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Tuesday's Gossip
PARIS Hilton is supposedly at the breaking point in jail - but she'll be breaking out the champagne and partying like mad the second she's released, if her parents get their way.
Page Six has learned that the celebutard's doting daddy, Rick Hilton, was recently shopping a "Get Out of Jail" bash for his little girl to the top Las Vegas clubs, including Pure, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Palms.
"He was originally asking for a $50,000 cash fee to be paid, as well as accommodations and flights," said our source. "Pure and Hard Rock said 'no' flat out, but George Maloof, who owns the Palms, didn't say yes or no. He's very good pals with Paris and is the one who once hooked her up with Britney Spears."
But following last week's Paris pingpong match - in which the L.A. Sheriff's Dept. sprung her from the slammer because of a "medical condition," only to have a judge order her back inside - Rick's big party-push has been put on hold. Still, insiders say they're positive an out-of-the-slammer soiree remains in the works and will be even more expensive than Rick originally had in mind. "Her cost has gone up," said our informer. Hilton rep Eliot Mintz did not return e-mails.
Meanwhile, Hilton's ex-lover, "Girls Gone Wild" czar Joe Francis - who's cooling his heels in a Reno jail on tax-evasion charges - is sending his sympathies. "My heart goes out to Paris . . . If her name was Jane Doe . . . she would never have served a day in jail," he told Tmz.com. But unlike Hilton, Francis is quite content with his cinder-block digs. "My cell is actually nicer than my USC dorm room. Yes, it doesn't have cable, but it doesn't have the cockroaches, either."
Francis adds he's had "the fortunate privilege of meeting new 'friends' such as car thieves, drug dealers and murderers. It should make for an interesting night at [L.A. club] Hyde when the 'gang' and I get back together for a reunion." That reunion may be a ways off - once he's sprung from Reno, authorities plan to lock him up on charges of conspiracy, prostitution and filming underage girls in sexual situations, stemming from a 2003 bust in Panama City Beach, Fla.
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RANDOM new couple of the week: Halle Berry's sexaholic, cheating ex-husband, Eric Benet, and Prince's ex-wife, Manuela Testolini Nelson. The two have been spotted out in Toronto recently, according to Canada National Post columnist Shinan Govani. The lovebirds also went to the "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" premiere in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
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OWEN Wilson might be the first-ever customer who pedaled up to Scores West Side on a mountain bike. Wilson parked his two-wheeler at the mammary mecca's check room and then sat down to enjoy the topless talent. "After a few hours, he said he was meeting friends at another club to bring back to Scores and could he leave the bike. They said, 'No problem,' " our spy reports. "It was a fun night for him - Scores, regular clubs, then Scores again. Who needs Kate Hudson?"
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LINDSAY Lohan has made a new friend at Promises rehab center in Malibu - disgraced New York socialite Dori Cooperman, who entered Promises for help with prescription pills and booze two weeks ago after she checked out of the Meadows rehab clinic in Arizona because it wasn't "cool" enough. Cooperman "had been talking about going to rehab for a while," said one of her pals. In April, Cooperman was arrested on forgery and larceny charges for swiping a neighbor's $4,300 check and depositing it. Under a special probation, her record will be expunged if she keeps her nose clean for two years. Cooperman did not return our call and her lawyer said he was unaware of the rehab stint. But another person in the know said that Cooperman and Lohan were spotted on a gym trip away from the rehab center last week. A friend of Lohan warned, "Dori is trying to worm her way into a friendship with Lindsay and it won't work." A rep for Lohan declined comment
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IT seems Anne Heche's messy divorce from Coleman Laffoon is driving her to seek the company of women. On Saturday night, Heche was spotted "getting very cozy" with club promoter Voula Duval at the Gramercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar. Then, Sunday night, Heche was spotted flirting with "Six Degrees" star Shiri Appleby, 28, at a Tony Awards after-party at Bryant Park Hotel. A rep for Heche, who dated Ellen DeGeneres before she married Laffoon, did not return calls.
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PLAYBOY founder Hugh Hefner is a little annoyed with Elle writer Daphne Merkin for sharing a letter he wrote to her with Page Six. Hefner had told one of his girlfriends, Kendra Wilkinson - who was upset Merkin described her as vapid - that he would write Merkin a disapproving letter about the Elle article she wrote on "The Girls Next Door." Instead he sent her a laudatory letter, saying the article was the best one about the show yet. Hefner has now sent Merkin another letter that says, "What am I to make of this piece in the New York Post? As I said in my letter, I think your article in Elle on 'The Girls Next Door' is the best, most perceptive to date. I also think you identified more with Holly than Bridget and Kendra, and that hurt the other girls' feelings. In response to your concern about 'who has big plans for Kendra,' the answer is Kendra, herself. She has already purchased a condo in San Diego as an investment with money earned from the show. And she has just signed a lucrative contract for her own clothing line."
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JESSICA Alba loves kissing guys, but her early screen pucker-ups were the pits. "I was 12 years old and had to kiss this guy who was gross and never brushed his teeth," the comely "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" star tells the July issue of Seventeen. "Then, at 14, I had to kiss a guy who was 32 or 33, and I was like, 'Ewww! I didn't want to do it.' " But Alba says her current boyfriend, Cash Warren, "is the best kisser in the world."
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Lindsay Lohan 's detour through rehab threatened to derail a major deal with the fashion label Jill Stuart.
Lohan was slated to be the fall 2007 face of the brand, with a campaign to be rolled out this summer. She shot the ads with photographer Mario Sorrenti in Japan in April.
"The Japanese [Jill Stuart] licensee paid for it, and they wanted to pull the plug when she went to rehab," says a source. "Japan accounts for the lion's share of the business."
However, Jill Stuart CEO Ron Curtis insists that the black-and-white campaign will still be seen internationally.
"The ads are running as planned, and we have the utmost support for Lindsay and her rehabilitation, and she is doing great," he said. "They will also appear in all of the major lifestyle fashion magazines for fall in Asia and the U.S."
However, my source with very close knowledge of the deal says: "The day Lindsay appeared on the front page of the newspaper crashed out in the front seat of the SUV, the Japanese informed Ron Curtis they no longer wanted to be involved. And they are the ones who financed the campaign."
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In the future, Tony Award nominees might want to rub Claire Danes for good luck.
Her former beau Billy Crudup took home the prize for Best Featured Actor on Sunday night. Her current bf, Hugh Dancy, saw his play "Journey's End" win for Best Revival.
Tony organizers deserve an award for Best Choreography, for ensuring there were no awkward red-carpet encounters between uncomplementary angles of that particular triangle.
Also on the red carpet, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog irked Brian Dennehy by incorrectly assuming he was a nominee. The burly "Inherit the Wind" star wondered aloud why he was "talking to a goddamned hand puppet" and stalked off.
Anne Heche was her kooky self during the Rockefeller Center after-party. Holding a glass of white wine, she draped herself over nominee Ethan Hawke, telling him he "deserved to win." A slightly nonplussed Hawke made a hasty getaway, at which point Heche turned and threw her arm around the man on her other side.
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Candy Spelling rocked Vegas Friday, June 1, by winning hundreds of thousands of dollars at the slot machines.
Vegas spies tell TMZ that Spelling, whose legendary fortune is reportedly in the $600 million range, was playing the $100 slots at the Bellagio Hotel when she hit it big by winning the $100,000 jackpot! But that wasn't the end of it! Spelling kept winning -- $36,000 here, $32,000 there. She was up $325,000!!!
Candy didn't leave well enough alone. She began losing ground and at 4:30 AM Saturday, when she called it quits. Her winnings -- $200,000!!!
But wait -- there's more! On Sunday, Candy held a raffle for her Charity, L.A.'s Best (an afterschool program). The grand prize was a Prius. Candy bought tickets for everyone on her staff and kept one for herself. She won! She told TMZ, "I'm gonna drive it!"
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