The gloves are off!

The gentlemanly race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings (top right) and former Florida chief medical officer Dr. Marion Thorpe exploded into a free-for-all.

The brouhaha started last night when Thorpe swore out a police complaint, saying Hastings threatened his life after a candidates forum in Boca Raton. Hastings apparently got ticked off when his impeachment skeleton was brought up at Temple Beth El. Boca P.D. is investigating.

Hastings, meanwhile, countered with this doozy: That Thorpe stopped paying child support for his daughter and was behind by $40,000 in May.

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Dr. Robert Adami

Just ask Delray dentist Robert Adami.

A $160 shiatsu massager may have caused more than $1.3 million in damages and the death of Jake, his dog, in a spectacular fire in west Delray Monday.

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Fat Joe cooks at Café Martorano

It’s gangsta rap meet gangsta meatballs!

The appropriately named Fat Joe, the South Florida rap star, slipped into the kitchen of Café Martorano in Fort Lauderdale to cook up some of the joint’s famous meatballs.

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Caroline Kennedy

Camelot baby Caroline Kennedy returned to Palm Beach County on behalf of presidential candidate Barack Obama, whom she compares to her dad, John F. Kennedy.

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A child of the 1960s whose Camelot included Palm Beach vacations, Caroline Kennedy returned to the area today for a rare political appearance.

Wearing a T-shirt reading HOPE with a trail of diamonds across the O, the 50-year-old daughter of deceased former President John F. Kennedy passed through Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach to push the supporters of presidential hopeful Barack Obama to vote early.

She took advantage of the appearances to repeat what she wrote an eye-opening editorial in a Jan. 27 editorial in the New York Times: That like her dad, Obama is the stuff legend! (Read more…)

When it comes to lawyers’ fees, this Boca divorce takes the cake.

And the Mayor of Splitsville, divorce guru Joel Weissman, is getting sued over it.

Weissman and his firm received between $5.3 million and $6.1 million in fees in the two-year divorce of money manager David Polen from wife Rosa.

At one point, Rosa was accusing her now-ex of beating her with a patio umbrella. And there was also big money involved, with David filing financial papers that showed he made $2 million – a month!

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Will he show this time?

After blowing off a debate against his Republican opponent, lawyer Tom Rooney, U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at tomorrow’s Kiwanis fundraiser in the heart of Fort Pierce.

The yearly shindig, dubbed Farm City Barbecue, was created to foster links between the farmers and downtown dwellers. (Read more…)

Update: The event starts at noon Friday. Doors open at 11 a.m.

The man who, some say, should’ve been president returns Friday to ground zero in the controversial election that saw him lose to George W. Bush.

Former Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Price winner Al Gore, and his wife Tipper, are announced at an afternoon rally for Barack Obama at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in downtown West Palm Beach.

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U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney reportedly told the lawyers who negotiated his payoff to a former mistress that he and his wife of 23 years, Terry, had an open marriage, Page2Live has learned.

“He didn’t seem too worried that his wife would find out he had a girl on the side,” said a source familiar with the March negotiations. “He said something about how he and his wife were not getting along, and that the two of them had an understanding.”

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