Vanilla Ice, and a contractor on the house he is rebuilding in Welly for a TV show (Click on the photo for more)

Vanilla Ice promised back in May that he’d do what he called a “kick ass” stunt to make the reality TV show he’s finishing a little more exciting.

He delivered.

Ice, who lives in the Versailles community in Wellington, drove a ‘67 Cadillac up a short ramp, through a ring of fire and into a pond. It all happened last week on land Ice, aka Rob Van Winkle, owns in the north part of Palm Beach County.

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The 42-year-old singer of Ice Ice Baby has been working on a TV show all summer in which he attempts to flip a distressed property down the street from his in Versailles.

When the entertainer bought the place in foreclosure earlier this year, vandals stole wall fixtures, garden and pool equipment, tiles, pavers and the appliances. So Ice and his crew have been pimping the crib up, hoping to sell it for at least three times the $420,000 he paid for it.

Ice told Page2Live when I toured the house in May that he’d add pranks and stunts to turn up the entertainment value of the program.

As for the Caddy stunt, in case you’re wondering, no one got hurt. The rapper-turned-builder emerged from the sinking car while pumping his fists in the air. He then disappeared underwater as his entourage wondered if he was drowning.

He did eventually come up for air.

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Epstein's mug shot, in 2008 (Click on the photo for local mugs)

Authorities may not be done with millionaire sexual deviant Jeffrey Epstein after all.

Epstein, 57, who recently fulfilled all the requirements of his slap-on-the-wrist sentence for diddling underage girls in his Palm Beach mansion, may be under investigation for other sex crimes, including child trafficking.

And this time, Epstein would be facing the federales — and 20 years in prison!

According to The Daily Beast, the feds are also checking whether a modeling agency run by a friend of the Wall Street investor Epstein fed his appetite for underage foreign girls. Epstein was known to fly young women from Eastern Europe to Palm Beach.

Because of double jeopardy rules Epstein — now a registered Florida sex offender — can never be prosecuted again for crimes covered by the state charges. He pleaded guilty to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under 18 for prostitution, also a felony.

Child trafficking, however, would offer two advantages to federal prosecutors: The charge would not be covered by double jeopardy; and there’s no statute of limitation!

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One of embattled golfer Tiger Woods‘ ex-mistresses, hardcore porn star/stripper Joslyn James, is hitting him close to his home!

James, 32, will be performing full nude strip shows at the West Palm Beach bosom bazaar T’s Lounge through this weekend. That’s about 25 miles south from the Jupiter Island house that Woods is set to move into within the next few weeks.

“I’m aware of that,” James said Thursday as she prepared to get on stage. “Makes it more interesting, doesn’t it?”

James, in her green Masters jacket, gets ready for her show Thursday at T's Lounge in West Palm Beach (Click on the photo for more)

James is one of two porn stars who announced that they, along with at least 13 other women, had affairs with Woods behind wife Elin Nordegren’s back.

Woods, with son Charlie (click on the photo for more)

James has been one of the most vocal among Tiger’s girls, telling the world that Woods impregnated her twice (she had abortions) and releasing dozens of spicy e-mail exchanges with the former world’s No. 1 golfer.

And she’s also been the quickest one to cash in on her temporary fame.

Since November, when a strange accident near Woods’ house near Orlando kicked off the saga of Woods’ extra-marital action, James has been traveling the country to perform in strip bars. That’s when she’s not filming XXX flicks. She recently finished The 11th Hole, in which she re-enacts with Woods lookalikes some of the bedroom romps that she claims she had with the golfer.

“The film got great reviews,” deadpans James, who doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor.

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Hayward's mug shot (Click on the photo for other famous mugs)

Former WPBF-Channel 25 primetime anchorwoman Lisa Hayward was nabbed by Broward County Sheriff’s deputies Wednesday night after she crashed her car in Pompano Beach. She allegedly had a blood alcohol content of more than twice the legal limit.

Hayward, 39, the wife of Miami’s WSVN-Channel 7 reporter Derek Hayward, suffered minor injuries, a burn to her left forearm when the airbag in her 2003 Honda deployed. No one else was in the car and no other vehicle was hit.

Hayward, now an anchor on the morning show of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel’s television station, WSFL, was charged with DUI and failure to use due care after she blew a .17 on a Breathalizer test. The legal limit in Florida is 0.08.

The Coconut Creek resident spent the night in jail, missed her TV gig this morning and finally paid her $2,500-bond about noon today.

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Lemoine

Judge hopeful Ken Lemoine’s history as a West Palm Beach Police officer is a colorful one.

His personnel file — he rode the thin blue line from 1986 to 1993, before he became a lawyer — is stuffed with incident reports that include joyriding on a city-owned forklift and shooting himself in the leg.

“I also received a police combat cross for a fire fight,” Lemoine said, “and letters from members of the public saying how good of a job I was doing. I once was officer-of-the quarter. Nobody’s talking about how I would chase the bad guys in bad parts of the city in the middle of the night.”

When it comes to the negatives, however, the 48-year-old dismisses them as “20-year-old things.”

“Frankly, I don’t even remember some of these,” he said.

According to city archives, Lemoine once described himself as “bored” while working the night shift at the old West Palm Beach Auditorium. So he took a forklift on a joyride. Of course, he crashed and damaged it.

“He got on the lift,” reads the incident report, “and was running it up and down when it hit the cement overhang. Officer Lemoine knows it was wrong . . . (and he received) a copy of the bill for the repairs.”

Cost him $313.50!

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Knight's booking mug (Click on it for more)

Too much fun at the Rum Shack?

The owner of the popular Lake Worth watering hole was pinched for DUI and hit-and-run early Wednesday.

Kevin Knight, 43, a former cruise ship bartender whose signature drink is the 4-liquor Drunken Monkey, spent most of yesterday in the county slammer after a sheriff’s deputy stopped him about 1 a.m.

According to the arrest report, Knight was at the wheel of a Jeep on 17th Avenue North in Lake Worth when he swerved into the deputy’s lane, nearly crashing into him. According to the report, Knight swerved to avoid three men walking on the side of road but hit one of them. The deputy reported seeing the man fall. The unidentified passerby suffered scrapes and bruises.

The PBSO deputy, meanwhile, stopped Knight and described him as “slow in speech.” Knight admitted to having had “a couple” but said he didn’t know he hit someone.

– With Eliot Kleinberg, The Palm Beach Post

Among the 31,191 comments posted on Page2Live so far, some stand out by their laugh-out-loud humor, wry wit, clever reasoning, bald-faced meanness or abysmal stupidity. Here are five from the past few days that caught my attention. You vote and I’ll print the most popular one in my column in The Palm Beach Post:

1. “In these times of want and woe, and a tumultuous sea of change for everyone in this world, it is good to see that nothing ever changes at the PBSO.” (by Mike Katz, commenting on PBSO forks over half a mil)

2. “I wish people would stop making comments saying Tori has a face like a ‘horse.’ No one deserves that!! No wonder she has low self esteem.” (by Sara, commenting on 90210 star Tori Spelling hawking books in SoFla)

3. “I would like to thank those who took time to comment. For those who don’t like me, I’m sorry, but when you’ve lived a great portion of your life in a fish bowl, there will be times people just won’t agree with you . . . I’m sorry that someone might feel I’m egotistical, but I promise you I’m much less stuck on myself than many people in my business . . . I promise you I was without fault in any way, shape or form. I was verbally abused and threatened, and friends stepped in to protect me from what they percieved to be a physical threat.” (by Bob Nichols, commenting on Former TV anchor Bob Nichols in golf club fight)

4. “You mean to say that there wasn’t another candidate for this position??? One without any question marks about the use of school funds? PLEEEEASE!!!! I’m sure there are other qualified educators looking for a job.” (by wonder, commenting on Controversial ex-school principal Texas-bound)

5. “Dara, you are an amazing athlete, you look great! We know you look great. Pulling up your top in public (often) to promote a fitness book . . . getting old. We live in Palm Beach, we can tell you’re ripped with your shirt on. That’s all.” (by Susan, commenting on Olympic medals? Who cares? Looks at the abs on Dara Torres)

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(Damon Higgins/The Palm Beach Post)

Some ungrateful townies defaced the Palm Beach Atlantic University’s billboard downtown West Palm Beach that seems to be selling the beach as much as education! Sometime over the weekend, someone who’s probably aware that it costs about $20,000 per semester to attend the Christian school hand-wrote: “Daddy’s $ can’t buy u this wave!” A university spokeswoman says campus security is looking into the act of vandalism, and the sign should be cleaned up soon.

Maxwell

Have Palm Beach socialite Gertrude Maxwell’s finances gone to the dogs?

The 99-year-old millionaire founder of Save a Pet is the target of two lawsuits filed over the past few weeks alleging she’s not paying her debts!

What’s more, SunTrust Bank is foreclosing on five homes worth a total of about $2 million that Maxwell bought as investment.

The first lawsuit, brought by L&L Construction Co. of Palm Beach, alleges that the 1911 baby, a late-night TV fixture with her ads to save abandoned dogs and pets, hasn’t paid $50,000 she owes for roof repair on her beachfront mansion.

“When she finally did send a check,” said L&L’s lawyer, Ken Scherer, “it bounced. Since it bounced, we’re going after three times the damages.”

Is Maxwell running out of dough — six years after she reverse-mortgaged her mansion for $14.1 million?

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Gordon, last year, asking a resident to help solve a murder (The Palm Beach Post)

Turmoil at the Riviera Beach Police Department!

Seven-year patrolman Nathan Gordon was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on administrative leave as Internal Affairs unravels his web of personal relationships with violent drug dealers.

And I hear that what the IA sleuths have found so far is about to give the department yet another serving of bad publicity.

A source privy to parts of the report tells me the allegations against Gordon include that he gave the home addresses of fellow officers to drug gang enforcers unhappy with police activity.

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