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Only thing missing from Jupiter Island’s newest mansion is owner Tiger Woods!

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| Monday 31 January 2011 5:43 pm Print This Post

Two pools, for a combined 160 long? Check!

A 100-foot sprinting track? Check!

Tennis court? Check!

Basketball court? Check!

A four-hole golf course? Check!

State of the art 5,000-square-foot gym? Check!

Hyperbaric chamber? Check that, too!

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Chances are, you won’t see Tiger Woods at your neighborhood gym.

That’s because, the 35-year-old former Sultan of swing has got everything an athlete could ever need on the 12-acre, beachfront compound in Jupiter Island.

The property took five years and more than $60 million to build! Now, all that’s missing is Woods himself.

South Florida rocks: Barry Manilow, Joan Rivers . . .

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| Monday 31 January 2011 2:29 pm Print This Post
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Hard to believe, but the amount of plastic surgery in South Florida shot up some. Singer Barry Manilow (above) and comic Joan Rivers (below) — at a combined age of 144 — played separate venues over the past days. Manilow, who’s starting to look like a wax figure of himself, packed the BankAtlantic Center Friday night in suburban Fort Lauderdale. Rivers, who can’t be happy with her latest facial rearrangement, had people in stitches at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. “I don’t work out,” the diva of the one-liner said. “If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor. ” Another: “Congratulations to Victoria Beckham, who’s pregnant with her fourth child! She’s finally eating for one.” (Click here for more photos, and all the South Florida concerts)

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Prominent Palm Beacher Rick Keitel charged in hit-and-run DUI

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| Monday 31 January 2011 12:54 pm Print This Post

You’ve got to feel for Tricia Callahan, the Palm Beach socialite whose dad once owned the National Enquirer.

She got rid of one husband, Peter Burt, who was sentenced to 10 years probation for driving to a Lake Worth park to meet cops who posed as underage girls online.

Now her new hubby, lawyer and real estate investor Rick Keitel, has seen the inside of a jail cell!

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The well-liked Keitel, 58, was nabbed by Palm Beach Police after he allegedly left the scene of a 5 p.m. accident in which he hit two parked cars Dec. 13 on Australian Avenue.

He was charged with DUI, resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident.

Said Keitel: “I had a Xanax that afternoon. It’s unfortunate it affected me like it did.”

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According to the police report, Keitel was at the wheel of a dark-blue Porsche when he struck the two cars. Witnesses told police the Porsche turned into a nearby vacant lot. Once cops got to the Porsche, they reported that Keitel was asleep in the driver’s seat. The Porsche was damaged.

Keitel was allegedly unsteady on his feet when he exited his car then tried to resist police, arguing that the property he turned into was his.

As they say in Palm Beach, Keitel had to be “escorted” to the ground before handcuffs were secured on his wrists. He refused a Breathalyzer test.

Keitel made news in 2000 when his divorce from a previous wife, and the custody battle for a son, beat another historic case in Palm Beach County, Roxanne vs. Pete Pulitzer, in money, time and lawyers used.

More recent drunken incidents:

Channel 12 exec arrested after ill-fated attempt at strip act in restaurant

Boy Scouts invade the Flagler, wow Palm Beach society

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| Saturday 29 January 2011 2:54 pm Print This Post

Organizer Mark Simpson put it best as he welcomed Palm Beach society to the staid Flagler Museum for the Second Annual Boy Scouts Grand Jamboree: “Who let so many wealthy rednecks into the museum? No PBRs (that’s Pabst Blue Ribbon to you, Stella Artois drinkers) or pitching horseshoes on the museum’s lawn allowed!”

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What Thursday night’s fundraiser did allow was for some of the boys from the BSA’s Gulf Stream Council to show off some of the things they do in the woods on weekends to people who’d never go in the woods.

In addition to browsing through hunting and fishing gear, guests got to try their hand at things like archery (above). And check out the swamp buggy (below) parked on the Flagler’s lawn. That’s not something you see every day on The Island!

School principal: We’re keeping strip bar owner’s gift!

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| Friday 28 January 2011 2:40 pm Print This Post

The principal of West Palm Beach’s Roosevelt Elementary School said Friday the inner-city school will keep $20,000 in donations made over the past two years by strip bar owner Joe Rodriguez!

“The donations came from Mr. Rodriguez’ 501C3 non-profit,” said Dr. Glenda Garrett, the principal. “I never knew what Mr. Rodriguez does for a living, but when you run a school as poor as this one and you get a donation, that’s not the kind of question you ask. You’re just grateful for what you get.”

Garrett said she took a vote on whether to keep the gift at the school’s parent-teacher council. The group voted to keep the cash. More than 90 percent of Roosevelt students are on free lunch programs.

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The school’s decision came in the wake of a Page2Live story about how the School District of Palm Beach County had a policy against donations from adult entertainment businesses, tattoo parlors and pain clinics. Rodriguez owns three Cheetah strip bars throughout South Florida and Pure Platinum in Fort Lauderdale.

At the time, schools spokesman Nat Harrington said Roosevelt would have to return Rodriguez’ gifts, $10,000 this month and $10,000 a year ago.

But he said today the district would let Garrett decided what she wants to do.

“It’s at the discretion of the principal,” he said.

Rodriguez’ non-profit, Rodriguez Charities Inc., raises money through golf tournament caddied by some of the women who work for him at Cheetah Palm Beach and elsewhere.

One of the non-profit’s board members and the manager of Cheetah Palm Beach, Rodney Kimbrough, said the ordeal hasn’t deterred the group from giving more in the future.

“We don’t leave people behind,” said Kimbrough, a former U.S. Marine. “We won’t leave the kids of Roosevelt behind, and we’ll raise more money for them.”

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