Zegeye

The former Benjamin School student who pleaded guilty to being drunk when he drove into another car stopped at a red light  in Palm Beach Gardens two and a half years ago, killing the driver, has found a new home.

Beruch Zegeye is expected to celebrate his 20th birthday this summer at the minimum-security Lancaster Correctional Institution near Gainesville.

He’s scheduled to be released in January 2017 although he could receive credit for good behavior.

Lancaster is listed as a medium- to low-security camp for young criminals, and that isn’t sitting well with his victim’s family.

According to the Florida Department of Corrections’ website, the camp houses about 570 offenders between 19 and 24 years old in dorms.

Lancaster is mandated to provide its residents with 12 hours of a day of activities and classes like graphic and culinary arts, sports, weight training and wellness.

Oh, yes: There’s a stress management program, too.

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Heigl, made up!

Actress Katherine Heigl wasn’t looking anything like what fans have come to expect (right) from the former Grey’s Anatomye beauty recently in Miami Beach.

No matter! The makeup-free, sun-baked film and TV star,  above with hubby and singer/songwriter Josh Kelley, still seemed to have a good time.

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The couple vacationed in SoFla after Heigl wrapped up her part in New Year’s Eve, a big-screen fare starring Robert DeNiro.

Not too far from Camp Heigl, meanwhile, The Real Housewives of New York City’s Kelly Killoren Bensimon (below) wouldn’t be caught dead without eyeliner and base, even on the sand. She graciously posed for the Page2Live shutterbug while packing it in for the night.

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Goodman (left) with partner Carl Hirsch, who died hours before the deal for WRMF. The photo was taken at Saturday's Cleveland Clinic gala in Mar-a-Lago

WRMF-97.9 FM, a one-time leading radio station in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast that fell on hard times, was sold late yesterday to a partnership led by former Paxson Communications executive Dean Goodman, a resident of West Palm Beach’s Trump Plaza.

The purchase price for the station that once hosted the area’s top radio talent was $16.5 million, according to a statement released by General Manager Elizabeth Hamma.

The money barely covers seller Great Hill Partners‘ note on the property. The Boston-based Great Hill bought WRMF from Jim Hilliard in 2002 for a record $70 million.

Former U. S. Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned from the House in 2006 after a text-messaging scandal, was among WRMF’s current suitors, but he couldn’t gather enough capital down the stretch.

“I’m a little disappointed,” Foley said late Monday. “But Dean Goodman is a great radio professional who can make WRMF great again.”

The WRMF purchase, incidentally, was to include Goodman’s best friend and another former radio station owner, Palm Beacher Carl Hirsch. Hirsch, who ran radio stations in Cleveland and the Midwest, suffered a fatal heart attack while at dinner at Palm Beach’s Cafe Boulud Monday, hours before the WRMF paperwork was signed. (A wake for Hirsch has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday at Cafe Sapori in West Palm Beach)

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Delray Beach PD Assistant Chief Ralph Phillips has quietly retired after nearly 30 years on the thin blue line.

Phillips, 52, retired without returning from a suspension with pay!

Ralph Phillips (Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post)

He was sent on leave in September as Internal Affairs looked into allegations he interfered with his own cops in criminal incidents involving his two sons, then retaliated against a sergeant who arrested one of the two.

Police Chief Anthony Strianese issued a two-line internal memo announcing Phillips’ departure on Feb. 18.

“We thank him for his many years of dedicated service to our agency,” Strianese’s memo reads, “and wish him well in his future endeavors.”

Missing from the memo: The fact that Phillips faced being fired!

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With a beefy bodyguard in tow, Houston millionaire trust-funder John Goodman (above, with his arm raised next to an unidentified family member) has started to re-appear at his polo club in Wellington.

Goodman, 47, is facing trial on charges of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide in last February’s death of 23-year-old engineer Scott Wilson.

Goodman, who could be sent to prison for 30 years after a trial expected in the spring, disappeared from public view most of last polo season and was holed up in fancy Miami Beach hotels.

This season, however, he’s been spotted catching some of the action at his International Polo Club Palm Beach. He even posed for photos with tennis champ Serena Williams on a recent Sunday.

An attorney for Wilson’s parents wasn’t amused when he saw the pictures.

“While Mr. Goodman is free on bail attending polo matches and continuing to wine and dine the rich and famous,” said attorney Scott Smith, “Mr. and Mrs. Wilson continue to suffer from the loss of their only son.”

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More on Goodman and Wellington’s polo scene:

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– The Kardashians take in polo in Wellington

– DUI death suspect John Goodman in hiding

– Goodman’s $200-Ladies Night booze tab