Not ready for prime time. John Kerry’s TARP Taxpayer Protection & Corporate Responsibility Act, which would prevent institutions that received federal bailout money from “hosting, sponsoring, or paying for conferences, holiday parties and entertainment events,” is angering club own...

Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks did karaoke with drag queens at Lucky Cheng's before partying at Greenhouse to celebrate her birthday. Also, Jude Law got tips at the Box on going drag for his next film, in which he'll be playing transvestite supermodel Minx. Patriots wide receiver Wes Walker l...

"Who's that orange guy over there with the bat?" A-Rod supposedly is jealous that Madonna is hanging around with 22-year-old model Jesus Luz, especially now that he brunched with her kids. Diddy got all huffy and stormed away from club M2, where he was supposed to host Kobe Bryant's birthday party, ...

Olivia Palermo and Whitney Port are nobly resisting pressure from producers on The City to have a hair-pulling catfight to boost ratings. Madonna had brunch in the meatpacking district Sunday with her new 22-year-old Brazilian model boyfriend, Jesus Luz, and her kids Lourdes and David. Denise Rich m...

Matt Lauer is pissed off because he lives in the same 64th Street building as Bernie Madoff and the paparazzi waiting outside for Bernie end up snapping Matt and his kids instead. Ashley Olsen and her boyfriend, Justin Bartha, apparently made out at the Regal Cinema in Union Square while watching (o...

She does have a glow. Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn used to get noise complaints from a neighboring dentist's wife until Carter gave the couple their own table and put them on Vanity Fair's celebrity-photo page with people like Christopher Walken, Harvey Weinstein, and Rosario Dawson. And guess what,...

Sadly, none of the items today feel auspicious enough for the last gossip roundup of the year (maybe because Cin's away roughing it in New Hampshire), though they're pretty good for an average day. Like, Hillary Clinton apparently returned $2,300 campaign contributions to not only Caroline Kennedy (...

Are you as cranky as we are to be back to work after immolating yourself in wine, breadstuffs and big-screen TV for five days? Well, J.Lo and Marc Anthony will do a bittersweet duet at his Valentine's Day Madison Square Garden show, then announce their divorce, people say. Does that weirdness distra...

The late Heath Ledger's Broome Street apartment can't find anyone to pay its $26,000-a-month rent because the realty market has sagged, and because the place is spooky. Ron Perelman and his ex Patricia Duff ultimately showed exemplary maturity in working out a custody and child-support agreement for...

Madonna and A-Rod are supposedly looking at $30-to-$60-million mansions together on the Upper East Side, wanting one with a private garage so they can drive in unnoticed. Madonna, we talked about this yesterday: You already have 8,456 homes, including a big apartment on the Upper West Side, which yo...