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At 'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton-pornographer Rick Salomon's wedding, the bride wore something blue... a denim miniskirt. Nice. [Gatecrasher]

P. Diddy has acknowledged that he is the father of another child, bringing his total to 6, which is pretty good for someone Wendy Williams thinks is a gay. [Splash News]

Britney Spears smoked a cigarette while pumping gas. Lady is doomed. [TMZ]

Last night "Extra" took a rare tour of P. Diddy's (or whatever he's calling himself these days) elegant Hamptons manse. It's a humble, almost sparse layout, which stuns the perky reporter. "Everything's white!" she exclaims. Well, you know, almost everything.

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From a reader: "This past weekend, I was able to get show tickets to Saturday Night Live through on of my clients. Your favorite, P Diddy was one of the celebrities there and at the after-hour party. And, if you can believe this, your boy stiffed the waiter out of the bill! P Diddy was hanging out w/ his model girls (about 7 of them) at the after-hour party. When he was through, this little chinese waiter man went up to P Diddy's body guard and gave him the bill. The body guard was trying to figure out the situation. Then the waiter went over to P Diddy w/ the bill. P Diddy looked over his glasses and then looked at the waiter and told him he didn't owe the money. The waiter said, "yes, you do, it's not open bar." P Diddy said, "It's open bar, I'm not paying this." and walked away. Then P Diddy's security guard patted the waiter on the shoulder and said, "It's open bar dude, open bar" and walked out. My boyfriend and I looked on in complete amazement. Then we left that beat celebrity party."

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· Jaws star Roy Scheider participated in a Hamptons peace protest the other day by lying down in the middle of Montauk Highway pretending to be a casualty of war. [Page Six]
· A dog recently took a suicidal running leap off the roof of P. Diddy's West Village town house. [Ed. note—someone must have been playing his last album.] [Page Six]
· Joan Rivers, on her revised Oscar plans: "First, I called Arnold Scaasi to maybe rethink the gold gown I'm supposedly wearing. Second, I'm redoing the jokes. They must be timely, a war-time theme. Like one I just wrote is, 'I'm going to start stockpiling Botox.' And another where I beat up the goddamn French. I'll say, 'All they ever did for us was give us the Statue of Liberty and even that's turning green." [Cindy Adams]
· Wednesday was Harvey Weinstein's 51st birthday. CNBC's Maria Bartiromo's stalker was sentenced yesterday after he called her from jail in September of 2001. [NY Daily News]

· Actress Beverly D'Angelo believes LA publicist Pat Kingsley is trying to smear her name on behalf of her children's father, Al Pacino—a client of Kingsley's. [Page Six]
· P Diddy plans on marketing fruity liquors called "Diddy Drinks." [Page Six]
· German customs officials say they stopped washed out Miami Vice actor Don Johnson with a suitcase that contained $8 billion in cash and securities. He says he was "going to buy a car." [NY Daily News]
· Vogue is looking for an addition to the English socialites in their employ—the socially ubiquitous Sykes sisters. Vogue's Fashion Merch Manager annie_rinella@vogue.com is looking for an assistant with "events background," who "could be trained as a media spokesperson." [Chic Happens]

A reader on P Diddy's marketing arm, Blue Flame, and product placement in rap songs: "Apparently, Russell Simmons runs a firm called dRush that quietly does these paid name-drops in hip-hop tracks all the time and has been doing it forever. There's a bunch of similar outfits as well. A lot of people think that Simmons set up the 'Pass the Courvoisier' name drop, but the rumor I hear is that while Simmons was working with Courvoisier, he didn't have anything to do with that particular track. So it's not just P Diddy; more or less all of hip-hop has openly sold out, and is pretty proud of it. And to think...all of that money going to baby blue velour track suits and ugly cars."

Rapper and hip-hop mogul P Diddy's Bad Boy empire now includes a research and marketing offshoot called Blue Flame designed to help corporate marketers reach urban audiences. They're looking for ways to turn the standard brand-namedropping that's a standard feature of rap music into product placement opportunities. They point out that the P Diddy/Busta Rhymes hit, "Pass the Courvoisier" caused sales of the cognac to visibly increase. All of which begs the question: at what point has P Diddy openly sold out?
I got my swagger back [Telegraph]

Ken Courtney, one of our favorite Brooklyn fashionistas, tells Chic "Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, We Updated" Happens that P. Diddy ordered one of his t-shirts after spotting someone with an "I fucked Anna Wintour" shirt at 7th on Sixth. His request? "I fucked J-Lo first." P. Diddy's reps are denying, denying, denying. In other news, French Vogue has sprung a leak and one indiscreet cheese-eating surrender monkey is faxing out inside information.
Chic Happens [HintMag]

The Black Table's Greg Lindsay on P. Diddy's new women's line: "I am still trying to decide if I know of any women who might wear a leather dress with a train, and am still wondering what the final pulsing image of the show—the drawn climax of Scarface, such an original and daring homage now that everyone has the DVD in their 'Cribs'—has anything, but anything, to do with women's clothes."
Puffy and bloated: notes on the fashion week that was [BlackTable]

At New York's Fashion Week shows: Sean Jean with an olive-colored trench coat; Nicole Miller making fatigue the new black; Diane von Furstenberg with a cavalry green wrap dress. Anyone would think there was a war coming.
P. Diddy Merges Worlds of Music, Fashion [AP]

Welcome to another chapter in Howell Raines' bizarre ongoing fascination with the hip-hop/rap scene: the NYT follows Pianist star Adrien Brody out for a night on the town and finds him hanging with P-Diddy (yo) who is "dressed in diamonds and a baggy yellow tracksuit like a very rich 4-year-old." Brody had made a CD for P-Diddy after taking mom and dad to Nobu and wanted to drop it off. The NYT reports that P-Diddy liked what he heard and "began doing that exaggerated nod to the beats that signals either 'I have no strength left in my neck' or 'I really groove on that.'"
Adrien Brody: Mr. Chameleon [NYT]

Another game of Which Is More Annoying: P-Diddy jet-skiing on the French Riviera in his bathrobe or a public company CEO buying a $15,000 umbrella stand? According to the NYT Magazine's Rob Walker, P-Diddy wins hands down. The public has more tolerance for conspicuous consumption when there's some pretense that it could have actually been earned.
When diamonds and escalades are O.K. [NYT Magazine]