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Monday's Gossip
Do you know the way to Saint-Tropez? Bono and Penelope Cruz do. The U2 front man and the "Volver" actress have been idling in the French Riviera resort, where, last week, they strolled down the beach hand-in-hand.
Such intimacy has naturally stirred Gallic gossip - especially since Mrs. Bono, Ali Hewson, was nowhere around. Still, you should know that Bono and Penelope are sharing a yacht with a number of friends, including Helena Christensen. Also on board are Bono's daughters, Memphis Eve and Jordan. Even the randiest rock stars tend to behave themselves around their children.
The other day, Bono and his crew stopped into Club 55, the neighborhood celebreteria. Sean Combs, who's been yachting with Dr. Dre, came over to their table and asked Penelope to take his picture with Bono. (Actually, Diddy asked her to take about five pictures, until he got a shot he liked.) The hip-hop mogul also brought the sexy to the party that Louis Roederer CEO Jean-Claude Rouzaud gave at his villa a few nights later. Free from girlfriend Kim Porter, Diddy trained his beams on French supermodel Noemie Lenoir. They left together in his white Maybach.
Also getting their Saint-Tropez tans have been Jack Nicholson, Giorgio Armani, Jerry Hall, Ivana Trump (on again with Rossano Rubicondi), David Furnish (without spouse Elton John) and Brazilian model Leticia Berkhauer and her boyfriend, shoe designer Alexandre Birman.
Stavros Niarchos is obviously over Paris Hilton. The Greek shipping heir showed up at artist Jeffery Dread's Diesel Jeans party with a fetching blond named Janet. Long after his divorce from Sarah Ferguson, Prince Andrew remains frisky. He did some giddy dancing with American interior designer Chris Von Aspen.
Ryan Seacrest is on holiday with several buddies. (No girls.) The "American Idol" host and his pals hit the beach the other day. Trying to avoid the $30 chair rental, Seacrest asked some ladies if they'd watch his stuff while he went swimming. Sure, they said. When he came back, he joked, "Did you take any of my credit cards out of my wallet?" Judging by their frowns, his American humor didn't translate.
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Bill Clinton isn't the only one who depends on billionaire Ron Burkle. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony both gave heartfelt shout-outs to the financier at the premiere of their movie, "El Cantante," even though Burkle isn't listed as a producer. Anthony, who plays heroin-addled salsa king Hector Lavoe in the film, performed four songs at the Cipriani 42nd St. after-party, where wife J.Lo snapped his picture.
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Andy Samberg is still aching from his stunts on "Hot Rod." The gifted goofball told us at the movie's Hollywood premiere that several of Ian McShane's punches connected and, once, "after he threw me into a wall, a cactus fell off the top of the shelf and landed right in my lap. I still walk with a limp." Cheering him up is that Emmy nomination he and Justin Timberlake earned for their "SNL" music video, "[Bleep] in a Box." "I never thought it would be anything," Samberg admitted. "Justin did, though. He knows what a hit sounds like. I so want to win this Emmy."
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Some pals of recently split Jessica Alba and Cash Warren say they are confident the two will iron out their differences and get back together.
"He wasn't ready for marriage, and Jessica is," says an insider.
"It's simple as that. It's kind of cold that the press is saying she was just finished with him, because it isn't like that."
Apparently Alba got serious pangs at the recent fairy-tale chateau wedding of her friend Eva Longoria.
"Seeing Eva get married made Jessica wistful," says the friend. "That was the reason Jessica seemed to be in a terrible mood in Paris."
Here's hoping their own fairy tale also has a happy ending.
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Sarah Jessica Parker caught a performance of "Gypsy" on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, her bearded hubby, Matthew Broderick, was treated to a "Happy Birthday" chorus Thursday at Palm West by Harvey Fierstein, Marc Shaiman, "Wicked's" Shoshana Bean and Scott Wittman.
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JUDITH Giuliani is an opportunistic, puppy-killing homewrecker who has a full-time hairstylist and needs an extra seat on planes for "Baby Louis," her Louis Vuitton handbag - at least according to a hatchet job on the former mayor's wife in the September issue of Vanity Fair.
The profile by Judy Bachrach begins with an account of the first anniversary of 9/11 at the World Trade Center site, where Rudy Giuliani was to speak to a crowd including Secretary of State Colin Powell, Gov. George Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg and Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Clinton was standing in the aisle "until she was unceremoniously pushed by a phalanx of four burly cops entering the tent, these guarding Judith Nathan, Giuliani's girlfriend . . . 'The nerve of that woman!' Hillary exploded . . . 'Who does she think she is?' Hillary said to an observer, who later recounted the story."
Judith thinks she's royalty, Bachrach maintains, and that's why she wore a tiara to her wedding at Gracie Mansion in 2003. "She really does see herself as a princess," a former Rudy aide is quoted. "Not as a queen. Queen is her goal. Queen is who she wants to be."
And don't call her Judi. Bachrach writes, "After her second divorce, she upgraded herself to 'Judith' with such vehemence that one Rudy aide confides, 'at City Hall we were prohibited from calling her Judi. She would bawl us out if we did.' "
Vanity Fair delves into the circumstances of how Rudy and Judith met. Bachrach claims it was at Club Macanudo in 1999: "It was she who approached Giuliani, who was then married and a father, with words of admiration and a proffered business card."
Elliot Cuker, the owner of the now-defunct Coopers Classic Cars & Cigars, "has told friends he was pressed . . . to say it was he who formally introduced the couple at his restaurant. He pointedly refused. 'It p - - - ed Elliot off that he was asked to lie for them,' says a friend, who adds that Rudy Giuliani and Cuker are no longer close."
On the positive side, VF says Judith has been completely supportive and considerate to Rudy's children, was helpful as a volunteer at the Family Assistance center on Pier 94 after 9/11, and invaluable to Giuliani as he battled prostate cancer. But mostly the left-leaning monthly, which excoriates President Bush and other Republicans every issue, stays negative.
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COURTNEY Love is getting plastic surgery so she can look more like she did before she had earlier plastic surgery. On her blog, a grammatical mess we've cleaned up, the rocker writes: "My mouth still looks wonky. I think I got to go back to Paris to the doctor - he fixes bad surgery and serious [bleep]." Love adds, "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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STAR Jones says gals who get into the TV industry are royally shafted. "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 tells next month's 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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MARILYN Monroe once threatened to maim herself to get out of a publicity tour. In "Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed," her one-time boyfriend Bill Pursel tells author Michelle Morgan that during a tour for the Marx Brothers flick "Love Happy," the blond bombshell "called from Chicago. She was crying - threatening to throw acid into her face to put a stop to the constant picture taking of her. She had no privacy and some of the photographers were rude and demanding." He says he finally got her to calm down when, "I told her to tell her agent she was not a piece of meat."
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HE once ruled the party scene from New York to the Riviera, but it seems Sean "Diddy" Combs' social status is slipping. Sources at St. Tropez hotspot Les Caves - where the rapper was once a regular fixture - told Page Six that when the daddy of four showed up at the club Thursday night, he was refused a table.
"He is so B-List here," said the snitch. "No one even acknowledges him." The second-rate treatment was a steep fall from the days of 2003, when Diddy first landed at the French resort with a full-time entourage that included a personal umbrella carrier named Fonzworth Bentley.
As the reigning king of the Riviera yacht scene, Diddy was often spotted partying with Uma Thurman, getting $20,000 bottles of Cristal sent to his table or picking up ladies at Club 55. The music mogul, whose longtime girlfriend Kim Porter recently kicked him to the curb, was famously snapped cruising on a Jet Ski wearing his Hugh Hefner-style bathrobe.
This summer, however, Combs has been snapped walking around by himself and schmoozing up big names like Bono and Penelope Cruz in order to stay associated with the glitterati crowd.
Diddy was most notorious for causing a stir among locals by throwing huge celeb-filled bashes on chartered yachts, where he entertained young socialites like Paris Hilton, Brandon Davis and Ivanka Trump. But if the unimpressive turnout at his once-hot White Party this year was any indication of what his St. Tropez gatherings will be like this summer, they might be embarrassingly short on boldfaces.
Diddy used to hold the White Party at his East Hampton estate, but decided this Memorial Day to throw it at nightclub White House in Hampton Bays. Unlike the days when politicians, movie stars and rappers would mingle by invitation only, this year's gathering drew a commercial crowd who paid $40 a head to attend.
Some celeb-followers are questioning why Diddy is even roaming the South of France beaches. "Nobody goes out there until the first and second week of August," one source cackled. "Maybe he's afraid he'll get lost in the crowd once all the real celebs show up."
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THOSE $40-a-day meals appear to be well behind Rachael Ray. The perky, overexposed talk-show hostess and her husband are in contract to buy a fancy weekend compound in Southampton for just under $3 million, reports The Post's Braden Keil. Included in the 6.2-acre Tuckahoe Lane estate, bordering the Southampton and Shinnecock golf courses, are a three-bedroom main house, two-bedroom pool house with sauna, separate guest cottage, pond, heated pool and lush gardens. Somewhat disappointing is the minuscule kitchen pictured in the Prudential Douglas Elliman listing.
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EMINEM is desperate to win another Grammy - and he doesn't mind saying it. "I have nine of those muthaf---as, and I love them, so I'm trying to get one more to make it an even 10," the rapper tells September's XXL magazine. It wasn't always that way. "I never really understood what the hell a Grammy was. Growing up, it always seemed to be like a bunch of older people wearing tuxedos, deciding whose album they thought was the best." Exactly.
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