Obama supporter Fat Joe thinks Daddy Yankee is disgusting and ignorant for supporting McCain. Lindsay Lohan paid $500 to have four dresses taken in at the Bowery Hotel. Madonna’s New York show is not a complete sellout, reports Cindy Adams with a hint of sick glee. Liz Smith didn’t know whom to root for at Billie Jean King and Regis Philbin’s bizarre-sounding reenactment of King’s famous match against Bobby Riggs 35 years ago. Martha Stewart asked to have her picture taken with drag queen Brandy Wine at Marc Jacobs’s show but couldn’t remember Wine’s name.
Ex–New Jersey guv Jim McGreevey’s rich boyfriend offered to pay tuition to a fancy school for McGreevey’s 6-year-old daughter. Cameron Diaz and her boyfriend were all over each other at the South Street Seaport dead-bodies exhibit, which is truly gross. Bill T. Jones thinks it would be politically risky for Obama to come see Jones’s new musical about Afrobeat star Fela Kuti, who was way into pot and sex.
Howard Stern will kick off an auction for the virginity of a 22-year-old graduate in women’s studies. Rapper 50 Cent won the right to see his son while he fights for permanent custody of him. Lil Wayne was supposed to perform at “Fashion Rocks” but left when told he’d have to bring his bag through security. Mariah Carey may leave her manager because he’s courting “her nemesis” Jennifer Lopez, people say. Pete Wentz claims he once played Russian roulette while totally f-cked up on booze and Ambien.
Michael Jackson’s unwashed Calvin Klein underpants, seized in his 2003 child-molestation case, will be up on eBay for $1 million. Ellen DeGeneres will be the new face of CoverGirl makeup. Cloris Leachman snatched the promo poster at the party for the movie The Women and sped off with it. Vogue photographer Patrick Demarchelier thinks that Carla Bruni will eventually leave Sarkozy.
