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Monday, October 23, 2006
In This Issue:Paris
Hilton comes to town with new model boyfriend, but ends up
with 'Mindfreak' Criss
Angel.
Nicky
Hilton dumps Kevin Connolly after his
liason with her 18-year-old girlfriend.
Britney Spears takes revenge on
K-Fed by partying all night with her male
dancers.
It was an outrageous weekend of "Girls Gone Wild" partying as Hollywood's young sexy socialites and daring debutantes made it one 48-hour nonstop scandalous Sin City celebration that really makes huge headlines, and "Girls Gone Wild" producer Joe Francis was in the party group, just to stamp his professional approval on all the late-night partying!
They all flew in for the joint birthday parties of MTV's Nick Cannon and gorgeous Kim Kardashian at TAO. Kimberly, who is Paris Hilton's best girlfriend, is the daughter of my friend Kris Jenner, who is married to Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner. She was once married to prominent OJ Simpson defense attorney Robert Kardashian, who died from cancer after the trial. (Kris and Bruce have 6 wonderful kids: Kourtney, Kimberly, Kloe, Kendall, Kylie and Rober. Kourtney and Kloe own the DASH fashion store in Calabasas, where Paris is well-known for shopping up a storm!)
LEFT: Nick Cannon and Kim Kardashian. RIGHT: Paris Hilton and Kardashian.
For the 4th consecutive weekend, Paris showed the city she could rock non-stop as the world's ultimate party princess. Although she was wearing the massive bling bling watchthat Palms hotel tycoon George Maloof gave her when he took her to sister Nicky's birthday party, he wasn't on her arm this time around. This trip she brought this week's new boyfriend, New York model James Neate, a young, clean look-alike to former love Stavros Niarchos, but pre-dawn revelers were all abuzz over her close-up magic moves with magician Criss Angel who's recently been linked with Minnie Driver. First, she fooled the paparazzi by showing solo in her sparkly sequined Dash fashion party frock, for best girlfriend Kim Kardashian's birthday party, while the brand new beau waited quietly inside TAO. This way, nobody could link them together immediately and later they could cuddle and kiss away from prying cameras. They were both at the joint 25th birthday celebrations of her Kardashian and MTV's Nick Cannon, which was one wild dance party complete with champagne and birthday cake sparklers.
LEFT: Paris with model James Neate. RIGHT: Paris with Chicago Bear linebacker Brian Urlacher.
Next afternoon, Paris and James had been set to go on a daredevil skydiving trip from the nearby Boulder City Airport, with Kim and the birthday group, in a life and limb challenge. But, what seemed like a great active adventure over dinner, turned to "fear and freaking out," when the giggly gang realized they'd actually be leaping out from a plane! After numerous "it's off, it's on" phone calls to the Sky Diving team and waiting pilots, they finally decided to plan it for another time!
The 2nd round of all-night-naughtiness began at JET in the Mirage, where Paris Hilton and magician Criss Angel became an instant coupling as "he devilishly spent most of the night chasing the heiress around the club." According to a Luxe Life reader: "They sure looked chummy as he joined her for a hug-kiss provocative pole dance love-fest when her song, 'Stars are Blind,' came on." Paris was the center of attention, hanging with her new pal, topmodel James Neate and friends, and later she ran into her old friend, Chicago Bear Brian Urlacher. Also at JET watching all the shenanigans were St. Louis Rams' star running back Steven Jackson, and Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard.
Paris spends "quality time" with 'Mindfreak' magician Criss Angel.
Paris was determined not to let the club-crawl slow down, so she scooped up Criss and they all turned up at the suddenly hot all over again Body English, with comedian Jeff Beacher, where Paris managed to break away from the main group to spend some more close-up magic time with smitten magician Criss Angel in the VIP Parlor club. But, the night still wasn't over yet. By 4AM, the Paris posse kept the night on fire, moving to the after-hours Empire Ballroom, where operator Gino LePinto took Paris and her girlfriend on the center stage, where the two girls put on a hot sexy grooving show until nearly 6AM. Paris slipped her new CD to the DJ and, wearing her oversized white-framed sunglasses, kept the entire club rocking till sunup with nightclub kings Jason Strauss of TAO and Marklin Kennedy of LIGHT marveling at her stamina and wild enthusiasm!
The, for a 3rd consecutive night, Paris partied till dawn this morning and once again she was with 'Mindfreak' Criss Angel. The new couple, accompanied by heavyweight showman Jeff Beacher, turned up at Body English, where Vegas model/writer Tiffany Masters celebrated her birthday party with 200 well wishers. Paris had been due to return to L.A. yesterday, but stayed to party with Criss. No word on what happened to the beau she arrived in town with, model James Neate. At 7AM this morning, the revelers were just calling it a night, and now we're watching to see if and when Paris departs today and which beau she'll have with her.
NICKY DUMPS KEVIN
Nicky Hilton, left, and 'Entourage' actor Kevin Connelly, right,are no longer a couple.
Fashion designer Nicky Hilton broke up with longtime boyfriend Kevin Connelly of HBO's 'Entourage' less than 2 weeks after her 23rd birthday at PURE, when he gave her a diamond ring. At the last moment, before boarding the private jet to Vegas for gal pal Kim's party, she decided to stay home in Malibu, furious that 32-year-old Kevin had been linked with another girl while she'd been away on business in New York. My inside sources blamed film and music mogul Ted Field's 18-year-old daughter Brittany for being the "other woman" in the big breakup! "Nicky ended the relationship right there and then," I was told. "She kicked him out without a second thought. Kaboom. Gone, over with. She ended it! He's history and when she's made a decision she never goes back on it. This was one massive betrayal within a fairly small circle of close friends." Ted Field, listed by Forbes as one of America's 400 richest men, owns Interscope Records and Radar Pictures and is the heir to the Marshall Field department store fortunes. Nicky, heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune, is also developing a chain of her own hip-boutique hotels with the first one in Miami.
BRITNEY'S REVENGE
Britney Spears and hubby Kevin Federline during happier times.
Britney Spears' Strip night crawls were possible revenge on absent husband Kevin Federline and gossips are wondering just exactly what is going on with the confusing couple. She boycotted his Jay Leno Tonight show rap debut in Hollywood and instead partied with twoof hermale dancers and another gal pal in a private sky-box at TAO, suspiciously near the one that K-Fed partied in with 3 strippers 3 weeks ago! I was told she wanted to be far away from the main VIP dance-floor limelight and commandeered the private skybox so she could watch the dancing where she wouldn't be seen. She arrived at 1AM wearing a loose, flowing black dress over black leggings and stayed until nearly 3AM. She might have stuck to Voss water the previous night at PURE, but this time she was moving and grooving to Jack Daniels and Coke, so there goes the keep-fit regimen!! Critics blasted her husband's new rap song's sexually offensive lyrics and his dastardly dance moves! The pop-princess is supposed to help launch his new CD at a Hollywood Halloween Eve party and even promised to host a dinner for his contest's winning fan but now everybody's predicting a different kind of fright night!
EVEN MORE CELEBRITY PARTYING
Even with all those sensational and shocking stories that you read first here in Luxe Life, but know will appear a week from now in the tabloids, the near-unbelievable weekend continued on with a slew of other celebrity happenings:
... Van Helsing's Curse at the Hard Rock featured an amazing 18-piece orchestra that performed alongside Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider, who narrated a chilling story as the band performed remarkable versions of classic horror films and ominous songs that set the tone for our Halloween Season. At midnight Sunday, he and Suzette renewed their marriage vows for their 25th wedding anniversary. The bride wore black as magic maestro Penn Jillette officiated at the ceremony, held after the concert.
LEFT: Dee Snider with cast of Van Helsing's Curse. RIGHT: Snider with wife Suzette.
... Tonight Show host Jay Leno and 8-time Grammy Award winner, Natalie Cole were the headline entertainment at the Concert for Autism at the Mandalay Bay, emceed NBC newscaster Tom Brokaw. Our favorite Mayor, Oscar Goodman presented the charity's co-founders Suzanne and Bob Wright with the Key to the City.
LEFT: Mayor Oscar Goodman with Tom Brokaw. RIGHT: Our Mayor with Jay Leno.
... Even I got to mug with Pauly Shore at TAO, where he held his official show after-party, following his riotous House of Blues performance and he got to meet the brand new Ms. Nevada, 22-year-old Katherine Rees, who was in my festive dinner group.
LEFT: Yours truly with PaulyShore. RIGHT: Yours truly with Ms. Nevada, Katherine Rees.
... My old pal, artist Christian Riese Lassen, teamed up with the 10 Hawaiian Tropic models, featured in alltheir glory in November's Playboy Magazine, to unveil a $325,000 Yamaha piano that he painted with his trademark underwater images. At his Galerie Lassen in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, he told me he's also created the new underwater art labels of Hawaiian Tropic's 25th anniversary tanning lotion bottles. Afterwards he took them all for dinner at Social House, followed by champagne and dancing at Tangerine in the TI.
THE NEW VEGAS BIG TOP
LEFT: 'Cavalia' will make its debut at the Rio, Nov. 16. RIGHT: The 'Cavalia' big top at the Rio.
Vegas has a new and different skyline, with the largest 'big top' in North America, located in the rear parking area of the Rio. The 26,000 sq. ft tent features spiral towers 110 ft tall and can seat 2,000 spectators. The 160 ft stage was made from 2,500 tons of sand and features a 210-ft, multi-media curved projection screen. It's all for the Nov. 16 premiere of 'Cavalia' which, for the first time in Vegas, will mesmerize audiences with the lavish and unique coupling of humans and horses for extraordinary equestrian exercises and perplexing performances.
WAY TO GO GOODFELLA
Congratulations
to another friend, Steve Schirripa, (pictured) now
wrapping the final 7th season of 'The Sopranos,' as he's landed a new
late-night talk show on Fox which will be broadcast from Manhattan.
Steve
laughs that ,into the 4th episode of the new Sopranos, he hasn't yet
been knocked
off!! Spike TV has just renewed his other series, "Casino Cinema,"
for another season. Talk about busy, busy, busy. And he's still going
to find
time to join our Comic Relief fundraiser concert at the Comedy
Festival being
held at Caesars Palace mid-November.
ON THE TOWN
Also partying this weekend were the fighters of PRIDE. After the 1st ever PRIDE event in America, they went to PURE for Phil Baroni's after party with his fellow combatants, including Rampage Jackson, Josh Barnett, Vandelay Silva and Morris Day, lead singer of The Time with Harrah's/Flamingo hotel's president Don Marrandino. Fighter Dan Henderson opted for the outdoor terrace, while Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) and Jason Statham (The Transporter) were both at Body English for the PRIDE after party. Also attending the PRIDE fights were Chuck Norris and Ryan Howard, of the Philadelphia Phillies.
SANTA SHOWDOWN
This year Vegas will attempt to capture the world record of the largest Santa gathering.
This morning I'll join head Santa, Mayor Oscar Goodman as we announce a super Santa battle against the Beatles hometown of Liverpool, to capture the world record of the "Largest Santa" gathering. I will be the celebrity race chairman of the Dec. 9 event, which will raise funds for the wonderful work of Opportunity Village. The British city, close to where I worked for the Daily Mail in my early reporting career, holds the Guinness record with 3,921 Santa's, but I'm confident Vegas can beat that as a warm-up to our 2nd Vegas Marathon on Dec 10. We're even going to give away a 5-piece Santa suit, complete with hat, belt and beard, to the first 5,000 jolly joggers who signup at www.opportunityvillage.org. I'll keep you posted with full details as the signup picks up speed and we get closer to the battle-day. Please come support us so that, once we've won the world record, we can keep it here!
STRIP SCRIBBLES
The Holiday on Ice show taped at the weekend from the Orleans Arena will air on Christmas Day on NBC with Nancy Kerrigan and Brian Boitano's skaters and the smooth sounds of Anita Baker and Dave Koz neither of whom even dared don skates for a spin on the ice!! ... Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck starred at the weekend on the new season premiere of NBC's Las Vegas series with his non-existent restaurant in the mythical Montecito casino. ... Hilton headliner, Tony Bennett says he stays so young at 80 because he plays tennis as much as he can and while here he was on the courts every day for 2-hours at the Turnberry Place with pro-pal Marty Hennessey.
TONIGHT'S TIP
Late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial exhibition of his stark black & white male nudes opens at the Guggenheim Museum in The Venetian. For unbelievable drum/DJ action don't miss Ravidrums at JET in the Mirage- I watched him at a Hefner Playboy Mansion private party and he is an ace on the skins that can't be beat!
TOMORROW'S TEASE
It's the most inspirational story we've ever told in Luxe Life: from inside the Jungle Palace, Siegfried & Roy tell the amazing incredible story in their own words of Roy's unbelievable struggle for survival. You will be moved to tears with his extraordinary courage and strength.
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tell allin yourown words inspire us with an email to
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Paris Hilton Has a New Man, While Sister Nicky Dumps Hers; Plus, Britney Disses K-Fed
In This Issue:
It was an outrageous weekend of "Girls Gone Wild" partying as Hollywood's young sexy socialites and daring debutantes made it one 48-hour nonstop scandalous Sin City celebration that really makes huge headlines, and "Girls Gone Wild" producer Joe Francis was in the party group, just to stamp his professional approval on all the late-night partying!
They all flew in for the joint birthday parties of MTV's Nick Cannon and gorgeous Kim Kardashian at TAO. Kimberly, who is Paris Hilton's best girlfriend, is the daughter of my friend Kris Jenner, who is married to Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner. She was once married to prominent OJ Simpson defense attorney Robert Kardashian, who died from cancer after the trial. (Kris and Bruce have 6 wonderful kids: Kourtney, Kimberly, Kloe, Kendall, Kylie and Rober. Kourtney and Kloe own the DASH fashion store in Calabasas, where Paris is well-known for shopping up a storm!)
LEFT: Nick Cannon and Kim Kardashian. RIGHT: Paris Hilton and Kardashian.
For the 4th consecutive weekend, Paris showed the city she could rock non-stop as the world's ultimate party princess. Although she was wearing the massive bling bling watchthat Palms hotel tycoon George Maloof gave her when he took her to sister Nicky's birthday party, he wasn't on her arm this time around. This trip she brought this week's new boyfriend, New York model James Neate, a young, clean look-alike to former love Stavros Niarchos, but pre-dawn revelers were all abuzz over her close-up magic moves with magician Criss Angel who's recently been linked with Minnie Driver. First, she fooled the paparazzi by showing solo in her sparkly sequined Dash fashion party frock, for best girlfriend Kim Kardashian's birthday party, while the brand new beau waited quietly inside TAO. This way, nobody could link them together immediately and later they could cuddle and kiss away from prying cameras. They were both at the joint 25th birthday celebrations of her Kardashian and MTV's Nick Cannon, which was one wild dance party complete with champagne and birthday cake sparklers.
LEFT: Paris with model James Neate. RIGHT: Paris with Chicago Bear linebacker Brian Urlacher.
Next afternoon, Paris and James had been set to go on a daredevil skydiving trip from the nearby Boulder City Airport, with Kim and the birthday group, in a life and limb challenge. But, what seemed like a great active adventure over dinner, turned to "fear and freaking out," when the giggly gang realized they'd actually be leaping out from a plane! After numerous "it's off, it's on" phone calls to the Sky Diving team and waiting pilots, they finally decided to plan it for another time!
The 2nd round of all-night-naughtiness began at JET in the Mirage, where Paris Hilton and magician Criss Angel became an instant coupling as "he devilishly spent most of the night chasing the heiress around the club." According to a Luxe Life reader: "They sure looked chummy as he joined her for a hug-kiss provocative pole dance love-fest when her song, 'Stars are Blind,' came on." Paris was the center of attention, hanging with her new pal, topmodel James Neate and friends, and later she ran into her old friend, Chicago Bear Brian Urlacher. Also at JET watching all the shenanigans were St. Louis Rams' star running back Steven Jackson, and Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard.
Paris spends "quality time" with 'Mindfreak' magician Criss Angel.
Paris was determined not to let the club-crawl slow down, so she scooped up Criss and they all turned up at the suddenly hot all over again Body English, with comedian Jeff Beacher, where Paris managed to break away from the main group to spend some more close-up magic time with smitten magician Criss Angel in the VIP Parlor club. But, the night still wasn't over yet. By 4AM, the Paris posse kept the night on fire, moving to the after-hours Empire Ballroom, where operator Gino LePinto took Paris and her girlfriend on the center stage, where the two girls put on a hot sexy grooving show until nearly 6AM. Paris slipped her new CD to the DJ and, wearing her oversized white-framed sunglasses, kept the entire club rocking till sunup with nightclub kings Jason Strauss of TAO and Marklin Kennedy of LIGHT marveling at her stamina and wild enthusiasm!
The, for a 3rd consecutive night, Paris partied till dawn this morning and once again she was with 'Mindfreak' Criss Angel. The new couple, accompanied by heavyweight showman Jeff Beacher, turned up at Body English, where Vegas model/writer Tiffany Masters celebrated her birthday party with 200 well wishers. Paris had been due to return to L.A. yesterday, but stayed to party with Criss. No word on what happened to the beau she arrived in town with, model James Neate. At 7AM this morning, the revelers were just calling it a night, and now we're watching to see if and when Paris departs today and which beau she'll have with her.
NICKY DUMPS KEVIN
Nicky Hilton, left, and 'Entourage' actor Kevin Connelly, right,are no longer a couple.
Fashion designer Nicky Hilton broke up with longtime boyfriend Kevin Connelly of HBO's 'Entourage' less than 2 weeks after her 23rd birthday at PURE, when he gave her a diamond ring. At the last moment, before boarding the private jet to Vegas for gal pal Kim's party, she decided to stay home in Malibu, furious that 32-year-old Kevin had been linked with another girl while she'd been away on business in New York. My inside sources blamed film and music mogul Ted Field's 18-year-old daughter Brittany for being the "other woman" in the big breakup! "Nicky ended the relationship right there and then," I was told. "She kicked him out without a second thought. Kaboom. Gone, over with. She ended it! He's history and when she's made a decision she never goes back on it. This was one massive betrayal within a fairly small circle of close friends." Ted Field, listed by Forbes as one of America's 400 richest men, owns Interscope Records and Radar Pictures and is the heir to the Marshall Field department store fortunes. Nicky, heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune, is also developing a chain of her own hip-boutique hotels with the first one in Miami.
BRITNEY'S REVENGE
Britney Spears and hubby Kevin Federline during happier times.
Britney Spears' Strip night crawls were possible revenge on absent husband Kevin Federline and gossips are wondering just exactly what is going on with the confusing couple. She boycotted his Jay Leno Tonight show rap debut in Hollywood and instead partied with twoof hermale dancers and another gal pal in a private sky-box at TAO, suspiciously near the one that K-Fed partied in with 3 strippers 3 weeks ago! I was told she wanted to be far away from the main VIP dance-floor limelight and commandeered the private skybox so she could watch the dancing where she wouldn't be seen. She arrived at 1AM wearing a loose, flowing black dress over black leggings and stayed until nearly 3AM. She might have stuck to Voss water the previous night at PURE, but this time she was moving and grooving to Jack Daniels and Coke, so there goes the keep-fit regimen!! Critics blasted her husband's new rap song's sexually offensive lyrics and his dastardly dance moves! The pop-princess is supposed to help launch his new CD at a Hollywood Halloween Eve party and even promised to host a dinner for his contest's winning fan but now everybody's predicting a different kind of fright night!
EVEN MORE CELEBRITY PARTYING
Even with all those sensational and shocking stories that you read first here in Luxe Life, but know will appear a week from now in the tabloids, the near-unbelievable weekend continued on with a slew of other celebrity happenings:
... Van Helsing's Curse at the Hard Rock featured an amazing 18-piece orchestra that performed alongside Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider, who narrated a chilling story as the band performed remarkable versions of classic horror films and ominous songs that set the tone for our Halloween Season. At midnight Sunday, he and Suzette renewed their marriage vows for their 25th wedding anniversary. The bride wore black as magic maestro Penn Jillette officiated at the ceremony, held after the concert.
LEFT: Dee Snider with cast of Van Helsing's Curse. RIGHT: Snider with wife Suzette.
... Tonight Show host Jay Leno and 8-time Grammy Award winner, Natalie Cole were the headline entertainment at the Concert for Autism at the Mandalay Bay, emceed NBC newscaster Tom Brokaw. Our favorite Mayor, Oscar Goodman presented the charity's co-founders Suzanne and Bob Wright with the Key to the City.
LEFT: Mayor Oscar Goodman with Tom Brokaw. RIGHT: Our Mayor with Jay Leno.
... Even I got to mug with Pauly Shore at TAO, where he held his official show after-party, following his riotous House of Blues performance and he got to meet the brand new Ms. Nevada, 22-year-old Katherine Rees, who was in my festive dinner group.
LEFT: Yours truly with PaulyShore. RIGHT: Yours truly with Ms. Nevada, Katherine Rees.
... My old pal, artist Christian Riese Lassen, teamed up with the 10 Hawaiian Tropic models, featured in alltheir glory in November's Playboy Magazine, to unveil a $325,000 Yamaha piano that he painted with his trademark underwater images. At his Galerie Lassen in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, he told me he's also created the new underwater art labels of Hawaiian Tropic's 25th anniversary tanning lotion bottles. Afterwards he took them all for dinner at Social House, followed by champagne and dancing at Tangerine in the TI.
THE NEW VEGAS BIG TOP
LEFT: 'Cavalia' will make its debut at the Rio, Nov. 16. RIGHT: The 'Cavalia' big top at the Rio.
Vegas has a new and different skyline, with the largest 'big top' in North America, located in the rear parking area of the Rio. The 26,000 sq. ft tent features spiral towers 110 ft tall and can seat 2,000 spectators. The 160 ft stage was made from 2,500 tons of sand and features a 210-ft, multi-media curved projection screen. It's all for the Nov. 16 premiere of 'Cavalia' which, for the first time in Vegas, will mesmerize audiences with the lavish and unique coupling of humans and horses for extraordinary equestrian exercises and perplexing performances.
WAY TO GO GOODFELLA
Congratulations
to another friend, Steve Schirripa, (pictured) now
wrapping the final 7th season of 'The Sopranos,' as he's landed a new
late-night talk show on Fox which will be broadcast from Manhattan.
Steve
laughs that ,into the 4th episode of the new Sopranos, he hasn't yet
been knocked
off!! Spike TV has just renewed his other series, "Casino Cinema,"
for another season. Talk about busy, busy, busy. And he's still going
to find
time to join our Comic Relief fundraiser concert at the Comedy
Festival being
held at Caesars Palace mid-November.
ON THE TOWN
Also partying this weekend were the fighters of PRIDE. After the 1st ever PRIDE event in America, they went to PURE for Phil Baroni's after party with his fellow combatants, including Rampage Jackson, Josh Barnett, Vandelay Silva and Morris Day, lead singer of The Time with Harrah's/Flamingo hotel's president Don Marrandino. Fighter Dan Henderson opted for the outdoor terrace, while Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) and Jason Statham (The Transporter) were both at Body English for the PRIDE after party. Also attending the PRIDE fights were Chuck Norris and Ryan Howard, of the Philadelphia Phillies.
SANTA SHOWDOWN
This year Vegas will attempt to capture the world record of the largest Santa gathering.
This morning I'll join head Santa, Mayor Oscar Goodman as we announce a super Santa battle against the Beatles hometown of Liverpool, to capture the world record of the "Largest Santa" gathering. I will be the celebrity race chairman of the Dec. 9 event, which will raise funds for the wonderful work of Opportunity Village. The British city, close to where I worked for the Daily Mail in my early reporting career, holds the Guinness record with 3,921 Santa's, but I'm confident Vegas can beat that as a warm-up to our 2nd Vegas Marathon on Dec 10. We're even going to give away a 5-piece Santa suit, complete with hat, belt and beard, to the first 5,000 jolly joggers who signup at www.opportunityvillage.org. I'll keep you posted with full details as the signup picks up speed and we get closer to the battle-day. Please come support us so that, once we've won the world record, we can keep it here!
STRIP SCRIBBLES
The Holiday on Ice show taped at the weekend from the Orleans Arena will air on Christmas Day on NBC with Nancy Kerrigan and Brian Boitano's skaters and the smooth sounds of Anita Baker and Dave Koz neither of whom even dared don skates for a spin on the ice!! ... Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck starred at the weekend on the new season premiere of NBC's Las Vegas series with his non-existent restaurant in the mythical Montecito casino. ... Hilton headliner, Tony Bennett says he stays so young at 80 because he plays tennis as much as he can and while here he was on the courts every day for 2-hours at the Turnberry Place with pro-pal Marty Hennessey.
TONIGHT'S TIP
Late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial exhibition of his stark black & white male nudes opens at the Guggenheim Museum in The Venetian. For unbelievable drum/DJ action don't miss Ravidrums at JET in the Mirage- I watched him at a Hefner Playboy Mansion private party and he is an ace on the skins that can't be beat!
TOMORROW'S TEASE
It's the most inspirational story we've ever told in Luxe Life: from inside the Jungle Palace, Siegfried & Roy tell the amazing incredible story in their own words of Roy's unbelievable struggle for survival. You will be moved to tears with his extraordinary courage and strength.
CONTACT US
You can
tell allin yourown words inspire us with an email to
robinsvegas@aol.com. To
ensure you don't miss one always up-to-the minute edition,
click
here
or at the 'Alert Me' up top if you'd like to know the
split-second we
post the brand new Luxe Life.Go to AOL Vegas for much more on hotels, casinos, restaurants, nightlife, and everything Las Vegas! Check our travel section for great deals on hotels, airfare and much more! And when visiting Vegas, besure to see Las Vegas Magazine in your hotel suite featuring a print edition of AOL Vegas Luxe Life, and an incredible directory of attractions, shows and restaurants.
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