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  Jean Shafiroff Sandra Sanches With Henry Buhl, Jean Shafiroff And Patrick McMullan Philanthropist, author and Television host Jean Shafiroff hosted a reception at her New York home to honor the birthday of Patrick McMullan and to support the upcoming ACE Programs for the Homeless New York Gala. The private event brought together 150 birthday well-wishers and friends of Patrick as well as supporters of the charity to cheer the organization’s mission to help the homeless in New York City. Guests enjoyed drinks, hors d’oeuvres and a chance to catch-up during the NY Fashion Week season. Although planned as a 2-hour reception guests continued enjoying the event until midnight, including an impromptu performance by Jill Hennessy. Patrick McMullan With Jean Shafiroff, Rebecca Seawright And Henry Buhl   Jean Shafiroff With Jill Henessey Jean Shafiroff With Patrick McMullan And Luann De Lesseps Henry Buhl, Patrick McMullan and Jean Shafiroff received citations from NYS Assemblywoman ...

**** DANCING IN NEW YORK CITY Photos By: Patrick McMullan **** Jean Shafiroff And Harvey Weinstein Holt McCallany Countess Luann DeLesseps Bebe Neuwirth Harvey Weinstein And Joel Grey Jonathan Ritter & Melanie Moore The 33rd Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which recognizes outstanding achievement in dance on Broadway and in film each season, honored Broadway legend Joel Grey as well as film and theater producer Harvey Weinstein at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The gala evening was hosted by Two-Time Drama Desk Award nominated actress Christina Bianco. Presented by Patricia Watt, the Producer of the Astaire Awards and The Douglas Watt Family Fund for the Performing Arts, as well as The Fred Astaire International Dance Studios, the event began with a VIP cocktail reception followed by the show and awards presentation. For the first time, the awards were live-streamed across the United States....

**** THE HAMPTONS GOSSIP **** Thelma Houston With Gerry Logue And Countess Luann de Lesseps Carl Bernstein With Jim And Amy Chanos Miracle House, a New York City charity that provides temporary housing, meals and advocacy to caregivers and patients coming to the city for critical medical treatment held its 20th Anniversary Gala, in the Hamptons. It was the charity’s most successful event to date, raising over $700,000.At the event at the Bridgehampton Surf & Tennis Club, Bravo’s Andy Cohen convinced Real Housewives of New York City’s Countess LuAnn de Lesseps to give an impromptu performance of her upcoming single, “Chic C’est La Vie.” Cohen provided the “San Tropez” beat while the Countess gave a sample of her new “spoken word” tune. The Countess also generously auctioned off “Lunch with the Countess,” selling for $5,000. The Live Auction included several incredible vacation packages, as well as 8 original hand painted plates by renowned artist Damien Hirst. One of the evening’s ...

Countess LuAnn De Lesseps And Maximiliano Palacio Argentinian actor and model Maximiliano Palacio (who had been Kelly Benismon's "man" toy on Real Housewives of New York) may be Countess LuAnn de Lesseps new interest. She just commented in an episode "That Max he gets around" and it appears Maximiliano aka Max was also a weekly friend to new "Housewife" Sonja Morgan during her divorce. Girls, there is enough of Maximiliano to go around. If you want to see what has all the Housewives so flustered, you check him out daily on Telemundo's 12 Corazones, 7 PM. Photo By: Ann Watt

**** THE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NEW YORK AT FAMED SOUTHAMPTON INN **** Bruce Michael With Sara Ann Johnson And Theresa Bulger Countess LuAnn De Lesseps And Dede Gotthelf Author and Real Housewives of New York star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps and producer Patricia Watt hosted a special “Friendraiser” cocktail party to introduce the work of The Auditory Oral School of New York to their East End friends at the very popular OSO Restaurant at the Southampton Inn. Celebrity DJ Izzy Gold made a special appearance and spun for the party which electrified the hip guests. The fashionable crowd munched on tiny empanadas with goat cheese and garlic shrimp served in Chinese take out buckets prepared by OSO’s award winning chef Brian Naylor. Among the guests were the school’s CEO Theresa Bulger, Caroline Lieberman, Bruce Michael executive director of Evidence, A Dance Company, Stanley Hirsh, William Morris agent Michael Mullett, Sara Ann Johnson and Southampton Inn owner Dede Gotthelf Moan and her h...

**** TIMES SQUARE GOSSIP IN THE HAMPTONS **** Kathryn Winnick Brandon Short With Samantha Fennell, MacDella Cooper And Former America's Next Top Model Judge Nole Marin The Real Housewives Of New York Ramona Singer With Countess Luann De Lesseps And Alex McCord The MacDella Cooper Foundation hosted "Champions of Education Benefit", a quintessentially Hamptons outing including an afternoon in the VIP tent at the Mercedes Benz Challenge in Bridgehampton followed by cocktails and an elegant dinner at Four Seasons Caterer Southampton. The evening raised funds for the construction of a new school for orphans of the terrible civil wars that plagued Liberia until 2006. MacDella Cooper, a native of Liberia was lucky enough to have won a scholarship to study in the United States but watching the terrible devastation that swept her homeland, she founded the foundation with the mission of empowering Liberian youth, especially orphaned and abandoned children, by providi...