Is Jared Kushner's family real estate business having trouble subsidizing the cash-bleeding New York Observer? Maybe: Editors told one writer about orders to delay freelancer payments. Fashion writer Glenna Goldis has gone public, posting to her Tumblr the sad saga of her attempt to get the $700 she...

Jared bought it at the peak for $1.8 billion in January 2007. It is worth now $1.25 billion. Citigroup is one of its big tenants. It sounds bad but Bloomberg reports: Kushner said he has no plans to sell the building. “We’re a family company,� he said. “We didn’t buy it to flip it. Right n...

I am available to do similar services for a very reasonable fee. Gawker reports: Madonna sought counseling to be "less domineering" in relationships. But it had to be at a Kabbalah center, in New York, with this one elite rabbi, and absolutely no one else in the room. The rabbi "tweak...

Everyone is trying calm down before the weekend. Courtenay Semel totally made up for setting Casey Johnson's head on fire. Madonna tried to not be a demanding, terrible ball-buster constantly. Madonna sought counseling to be "less domineering" in relationships. But it had to be at a Kabbalah center,...

More news to report from the media front: Political websites are closing down and everyone from Men’s Journal to the Christian Science Monitor is laying off staffers. But Bono is writing for the Times now. A sign of hope? Er, up to you. Sadly, you know the drill. • The Jared Kushner̵...

Your Friday media column is here! Today, possible newspaper death, sort-of magazine rebirth, news anchor lateral movement, and more chomping action: Last October, Men's Vogue , for the most part, died. Now it's back, in a sense! It's been cut back to twice a year, but to boost readership, it will "a...

If there's a Kushner, there's a controversy! The former head of the financing arm of real estate developer Kushner Companies is suing his former employer and claims money from commission of the purchase of 666 Fifth Avenue (for $1.8 billion) actually went to keep the Observer, owned by Charles Kushn...

A former employee of the financing arm of the Kushner Companies has accused Charles Kushner and his golden child, Jared, of siphoning millions from a huge real-estate deal into other holdings, including the New York Observer. Kevin Swill argues in a New Jersey legal filing that the elder Kushner fun...

Did you know the Observer is subsidized by an illicit slush fund? It shamefully is, according to a lawsuit filed by the former president of one of the Kushner Companies. When developer Charles Kushner bought a $1.8 billion office tower, he routed $18 million back to himself as commission on the mort...

Stop the presses!  Ivana Trump and her fourth husband, boy toy Rossano Rubicondi, have split.  We are sure it had nothing to do with the 23 year age difference.  The couple married in April 2008….yes, really. Trump did issue a statement stating that she had filed for a legal separation thre...