By Stephen Jacob Smith 2/25 4:49pm

Manhattan Transfers

Don't worry, 100 Eleventh Avenue residents, Rasputin has not risen from the dead—that's just Vincent Gallo.

Indie Filmmaker Vincent Gallo Picks Up Nouvel Pad

Ladies, gird your loins—indie film star and would-be prostitute Vincent Gallo is moving to New York. (In case you’re curious, Mr. Gallo offers his services for $50,000 a night, $1 million for sperm and another half million if you want “natural insemination,” according to his website.)

Mr. Gallo, perhaps best known for being fellated by Chloë Sevigny in his 2003 art house film The Brown Bunny, just picked up a one-bedroom condo at 100 Eleventh Avenue, Jean Nouvel’s bespeckled blue West Chelsea erection. He snagged the apartment from Diane Zuckerman and Michael Hite, who were apparently desperate to sell, because they parted with the fifth-floor unit for $2 million—a hefty discount from the $2.4 million that they paid the developer for the unit back in 2010, when the city’s real estate market was still reeling from the recession. Read More

By Andrew Sarris 6/09/09 8:33pm

Oh, Brother! Coppola Goes Back to the Family for Indie Treat

Tetro
Running time 127 minutes
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring  Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Aiden Ehrenrich

Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, from his own screenplay (partially in Spanish with English subtitles), conveys a sense of his own life and career convulsing wildly between fulfillment and tragedy, triumph and debacle. Now 70, Mr. Coppola Read More

By Tom McGeveran 11/23/07 2:59pm

Gossip Roundup: Vincent Gallo and Terry Richardson Wish You an Annoying Thanksgiving; Nicole Richie's Turkey-Day Good Deed!

Yawn. What? Right. Here’s the gossip round-up for Nov. 23, 2008, Thanksgiving Friday and possibly the slowest news day ever.

An eight-months-pregnant Nicole Richie and her friend, the society disc jockeyess Samantha Ronson, volunteered at a Hollywood soup kitchen yesterday.

Jennifer Aniston recently attended her 20th high school reunion at Read More

By Gabriel Sherman 12/27/04 12:00am

Scandal! Greed! Conniving! Gluttony! Gallo In $2.4 M. Flip. Plus: Gail Gregg Sells Studio; Soros Gets $5 M. in Village

Brown Bunny auteur and downtown fixture Vincent Gallo may take risks with film critics (Roger Ebert lambasted the movie as “The worst film in the history of the [Cannes] festival”; Mr. Gallo retorted with unkind remarks about morbid obesity), but he certainly counts his chips in the high-stakes Manhattan real-estate poker game.

After already swapping Read More

By Jake Brooks, Blair Golson, Jessica Joffe and Marcus Baram 7/26/04 12:00am

Hip-hoprisy

Sean (P. Diddy) Combs is not known for being at a loss for words.

But the hip-hop impresario was speechless for several seconds when The Transom asked him about his own voting record at a press conference on Tuesday morning to introduce Citizen Change, the voter-registration task force that he founded. Asked about the last Read More

By NYO Staff 1/26/04 12:00am

G.O.P. Gallo

Vincent Gallo, actor, director and conservative, sounded like he’d just won something.

“I want to thank you guys for inviting me here today. It’s a big honor,” he told the crowd of pearl- and pinstripe-wearing Young Republicans who had gathered to hear him speak at their monthly meeting on Jan. 15. With his shaggy hair, Read More

By Rex Reed 9/22/03 12:00am

Sayonara Toronto! Thanks-I Think

Heading into last week’s homestretch at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival, I began to realize, somewhere between The Best of Youth , a six-hour challenge about an embattled Italian family told against the unraveling social and political events of the last 40 years, and The Saddest Music in the World , one of an Read More

By Frank DiGiacomo 6/09/03 12:00am

Vincent Gallo’s Bunny Trop

Vincent Gallo posed a question. “Would you want to go see your movie with 3,500 people?” the shaggy-haired, fierce-eyed filmmaker asked, his sinewy voice piercing the Art Deco stillness of Petrossian. “Just think about it. Would you want to go see your movie with 3,500 opinions?”

Mr. Gallo clanked his fork against his untouched plate Read More

By Frank DiGiacomo 5/12/03 12:00am

May Day for New Oligarchs

Beneath the striking W.P.A. murals of the New York State Supreme Courthouse, real-estate scion Billy Rudin reached across the dinner table on May 1 to shake the hand of News Corp. heir Lachlan Murdoch. “If I can help you …” Mr. Rudin said, and let his offer hang unfinished in the dull roar of the Read More