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Return to Sender! These Celebs Might Want to Change Their Email Accounts

Last March, we did a socialite-laden post about the dangers of accidentally CC'ing everyone on an invite list instead of using BCC. In most circumstances, you chalk the mistake up to a faux-pas and feel a momentary twinge of embarrassment. Of course, if you are a photographer to the stars, this might lead to more sticky situations.

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The Wee Hours: Steven Brill’s Uptown Book Bash, and Doctor Doom’s Downtown House Party

“There aren’t many dissenters in the room,” said another young man at the party Monday night for Steven Brill’s new book, Class Warfare, about education reform in the United States. The young man, blond, worked with one of the schooling organizations celebrated in the book. “But, us two,” he continued to The Observer. “We’re certainly Read More

This Week’s Parties from Patrick McMullan

The Modern McMullans: Young Liam and Artsy Aesha Hitch a Ride to Rockaway Beach

"LET ME TAKE YOUR PICTURE," Liam McMullan said. It was late May at the Southampton Social Club, and the lanky 23-year-old stood in front of me with a camera covering his face. He was there on assignment for his father, Patrick McMullan, the house photographer to the city’s social set. The camera shutter clicked. “Oh, Read More

In Other News…: Patrick McMullan Gives Bill Keller Proverbial Middle Finger

- If you look at one thing today, let it be this. Patrick McMullan a) doesn't know who Bill Keller is and b) misspells Arthur Sulzberger's name. It's genius.

- So, apparently the Titanic was sunk by human error. Nice try. We've seen Titanic enough times to know it was HUBRIS, plain and simple, Read More

Chloë Sevigny: Don Hill’s Party Revives Spirit of The Beatrice

Iggy Pop, in all his full shirtless and sweaty glory, stood gripping the mic stand on stage at Dasha Zhukova's Pop Magazine party at Don Hill's last night. It was the most buzzed-about event of Fashion's Night Out and chances are, if you were there, you were there for a reason.

Too bad Iggy Pop doesn't Read More

Shooting War: Party Photog Billy Farrell Leaves Patrick McMullan Behind

"I, last night, slept on the floor here," Billy Farrell explained last week in his new studio on West 20th Street. Mr. Farrell, a photographer who has just started his own agency, could do worse: The roughly rectangular space isn't large, but it is bright and airy, with blond hardwood floors and floor-to-ceiling windows along Read More

Lehman Alone: Vanity Fair‘s Vicky Wards Off Well-Wishers With Formidable Frock

Old media overtook the Four Seasons restaurant on Wednesday, April 6, celebrating the release of Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward's book The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, wherein the Cambridge-bred beauty, who recently split from her husband, Matthew Doull, chronicles the demise of the ill-fated investment Read More

It’s Madtown!

Gherardo Guarducci and Dimitri Pauli, the two handsome Italian owners of Sant Ambroeus in the West Village, were sitting recently on a spacious leather banquette in the dining room of their latest venture, Casa Lever, under the watchful Technicolor gaze of 10 original Warhol portraits (Bob Colacello, Robert Mapplethorpe, Giorgio Armani) on the opposite wall.

What Are Hampton Celebs Searching For? Love, Margaritas, Dignity

Publicist Peggy Siegel’s Aug. 15 screening of My One and Only, a film about extremely tanned actor George Hamilton’s childhood, starring Renée Zelleweger, was hosted at a beautiful private home in Bridgehampton. Outside, guests were ushered down a stairwell and to a large screening room with a concession stand, which many seemed to find more Read More

Paula Froelich’s Mercurial World: ‘Society Is Pretty Much Dead,’ Says Sassy Page Six Vet

Gossip writer Paula Froelich opened the front door to her one-bedroom Soho apartment on a recent evening, wearing a flattering emerald dress with puffy sleeves and woolly, moccasin-style slippers.

She had one hour, she warned, before she had to run out and meet Daily Candy founder Dany Levy and socialite Gigi Howard for Read More

XOXO! Photographer Patrick McMullan Stars on Gossip Girl Tonight

Party photographer Patrick McMullan plays himself in an episode of Gossip Girl airing Monday night, March 30.

“I’m probably getting more attention from the coming attraction than on the show itself,” Mr. McMullan told the Daily Transom, referring to the brief half-second during which his mug appeared in a preview that aired last Read More

Socialites Come Out of Hibernation for Patrick McMullan at Elaine’s

It's been a long, cold, economically devastating winter, but at Elaine's on Tuesday night for Patrick McMullan's party celebrating his 20 years with Interview magazine, the crowd was partying as though the events of the past few months were a bad hallucination. Or maybe everyone was hibernating in St. Barths, Tulum, Vermont, upstate New York, Read More

Patrick McMullan’s ‘Iconic’ Images, Altered by Son Liam, Are For Sale

The last time we checked in with Jeff Goldstein, the sometimes testy, but always charming former club promoter who parlayed throwing parties while still in high school with friends like Shoshanna Lonstein (who went to the all-girls school Nightingale-Bamford) and Claire Bernard (who went to Riverdale) into a hip clothing store for the Read More

Page Six Magazine‘s Liam McMullan On New Column: ‘It’s Going to Be More About What I See Than What I Do’

As we learned from the Village Voice's Michael Musto, Liam McMullan, whom The Observer's Spencer Morgan profiled in June, will be replacing Lydia Hearst as a columnist for Page Six Magazine. We gave Mr. McMullan, son of nightlife photographer Patrick McMullan, a call to find out what we could expect from the weekly Read More