In the interest of drumming up maximal funds—or "transparency"—Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration Committee has released a chart (to be updated in real time) listing the names, employers, cities, and contributions of everyone who donates money to help make January 20 the best ina...

After meeting a bunch of girls at Britney Spears's birthday party, the romantic Jeremy Piven sent a mass text message to all of them reading "Come to my room—whoever responds first gets me for the night." The lucky first responder was 23-year-old Ashley Chontos, who has been nursing ...

Last night, an already suspicious viewership tuned in to MTV's latest spinoff-of-a-spinoff, The City, a chronicle of robotic LA-transplant Whitney Port's wan adventures as a Diane von Furstenburg "employee" in Manhattan. Along for the ride are "co-worker" and grasping socialite O...

Chris Noth-owned Saturday Night Live hangout The Cutting Room will close on January 13th because of rent hikes, though it may re-open in another location at some point. [P6] If you're hanging out in Chelsea or Times Square on New Year's Eve, P. Diddy (and Ciroc Vodka) will pay for your cab home. [NY...

The City star Whitney Port is "hardly ever in" the Diane von Furstenberg office (where she supposedly works). Meanwhile the actual employees have trouble getting things done because of the MTV presence. [P6] It seems that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's Valentine's Day gift to each other...

After watching surveillance videos, Paris Hilton said that she believes the burglar who stole $2 million in jewelry from her was someone familiar with her house. [Us Weekly] Jennifer Lopez used to send her assistant on tour with husband Marc Anthony to make sure he didn't cheat on her. Unsurprisingl...

While the majority of the (maybe) four million people expected to descend on Washington, D.C., for Obama's inauguration will likely spend January 20th getting shaken down by the secret service, desperately searching for a bathroom, and unable to make phone calls, the Capitol's celebrity guests will ...

On Monday, Dec. 15, the Transom ventured out to Varick Street’s Chung King studios, where Tim Harrington —the bearded, antic frontman of art rock band Les Savy Fav—had gathered a group of his friends to film a spoof of Michael Jackson ’s 1985 “We Are the World� extravaganza for his serie...

It looks as though former Page Six columnist Lydia Hearst's internship at BlackBook was, in the style of James Frey's recent visit to Gawker, more of a one-day joke/publicity thing than a long term joke/publicity thing (their former intern, Ryan Adams, stuck around long enough to get his own column!...

As if the city's charities didn't have enough to contend with this holdiay season, it looks as though newly infamous investor Bernard Madoff is going to make things that much worse. Mr. Madoff, who is all over the news for squadering billions of dollars in high-profile money in a massive Ponzi schem...