Harvey Weinstein saw his ex-wife Georgina Chapman on the Golden Globes telecast and was happy for her.
Chapman’s boyfriend of six years, Adrien Brody, won Best Performance by a Male Actor for his star turn in “The Brutalist.”
Weinstein, behind bars for rape, has been shuttling between Rikers Island and Bellevue where he’s been treated for a bad heart and leukemia.
One source said Weinstein is happy for his ex and stated, “Brody is a good guy and she deserves that after what she went through with me.”
****
Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber made a last-ditch attempt to salvage their relationship in Mexico over the holidays.
The genetically gifted duo stayed at the home of Gerber’s parents, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, at the exclusive El Dorado Golf & Beach Club in Los Cabos, Mexico.
The couple, together for about three years, officially broke up earlier this week.
Other boldface names at the posh resort included Glen Powell, who was on the most recent cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue, Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine and billionaire Neil Bluhm and his wife, Kimberly Paige Bluhm.
Butler and the supermodel kept a low profile while staying at the club where Amal and George Clooney also have a home.
****
The fight between Blake Lively and her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, has some interesting protagonists.
Lively has her husband, “Deadpool” star Ryan Reynolds, on her side, while Baldoni has Steve Sarowitz, who made billions founding Paylocity before launching Wayfarer Studios with Baldoni.
Lively claims she was subjected to harassment while filming, but Sarowitz told Forbes magazine “the actual harassment and smear campaign both occurred and continues to occur against us.”
Sarowitz, who like Baldoni is a follower of the Baha’i faith, called Lively’s accusations “vicious lies.”
Since both sides are suing each other, this could keep going.
****
Mark Kostabi rang in the new year by opening an exhibition of his art at Dorchester’s Hotel Eden in Rome.
Among the guests was Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, the sister of Qatar’s ruling emir.
Al-Mayassa chairs the Qatar Museums, and has an annual acquisition budget estimated at $1 billion. She bought a Gauguin for $300 million and a Cezanne for $250 million.
Also there were singer Greesi Desiree Langovits and White Zombie co-founder Paul Kostabi — who both performed as a trio with Mark on piano at the $1,000 per person (not including alcohol) sold-out dinner.
Kostabi also created a live painting, which was the first he signed in 2025 at the stroke of midnight while the revelers enjoyed the fireworks blanketing the eternal city.
The art market has been in the doldrums lately but Kostabi is selling art on television in Italy, QVC style, a long-standing Italian practice that his American art gallery, Park West, has embraced with success.
****
Brooklyn born-and-bred comic Olga Namer wowed the audience at West Side Comedy Club for The Carlebach Shul’s 20th annual comedy celebration.
“Everyone tells me to date a nice guy, but nice guys are so boring,” Namer confessed. “I was on a date with a nice guy and I was like, ‘Should we get a third glass of wine?’ He said, ‘Ooo, you trying to get me drunk.’ And I was like, ‘No! I’m trying to black out!’”
****
Out & About: Author Jean Shafiroff gave a party honoring The NY Women’s Foundation. Among the guests were +Body designer Julia Haart, Frank Schilling and Gabi Petrylaite, Nicole Noonan and Steven Knobel, and couturier Ron Dyce … “Dancing with the Stars” host Julianne Hough and hairstylist Chaz Dean, whose clients include Brooke Shields and Kelly Bensimon, did a sexy, impromptu tango at the show’s 33rd season finale after-party.
