The British Albanian beauty hosted “Saturday Night Live” for the first time, then threw a free concert in Times Square in the rain on Sunday.

Monday she attended the Met Gala and then threw her first afterparty at Rob Toma’s Hearsay in the Meatpacking district, holding hands with her boyfriend, “Fantastic Beasts” star Callum Turner.

Sam Smith was the first one in the club as soon as it opened at midnight. Dancing with their boyfriend, designer Christian Cowan, they got the place jumping. The couple were still wearing their finest from the Met Gala.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez rolled in for a brief appearance around 1:30 a.m. They were followed by seven bodyguards.

Less protected were Baz Luhrmann and Kenan Thompson.

Lipa, wearing a short skirt and a sheer black top, seemed in a great mood and gave props to her sometime musical collaborator, Black Coffee, who spun for two hours followed by DJ Mink.

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FKA Twigs hosted her Met Gala afterparty at Boom on top of the Standard Hotel.

Guests included Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon, “Creed” star Tessa Thompson and singer Camilla Cabello, who carried a block of ice with a copper rose frozen inside as her purse.

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Everything is coming together for Tony Spiridakis, a filmmaking refugee from Hollywood who moved to the North Fork of Long Island.

When the abandoned century-old movie theater in Greenport faced the wrecker’s ball, Spiridakis secured $1 million from 900 individual donors to rehab the theater.

In a case of perfect timing, after 12 years of struggle, “Ezra,” a story inspired by his life as the father of a neurodivergent son, will debut at the renovated Sapan Greenport Theatre on May 31st.

The movie stars Spiridakis’ best friend Tony Goldwyn, Robert De Niro and Bobby Cannavale.

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Nutsa Buzaladze was the hit sensation on “American Idol” last summer where the phrase “Nuts for Nutsa” became a chant for her newfound fans.

Now Nutsa — a contestant on the “Eurovision Song Contest 2024” representing her own country of Georgia — will celebrate Mother’s Day by taping “A Mother’s Love” for “Good Day, New York.”

Jesse Nash, who wrote the song, said, “With all the crazy negativity in the world, there couldn’t be a better time to release a song that puts a little goodness out there.”

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Before Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban attended Anna Wintour’s Met Gala, the Oscar winner received the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award in L.A.

At the Met, Kidman confided she was thrilled with the award but emphasized “I’m not done yet!”

Also on the AFI red carpet in Hollywood were Jane Seymour and her pal, author Christy Cashman, talking about producing the screen adaption of Cashman’s novel “The Truth About Horses.”

Seymour, who is directing her first episode of her TV show “Harry Wilde” this summer, is headed to the Nantucket Book Festival on June 16, where she will conduct a symposium with Cashman about her book.

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Tony Danza will star in a staged reading for potential investors of “It Fell Off a Truck” by Jules Feiler on May 22.

Anthony Scaramucci‘s daughter, Amelia Milo, is in the cast, so maybe the former White House Director of Communications will invest.

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Out & About: Russian designer Radmila Lolly, declared the NBA’s “most fashionable courtside seat holder,” has a capsule collection dedicated to the Miami Heat sold at the Kaseya Center store … Best-dressed socialites Kimberly Paige Bluhm and Yaz Hernandez at the Valentino party … “Real Housewife” alum Kelly Bensimon getting a bikini tan and her hair moisturized by celebrity hairdresser Chaz Dean at his salon in Greenwich Village …. Divorce lawyer Ken Jewell at La Goulue talking about Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher’s messy split after 14 years of marriage and 23 years together. How they’ll divide their $150 million dollar fortune will make their lawyers rich … Singer Huey Lewis at Carnegie Diner & Cafe in Midtown.

The court finally freed Britney to spend her dough, and she’s reportedly been squandering her savings on private jets and tropical vacations.

“People who know her father Jamie feel that he will be vindicated in the end,” one source said.

“Unless she cuts down on her spending, she’ll either have to go on tour or do another residency in Las Vegas,” said my source.

The pop star, who recently finalized her divorce from her third husband, Sam Asghari, was staying at the Chateau Marmont this week — where even the cheapest rooms are more than $600 per night — though TMZ reports the stay was cut short.

Spears left the hotel late Wednesday night, the outlet says, after some guests alleged she had an altercation with new boyfriend, Paul Richard Soliz. Paramedics were called, but the “Toxic” singer left with her own security team according to TMZ. She later said on social media that she twisted her ankle and implied the incident was all much ado about nothing.

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Candace Bushnell shocked fans at the opening of her show at the Carlyle Hotel when she confessed to a threesome with a woman and her boyfriend, late photojournalist Gordon Parks, when she was19 years old.

“Gordon asked me if I’d have a threesome with a friend and I said, ‘why not?’ The next morning, I noticed that the hundred-dollar bill that was in a crystal ashtray was gone. I said, ‘Gordon, why is that hundred-dollar bill gone? and he said, ‘Well, that woman was a prostitute.’”

That was the beginning of the end, said the “Sex and the City” creator.

At the finale, Bushnell brought her two standard poodles, Pepper and Prancer, on stage and said they were all living in a suite with room service at the Carlyle for the run of her show.

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Mark Green is worried.

The former New York City Public Advocate, who once ran for mayor and lost to Mike Bloomberg by two points, warns that Donald Trump’s re-election will lead to fascism.

Green held a book party at his downtown loft for his latest, “The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024?” and told his guests: “Trump is an aspiring American fascist.”

At the launch held on Tuesday, Green asked, “Who here knows what April 30th is?” No one knew.

“On this day, 79 years ago, Hitler died. I was born in March. He died the next month.”

Green didn’t equate Trump with Hitler, but noted their similarities.

While he was “unhappy” when Richard M. Nixon was elected president in 1968, “this is totally different. This isn’t politics-business as usual,” Green said.

In the crowd were current Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, former congressmember Liz Holtzman, former City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Councilmember Erik Bottcher and Allen Roskoff, who heads the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club.

Green, who called Trump “a chesty Caesar,” said every guest would get four copies of his book so they could spread the word by giving copies to friends.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a $10,000-a-head fundraiser for his presidential  race at a midtown mansion and explained why his large family wasn’t supporting him.

“They’ve lost their capacity for critical thinking,” Kennedy explained, adding, “I love my family, and I know they love me.”

RFK Jr.’s mother, Ethel, and at least six of his brothers and sisters are backing President Biden.

The fundraiser, hosted by Ali El Husseini, drew scores of supporters.

Kennedy told them, “President Biden is the spoiler. He cannot win. I can win. I can win decisively.”

The invitation did not list Kennedy’s wife, Cheryl Hines, nor any of his seven children, and no one expected to see his 96-year-old mother or any of his ten siblings in the room.

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“Ray Donovan” star Liev Schreiber will serve as the host of The South Fork Natural History Museum benefit in Bridgehampton on July 13.

The organization, founded by animal advocate Andy Sabin, will honor Susan and David Rockefeller and raise money to save the South Fork turtles.

On the same night, in Southampton, author Jean Shafiroff will chair a benefit for the Ellen Hermanson Foundation to support breast cancer research.

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Jerry Seinfeld has a 22-car garage at his Hamptons house where he rotates the parking spaces for the 150 cars he owns. Ralph Lauren has a collection of rare Bugattis and McLarens worth $150 million.

They are among the guests invited to the Hamptons Concours on Aug. 10 that will feature over 300 cars, mostly Ferraris and Porsches, valued at over $100 million.

Last year, Michael Strahan and Georgina Bloomberg attended the event — produced by Bradford Rand of Rand Luxury — that benefits the Southampton Animal Shelter.

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Out & About: Chef Omar Walters will soon open his French-Jamaican restaurant Chez Omar in the West Village … “Real Housewives of New York” star Erin Lichy showed off her mixology skills at Reyna in Union Square … Chef Halil Okutan, who previously worked at Levant on Smith in Brooklyn and Tod’s Grill in London, has taken over the kitchen at Mediterranean hotspot White Olive on West 55th … Skincare mogul Peter Thomas Roth talking to Lindsay Lohan fans about her humorous Instagram campaign for his 24k gold eye patches … Artist Anh Duong’s solo show at Isabelle Bscher’s Galerie Gmurzynska on East 78th Street drew George Hamilton, designer Thom Browne and divorce attorney Daniel Stock. They studied Duong’s sensual self-portraits, as well as her paintings of Susan Sarandon and Vincent Gallo … Mark Kostabi, Paul Haggis and Matt Dillon dining together at Shelly Fireman’s Trattoria Dell’Arte.

First-time director-writer Rob Sayegh has assembled three Academy Award nominees — Cathy Moriarty of “Raging Bull” fame, John Savage of “The Deer Hunter,” and Eric Roberts of “Runaway Train.”

The cast includes Mena Suvari of “American Beauty” and Frankie Faison (“Do The Right Thing”) with the lead role played by Bill Barrett.

Also of note, Sean Fosse, the grandson of late dance legend Bob Fosse, will be making his big screen debut playing a prosecuting attorney.

The soundtrack will include a song by Bee Gee Barry Gibb. And celebrating 35 years of Twisted Sister, Dee Snyder sings the film’s title track.

Vernon Reid of Living Colour will play guitar on the track and will also co-write the film’s score alongside Public Enemy guitarist Chris Munger, who is also the film’s music supervisor and co-producer.

PR man Jesse Nash’s song “A Mother’s Love” will play over a key scene.

“We are the little film that could,” laughs directorSaye gh. “What I hope to achieve, besides telling a great story by great performers, is that there is always a choice in life, and that no matter how bad it seems, there’s always the possibility for a hopeful ending.”

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A prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon tells me a little nip/tuck goes a long way — but too much Botox isn’t always a good thing for actors.

“I have a lot of celebrity patients,” says Dr. Jason Champagne, “And they still need to emote.”

The man responsible for Chrissy Teigen and Meagan Good’s eyebrows says many actors overdo it.

“They still have to be able to move their face,” he adds. “The goal should be to have lines but not as deep.”

Champagne says he can tell “bad plastic surgery” when he sees it. For that reason he doesn’t watch red carpets at award shows, “unless I have patients there,” he says with a laugh.

His specialty is chin implants and what he calls “Champagne Brows” that takes hair from the back of the scalp and intricately places it on existing eyebrows. That’s the procedure he says Mrs. John Legend drops in for, and “Harlem” actress Good too.

“Some trends on social media have become problematic though,” he cautions. A lot of people want ‘buckle fat’ removed now. “It’s a little fat pad in the cheek, but if you take it out some patients can look ‘hollow’ as they age.”

His simple advice is to talk to a lot of people before doing anything. “The onus is on the practitioner to do the right thing for the patient in a conservative way that looks natural and doesn’t look done.”

And yes, he still does use some Botox on patients. But with caution. “I don’t want that frozen look. I ask patients to move their foreheads, raise their eyebrows and scowl,” he says. “I look to see how strong those muscles are and then decide how much to use.”

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It took 30 years and 400 on-camera interviews to make “Jimi Hendrix: The Documentary.”

The film by Emmy Award-winner David Kramer premiered Saturday at the Nyack Film Festival.

Hendrix, a self-taught genius on electric guitar, fatally overdosed at the age of 27 in 1970 after releasing three albums, culminating with “Electric Ladyland.” He had astonished the world performing at Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock.

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“He was revered by musicians, adored by women, idolized and respected by fans and musicians around the world,” said Kramer.

Among the discoveries Kramer claims in the doc: “The Mafia was trying to get to Hendrix and take over his business,” he said.

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Sometimes heroism just doesn’t work.

Doing his daily 9-mile beach run in Southampton recently, 75 Main owner Zach Erdem came across a baby dolphin that seemed to have lost its way, floating in an inlet.

The restaurateur immediately jumped into the water to save it and put it back in the ocean.

“When I reached this beauty of the sea, I was saddened to see that it was lifeless and could not be saved,” Erdem told Hampton Sheet publisher Joan Jedell.

At that point he carried the dolphin to rest it on the beach and called animal rescue centers.

“I just wanted to put it back in the ocean and make sure it had a beautiful life,” added Erdem.

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Ballerina Misty Copeland is supporting Youth America Grand Prix’s 25th Anniversary Gala at Lincoln Center on April 18.

The organization, which has the largest ballet scholarship program in the world, is responsible for the 30% increase in dancers of diverse backgrounds in over 80 ballet companies around the globe, including NYC Ballet and ABT.

The benefit’s chairs include Mick Jagger’s girlfriend Melanie Hamrick, Chelsea Clinton, Carolina Herrera designer Wes Gordon, Indré Rockefeller, and Kamie Lightburn, who is hosting a kickoff party in Palm Beach on April 9.

The night’s Creative Chair is Marcella Hymowitz, who brought in Dennis Basso to make his ballet debut as a designer and African American designer B Michael to do the costumes for a piece with music by Karen LeFrak, wife of real estate billionaire Richard LeFrak.

Over 300 dancers from six continents ages 9 to 19 will be on stage in the show called “The Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow,” which includes dancers from the Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Princess Grace schools.

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Out & About: Vanessa Williams and Julia Haart helped Alan Cumming celebrate his Broadway show (“Alan Cumming is Not Acting His Age”) at Nerai … The Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl winning coach Andy Reid eating at Carnegie Diner & Cafe …  Former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie at a Rangers game at Madison Square Garden … John Travolta and his co-stars Natali Yura and Lukas Haas at the Gasparilla Film Festival in Tampa Bay, Fla., talking about ducking indoor drones that whizzed perilously close to their heads while filming the heist film “Cash Out” … The city’s single and dapper Mayor Adams swanned into Casa Cipriani, the city’s most exclusive private club, to meet a 30-something mystery blond who was wearing a sexy white pantsuit for a late night romantic supper for two.

In “Shirley” premiering on Netflix on March 22, the congresswoman from Bedford-Stuyvesant, played by Regina King, meets with Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panthers, played by Brad James.

 

James, a former Marine, said, “[Chisholm] sat down and went toe-to-toe with a person a lot of people couldn’t go toe-to-toe with. It ended up being a monumental moment.”

The scene was shot at the Beverly Hills home of Diahann Carroll, where the protagonists actually met in 1972.

The leatherneck has been busy with his wife Keshia Knight Pulliam co-hosting “Married at First Sight” on Lifetime.

The couple met on the set of “Pride and Prejudice: Atlanta” in 2019, and welcomed a son last spring.

James also was in Disney’s “Dancing Through the Snow.” “The kids were very upset when I beat up Santa,” he said.

As Chisholm once said, “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining.”

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Professional gambler R.J. Cipriani rebuffed Mark Wahlberg’s company when he was asked to be in “California Kid,” a documentary about the rise and fall of USC football player Owen Hanson.

“I refused to be in the docuseries without an executive producer credit or fee,” Cipriani told me.

Next thing he knew, producers were searching for photos or videos of Cipriani.

Cipriani was copied on an email the “archival producer” for Piece of Work Productions sent out that read, “There is a subplot in this story that involves RJ Cipriani. We are interested in viewing your photos of RJ for possible use in our documentary.”

Cipriani, hired by Hanson to launder millions of dollars at casino games, turned the drug dealer over to the feds.

Hanson, originally sentenced to 21 years in prison, is now set for release next year, after having nine years shaved off his sentence.

“I personally reached out to Mark Wahlberg and his agent Ari Emanuel,” Cipriani said. “I let them both know I am the ‘secret sauce’ for this project and without me, this docuseries will be just a nothing-Wahlburger.”

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Rupert Murdoch is a conservative, but he has a weakness for women from Communist countries.

The Australian-born media mogul’s third wife was Wendi Deng, who was translating for him in Hong Kong.

Now, after a marriage with Mick Jagger’s ex, Jerry Hall, he is engaged to a Russian, Elena Zhukova, the mother of Dasha Zhukova, who was married to one of Russia’s most famous oligarchs, Roman Abramovich.

Abramovich lives in various countries, but never for too long. His huge yachts are in Turkey where they avoid EU sanctions. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the timing for this union could be problematic.

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Savannah Jaine Radcliffe nearly didn’t make it to her performance at Berlin on E. Second St. on Tuesday.

A fire had broken out in her apartment building in Marble Hill at 3 a.m.

“I was asleep. There was no fire alarm. The smoke came in so quickly. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced,” Radcliffe said.

Everyone escaped unharmed, and Radcliffe got her cat out, too.

After the sun came up, she was helped by eight firefighters, who climbed up and retrieved her guitar.

“The show went really, really well,” she said. “I didn’t want to call it off.”

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You probably have never heard of Nancy Haberman, who has been working for 45 years at Rubenstein, the public relations powerhouse.

Though she helped lead the fight against AIDS, launched George magazine, and publicized the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square, she stayed behind the scenes.

At her retirement party at the Chelsea Hotel, her former husband Clyde Haberman and offspring Maggie Haberman and Zach Haberman, all journalists, gathered with dozens of reporters to raise a glass.

“I was very lucky,” Nancy said. “[Company founder] Howard [Rubenstein] hired me. He shouldn’t have. Everybody here helped me.”

Nancy had one golden rule — broken so often — never lie to a reporter. She never did.

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R&B singer and producer Babyface — who has won 13 Grammys working with everyone from Usher and Janet Jackson to Ariana Grande and Whitney Houston — has discovered a new star.

Babyface has snapped up early work by 16-year-old painter Henri Reed, who was dubbed “Baby Basquiat” because of the influence the iconic artist has had on Reed.

Henri is painting a car-themed piece for the New York International Auto Show  at the Javits Center opening March 29. The wunderkind will paint the piece live for ABC’s program “In the Fast Lane” that will air on March 30.

The show will exhibit celebrity rides including Elvis Presley’s 1971 Stutz Blackhawk, NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 1948 Packard and Princess Grace’s 1958 Mercedes-Benz.

LA-based Reed will have his first solo show April 18 at Emanuel Friedman’s Lux Contemporary, a gallery adjacent to Rolls Royce NY in Chelsea.

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Out & About … Dionne Warwick and Tommy Hilfiger’s wife, Dee Hilfiger, were honored at an AmfAR benefit. Tom Ford, Kris Jenner, Peter Thomas Roth, and Leonard and Aerin Lauder led the applause … Jean-George’s vegan restaurant abcV, whose regulars include John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, got a surprise order from celebrity hairdresser Chaz Dean, who literally took home a doggie bag to his four yellow retrievers Bella, Riley, Ryver and Rayne. The restaurant will open a new outpost in the Emory Hotel on April 4 … Suzanne Somers’ husband Alan Hamel was disappointed the Oscar telecast did not include Somers in the “In Memoriam” segment. The actress started her career as  “the blonde in the Thunderbird” in “American Graffiti” along with Harrison Ford and Richard Dreyfuss.

Danny Sheridan, my favorite oddsmaker and Oscar handicapper, is 27-3 over the last five years in the main six categories and predicts the epic drama about the controversial scientist known as the “father of the atomic bomb” will dominate the major categories.

“The only suspense of the night should be Best Actress,” said Sheridan, who is picking Native American Lily Gladstone, who played Leo DiCaprio’s wife in “Killers of the Flower Moon” and has already won the Screen Actors Guild prize.

She is up against Emma Stone of “Poor Things.”

“[It’s] the closest vote of the evening, the old guard vs. the new guard of Academy voters,” Sheridan said.

Otherwise, not much suspense. “Oppenheimer” wins Best Picture. “You can’t stop a speeding bullet,” Sheridan said.

Three more Oscars will go to “Oppenheimer” as Christopher Nolan wins Best Director, Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor, and Robert Downey Jr. wins Best Supporting Actor.

“If this were a horse race where they play the starting trumpet, there would only be one horse in the starting gate,” Sheridan said.

DaVine Joy Randolph will win Best Supporting Actress for “The Holdovers.”

So, “Oppenheimer” will win four of the top six Oscars, according to Sheridan.

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Cathy Moriarty, who grew up in The Bronx, isn’t a big fan of Staten Island.

But the actress, who exploded into stardom playing Jake LaMotta’s wife in “Raging Bull,” filmed the second season of “Great Kills” there.

“I didn’t want to do it. I’m too lazy. I don’t go to Staten Island for anything,” Moriarty told me.

But her friendship with the show’s producer and star, Steve Stanulis, won out.

The two have known each other for decades, and both are parents of three, including twins.

Great Kills is a neighborhood in Staten Island, but also refers to the plot. Stanulis is a hit man being shot by documentary filmmakers. Moriarty plays a mob boss.

The cast, which includes Bai Ling and Eric Roberts playing himself, improvise and create their own dialogue.

“We have a structure of what the scene should be, and then we wing it,” Stanulis said.

In one scene where Moriarty seemed particularly emotional, “I was getting scared,” Stanulis said. “But she took it and owned it, and ran with it.”

“Great Kills,” a Tubi original show, was ranked No. 3 on the top 50 new shows of 2023. Season 2 will be released in the fall.

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The hit reality show “Family Stallone” saved Sly’s marriage to Jennifer Flavin, insiders claim.

Jennifer, a Hollywood widow due to Stallone’s busy shooting schedule, was ready to divorce him in 2022. But with the reality show giving Flavin a creative outlet, all is well in the world.

“Moving to Palm Beach has also smoothed bumps in the road,” said one source.

The Stallone family is enjoying the Florida lifestyle of horses, polo and golf. Sly and his daughters were spotted at a recent show of vintage Ferraris at The Breakers.

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Showbiz newcomer Gaby Kono learned that persistence pays. The producer and co-star of the upcoming flick “Wish You Were Here,” based on the bestseller by Renee Carlino, fell in love with the book while living in California.

Kono kept reaching out to the author for two years until Carlino finally agreed to meet her. The romance is set to be released by Phiphen Studios next year.

Julia Stiles makes her directorial debut with Kelsey Grammer, who is living in the UK these days, plus Jennifer Grey, Isabel Fuhrman and Mena Massoud.

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AskReddit was recently queried, “What are the craziest declassified CIA documents?”

Among the 19 answers was the Cold War condom drop: “One CIA operative drew up a plan to have packets of extra-large condoms, labeled ‘small’ dropped on the USSR. The idea was to lower their morale during the Cold War.”

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Madonna fans won’t be surprised to see her pop up at the new musical “Lempicka,” about the bisexual Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka opening on Broadway March 19.

Madge is an avid collector of the artist.

The new show, fronted by former “Wicked” star Eden Espinosa, will bring to life the racy antics of the artist whose collectors include Jack Nicholson and Barbara Streisand.

If the Material Girl wants to splash out for a new sketch, M.S. Rau is selling “Portrait d’Homme à Lunettes” for $19,500. The New Orleans gallery sold de Lempicka’s most famous painting, “Autoportrait,” for $1.25 million.

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Out & About: Sofia Vergara’s ex-husband Joe Manganiello, who hosts “Deal or No Deal Island” presented a Hollywood Beauty Award to Ming-Na Wen, who voiced the lead in the Disney movie “Mulan” and was a schoolmate of Manganiello at Mt. Lebanon High School in Pennsylvania … Sharon Bush, Kimberly Paige Bluhm and designers Andy Stark and Campion Platt were among those attending Iris Dankner’s Holiday House breast cancer benefit at Colony Hotel in Palm Beach … Top divorce attorney Ken Jewell talking with influencer Sofie Mahlkvist about the importance of prenups for young brides at La Goulue.

The hard-bodied heartthrob has inspired thousands of fans to descend upon the film’s location in a tiny village in North Hampshire, England. The hunk’s admirers have been stripping down and dancing naked in front of the 700-year-old mansion where the movie was shot.

The streakers have been videoing themselves dancing to “Murder on the Dancefloor” by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, just like Keoghan did in the film, which features several murders and lots of kinky sex scenes. The most infamous one being where he drinks the bathwater of “Euphoria” star Jacob Elordi’s character.

The estate and the 150-room mansion are not open to the public, but the movie’s devotees have discovered a public trail through the property that allows them to Instagram photos of themselves in front of the stately home.

The country house’s owner, Charles Stopford Sackville, has called in security to keep the trespassers off his property, but because of the public trail, he can’t stop them. The hordes have only increased since “Saltburn” was released on Amazon.

The film has been a huge hit with audiences, but received zero Oscar nods for director Emerald Fennell, who won an Academy Award for the “Promising Young Woman” screenplay in 2023.

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French fashion designer Claude Montana, who died last month at the age of 76, wasn’t mourned by those who loved his wife Wallis Franken.

In 1996, the fashion model jumped out the kitchen window of the second-floor Left Bank apartment she shared with her husband and fatally landed on her head.

“It was the most upsetting story I have ever reported,” said Dana Thomas, who wrote up the tragedy for The New Yorker.

“Claude Montana was a drug-addled, physically violent monster who drove his American fashion model wife to kill herself.”

Thomas posted her story on The Style Files on Substack. “I’m not putting it behind the paywall, because Wallis deserves to have her story told to as many people as possible,” Thomas said.

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A portrait of Pierre Toussaint has been placed on permanent display inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Toussaint (1766-1853) was born a slave in Haiti and died a free man in New York, after raising funds for the first Catholic orphanage and founding the city’s first school for black children.

The Toussaint portrait by Hunt Slonem was donated to St. Patrick’s by the artist and it was blessed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan after a mass at the cathedral.

Toussaint’s remains were moved in the late 20th century from the cemetery of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mulberry St. to the crypt below the main altar of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave. He is the first layperson to be buried in this special place normally reserved for bishops of the Archdiocese of New York.

“I feel a very strong connection to Pierre Toussaint, and I’m very thrilled to see the painting at St. Patrick’s,” Slonem said. “It’s not just me doing it, I believe it was just God’s will that I was blessed to be asked to do it.”

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Travis Kelce, the tight end of the Kansas City Chiefs who is more famous as Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, was on his best behavior in Vegas last weekend.

A source says Kelce was warned by Swift’s dad that a photo of him just dancing with another woman would bring in big bucks from tabloids.

Security at each club in Vegas for the celebration of the team’s third Super Bowl was asked to keep onlookers at least 6 feet away.

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Civil rights leader Dr. Clarence B. Jones — one of the last surviving activists who worked directly with Martin Luther King, Jr. — will speak March 7 at the 92nd Street Y.

Jones, who carries on Dr. King’s legacy as chairman of Spill the Honey Foundation, will be joined by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Gayle King in discussing the historic bonds between Black and Jewish communities in the struggle for equality in America.

Before working with King on an early draft of the “I Have a Dream” speech, Jones was profoundly influenced by a Rabbi Joachim Prinz speech underscoring the strength of the Black and Jewish coalition.

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Jay Leno has gone to court in California to be named the conservator for his wife Mavis, who has dementia. The couple, married for 43 years, have a joint fortune of $450 million and no children.

Top family law attorney Martha Cohen Stine said, “This legal proceeding will allow Leno to update both their wills and decide which charities their money will go to no matter who dies first.”

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Royal expert Hugo Vickers, who has written books on everyone from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to Greta Garbo, is no fan of Meghan Markle.

“Harry got on well with Prince William, Kate, and the rest of the royal family until he married Meghan,” said Vickers, who will be among the speakers at Eve and Edward Lemon’s Capital Rare Book Fair at the University Club in Washington, D.C. in May.

Admirers of President John F. Kennedy can buy an autographed copy of his iconic tome “Profiles in Courage” for $5,500 or an inscribed photo of JFK in the Oval Office for $6,500.

You can browse thousands of books and memorabilia from around the world at Finefairs.com/capital-rare-book-fair.

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Out & About:

Julianna Margulies and Julia Haart are speaking at the Anti-Defamation League’s four-day conference at the Javits Center starting March 4 …Billionaire Blackstone founder Steven Schwartzman, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and AI expert Mark Minevich were among the VIP’s at the FII Priority Miami Summit. Minevich, author of “Our Planet Powered by AI,” talked with his fellow delegates about the future of innovation, sustainability, and AI.

“When I left NBC, I was sitting on my couch thinking, I don’t know if I want to go back into the industry at all. It’s full of toxic, disgusting people,” she told Arthur Aidala on his podcast “These City Streets With Arthur Aidala.”

“I can’t imagine working for another person who’s going to tell me I have to follow his editorial judgment, not my own. And in the mainstream, there’s nothing but that.”

Kelly is happy these days podcasting “The Megyn Kelly Show” that airs live daily on SiriusXM.

Explaining the popularity of Donald Trump, she said, “The No. 1 thing he does is, he is entertaining. I’ve called him the walking ball of charisma, because the best way to get coverage on any outlet, whether it’s digital or print or cable or broadcast, is to be someone … who drives the numbers. Because most of these people are capitalists and they want money.

“And that means putting on things that rate or get clicks or do well. And Donald Trump is that in every way, shape and form. So that’s the best thing he does. That’s why he got $3 billion in what’s called earned media in the 2016 election.”

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Getting praised for her acting by Robert De Niro gave Laura Ault “a special feeling,” she said.

De Niro, who has been Oscar-nominated eight times, lauded Ault for her scene in “About My Father,” where she plays an overly cheerful person to De Niro’s grump.

“He came over and told me how great I did,” Ault said. “Not everyone can say that.”

Ault, a very fit mother of two daughters, said she is often told she’s a ringer for Kristen Wiig.

Doing a scene for the “Bad Monkey” TV series starring Vince Vaughn, Ault asked Alex Moffat, a “Saturday Night Live” alum like Wiig, “Do I remind you of anyone?”

Moffat drew a blank.

“It was windy. My hair was blown cross my face, … He was a lot of fun.”

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Jeff Koons is sending some art to the moon.

A rocket made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX blasted off Wednesday from Cape Canaveral carrying Koons’ 125 1-inch miniature moon sculptures,  each associated with people who have made a significant impact to life on Earth, such as Mozart, Galileo, Cleopatra and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few.

This historic launch, conceived by Chantelle Baier, CEO of 4SPACE, will land Thursday and leave Koons’ moons near the southern pole of the lunar surface for eternity.

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If you were an accomplished oil and gas engineer in Houston, what would you do in your spare time?

Taquiela Wright designed lingerie, and launched her own company named Delisa Rose.

Wright grew up in Peoria, Ill., moved to Hollywood and ended up in Texas. Now she’s telling all in a new podcast series recorded in New York that debuted, appropriately enough, on Valentine’s Day.

“An Intimate Night With Delisa Rose” tackles failed marriages, sexiness at any size and how confidence conquers all. She battled a life-threatening illness, survived a failed marriage, and did it all “with curves.”

“I’m powerful within my own body, there’s not a lot of Black lingerie designers in the industry. I just did New York Fashion Week. If I can survive that I can survive anything,” she says with a laugh.

The podcast is coming to Apple and Spotify but can be previewed now  at DelisaRoseLuxuryLingerie.com. Get advice and a garter in the same place.

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“Wayne’s World” director Penelope Spheeris got her first Hollywood break producing comedian Albert Brooks’ early work on “Saturday Night Live.” But there now seems to be no love lost between the pair.

“After we did six or seven [short films] with me telling Albert where to put the damn camera, I was blessed — ha! — with the job of producing Albert’s first movie ‘Real Life,’ ” Spheeris told “Rock’s Backpages” podcast. “It was after that he went on to make himself a career as a director starring in his own films, but he never asked me again to work with him. He used all the crew I brought him … that was kind of s—-y.”

Spheeris said that Brooks’ friend Rob Reiner made a documentary about Brooks, “Defending My Life.”

“Guess who was excluded?” she said. “Yeah, f–k those guys!”

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The hottest new celebrity watch isn’t gold, silver or platinum — it’s glass.

Samuel L. Jackson was the first to get a Ritmo Mundo watch. Then Michael Strahan, who usually wears Rolex.

The timepieces have been in “Entourage” and “CSI: Miami.”

The classy glassy model Pegasus came out last week at $3,500.

“It’s the celebrity look that ironically celebrities like,” laughs Mundo man and designer Ali Soltani. “Sam has been wearing his everywhere for a few months.”

The synthetic glass case lets you see all the inner workings. “It’s clear it’s a winner,” cracked one Instagram watch aficionado.

Will they “wind up” with other celebs? We’ll see. Or see-through.

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The superrich looking for a getaway home on the California coast may be superinterested in this listing: 140 acres of prime real estate called Broad Beach Ranch on the cliff directly above the star-studded Malibu Colony will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s.

In 2023, Beyoncé and Jay-Z spent $190 million for a 42,000-square-foot house on 8 acres in Paradise Cove just minutes away from the for-sale ranch located on the Encinal Canyon overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway.

The lucky buyer will get “Splash” movie star Daryl Hannah and her beau singer Neil Young as next-door neighbors.

Opening bids for the ocean-view land are expected to start between $2 million to $4 million and zoom up from there, starting March 28. The property is being sold by entrepreneur and Aphrodise Rosé founder Frank Schilling.

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Princess Diana’s iconic sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring has inspired a new generation of brides because it was featured on the final season of “The Crown.”

The 12-carat ring was left to Prince William much to the reported chagrin of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who had to settle for a less historic stone, a 3-carat diamond valued at approximately $200,000.

William used his mother’s ring, valued at $400,000, when he proposed to Kate Middleton, who wears it every day.

Grooms looking to impress their fiancées can now buy another storied sapphire that was owned by American aristocrats Alice and Pierre du Pont, of the famed chemical family. In 1937, the couple were on holiday in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), where they asked to see the most important gem in the country.

They ended up buying an incredibly rare 24.20-carat sapphire. The stunning stone, known as the Du Pont Sapphire, was transformed into a ring surrounded by nearly 4 carats of diamonds.

M.S. Rau is selling the ring for $2.4 million. It’s available online and is also being shown until Tuesday at the Palm Beach Center.

White played the part of Jem, Scout’s older brother in the Brooklyn-based Brave New World Repertory Theatre’s 2005 production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Brave New World used house porches on a tree-lined street in the Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn as the stage, with the audience of hundreds seated in the closed-off street.

Some 19 years later White is nearly naked showing off his muscles in ads for Calvin Klein underwear.

He should come in March when Brave New World Rep kicks off its 2024 season with a new play, “Leni’s Last Lament,” which has Hitler’s controversial filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, portrayed as a misunderstood victim as she attempts to edit and reassemble her notorious past into a more palatable portrait.

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Anh Duong — who’s been a ballerina, a fashion model and a movie actress — is a painter now, and her favorite model is herself.

“I had models once, but they were always late, or sick,” Duong told me. “So I decided to use myself.”

A show of Duong’s recent works opening Feb. 8 at Isabelle Bscher’s Galerie Gmurzynska on E. 78th St. includes a painting of herself in the arms of a young man.

The image poses the question, “How far can you lose control and still be in charge?” Duong said.

She won’t name the stud. “The guy exists, and he knows he’s in the painting, but I’m not going any further.”

Duong, who painted as a child, started up again when she was with Julian Schnabel.

“We were at the Warhol estate in Montauk. Julian saw a sketch and said, ‘You should be a painter.’ The next day he bought me canvases.”

But Schnabel never tried to teach her. Duong said, “He didn’t influence me. He inspired me.”

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Italia Tornabene embraces her colorful history as a porn star without reservation.

Her memoir “Suits to Stilettos” details her journey as a determined single mother navigating through higher education, earning an Associate’s in business administration management, a Bachelor’s in legal studies, and a Master’s in criminal justice.

She candidly discusses misconceptions about the sex industry: “There’s a lot of misunderstanding about this line of work. It’s not just physically demanding; it’s a mental and emotional marathon. It’s a pity that our society, and its laws, are so rigid and outdated regarding adult entertainment.”

Reflecting on international perspectives, she adds, “My friends in Amsterdam and Germany view it as a normal career path, a consensual choice between adults. I hope our society can eventually adopt a similar, more open-minded stance.”

As a survivor of sexual assault, Tornabene discovered unexpected healing in the sex work industry. It was there that she found peace.

“It provided a safe space for me to reclaim my body, my voice, and my sense of self,” she said.

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Cold weather was not enough to scare off Russian models from going out on Jan. 13 for Russian New Year. Large groups gathered at Serafina Meatpacking, Russian Samovar and Cipriani.

Caviar was abundant, provided by former model Anna Dozortsev, co-owner of Ikraa Caviar, whose clients include the artist Domingo Zapata and “RHONY” Ubah Hassan.

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While it might seem crazy to think about the Hamptons while there is snow on the ground, those spring wedding invitations will be coming sooner than later.

Two popular inns are out of commission for now.

Huntting Inn in East Hampton, which houses Ralph Lauren’s favorite restaurant The Palm, unexpectedly closed for much-needed renovations.

Shocking staff and patrons, Hedges Inn, which hosts events during the Hamptons Film Festival, was damaged Monday night by joy-riding teens who crashed into the front of the hotel.

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A Feb. 22 fundraiser for the Nelson Mandela Memorial Garden could get canceled because the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) has sued.

Mandela’s eldest daughter Dr. Makaziwe Mandela was scheduled to auction off nearly 100 lots, including his walking sticks and letters Mandela wrote describing his life behind bars, plus gifts from former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The treasures at Arlan Ettinger’s Guernsey’s auction house are valued at $3-5 million and will be available to view at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Feb. 17 and 18.

But not if SAHRA is successful in its suit.

“This is not only to protect and promote a commitment to conserving South Africa’s rich cultural heritage but also to contributing to the global discourse on responsible cultural heritage stewardship,” the agency said.

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Out & About: Brooke Shields and Candace Bushnell have both served as grand marshalls of Audrey Gruss’s Hope for Depression Research Foundation’s Races of Hope. The organization is hosting their 6th annual Palm Beach Race to Defeat Depression on Feb. 17. Expected attendees include Sharon Bush, Sophie Mahlkvist and Park Ave. plastic surgeon Dr. Lyle Leipziger … Interior designer Campion Platt is working with Ecogensus founder Bjornulf Ostvik on a line of luxury furniture made from recycled household garbage. Some pieces will be on display at Holiday House’s tabletop event at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach on Feb. 26 to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation … Ice T toasted author Mark Minevich and his new book “Our Planet Powered by AI” over dinner at Dominica ambassador Paolo Zampolli‘s residence in Gramercy Park.

On the “Allison Interviews” podcast with entertainment journalist Allison Kugel, Von Teese recalled how Bethenny Frankel asked her to go on the “Bethenny” TV show 10 years ago and teach her how to do a striptease in a giant martini glass.

“And guess what? She didn’t show up for rehearsal!” Von Teese said. “They were like, ‘You have to come to rehearsal and teach her how to do this routine,’ and then she never showed up. And I was like, ‘Why am I at rehearsal? I don’t need to rehearse. I can do this blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back.’”

Von Teese continued, “Then we did it live on camera, and I [told Bethenny] ‘You’re on your own.’”

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Heart transplant cardiologist Dr. Ernst von Schwarz says stem cell treatments will soon extend human life to 120 years, reaching 150 years by the end of the century.

“With stem cells, we can repair damaged tissue. It’s the future of medicine,” said the author of “The Secrets of Immortality.”

“Some patients are getting stem cell therapy three times a week. The skin glows. The collagen rebuilds. They look younger and healthier,” said von Schwarz, of Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

“The whole anti-aging field is attacked as unscientific, but it is absolutely scientific. I know for sure we can prolong life.”

At the very least we’ll have younger looking corpses.

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Mark Kostabi had plenty of cash at his Chelsea townhouse the other day — with Roseanne Cash and her Grammy-winning husband John Leventhal.

The prolific painter started his 10-hour party at 2 p.m. and dedicated the marathon to Park West Gallery executive v.p. John Block and his wife Yuki.

Park West recently paid Kostabi $5 million for paintings, which are sold on 105 cruise ships.

Kostabi said: “Working with Park West Gallery is like winning the lottery, but the IRS takes half. God bless America!”

Among the revelers were Suzanne Vega and her husband Paul Mills (aka  Poez the Poet,) and Mark’s brother Paul Kostabi, co-founder of White Zombie.

Brother Paul, playing guitar, dedicated a song called “Italian Summer” to Vega, with Mark on piano, and jazz legend Tommy Campbell on drums.

While producer Steve Garrin schmoozed with Gail Levin, former Whitney curator and foremost expert on Edward Hopper, art dealer Adam Sands quickly sold a Kostabi painting to Usher’s executive bodyguard Edward Kwabena Amo for $10,000.

Kostabi intervened: “Don’t mess with Edward – he’s got an eight-pack under that elegant suit.”

Sonya Hensley serenaded the guests as they devoured the Joy Love Club catering by June Kwan, the mother of Daniel Kwan, who co-directed “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

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Julia Haart returned from a trip to the embattled Gaza Strip to demonstrate on Friday at the UN to mark the 100 days Israeli hostages have been held captive by Hamas.

Haart, who was known as Talia Leibov before she left her Haredi community, marched with hundreds of other Israel supporters from the UN to Times Square to the Jewish Museum.

“I want the world to understand how illogical and irrational the media coverage has been,” she told me. “Over 100 people are still being held hostage.”

Haart wore a bulletproof vest as she traveled through Gaza with Israeli defense forces and spoke at a rally of thousands in Israel.

“We are still stuck in the Middle Ages. When do we stop accepting the rape and mutilation of innocents?” she said. “I’d love to see Susan Sarandon go into Gaza.”

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Interior designers Campion Platt, Andrea Stark, Jayne Chase and the Colony Hotel’s Sarah Wetenhall will serve as chairs for Iris Dankner’s Holiday House gala in Palm Beach.

The tabletop event will feature more than 15 top designers to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation on Feb. 26 at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach.

The committee includes Sharon Bush, Tatiana Platt, Jean Shafiroff and Julie Ratner.

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Michele and Barack Obama, Madonna, David and Victoria Beckham, and the Kardashians all collect artwork by Mr. Brainwash.

He even painted a family portrait of Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney Kardashian alongside Kendall, Kylie, and Kris Jenner in the style of Renoir and unveiled it on “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” Momager Kris says it’s “one of my favorite paintings.”

The artist — who says, “If I believe it, it’s art for me” — will open “All You Need Is Art” on Feb. 1 at Clarendon Fine Art in Westport, Conn.

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Tom Brady’s signed Super Bowl XXXVI commemorative football from the game played in the Superdome in New Orleans in 2002 is up for sale by M.S. Rau in New Orleans, just in time for this year’s Super Bowl on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas.

Besides Brady’s autograph, the ball, priced at $68,850, is signed by Adam Vinatieri, Richard Seymour, Tedy Bruschi and Kevin Faulk, among others.

The football was owned by New England Patriots team physician Bertram Zarins. During the exit physical examination of Patriots team players, Dr. Zarins orchestrated an impromptu signing session.

Brady is finishing up a year break before taking on the role of lead sports analyst on Fox Sports in September with a 10-year, $375 million contract.

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Out and About: Olympic boxing gold medalist Michael Spinks and writer Flo Anthony drinking flutes of Frank Schilling’s bubbly rosé Aphrodise at Mediterranean restaurant White Olive on W. 55th St. … Sharon Bush and Jean Shafiroff attended the 63rd International Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach … Nightlife ringleader Omar Hernandez giving a shoutout to mother-daughter divorce attorneys Martha Cohen Stine and Harriet Newman Cohen at his Oh La La variety show at the hot supper club La Goulue on E. 61st.

“We have a time of the day we call ‘radio silence’ around 7:30, 8 o’clock when we turn off all our phones and computers so that we can all communicate like human beings. It’s a highlight of our lives and it makes us feel intimate and closer as a family.”

Before the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31 Ice and his bodacious wife will head to the Hustler Club to host a New Year’s Eve bash with their pal movie producer Noel Ashman, who says he’ll have all the waitresses don blonde wigs and revealing gowns in a visual tribute to Coco, whose look is now iconic.

The couple will kick off the new year by popping 50 magnums of the new sparkling rose Aphrodise.

The loving duo, who have been married for 22 years, will do the countdown to 2024 together and then start the new year with a sexy kiss.

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Vernon Reid and Corey Glover of Living Colour say their songs are shunned by Black entertainment outlets in the mistaken belief that they composed “white people” music.

“It’s hard enough to live in places where you expect white supremacy, but not from your own people,” Glover said.

The rock quartet issued a statement earlier this week to Guitar.com while doing interviews for their European leg of their tour with Xtreme addressing Lenny Kravitz’s recent complaints that he was being overlooked at awards shows hosted by the black entertainment industry.

Kravitz told Esquire: “To this day, I have not been invited to a BET thing or a Source Awards thing. And it’s like, here is a Black artist who has reintroduced many Black art forms, who has broken down barriers — just like those that came before me broke down. That is positive. And they don’t have anything to say about it?”

In an Instagram post, Living Colour vocalist Glover wrote of Kravitz: “Black organizations in the entertainment industry never really sought him out.”

“Lenny was right,” Glover continued, “None of us has been … acknowledged for our achievements. Living Colour in the past has worked with such historical luminaries as a Little Richard and Mick Jagger. We’ve worked with a hip-hop royalty from Queen Latifah, Doug E Fresh, Chuck D & Flava Flav to Run DMC. And yet there’s barely a mention of rock’s contribution to what is modern black music.”

“It’s been our experience that most people of color have no idea how deep and far reaching the influence of Black people [is] in the modern-day rock ‘n’ roll … let alone it’s impact on R&B and hip hop. What we hear is ‘that’s white people stuff’ when in fact, it is not!”

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Powerful music lawyer Allen Grubman — who has represented Lady Gaga, Bono, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Sting — was attorney Arthur Aidala’s first guest on his new video podcast, “These City Streets.”

Grubman told Aidala how he got to meet Frank Sinatra because he represented Princess Stephanie of Monaco, the daughter of Grace Kelly, who was launching a singing career. Sinatra was Stephanie’s godfather.

Stephanie got Grubman tickets to see Sinatra sing at Carnegie Hall and told him, “I’ve spoken to him about you, and he’d love to meet you.”

“After the concert, they took me upstairs. People were milling around. He opened his dressing room door. I walk inside and there’s Sinatra wearing a bathrobe, towel around his neck, slippers, vintage Sinatra.

“So after about two, three minutes, I see it’s winding down. And I said, ‘Can I call you Frank?’ … He said, ‘Call me Mr. Sinatra.’

“In those days I represented Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and I rattled off four superstars and I looked at him and said, ‘You know something, Frank? I’d give them all up in a minute to represent you.’ And he looks at me, he says, ‘You know something, kid? You’re stupid.’”

This interview will be followed up by chats with New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, former governor Andrew Cuomo, and his former secretary, author Melissa de Rosa.

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Martín Rodríguez is about to hit it big as a hit man in the Sofía Vergara-led Netflix limited drama series “Griselda” from the team behind “Narcos.”

Set to premiere on Jan. 25, the based-on-real-events crime series follows the life of Griselda Blanco (Vergara), a devoted mother who created one of the most profitable cartels in history and became “The Godmother” of the underworld.

Argentina-born, Spain-raised Rodriguez plays her right-hand man and enforcer Rivi in Miami during the ‘70s and ‘80s cocaine boom.

“He was more than just a hit man,” Rodriguez told me. “He is completely fascinated by her, willing to do anything for her.”

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At the annual PNC Championship at the tony Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes golf club in Orlando, professional golfer Lee Trevino was asked by Joan Jedell’s Hampton Sheet‘s youngest contributor, Bobby Love, if he would consider doing a sequel to “Happy Gilmore” since the movie “inspired” so many junior golfers.

Trevino, 84, who made a memorable cameo in the 1996 film as a disapproving golfer, told the inquisitive youngster that he was asking the wrong person and that he should call Adam Sandler — the star of the film.

Trevino quipped, “Make sure you tell him that Trevino says you gotta do another one because I need the money.”

Okay Adam Sandler, the (golf) ball’s in your court.

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Gurney’s, which plays host to the likes of Cindy Crawford, Scarlett Johansson and Jimmy Fallon, will offer its pampered guests a polar bear club swim in the frigid Atlantic the morning of Jan. 1. I think this reporter would rather be drinking mulled wine in a heated igloo.

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Holiday dining is back in full force. In midtown, White Olive — whose fans include Giants star Dexter Lawrence and jeweler Kayla Rockefeller — will be open for Christmas Eve and Day as well as New Year’s Eve. Uptown, La Goulue, whose fans include Sienna Miller, will host a luxe New Year’s Eve dinner complete with foie gras and truffle dishes and, in the eatery’s  backroom, nightlife impresario Omar Hernandez will host his risqué cabaret. Meanwhile in Brooklyn, Shota Omakase will be open serving their 18 course feast with sushi, including a caviar dish that Consuelo Vanderbilt recently consumed.

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Out & About: Top Park Avenue plastic surgeon Lyle Leipziger was at Cipriani with a group of women talking about the good work that the Katz Institute for Women’s Health is doing … Botox boosting nurse Jane Scher of New York walked by a Picasso portrait at Art Basel Miami and said, “Even I couldn’t fix that.”