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Wendi's Deng Determined At Her Movie Premieres

Wendi Deng Murdoch, who made Tuesday morning by slapping her husband’s assailant at the News Corporation hearings in London, hasn’t let her family legal drama affect her unduly. Last Wednesday, she attended a Cinema Society screening of the film she produced, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, with guests including Nicole Kidman (the Australian pal Read More

Stern Suit Alleges that Burkle Owns [em]Radar[/em]

Whether or not billionaire Ron Burkle is an investor in Radar–despite plenty of speculation–has never been fully established. Indeed, Mr. Burkle has never said he is an investor on the record.

However, in former Page Six freelance writer Jared Paul Stern’s lawsuit, filed today against Burkle, Ronald Sitrick, William Sherman, the Read More

Ex-Post Keyholer Says He’s Cleared on Extortion Rap

Jared Paul Stern, a former contributor to the New York Post gossip column Page Six, is baring his teeth at his enemies.

Or his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, is.

On Jan. 23, Mr. Tacopina issued a statement saying that he’d gotten a call about his client from the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Mr. Stern was widely rumored Read More

Ron Burkle: I Won’t Question the Feds

Mike Sitrick, a spokesperson for Ron Burkle, just released a statement regarding the news that Jared Paul Stern will not be charged.

“The facts speak very clearly for themselves, as media reports on the contents of the tapes have demonstrated.

“Mr. Burkle followed the government’s instructions from the onset: From their directive that he record Read More

Jared Paul Stern To Not Be Charged

Jared Paul Stern has been notified that he will not be charged with a crime by the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Since last April, Mr. Stern, a former Page Six writer, has waited on word from any law enforcement office regarding allegations of extortion or blackmail due to his interactions with supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle.

Joe Read More

Jared Paul Stern Is Slouching Back With Book, Lawsuit

“You know the average Post reader is a complete cretin,” Jared Paul Stern said.

Mr. Stern, the fallen gossip columnist, has sold a nonfiction book to Touchstone Fireside, a division of Simon & Schuster.

“But we’re not writing it for them,” Mr. Stern said, of that majority of his former readers in the New York Read More

Stone Slashes; Burkle Buying?


Stone Phillips.

Television journalist Stone Phillips has just slashed $1 million off the asking price for his West 72nd Street penthouse, according to the New York Post. The Dateline NBC anchor is now asking $4.45 million for the apartment, listed with the Corcoran Group. And good news: there’s an Read More