Kimberly Hicks, of West Palm Beach (Click on the Mike Jachles photo for the full gallery)

I only spoke with New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio twice, but I’m pretty sure the crusty old guy wouldn’t have approved!

Still, the 15th Annual South Florida Tattoo Expo was expected to raise more than $50,000 for Hollywood’s Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital.

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Several thousand tattoo and body-piercing enthusiasts are gathering at the Hilton Deerfield Beach this the weekend to discuss the latest ink trends, enjoy bands and camaraderie and, yes, get some more body art.

Santiago Borges, from Miami, receives yet another tattoo (Click on the Mike Jachles picture for more)

Diddy, Saturday night at the Marlins game (Click on the photo for more celebs in SoFla)

With average attendance in the Major League Baseball’s basement, the Florida Marlins have been bringing an extra ooomph in the entertainment value of a Saturday night at the ball park with concerts and fireworks. So, the fish had rapper and music mogul Sean Diddy Combs do his thang on stage after losing to the Atlanta Braves Saturday. Well, the seats with butts in them were still pretty scarce, but Combs did rock the joint! (Click here for pictures of the show and other celebs in SoFla)

Diddy gets primped up before the show (Click on the photo for more)

Parke & Ronen (Click on the photo for more)

Swim Week, one of the world’s biggest swimwear fashion events in the world, continues through the weekend in various Miami Beach hotels. The likes of actress Selena Gomez (The Wizards of Waverly Place), reality TV personalities Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, and rapper Bow Wow have been spotted alongside the runways. But the true stars here are the swimsuits, from companies like Ed Hardy, Beach Bunny, Crystal Jin, and Parke & Ronen, and the hotties who wear them. Click here or on the photos to see it all:

Beach Bunny Swimwear (Click on the photo for more)

Belly dancers competed for attention with live camels at the grand opening of Off the Hookay Thursday on Clematis in West Palm Beach. The belly dancers won! (click on the Mike Jachles photo for more)

Camels, belly dancers, jugglers in pharaoh outfits, fire breathers, and thousands of people throughout Thursday night celebrated the official opening of Off the Hookah on Clematis in West Palm Beach. It’s a Middle Eastern-style eatery and night club, a part of a growing restaurant chain started on Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale riding the hookah-smoking fad. Hookahs are ornate water pipes (yes, just like an expensive bong) used in the Middle East to smoke tobacco, at times flavored, in social settings. “We’ll be selling 200 to 250 hookah-smoking experiences a night,” said Off the Hookah manager Aaron DeLang. And at $25 a pop, with the usual fare of shish kebab and baba ganoush, it sorta guarantees the joint will prosper! Click here for Thursday night’s Mike Jachles photo gallery

Live camels at Off The Hookah on Thursday night. (Click on @HeatherOStudio's photo for more)

Koch and his lovely wife Bridget

Palm Beach energy magnate Bill Koch is on the warpath.

In a lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Friday, Koch is accusing big-deal New York interior designer Charlotte Moss of not putting enough of a cowboys-and-Indians western motif in his Aspen, Colo., chalet.

Koch hired Moss in 2007, when the billionaire sailor and former winner of the America’s Cup bought the famous Elk Mountain Lodge in Aspen for a whopping $26.4 million.

And, according to Koch’s lawsuit, the contract called for Moss to decorate the 17-bedroom building in a western decor.

Why?

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Cindy Crawford, Thursday night at the W hotel in Fort Lauderdale (Splash News/Special to Page2Live)

She’s 44, and she admits to light plastic procedures, but former supermodel Cindy Crawford still knows who to light up a red (or, here, purple) carpet. The beauty-product pitchwoman did just that Thursday night, at times with her watering-hole owner of a husband Rande Gerber, at the first anniversary of the W Fort Lauderdale.

Crawford with hubby Rande Gerber at the W Fort Lauderdale anniversary (Splash News/Special to Page2Live)

Must be hurting! Daly at the Crowne Plaza Invitational May 29 in Texas (AP Photo)

Golfer John Daly, known as much for his girth and drinking as his powerful swing and funky wardrobe, is no longer looking for a golf payday.

He’s banking on a lawsuit he filed in a Palm Beach County court against several defendants, including a children’s charity.

Daly, 44, wants $100 million because, he says, an injury he suffered at the 2007 Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens has damaged his game.

Daly filed two years ago after a woman taking pictures jumped in front of him in mid-swing. Daly claimed in the paperwork he aborted the movement because he feared killing the woman but felt his rib cage pop out. The paperwork reads that Daly and other players unsuccessfully tried three times before the incident to have security kick the unidentified woman off the course.

Daly blamed the injury’s recurrence for his withdrawal from several tournaments this year. He even twittered about retirement.

Now, Daly wants someone to pay for that retirement. The original defendant were the owners of the PGA National Resort, the tournament’s venue. The PGA Tour and the Children’s Healthcare Charity, a local non-profit funded almost entirely with Honda Classic profits, were added later as entities that Daly wants held liable.

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Sarah Jessica Parker at the premiere of Sex and the City 2 Monday (Click on the photo for more)

Just ahead of Friday’s release of Sex and the City 2, the stars of the movie and the HBO series that inspired it as well as famous fans stepped on the Radio City Music Hall’s red carpet Monday night in New York City for the world premiere of the much awaited summer sequel.

Sarah Jessica Parker garnered most of the attention in a bright yellow Valentino gown. And true to their character in the chick flick, co-stars Kristin Davis wore a hot pink pink vintage number while Kim Cattrall donned the expected sexy gold gown. Flame-haired Cynthia Nixon picking a black strapless frock.

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Among the hangers on: Actresses Liza Minnelli (who plays herself in the new movie), Jennifer Love Hewitt, Bo Derek (yep, she’s still around), The Hills‘ Whitney Port, Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), radio shock jock Howard Stern and part-time Palm Beacher Donald Trump.

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Kim Cattrall, at Monday's premiere of Sex and the City 2 (Click on the photo for more)

Montag

This would be funny, if it weren’t so tragic.

Attention-seeking reality TV starlet Heidi Montag is about to undergo more plastic surgery.

You read right!

The star of MTV’s The Hills, 23, already went from natural beauty to duck-lipped Barbie doll when she underwent 13 different plastic procedures in one day back in January. And actually, the premiere of The Hills‘ Season Six last week provided a fascinating scene in which Montag was blasted by her folks and sister when she clearly could barely open her mouth to eat.

Now, Montag’s scheduled another breast implant procedure, according to her husband and co-star Spencer Pratt.

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Marissa Tatakis (left) and Deborah Lindenfeld model hats at the Kentucky Derby fundraiser Saturday at the Seminole Hard Rock Resort (RC White/Special to Page2Live)

The running of the 136th Kentucky Derby Saturday afternoon was used by dozens of charities throughout South Florida as a fund-raising opportunity. Fort Lauderdale’s Ann Storck Center, a non-profit that provides services to developmentally disabled people, organized a viewing party at the Seminole Hard Rock Resort in Hollywood that also included a hat contest and fashion show. Click here for RC White’s photo gallery, or click on the photo.