Tina and Bill at Mar-a-Lago in 2006

Unusual hearing in a Palm Beach County circuit court Monday.

Judge Diana Lewis will spend most of the day dividing up $8 million in jewelry amongst divorced society stalwarts Bill and Tina Flaherty.

The treasure trove includes a $500,000-diamond-and-emerald necklace.

Tina, 70, is also well known in corporate America for punching through the glass ceilings of blue-chip companies in the 1960s and taking over Colgate-Palmolive.

Bill, 76, is an industrialist who once gave $1.5 million to West Palm Beach’s St. Marys Medical Center and another $1.5 million to the Palm Beach Zoo.

He filed for divorce in April 2007 after 33 years of marital bliss, or hell, depending who’s talking.

But while the divorce became final a year and a half later, the division of marital property continues.

So far, the Flahertys split evenly $150 million in homes and stocks and bonds.

But when it came to the bling, things haven’t gone so smoothly. So Lewis is forced to play Solomon.

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(Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

Stars of Wellington’s Winter Equestrian Festival raised cash for earthquake-stricken Haiti at a casino party Friday night at the stadium. (Click on the photo for the gallery)

The likes of Olympic riders Margie Engle and Chris Kappler led about 150 people in a poker tournament. Some preferred roulette and blackjack.

In the end, the group hoped to raise about $200,000 for the Step by Step Foundation, a non-profit that funds programs for underprivileged children.

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Randi, with the Houston Texans, strutted her stuff at the W Hotel Thursday night. (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2live)

Here’s why Sports Illustrated has nothing on Page2Live!

A  battle of the beauties — a swimwear fashion show starring NFL cheerleaders — provided the backdrop for Super Bowl season’s first party Thursday night, and Page2Live has all the pictures!

Five hundred or so VIPs, and current and former football stars, wouldn’t have missed the W South Beach pool fiesta for the world.

Every NFL team dispatched its hottest pom pom girl (click on the photo for Michele Sandberg’s gallery) to South Florida to get the party started, ahead of the Feb. 7 Super Bowl at Dolphin Stadium.

And it hasn’t been all pomp and circumstance for the sideline hotties.

“A group of us went to St. Marys (Medical Center in West Palm Beach) and the Boys & Girls Club in West Palm Beach to meet and talk with the kids,” said Dorie Grogan, who’s running the cheerleaders’ appearances. “Some of us went to Homestead Air Force Base to say ‘hi’ to the troops. We ended up visiting with the Haitian refugees who are there in tents. It was very intense.”

But Thursday night was about cheeky fun. Retired Dolphins tight-end Troy Drayton took a break from gawking at the action on the catwalk, built on the pool, to shoot the breeze with Page2Live.

“Most of us retired guys would love to go to every party between now and the Super Bowl,” said Drayton, who’s far from his slender Dolphins self. “But no one could possibly do that. So, we have to pick and choose. I’m going to go to golf tournament next week (Saturday at the Doral) and maybe the Playboy party and such. We’ll find something to do.”

Also catching the sights: former Fins Mark Duper, Nat Moore, Twan Russell and Bobby Harden; and Denver Broncos star corner back Champ Bailey and Vikings linesman Brian McKinney.

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Paaaartyyyy!!!!!

In a stunning policy reversal, the city of Fort Lauderdale will no longer enforce its cast-in-stone 13-year-old ban on open liquor containers along the beach.

Until after the Super Bowl!

The ban originally was put into place to stymie what made the beach of Where the Boys Are a household name: alcohol abuse by Spring Break college students.

But starting today, boys and girls are allowed once again to walk along the beachside strip of hotels and restaurants with beer, wine and hard liquor. For as long as it’s in a plastic cup. And not on the sand.

The lifting of the liquor regulation affects a two-mile area that’ll be one of Super Bowl week’s hotspots. It starts at the Indianapolis Colts’ hotel, the Marriott Harbor Beach, and stretches north to Sunrise Boulevard.

The ban returns on the Monday after the Super Bowl.

“The hotel community along the beach lobbied hard for this,” said Tom Roth, a marketing honcho at The Atlantic Hotel. The business stands to benefit from the temporary pass, along with the W and Westin hotels. Thousands of fans are expected to bed down there.

“Fort Lauderdale has grown up, and the places we are competing with, The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Boca Raton Resort, have their guests enjoy daiquiris beachside. Why not us?”

Roth says he hopes for a Bourbon Street atmosphere on the days leading to the Feb. 7 Super Bowl at Dolphins Stadium.

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There it is!

The Vince Lombardi Trophy, which goes to the winner of the Super Bowl, has arrived — days ahead of the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts.

A source along the Fort Lauderdale beachside strip where the NFL is setting up temporary headquarters tells me the sterling silver football is in a ballroom at the Westin Beach Resort, guarded by two armed beefed-up dudes.

It’ll remain there until the morning of Feb. 7, day of the big game at Dolphin Stadium.

The Tiffany & Co. piece is valued at about $25,000 and is named after the oft-quoted, classic Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.

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Jolie, as they say in French (Click on the photo for more Loredana)

Tiger Woods‘ not just an animal on the links.

He’s one in the sack, too.

At least, that’s what one of his dozen-plus galpals claims in a book she’s trying to sell to publishers.

Loredana Jolie, a shapely former Playboy model who worked for a high-class escort service, claims in her manuscript that Woods is so into the art of horizontal mambo that there’s no way his on-going stint in a Mississippi rehab center will work.

“He would engage in sex from 9 p.m. until the sun came up the next morning,” Jolie told the New York Post. “But he wasn’t a healthy guy.”

Tell us something we don’t know, Lore!

“He couldn’t sleep and would stay up all night. I am not really sure rehab for sex addiction will help him.”

Wait, there’s more:

“Tiger’s sexual fantasies were not normal. He likes role-playing, he likes to be the guy in control and wearing a suit while there are girls performing girl-on-girl and guys entertaining guys. By that, I mean they would dance for each other like girls would do for a man.

“He’d have different girls all the time, entertaining, role play, fetishes, stuff like that . . . But he would only watch . . .

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The homes and schools close to Dolphins Stadium are receiving “sex offender advisory” postcards this week warning residents to watch out for The Who’s Pete Townshend, who’ll be performing at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV.

By next week, 1,500 homes will have received the postcard (see below), sent by the Brevard County-based Protect Our Children. The non-profit acts as a community watchdog when it comes to sex offenders and sends similar cards to Melbourne residents where known pedophiles live.

Townshend, 63, was arrested in England in a 2003 roundup of alleged pedophiles accused of cruising online sites for photos of child sex. Townshend said he was just doing research for a book at the time. He wasn’t convicted of anything but was placed on that country’s list of sexual offenders for five years.

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Jennifer Ross

The statistics have spoken, and they say radio listeners aren’t missing Jennifer Ross as much as they said they would.

Folks have not abandoned WRMF-97.9 FM in droves after the controversial firing of the star morning personality.

And while WRMF dropped to third place, from second, in an important target audience, it actually gained a few fans overall through last year.

“WRMF continues to be a top performer in the market,” said station manager Elizabeth Hama, who wouldn’t answer questions about Ross. “Overall, we are pleased.”

In the three months after the raspy-voiced Ross was gone, a negligible number of morning listeners left. In a key group, people 25 to 54, WRMF had about 1,000 fewer listeners compared to the summer tallies, according to Arbitron. But over a 12-month period, the station’s share in the morning increased by slightly more than 1,000 people.

Local radio is vying for about 500,000 listeners who fall in that category in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties.

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Roberts, in a trial last year (Damon Higgins/The Palm Beach Post)

Longtime prosecutor Ellen Roberts, the Palm Beach County state attorney’s traffic homicide specialist, said allowing teenage DUI death suspect Beruch Zegeye to travel to Haiti wouldn’t have been much of a risk.

Roberts said she doesn’t believe Zegeye, 19, would have fled if he went to Port-au-Prince to help with the earthquake rescue efforts.

“If he was going to flee, he’d have done it a long time ago,” Roberts said. “He certainly has the resources.”

Besides, she said, she thought Zegeye could be “of help” in Haiti with his neurosurgeon dad, St. Marys Medical Center’s Yonas Zegeye.

“The earthquake there certainly was a part of my thinking,” she said.

Said Sarah Horak, the niece of the man killed in Beruch Zegeye’s accident: “Sure, Haiti needs help. But (Zegeye) murdered someone. And he’s living life like nothing happened.”

Zegeye is facing more than 20 years in a state prison for his alleged role in the September 2008 crash that killed a pizza delivery man and injured another motorist. Zegeye, then a student at the swanky Benjamin School, was returning from a day a partying, partly on a yacht owned by golfer Jack Nicklaus. Zegeye (photo to the right) may have been high on pills and booze at the time of the 80 mph crash.

Under house-arrest at first and freed on a $200,000-bond, Zegeye was eventually allowed to travel to New York City to attend Pace University. Hearings on his case have been postponed time and time again, and a plea conference is scheduled for April — a year and a half after 45-year-old pizzaman Paul Krommendyk was killed.

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