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Will Bon Jovi be there for the Miami Dolphins?

Posted by Jose Lambiet | Belting it Out, Cash, Etc., Hotties, Island’s Finest, Parties, Splitsville | Monday 5 January 2009 12:41 am Print This Post
Jon Bon Jovi, celebrating the Philadelphia Soul's win last year in the Arena Football League.

Jon Bon Jovi, celebrating an Arena-league title.

What was a guy like Jon Bon Jovi doing in a joint like Dolphin Stadium Sunday afternoon?

Just watching the orange and teal’s first playoff game in seven seasons?

The Joysey rock ’n’ roller didn’t say much about his visit.

“I’m just hanging,” he told Page2Live.

Then why was he spotted in intense discussion through the entire first half with the soon-to-be majority owner of the Fins, Palm Beacher Stephen Ross?

Bon Jovi has been known to invest in sports, and has expressed interest in NFL ownership in the past. And, as Ross is closing on his purchase of 95 percent of the club sometime this week, the developer may need some lettuce at a time when the real estate business isn’t so hot.

“Me buying into this? I don’t think so,” the heartthrob said playfully, flashing his trademark smile as he disappeared into the 50-yard-line luxury box.

Bon Jovi, 46, is a co-owner of the Arena Football League’s current champion, the Philadelphia Soul. The singer of Bad Medicine and I’ll Be There For You spent nearly two hours in the front row of the stadium’s fanciest suite with Ross.

Said a Dolphin insider: “Everybody noticed how chummy they were. I know Steve has been peddling 2 percent ownership interests. He wants $25 million per 2 percent slices. No one is biting, but I’m sure he’s making it known to anyone who has that kind of money these days.”

I’m told Ross was turned down last month by City National Bank boss Leonard Abess.

Bon Jovi, however, hasn’t exactly been living on a prayer. His band’s latest tour netted more than $200 million.

The sharply dressed mogul Ross blew off reporters with ownership questions all afternoon. But by the second half, as his Dolphins were being taken apart by the Baltimore Ravens, Ross had found another viewing companion: He was in a similarly intense conversation with Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade.

Ross must have missed Pirates of the Caribbean’s Johnny Depp, incognito in a club level box.

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