Star Jones Reynolds

Tim Gunn wasn’t the only recognizable pillar of style at last night’s Safe Horizon gala. Iman, who is married to skeletal singer David Bowie, was there too! The former model’s towering frame, visually striking as it entered the venue, bedimmed her vintage silver dress and faux fur-lined coat. Glowing as she was, we thought she looked nothing of her 52 years.

Being safe in Iman’s view doesn’t involve a security detail, or even an iron-clad insurance policy. Instead, she said, feeling secure is a state-of-mind, one that exists apart from her own environment. “It’s just the idea of being safe for all children, whether they’re in Darfur or Lower Manhattan,” said the cosmetics queen, whose eponymous line of maquillage had set up a booth at the event. (Several creative-types—from performance artists to interior decorators—were asked to contribute works that convey their notion of safety.) “For me, in terms of being safe, just the idea of knowing, having the freedom that you can live a life without violence, abuse and all of that.”

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On Monday, Oct. 29, the irrepressible Don King was clogging up the entrance to his dear friend Denise Rich’s Angel Ball, which benefits cancer research.  read more »

On Saturday, June 16, former View virago Star Jones hosted a lavish 37th birthday party for her hubby Al Reynolds and 30 of his nearest and dearest at the Estate, a posh new private mansion in Southampton.  read more »

Where's Ted Casablanca? The venerable E! News gossip disappeared without explanation last month from the cable airwaves. He still operates a online column-cum-blog, The Awful Truth, where on August 1 he told fans who noticed his absence, "I'm starting to know how Star Jones Reynolds felt." Hmm? NYTV asked; Mr. Casablanca answered. "All I can say, at this point, is my column will appear (amped) someplace else as of next June," he wrote in an e-mail. Where will he go? What will he do? Is E! letting such divine talent slip away? A network representative had the following response tonight. "Ted is still very much with eonline. He's a very valuable member of their staff." She added: "I can't speak to his contract, but everybody here's like, 'What?'" —Rebecca Dana

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James Lipton, watch your back. Star Jones Reynolds is nipping at your heels.  read more »

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