Missing Dress Turns up on Juliette Lewis at the Oscars!

I overheard this little piece of gossip the other night, one of my good friends, fashion designer Julia Clancey, was left a little gobsmacked when she discovered two of her creations – a dress and a handmade necklace worth $4000 that had gone missing over 9 months ago mysteriously turn up worn by actress Juliette Lewis at a rep carpet event here in LA.

Sam Phillips’ Boulevard of ‘Birthday’ Dreams!

There were certainly no signs of long faces OR dampened spirits at the surprise birthday bash for ‘former’ CBS radio host Sam Phillips, this week.

I arrived at the party with my best friend – actor Craig Young, and to be honest I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the night as Sam, just days before had received some very bad news regarding work… I’ll explain!

The Oscars: Sir Elton John’s Goodie Bag’s GONE!

Sir Elton John and David Furnish hosted their annual extravagant Oscar party with a glittering guest list of Brit’ stars who turned up in their finery, including Kate Beckinsale, Zeta Graff, Simon Cowell, Terri Seymour, Gordon Ramsay, Katie Price, Victoria Beckham, oh and me…

Berggruen’s Blowout Bash!

Nicolas Berggruen, is a 46 year-old ‘homeless’ billionaire (or so the story goes) and a familiar figure in New York, Paris, and London society.

Berggruen hosts this particular lavish ‘blowout bash’ annually. He has his own billion-dollar business called Berggruen Holdings and is a son of the late Heinz Berggruen, one of the most successful international art dealers of the 20th century.

So there I was another night at another party, however I was rather looking forward to this one as it was actually tipped to be one of the best in town, but Er… sadly it was not, well, not this year anyway…

The ‘Real’ Brits in LA LA!

It’s Oscar week here in LA and the Brit contingent are out in force, so of course my diary is packed… Hangovers expected!

My week kicked off on Tuesday night when I attended the party for socialite and ‘self-created’ photographer Amanda Eliasch, to promote her new book Cloak & Dagger Butterfly, which she describes as “a piece of work that brings the art of the love letter into the Blackberry age”. Amanda tells me, “It’s collection of emails written at night to or about my illicit lovers which run alongside my own photographs of sexy scantily clad models in provocative or post-coital poses.”

Two Julia’s Reign Supreme in Tinseltown!

 

Plans often go awry in Los Angeles so I tend not to make them, I had originally set out to attend the signing of publicist, Howard Bragman’s new book WHERE’S MY FIFTEEN MINUTES – a title which speaks for itself really but I arrived late and when I got there they were already packing up, so, l said my quick “hellos,” “good lucks” and “goodbyes” to Howard and decided to head over to the ‘Private Shopping Spree’ event at Catherine Malandrino Maison’s store in West Hollywood being hosted by fellow compatriot Lady Victoria Hervey.

Money bags: Beckham’s Blinging Chrimbo Gift!

For some of us, the economic downturn is about shopping our closets and brown bagging our lunches to save a little extra cash, but as the rest of the world draws in its belts and tries to ride out the recession…

It appears Victoria Beckham is doing quite the opposite as she proudly showed off her pricey Christmas prezzie from husband DAVID – an £80,000 HANDBAG when she atended his debut game for AC Milan in Dubai…

‘PAPERTHIN’ is Paper-chic!

I love seeing my friends doing well, so of course I was thrilled to be invited to last night’s event hosted by the very talented singer and photographer Deborah Anderson, who launched her fine art coffee table book, PAPERTHIN at Minotti on Beverly Boulevard – West Hollywood.

PAPERTHIN is a limited edition release which features erotic laced, sensual black and white images which are a part of a multi dimensional Art installation. Featuring talents such as Minnie Driver, Pink, Fergie, Natasha Hendstridge, Sophie Dahl, Tilda Swinton and of course Deborah.