Morning Memo: Whitney Port's Already Working for DVF; Pirates Attack a Real Estate Investor's Yacht; Samantha Ronson's New Book

The Hills' Whitney Port may have already started her new job working as in-house PR for Diane von Furstenberg. [NY Daily News]

Gotham magazine editor and socialite Cristina Greeven Cuomo is reportedly next in line to make an appearance on Gossip Girl. [P6]  

Jonathan Leitersdorf--real-estate investor and former owner of Noho's Sky Studios, an 11,000 square foot event space where the Seinfelds got married and several episodes of Sex and the City were shot--owns a 178-foot yacht that was just attacked by pirates off the coast of Corsica. The men were carrying "rifles and guns" and made off with $200,000 in cash, jewelry, and art work. [Cityfile] 

Samantha Ronson is writing a book, and Michael Lohan is not too pleased about it. [E!]  

Did the Gambino family bring down Eliot Spitzer? [P6] 

Russell Simmons and his yoga instructor had a yoga face-off in the Hamptons--and the instructor won. [P6] 

Charlize Theron doesn't understand why the media would want to photograph her at the DNC. [NY Daily News] 

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