Wolff, as emergency room doc at JFK Medical Center in 2001 (The Palm Beach Post)

Five Palm Beach County municipalities quietly fired their contracted medical director — Dr. Randall Wolff — after DEA agents reported that Wolff is under “pill mill” investigation.

Wolff, 60, of Delray Beach, is a critical care doctor who wrote EMS procedures for fire rescue in the Town of Palm Beach, North Palm Beach, Greenacres, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach and provided continuing education for emergency techs.

In Delray, Wolff’s $130,000-a-year contract also covered physicals for cops and fire fighters.

What’s more, the departments piggy-backed on Wolff’s DEA license to prescribe drugs, allowing ambulance crews on accident and crime scene to dispense dangerous drugs such as morphine, dilaudid and tranquilizers.

Now, turns out Wolff may also have been busy running a pain clinic that illegally sold powerful pain killers!

He was listed as owner of Coast to Coast Pain Management Inc. in Deerfield Beach, according to state records. And the clinic, on Hillsboro Boulevard, was raided by agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency Dec. 16.

That day, the five city halls were visited by DEA agents and some fire rescue records may have been seized.

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Wolff hasn’t been arrested but his DEA license to dispense controlled substances and narcotics was pulled pending the investigation’s results, according to records. That forced the fire departments to replace Wolff in a hurry or face ordering EMTs to stop injecting drugs.

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Mandich, 5 years ago (Miami Herald)

Miami Dolphins radio commentator Jim Mandich (above left with Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra and Heat President Pat Riley) was well enough as he battles cancer of the bile duct to make a rare appearance at a Miami charity dinner the other night.  Mandich, 62, who was known as Mad Dog when he played tight end for the Dolphins, was awarded an Excellence in Sports Broadcasting award in an emotional ceremony bef0re dozens of local sports icons at the charity gala thrown by Miami Heat broadcasters Eric Reid and Tony Fiorentino at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Among those who played in the March 12 charity golf tournament and showed up for the gala: Former Heat standout Alonzo Mourning (below), U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and former Dolphins Jim Kiick, Bob Kuechenberg, Larry Little and A.J. Duhe. (Click here for more)

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The super-sized Allure of the Seas was cloaked in Hollywood-like atmosphere Sunday when passengers boarding for the weekly cruise out of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale ran into the likes of former Playboy pinup Jenny McCarthy (above) and actors James Brolin (Capricorn One, The Amityville Horror and TV’s Hotel) and Dean Cain (TV’s Lois & Clark).

They were there for the red carpet premiere of two short films, one directed by McCarthy and another by Brolin, both produced on a previous cruise on the Allure.

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The 70-year-old Brolin turned heads, especially those of embarking passengers and Lake Worth residents Jeff and Colleen McMahon (below).

So, what’s the benefit of filming on board a cruise ship, besides the short commutes?

“The massages in the ship’s spa, the best!” said McCarthy, the actress-model-comic-writer-activist. “I’ve been rubbed all over the world, but not like this!”

Alrighty then!

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Ross

The mess at WRMF-97.9 FM is getting cleaned up.

Now that the former market leader has been bought by local broadcaster Dean Goodman, former morning star Jennifer Ross has been tapped to return Monday to the anchoring job she was fired from a year and a half ago, three sources told Page2Live.

With ratings sagging to historic lows in some categories of listeners, the woman who fired Ross, General Manager Elizabeth Hamma, finally gave the go-ahead for Ross’ on-air return.

New owner Goodman declined comment because he hasn’t received the blessing of the Federal Communications Commission for his purchase. Until then — could be three months — the Boston equity firm Great Hills still runs the station.

Neither Hamma nor Ross returned calls.

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The Tonight Show’s Jay Leno (above) had ‘em in stitches and rookie U.S. Rep. Allen West, the Conservative Republicans’ new golden child (above), got plenty attention while making face time with rich donors at what could end up being the social season’s biggest fund-raising gala, Saturday night at the Boca Raton Resort.

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Nearly 1,100 supporters of the Boys & Girls Club of Broward County packed the main ballroom for the Concours D’Elegance’s black-tie, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500. And former Miami Dolphins majority owner H. Wayne Huizenga (below, with Jay), the founder of the AutoNation super dealerships, was honored for his contribution to the car biz.

Among the guests: Three-time Indy winner and former Dancing With The Stars champ Helio Castroneves; two-time Indy winner Al Unser Jr.; Latin crooner Jon Secada; and car dealer Rick Case. (Click for Mike Jachles’ 50-photo event gallery)

The gala was part of the weekend-long Concours, which also included Sunday’s collector car show judged by Leno. Leno himself is a well-known collector whose garage is stuffed with more than 100 classic cars, even if he told Page2Live last week that he was through buying — for a while!

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– Howie Mandel’s no car buff, but he can’t wait for Concours D’Elegance gig

– Jay Leno to highlight the Boca Raton Concours D’Elegance