Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Foxx, 50 Cent, Karlie Kloss, Grace Van Patten, Ja Rule and Marc Jacobs led the parade of glitterati to Florida for Miami Art Week.
The first fair to open was Nick Korniloff and Pamela Cohen’s Art Miami, which attracted 80,000 visitors to view works by Andy Warhol, Banksy, Salvador Dalí, Fernando Botero and 500 other artists from 160 galleries and 24 countries.
Among the standouts was Yayoi Kusama, whose giant yellow pumpkin with black polka dots in a mirrored exhibit stole the show, as did photographer Martin Schoeller’s portraits of Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie.
After the opening, collectors flocked to the beach outside the Faena Hotel to see artist Es Devlin’s installation titled “The Library of Us,” a luminous 20-foot-tall triangular bookcase and reading room floating in a pool of water.
Among the New Yorkers spotted out on the town were style icon Di Mondo and plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Berlet.
Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, who owns the Ritz-Carlton New York in NoMad as well as several others in the Miami area, was among the collectors admiring architect Peter Marino’s collection of silver vases and decorative serving plates at Design Miami.
Later in the week, the main event was the opening of Art Basel Miami, which showed major works by Edward Hopper, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman and Basquiat.
Perusing the booths were skincare leader Peter Thomas Roth, wellness guru Meera Gandhi, art patron Beth Rudin DeWoody, lighting designer Bentley Meeker, and PR experts Susan Magrino and R. Couri Hay.
Philanthropist Jean Shafiroff — who just plunked down over $17 million for a contemporary waterfront home in Manalapan, Fla. — hosted a show called “Beyond the Velvet Rope: Nights at Studio 54,” which featured photographs by Sonia Moskowitz of Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, Diana Ross, Grace Jones, Truman Capote, Peter Beard, Yves Saint Laurent, Halston and Pelé partying at the legendary club.
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Beyoncé didn’t go to Las Vegas just to watch the Formula 1 Grand Prix. She had 5 million reasons to go — as in $5 million, one source said.
As gamblers have found closer casinos or learned how to bet on sports with their phones, they’ve been avoiding Nevada, so Vegas is trying to lure a more luxe crowd.
Part of the draw at the third year of Formula 1 Las Vegas was Beyoncé, who dressed up in a custom, racing-style Louis Vuitton jumpsuit.
Beyoncé ditched her husband, Jay-Z, to take a spin around the course with Lewis Hamilton, followed by a meeting with Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali.
Among other stars watching the race were Mark Wahlberg, Travis Scott, Jeremy Renner, Cynthia Erivo, Gordon Ramsay, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Also in town were supermodel Naomi Campbell, who played a DJ set at the Bellagio Fountain Club, and John Mayer, who sang his hits at the Wynn hotel for the afterparty of Ultimate Race Week.
If you missed this year’s Las Vegas Grand Prix, don’t stress. The F1 masterminds have extended their contract with the city through 2027, with talks underway for up to an additional 10 years.
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If you run into Benicio del Toro, watch out — those black-belt moves in “One Battle After Another” are the real deal.
“I know karate and some jujutsu,” he revealed at a cast Q&A and luncheon at the Chelsea Hotel last week. “I’ve had to do the sweeper move.”
That’s where one of his legs moves behind his opponent and sweeps them onto the floor. We had to ask: In a bar fight? “No, but sometimes it can get crowded,” he joked.
Alongside del Toro were his co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall and Chase Infiniti. No one got hurt.
In the audience of Oscar and Critics’ Choice voters were proud moms Katie Holmes and Rosanna Arquette.
“My daughter, Zoe Bleu, is in the new ‘Dracula,’ out in February,” Arquette said. “We were just in Rome for different things and I saw her walk the red carpet.”
Arquette said she tends to stay out of the way regarding her daughter’s career, but did say the two would love to do a project together and teased something may be in the works.
Holmes reported her daughter Suri is a sophomore “at Carnegie Mellon studying the arts and loves it.”
OK, ladies. Well, if they need a bodyguard, just call del Toro.
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An eight-foot-tall bar cart commissioned by Frank Sinatra in 1990 just sold for six figures.
New Orleans-based gallery M.S. Rau sold the brass-and-granite Empire State Building Drinks Cabinet featured in Sinatra’s ANA Airlines ad campaign celebrating the launch of nonstop flights from New York to Paris.
The liquor cabinet opens to reveal illuminated tiers of glass shelves with martini glasses, a silver shaker and an ice bucket. The Art Deco piece mirrors the classic lines of the 1931 building that inspired it.
Attorney Arthur Aidala, a huge Sinatra fan, should have bought it.
Aidala is the most recent dean of the now-shuttered Friars Club on East 55th St., where Ol’ Blue Eyes tipped a glass with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
Aidala also has a Sinatra Room at his firm’s Fifth Avenue offices. On Dec. 12, he and his team of 29 lawyers will mark what would have been the singer’s 110th birthday by cracking open a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select, created to commemorate the singer’s loyalty to the whiskey.
Whenever Sinatra was performing, his list of requirements always included three bottles of Jack. He was even buried with one.
Rudy Giuliani, Lawrence Taylor and Alan Dershowitz are among the firm’s clients who have hung out in the Sinatra Room, as well as Mayor Eric Adams, Megyn Kelly, Andrew Cuomo and other VIPs who have all appeared on Aidala’s radio show, “The Power Hour” on AM 970.
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Japanese rock star Yoshiki is generous with his money, frequently donating large sums to victims of disaster.
Last year, he gave $500,000 to relief efforts following the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, and donated another $100,000 to support victims of last month’s high-rise fire in Hong Kong that killed at least 159 people and left more than 2,000 others homeless.
“When I see people suffering from such catastrophic disasters, I cannot stand by,” Yoshiki said. “I have performed many times in L.A. and Hong Kong and have felt the warmth of the people there. I pray that relief comes swiftly, and that the communities can begin to heal.”
The Yoshiki Foundation America has provided over $3 million in aid since it launched in 2010.
Yoshiki, who also gave $100,000 last week to help flood victims in Thailand and Indonesia, was named among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025 and inducted to the Asian Hall of Fame last month.
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Artist Mark Kostabi celebrated a “milestone birthday” with a lavish party at his Roman villa.
The 5,000-square-foot property, which Kostabi purchased in 2023, features four terraces, a garden, a guesthouse, a wine cellar and even an 1,800-year-old Roman sarcophagus, which he promises is the “real thing.”
Local creatives on his birthday guest list included painter Enzo Cucchi, percussionist Tony Esposito, TV host Teo Mammucari and former Miss Universe-turned-fashion designer Regina Schrecker. Dinner was catered by Salvatore Bianco, Madonna’s favorite chef in Rome.
Kostabi made a birthday toast and bragged, “I may have just turned 65 — retirement age, but I feel my real career is just beginning. The world has only seen a tiny glimpse of the true Kostabimania ahead!”
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“Real Housewives of New York City” alum Luann de Lesseps, “Million Dollar Matchmaker” Patti Stanger, and “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Lisa Barlow are among the fans of designer Julie Karlitz’s Strap-Its bras with interchangeable straps.
Just in time for the holidays, Karlitz has released a new line of festive straps, from glitzy crystals and pearls to vegan leather and animal prints, which allow wearers to customize their own look for under $25
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Out & About: Sarah Jessica Parker, Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Miller, actress Ilene Kristen and producer Steve Garrin at the Century Club for a screening of Kim A. Snyder’s timely documentary “The Librarians.” The film follows librarians across the country as they unite to fight book banning and defend First Amendment rights amid unprecedented censorship.
