International Polo Club Palm Beach founder John Goodman, whose alleged killing of a 23-year-old man in a car crash last month is still under investigation, was nowhere to be found among those who paid homage to high-profile South Florida attorney Roy Black.

Funny thing, because when it comes to celebrities attending The Blacks’ Annual Gala in Miami Beach Saturday night, Black and his wife Lea can always count on those he extracted from the criminal justice system. And yes, there may be some of future clients of Black’s there, too.

Girls Gone Wild’s Joe Francis was one of them. He once had tax and public morals problems, but Black made it all better. So he came to the Fontainebleau Miami Beach for the big party.

“He wins every case,” Francis said. “His approach is different from other lawyers, partly because he never worked for the government as a prosecutor. He believes in your case 100 percent, and I don’t know any other who does that.”

Roy Black kicks off his yearly gala: "If you don't get drunk, . . . then this party has failed!" (Click on the photo for more Mike Jachles images of the party)

Three-time Indianapolis and Dancing With The Stars winner Helio Castroneves showed up. Black got him out of his little tax evasion issue last year.

Yet John Goodman, who could soon be facing DUI and manslaughter accusations but hasn’t been charged, was MIA.

And who could blame him?

Roy Black, after all, kicked off the open bar, three-course fiesta with this announcement to the 1,000-plus guests who’d paid up to $1,000 each: “If you guys don’t get drunk and dance on the tables, then this party has failed!”

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Tiger Woods and his mom after his televised apology (Click on the photo for more)

Embattled golfer Tiger Woods is building a whole lot of homes for a whole lot of people these days.

Woods’ company, ETW, financed his public relations man Glenn Greenspan’s modest $1 million-dwelling in Stuart.

A Scandinavian-looking house is going up just south, on Jupiter Island, from blue prints bearing the specs of Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren.

And, according to recent paperwork filed in Palm Beach County, the 22,000-square-foot crib he’s building for his mom, Tida, is moving along quite nicely.

Usually a quiet presence by her son’s side, Tida jumped into the fray with both feet at his made-for-TV apology Friday when she blasted the media treating Woods “like a criminal.”

Still, there’s nothing like the soon-to-be-reformed philandering fool to kick a down real estate market into gear!

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The Super Bowl Fan Jam, a free concert in Miami Beach, brought more than 30,000 people on the sand off Deco Drive Thursday night. Headliner Rihanna performed every single one of her big tunes, including Disturbia and Russian Roulette, for fans who started lining up at 4 p.m.  Teen sensation Justin Bieber, Timbaland, Keri Hilson and Jojo also played to a young crowd in the traditional pre-Super Bowl festival. There’s more tonight on the same stage, with Nelly Furtado and Latin pop star Paulina Rubio. On Saturday, the Super Bowl music scene shifts to Fort Lauderdale, with headliners Barenaked Ladies. Check out Page2Live’s gallery of Thursday’s concert by clicking here, or on the picture.

Latin stars converged on the Miami studio of TV personality Don Francisco over the weekend for a telethon-style fundraiser for earthquake-stricken Haiti.

Paulina Rubio arrives at the telethon (Click on photo for more)

Colombian rock’n'roller Juanes, Mexican songbirds Paulina Rubio and Thalia, and Maria Elena Salinas, the Latin Barbara Walters, took to the airwaves for five hours. Some performed live while others worked the phone lines to ask viewers for cash.

Check out the gallery of the celebs’ arrivals to the studio here, or on the photo above.

Jordan and Sheen filming a Hanes commercial

– Sitcom star Charlie Sheen, whose Two and a Half Men is broadcast on Channel 12-WPEC Monday at 9 p.m., is losing his shirt and undies. Literally. Underwear maker Hanes announced it’s pulling all TV ads featuring Sheen and soon-to-be Jupiter resident Michael Jordan, the former NBA star. According to hollywoodlife.com, the move is a result of Sheen’s arrest for allegedly choking his Palm Beach-raised wife, Brooke Mueller, on Christmas morning. Hanes spokesman Matt Hall told the BBC: “It’s a pretty standard, straightforward call when somebody who’s in your commercials is arrested on suspicion of something of this magnitude. And we would suspend the ads, both for the company and, really, for Mr Sheen and his family as well.”

– Former Port S. Lucie cheerleader Megan Fox, as in Transformers and the gory Jennifer’s Body, is spending some of her Hollywood millions. Click here to see shots of the breathtaking Los Angeles abode she just bought herself, for $3 million. The 23-year-old gets a view of the Pacific during the day, and the glitter of downtown L.A. at night. I’m sure she misses PSL terribly.

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Aerosmith's Joe Perry at Sunday's Dolphins game

Art Basel, the Fins game and Timbaland’s CD release kept paparazzi on their toes this weekend.

In addition to bicycling great Lance Armstrong, clothier Calvin Klein and actor Val Kilmer, Art Basel in Miami Beach also lured the likes of retired tennis star John McEnroe and his rocker wife, Patti Smyth, Rambo Sly Stallone, flawless-looking burlesque performer Dita Von Teese and some members of the L.A. famous-for-no-good-reason crowd, like Brandon Davis.

Saturday night’s Timbaland party for the release of his new CD, Shock Value II, gathered ageless super model Elle McPherson and reality TV star Kelly Bensimon, of The Real Housewives of New York City, to LIV nightclub in Miami Beach.

To complete the three-ring circus, the Miami Dolphins game saw its share of in-folks, including singer/actress JLo, CNN squawker Larry King and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, who missed the rehearsal of his pre-game concert because he overslept on the tour bus. Still sounded pretty good in the hypnotic reggae rendition of Dream On.

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Hip-hop star T-Pain, feeling nostalgic from a time when the Dolphins were truly great, arrives at Sunday's game. The Fins beat the Pats.

–  Michaele and Tareq Salahi are better at crashing the White House than organizing polo tournaments. That what Boca Raton publicist Lynn Lewis said today, after working with the pair. Lewis was suckered earlier this year into publicizing the couple’s polo event near Washington, D.C., America’s Polo Cup. “It was badly organized, things they promised weren’t falling into place,” Lewis said. “One of my clients (Daum Crystal) was a sponsor and they had other major sponsors like Land Rover. I spent a lot of time with them and they actually had me work to bring in the press. The Salahis are well spoken, well educated and great socially. I remember Michaele riding around the polo grounds standing inside the Land Rover and sticking out from the sunroof. Tareq is actually a legitimate polo player. They definitely play the part of rich D.C. socialites. I can see how they could talk their way into the White House.” The Salahis crashed a Pres. Barack Obama party for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week. How they made it through security is still unclear. Daum, says TransMedia Group’s Lewis, isn’t planning to sponsor America’s Polo Cup again.

Lynn Lewis, 29, in the middle with the cup, with Tareq Salahi (second from left) and Michaele (third from right) at the America's Polo Cup

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–  Back in his hometown of Palm Beach for a visit: Brian Andrews. The intrepid former street reporter for WSVN-Channel 7 in Miami has making a name for himself in Colombia, of all places, since quitting the station nearly three years ago. He started an English-language Web site with news from throughout Colombia. With plenty of readers both in South America and among Colombian expats here, and thanks to his Spanglish appearances on that country’s TV stations, Andrews has become somewhat of a local celebrity. Andrews recently interviewed for an anchor’s job at WPBF-Channel 25 here, but the $95,000-a-year offer he received is nowhere near what the man makes in Bogota. “Hey,” he says, “they just love gringos over there.” Maybe more than here?

C-Rod and Fazekas (Splash News/Special to Page2Live)

Jilted baseball wife Cynthia Rodriguez — Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez‘ ex — had tongues wagging last week when she stepped out hand-in-hand with a mystery man.

And Page2Live’s readers spoke loud and clear when 75 percent of the nearly 700 people who took this poll thought that poor Cynthia went down-market in the looks department when she went fishing for A-Rod’s replacement.

That’s unfair, said mystery man, whom Page2Live tracked down at home in Miami Lakes.

Laszlo Fazekas, born from a Brazilian mother into a famous Hungarian soccer family 37 years ago, says he has no interest in comparisons with World Champ A-Rod.

“I’m a private person, so I didn’t make myself known after the picture with Cynthia came out,” said Fazekas, an unwed dad. “I saw online that folks are comparing me with Alex. That’s ridiculous. That picture is an awkward picture from an awkward position. I don’t care what people say. I’m physically fit and I know I’m not bad looking.”

Within minutes of our talk, Fazekas actually changed the picture on his Facebook page to this professional portrait.

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JLo, Marc Anthony and Floyd, the German shepherd guard dog (Courtesy www.celebrities.au)

A flight attendant on a private jet carrying salsero Marc Anthony and his wife, singer/actress Jennifer Lopez, was attacked by the couple’s guard dog in flight because she was carrying eating utensils to their table.

So the flight attendant, Lisa Wilson, is suing the couple in a Brooklyn, N.Y., court over the 2006 attack in a Gulfstream jet. Wilson says the snarling dog lunged and head-butted her, causing her to fall and injure her back.

For her pain and suffering, she is demanding $5 million.

According to the New York Daily News, the German shepherd, Floyd, received military-style training and has a thing for sharp objects being handled near the Dolphins’ minority owner Anthony. According to the court documents, the glamorous couple’s personal chef also has been harassed by the pooch.

An animal behavior expert hired by Wilson’s legal team said the dog is dangerous and the famous couple knew it. Early in the flight, Anthony warned Wilson not to look at Floyd in the eyes and call his name when she wanted to pass by.

“The dog was obviously dangerous and we will prove at trial that it was only a matter of time before he hurt someone,” Wilson’s lawyer, William Cafaro, told the News.

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It wasn’t so long ago, Miami resident Cynthia Rodriguez only had to look across the breakfast table for her daily dose of eye candy. She was married to New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.

The good old days (Courtesy Sports Illustrated)

But then, along came Madonna, and the SoFla lovebirds were divorced. Both A-Rod and C-Rod have moved on. Alex is playing house with starlet Kate Hudson. And Cynthia took out her new main man, whose id is still unknown, for a stroll in Miami Beach the other day. Did she upgrade? Look below to find out and vote, or click (Read more…)