OPTIMIST
'DEPARTING SUMMER hath assumed / An aspect tenderly illumed/The gentlest look of spring / That calls from younger leafy shade / Unfaded, yet prepared to fade / A timely caroling!" wrote William Wordsworth. READING PAGE Six's story of how Ste ven...
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"A COUGAR is thin, beautiful and strong . . . sleek, smart and pursues a wide variety of prey. Variety is always good, especially when you've lived a life being loyal to one person who then either dumps you or disappoints you" - Jill Brooke on the...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT regulars of the long-gone Lion's Head bar will hold a reunion tonight at Kettle of Fish, which is at the same location at 59 Christopher St. . . . THAT Laura Harring is on her way to Africa for a month with Stop Hunger Now, having just...
UNTIMELY LEAK
JOYCE Maynard was madly in love with her breast implants until the day they sprung a leak. "Perched on my 110-pound frame was a pair of size 40 breasts. I could have carried an entire tea service on them . . . a person could hang a hat on [them],"...
LEHMAN HEIRESS' LATE LAMENT
LADY Sharon Sondes - the Lehman Brothers heiress whose mother was hostess Ellen Lehman McCluskey - was as stunned as anyone Monday when the firm collapsed. "I feel very nostalgic. I feel very sad. It's always heartbreaking to see a great name exit...
CALL OF THE BUTT
MAURA Tierney will stoop pretty low to satisfy her 20-year cigarette habit. "When I can't have one, I'm [bleep]ed," the "ER" star tells next month's Glamour. "I've found myself doing things I'm not proud of, like digging through the trash for a butt...
SPIRITUAL MECCA
PERIPATETIC playwright Larry Myers recently visited Lily Dale - the upstate town near Lake Erie "dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism since 1879." Myers then wrote a play, "Postmark: Lily Dale," about the time Mae West, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
NAUGHTY PRODUCT PLUGS
GEORGE Clooney has sparked a sex-toy craze. In the Coen brothers' film "Burn After Reading," Clooney plays a sex addict who totes along marital aids, including two items called "The Libera tor Ramp" and "The Silky," both of which are sold in stores...
LANSKY REVIVED
MEYER Lansky's untold secrets are about to be spilled. Sandi Lansky, 70 - daughter of the notorious racketeer who ruled America's biggest crime syndicate with Lucky Luciano - has inked a deal with producer Bob De Brino to pen her memoirs. "The real...
TATTOO ENCORE
WHERE should Meghan McCain get her next tattoo? John McCain's daughter, 23, already has a tiny blue star on her foot. Spies overheard Meghan, author of the new Simon & Schuster children's book "My Dad, John McCain," chatting about her love of body...
TIMELY BAUBLES
VALENTINO Garavani has retired from designing, but not from shopping. Yesterday, he popped into Jacob & Co. on East 57th Street and paid full retail ($15,200) for a silver titanium Swiss-made watch with a 2-carat diamond bezel. While he was at it...
LAWYER BEATS BLACK MAGIC
DOMINICK Barbara says he won't be intimidated by Criss Angel's magic spells. Earlier this year, the magician boasted he'd make the celebrity divorce attorney, who's representing Angel's wife, Joanne Sarantakos, "disappear." And he nearly did - to...
LUNATIC 'LOU'
ED Asner, 78, has harsh words for Americans who made him rich by watching "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Lou Grant." Asner, who is to the left even of Sean Penn and Barbra Streisand, is now a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. At an event in an LA church marking...
MONICA RETURNS
MONICA Lewinsky is now a cartoon character. In "The Alcoholic," a new graphic novel by Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspie, a booze-addled writer meets the Portly Pepperpot at a book reading. "I tried not to, but I couldn't help myself - I stared at her...
GARRETT'S GIRL HAS TRYING PAST
BRAD Garrett's secret girlfriend is a divorcée who was a major figure in the Anthony Pellicano case, sources say. The former co-star of "Everybody Loves Raymond" has a Web-site reality show, "Dating Brad Garrett," debuting this month, on which...
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