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• Is Padma Lakshmi Looking for a Member of the Second Husbands' Club?

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:04 pm

  Tags: Salman Rushdie, Mystery Blonds, Second Husbands Club, Mfmalarkey, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Tom Colicchio, Lee Anne Wong, Three Hour Cruising, Ted Forstmann, Padma Lakshmi

  Possums, not being Miami "fashionistas" (or whatever) or Bravo insiders, we have no bloomin' idea who this man with Padma Lakshmi is. Or, as Miss XaXa put it, "Who the hell is that guy and where the hell is Padma's hand?"We, being more demure, wondered more about the placement of his hand. And oh Padma's smile...."She's probably thinking of

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• Is Member of the First Wives' Club Not Speaking to Member of the Fourth Wives' Club?

  Published: September 7, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Vera Wang, Salman Rushdie, Fashion, Ivana Trump, Catfights Narrowly Averted, Fourth Wives Club, Katie Lee Joel, Where Oh Where The Women Of Our Age, First Wives Club, Padma Lakshmi

  after seeing Padma Lakshmi (Salman Rushdie's fourth wife) and Ivana Trump (Donald Trump's first) sitting cheek (Ivana) by non-existent jowl (Padma) in the front row of a fashion show, where "they never seemed to speak or exchange a glance."Ironically, given the women's respective marital woes, the fashion show was a presentation of wedding queen

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• It's That Guy Again

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:59 pm

  Tags: Cj Jacobson, Potential Salman Rushdie Successors, Handsy, Lee Anne Wong, Padma Lakshmi

  First, it was this. And now this.Seriously, it's driving us crazy. Who is this guy, and why is he wearing flipflops? And where are their hands? Is this the mysterious male Shannon that Lee Anne Wong refers to in her blog? Inquiring minds want to know more than ever. (And he does bear a resemblance to CJ Jacobson, so that might explain a lot.)

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• Rushdie: Relax, Blogs Aren't Killing Book Criticism

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:25 am

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Media, Salman Rushdie

  the stage. Is that Salman Rushdie? someone said, eyeing the back of the man's bald head. Yes, came the answer. And it was! NBCC president John Freeman introduced the author, and Mr. Rushdie took the microphone. It's difficult if you just look at the newspapers now, he said, and remember how much more attention, how

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• Swingin' Salman

  Published: October 4, 2007, 5:03 pm

  Tags: Party Lines, Salman Rushdie

  Rushdie, on the prowl.Photo: Patrick McMullanLast night Salman Rushdie showed up at the Cinema Society screening of Elizabeth: The Golden Years to very publicly not watch the season finale of Top Chef, hosted by his former-model (and dubious-culinary-expert) ex-wife, Padma Lakshmi. Instead, he spent much of the after-party on the roof of

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• Rushdie, Pamuk Kiss and Make Up After Tiny Tiff

  Published: October 8, 2007, 2:58 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Deborah Treisman, Judy Garland, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker

  Friday night, Salman Rushdie was talking about Dorothy that is, the Dorothy portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz. Her mantra There's noplace like home! is apparently not shared by the literary superstar whose 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, was banned in his native India and resulted in a fatwa

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• The Paris Review Takes Its Young Literati Seriously

  Published: October 25, 2007, 11:53 am

  Tags: Media, Paris Review, Philip Gourevitch, Salman Rushdie

  Someone said they'd seen Salman Rushdie. Simon Rich, the young writer whose first book, Ant Farm, came out before he graduated from Harvard last spring, roamed the crowd. His brother, Nathaniel, is a senior editor at the magazine; you might also know his father, Frank. Soon the sponsored whiskey was nearly gone and the young ladies in high

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• Padma Will Have the Salman

  Published: October 26, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Intel, Great Love Affairs, Padma Lakshmi, Salman Rushdie

  by the drama of the Salman Rushdie–Padma Lakshmi reunion. Lakshmi's presence at the event had been a given; she's a KAC "global ambassador," and she'd designed the gala's dinner menu. And it seemed pretty clear from repeated comments referring to her "ex-husband" earlier in the night that she hadn't been expecting Rushdie to show.

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• Last night at Bungalow 8, at an afterparty ... [Platonic Curses]

  Published: October 26, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Like Water For Chocolate, Padma Lakshmi, Platonic Curses, Salman Rushdie

  Last night at Bungalow 8, at an afterparty for some do-goody thing involving Bono, Top Chef judge, model and sinewy forest nymph Padma Lakshmi ran into her soon-to-be ex and author Salman Rushdie:...

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• Britney Spears Will End Up Poor And Alone [Gossip Roundup]

  Published: November 2, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Bette Midler, Britney Spears, Gossip Roundup, Jann Wenner, Salman Rushdie

  Britney Spears needs a good smack with the Suze Orman stick. Carrying a $50,000-a-month mortgage when you're taking home $737,868 a month is sooooo stupid. Why will no one teach the young women of...

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• Neal Boulton Wants, Doesn't Want Attention

  Published: November 2, 2007, 10:35 am

  Tags: Gossipmonger, Anna Wintour, Britney Spears, Christopher Walken, Eminem, Fox News, Harvey Weinstein, Heather Mills, Heidi Klum, Jann Wenner, Jenna Bush, Men S Fitness, Neal Boulton, Page Six, Salman Rushdie, The Box, Times Square

  Square on New Year's Eve. Salman Rushdie dressed up as Darth Vader on Halloween and had to fend off chicks with his light saber. Fox News correspondent Chris Wallace complained that only 39 American soldiers died in Iraq in October 2007, the fewest deaths in a month since 2004.According to court papers, Britney Spears earns $737,868 a month,

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• What's the Rush, Rushdie?

  Published: November 27, 2007, 5:08 pm

  Tags: The City, Salman Rushdie

  insists they are not, Mr. Rushdie was forced to act after Ms. Lakshmi started seeing another much older man, perhaps the billionaire Ted Forstmann; the author's statement to Reuters, in July, said simply: Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage. In that light, then, Mr.

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• Are There Two Salman Rushdies Running Around Sadly? [Swimming Upstream]

  Published: November 28, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Giggle His Name Sounds Like A Fish, Padma Lakshmi, Sad Clowns, Salman Rushdie, Swimming Upstream

  Back when Salman Rushdie had a Padma Lakshmi to go home to and a fatwa hanging over his smooshed-up genius head, he wasn't out very often. But now since Padma's fled and Islamic fundamentalism is on...

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• ‘Schneighbors’ No More?

  Published: December 6, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Developing, Bono, Julian Schnabel, Palazzo Chupi, Salman Rushdie, William J B Brady

  Could not Bono's loss be Salman Rushdie's gain? Related: Look Who's Schneighbors!

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• Imran Khan and the two horns

  Published: November 21, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Blasphemy, Salman Rushdie, Imran Khan, Liberalism, Jacobin, Thomas Paine, Pakistan, Shalimar The Clown, Apostasy

  be the seeds of terrorism. Salman Rushdie's novel Shalimar the Clown comes to mind. Speaking of which, is Rushdie a red flag for Khan or not? This could be an indication of how Khan's reported schrodinger-cat confusion will ultimately resolve. Will Khan choose liberty?Update (Nov 23, 2007): Interview of Imran Khan on CNN after his

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