Jennifer Lopez was invited to billionaire Michael Rubin’s White Party at his Hamptons estate but declined.
“She did not want a drunk person saying ‘Sorry about your marriage,’” one insider told me.
“Also she felt that she met all those people many times before.”
Guests included Tom Brady, Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly, Drake, Emily Ratajkowski and Leonardo DiCaprio.
J.Lo is said to have quipped, “Who has Italian food at a white party?”
For now, Lopez seems to be waiting for a miracle to save her marriage to Ben Affleck.
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Robert De Niro does not want Donald Trump to win a second term as president because he says if Trump regains the White House, he will never leave.
De Niro, speaking at the Jim Owles Gay Pride Gala at the Hard Rock Cafe, was presented an award by the Rev. Al Sharpton. The “Raging Bill” actor told the crowd: “We knew Trump was a clown and a con man … We laughed at him as he lied his way into the tabloids and hung out with his mentor … the pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. But no one is laughing now.”
The winner of two Best Actor Oscars said, “If Trump is elected, we’re not electing a president. We are in actual fact crowning a king, a dictator, immune from laws and from reason. And if he gets back into office, we all know he will never leave.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul was honored by Allen Roskoff, president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club and co-author of the nation’s first gay rights bill.
“I know my responsibility as governor. I know what I must do,” Hochul said. “I must be the voice for those people who feel marginalized, who need someone to stand up for them because attack on any group … is an attack on all of us.”
City Councilman Erik Bottcher emceed the event which included Marilyn Maye, who sang “Cabaret,” and Brian Stokes Mitchell, who sang “The Impossible Dream.”
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Alan Cumming, Laverne Cox and director Jerry Mitchell were the surprise guests at the recent Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS annual Broadway Bares show at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
The parody-filled show — think Liberace getting a lap dance from his near-naked chauffeur — featured two chorus boys impersonating the stars from “Rocky” and trading punches in G strings.
The risqué Las Vegas-themed show, dubbed “Broadway Bares Hits the Strip,” featured 200 performers, plus Laverne Cox in sky-high stilettos and fishnets, stripping down to a black and blue corset.
Cox strutted the stage, did pirouettes, and swung her long blonde hair around like Beyoncé in “Crazy in Love” to wild applause.
The superstar reminded the crowd that Viva Glam lipstick had donated $5 million since the first Broadway Bares show 32 years ago. MAC cosmetics presented a $200,000 check at the end of the night, bringing the night’s total haul to over $2 million.
For the finale, Cumming appeared in a kilt and told guests backstage that, like a true Scotsman, he was going commando.
The “Cabaret” emcee told the crowd, “We can’t let fascism happen in this country. You can’t complain about democracy and not vote.”
For the final number, hundreds of dancers appeared on the stage and the guests were told, “with permission” of course, they could stuff cash into their favorite dancer’s G-strings — and they did!
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At Mark Kostabi‘s going away party the other night, the artist promised all New Yorkers that he wouldn’t disturb them for the next three months while he’s in Italy for the summer, throwing bashes at his new villa in Rome.
Musical diversity ensued. Instead of the jazz that’s usually performed at his Chelsea “Five Story Tower of Decadence,” Kostabi set up two drum sets and invited rock guitarist legends Carlos Alomar (David Bowie) and Vince Martell (Vanilla Fudge) to center stage.
They turned up their amps to 11 and began jamming, which inspired jazz drummers Gerry Brown (Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder) and Tommy Campbell (Dizzy Gillespie) to play as loud as humanly possible.
The building was shaking until police showed up at 11 p.m.
Art dealer Adam Sands opened the front door and assured New York’s finest that the volume would go down immediately. Kostabi himself pulled the plugs on the amps.
The revelers included movie producers Jules Nasso and Steve Garrin, artist Walter Robinson, and White Zombie founder Paul Kostabi.
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Cindy Guyer, known to those in the romance novel community as the female Fabio, got the surprise of a lifetime when she saw herself on the cover of New York magazine.
She quipped, “It looks like romance never goes out of style, it just becomes a little more contemporary.”
She said the hirsute hunk clutching her was a male model illustrator Victor Gadino had discovered at a hair salon.
Guyer was paid an hourly rate back then and it only took an hour to shoot and she said that Victor kept the rights to the artwork.
She was pleasantly surprised the image got a second life so unpredictably. “Why am I on the cover?” she joked. “I should be under the covers.”
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Golf enthusiasts — if you could invite any person to play 18 holes with you, who would you choose?
Many duffers would pick two-time major PGA Tour champion John Daly, whose on-and-off course feats have become legend.
For the midsummer issue of Joan Jedell’s Hampton Sheet magazine, Bobby Love (the magazine’s youngest contributor at 13) asked Daly who’s in his dream pairing.
Without skipping a beat, the iconic golfer, whose life is about to become a mini-series starring Kevin James, proclaimed: “Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore and Halle Berry.”
Daly is playing the Open Championship in Scotland July 18 to July 21.
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With the social season in full swing in the Hamptons, event company Revel Rouge is busy.
Pamela Morgan and her husband Michael Trokel hosted a bash at their home in Watermill with Ramona Singer, Candace Bushnell and Nicole Miller downing oysters and caviar.
Back in Manhattan, Revel Rouge presented a fundraiser for the National Women’s History Museum in D.C hosted by Cheri Kaufman and Demi Moore.
“The owner Hank Stampfl is a fun, fabulous guy,” according to “Real Housewife” Luann de Lesseps.
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Poor Pete Davidson has lost his girlfriend and his TV show.
The former “Saturday Night Live” star — who became a Hollywood lothario — just broke up with Madelyn Cline after a year of togetherness.
And Davidson shockingly pulled out of filming the second season of his autobiographical show “Bupkis,” which costarred Edie Falco, Joe Pesci and Bobby Cannavale. They weren’t pleased.
But Davidson is still touring the country doing stand-up comedy. He will survive.
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Out & About: Bo Dietl and Damon Dash will help host producer Noel Ashman’s birthday at DOM on July 18. DJs will include Prince Hakim Bell and Grandmaster Melle Mel … F. Murray Abraham and Matt Dillon are among the famous fans of artist Maxine Hoover, who was recently honored with the Schneps Media Power Women 30 award. Hoover just opened a show of her own works at Landmark Art Space in Chelsea where designer Helen Yarmak and divorce attorney Daniel Stock perused her sexy pieces … Ralph Lauren model Nacho Figueras played a demonstration polo match catered by Andrea Correale’s Elegant Affairs in Southampton as his wife Delfina Blaquier and divorce attorney Daniel Stock cheered him on.
