Ok, so, Bai Ling may not be the greatest actress ever. And except in her role as a senator in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, her stuff is easily forgettable. But when she’s one-on-one on South Beach with Page2Live’s preferred shutterbug, there’s definitely something about Bai Ling. Check out the photo gallery below:

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All leather and lace, Mexican cutie Paulina Rubio rocked the Gusman Center in downtown Miami over the Halloween weekend. Known for her daring outfits, the singer of the chart-busting Causa Y Efecto outdid herself. Not that anyone was complaining!

This definitely beats the snarling Serena Williams the world saw last month at the U.S. Open.

The Palm Beach Gardens tennis star got naked for the cover of ESPN The Magazine’s first ever “Body” issue. The glossy comes out Friday.

The dozens of world-class athletes photographed in various stages of undress for the issue include former Florida Marlins catcher Pudge Rodriguez, Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain, Orlando Magic tallhead Dwight Howard and Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson.

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With women (here rocker Courtney Love) throwing themselves at him, what's David Letterman to do?

– The salacious revelations about the David Letterman we never knew keep coming fast and furious, and the latest is a doozy. The notoriously shy employee-sex-loving Late Show host didn’t even have to leave his Ed Sullivan Theater to find a suitable place for his trysts. According to the New York Daily News, the white-socked host had a boudoir installed upstairs in the famous theater for his relaxing occasions. Letterman staffers called it “the bunker,” because only the chosen few were ever allowed inside.

– Maybe the nastiness of Florida politics have rubbed off Palm Beach-Wellington socialite Sheila Johnson. The billionaire founder of cable’s BET network has landed in hot water over her mocking of a stutterer. YouTube recently posted a video of the staunch Democrat, who also owns the chi-chi Palm Beach food store Market Salamander, making fun of a Democratic candidate for Virginia governor. Johnson is shown stuttering through her lines while referring to candidate Creigh Deeds, whose handicap has made it tough for him to communicate. Johnson eventually apologized, but her endorsement of GOP candidate Bob McDonnell has surprised political observers more used to her plunking down cash for the likes Prez Barack Obama. Check this out:

DeFalco (Courtesy Rebecca DeFalco)

Palm Beach businessman Thanos Papalexis emotionally tortured galpal Rebecca DeFalco for months.

He got physical, too. He bit her. He choked her. Pulled her hair.

Papalexis was, she said, a sadistic lover who kept S&M equipment in a special room.

“He tortured me emotionally and physically to the point that I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills,” DeFalco told Page2Live in her first exclusive interview since she was thrust into the limelight.

“He got in my head. I loved him. He was so charming and interesting.”

Today, DeFalco applauded the sentence that a court in England handed down against Papalexis: Life behind bars.

The former Boca Raton-based porn actress/escort actually played a key role in having an English jury find him guilty of murdering a London loner who, in 2000, stood in the way of a business deal.

DeFalco, who dated Papalexis on and off for three years, testified for five days in July. She said Papalexis admitted to her during pillow talk in 2004 at the Four Seasons Palm Beach that he killed a man.

“I testified without any desire for revenge. I just told the truth, and the truth dictates what he deserves,” she said. “You can call me a whore, but don’t call me a liar.

“The way he told me he strangled someone, from what I saw in his eyes, I knew right away it was true.”

So, why did DeFalco allow him to roam freely among Palm Beach’s elite for four more years instead of reporting Papalexis to authorities? Papalexis, 37, was nabbed by U.S. Marshals in November 2008 and extradited to England after authorities there matched his DNA to cigarette butts found at the crime scene nine years earlier.

“Early in the relationship,” DeFalco said, “he was telling me he was a spy working for the CIA and MI-6. He actually had people calling me on his behalf to say he was on a mission in Iraq and that he was made prisoner. He once disappeared for months at a time, and pretended he suffered from amnesia after falling from a building during a chase.

“I bought it all. I figured that killing someone was a part of his job,” she said. “I figured he was a good guy killing the bad guys. Now I know it was the contrary.”

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They were not exactly beaming, but Odom and Khloe did take the plunge Sunday (Courtesy X17online)

– Hard to believe, but former Miami Heat star Lamar Odom, 29, actually passed a wedding ring onto the chubby finger of 25-year-old mouthy reality TV star Khloe Kardashian Sunday, after a courtship that lasted a whole month! The lovebirds were reportedly haggling over a pre-nupt — then a post-nupt — at the last minute, but they ended up exchanging vows. The wedding, in a private home in Beverly Hills, took place before a roster of guests that read like a reality TV All Stars, including American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest, The Osbournes‘ Kelly Osbourne, funny girl Chelsea Handler, The Gastineau Girls‘ Brittny, The Insider’s Lara Spencer and smut peddler Joe Francis. According to MTV.com, the bride wore a strapless gown made by part-time Palm Beacher Vera Wang and had her sisters Kim and Kourtney, who co-star with Khloe on E!’s Keeping up with the Kardashians, as maids of honor. The 6-foot-10 Odom, who played for the Heat in 2003-04, brought his L.A. Lakers teammates, including Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, Derek Fisher and Luke Walton, along with coach Phil Jackson. Cable’s E! reportedly footed the $1 million bill for the shindig.

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Shue

– It’s that time of year. The social season is upon us, with one of its South Florida kickoffs looming. The 20th Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Classic, a fundraising tennis tourney showcasing several celebrities and pro tennis players, is scheduled for Nov. 7 and 8 at the Delray Beach Tennis Center. Among the celebs: Today host Matt Lauer; Olympic hero Bruce Jenner; movie star Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas, Hollow Man); Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade (daily on Fox News); and Natalie Cole. The singer, who’s recovering from a kidney transplant, won’t play tennis but will sing at the Nov. 7 gala at the Boca Raton Resort.

– Retired New York Mets star catcher Gary Carter, who lives in a $1 million home at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, was just spotted leaving Lexus of Palm Beach in West Palm Beach in a shiny new blue IS convertible. I’m told the Hall of Famer and former manager of the St. Lucie Mets spent close to 50 Gs on his new wheels.

The IS convertible

(Drew Angerer/The Palm Beach Post)

Is Rachel’s a strip bar or a steakhouse?

T & A or chops?

Ten years after the birth of Palm Beach County’s most luxurious mammary mecca, that question’s still debated.

“The fact they serve first rate food is what allowed them to stay in business that long,” said popular former Rachel’s manager Danny Winters. “The steaks made it OK for anyone to come in.”

“It’s the girls,” said Scott Mauro, Winters’ replacement at the joint. “It’s full nudity.”

Bottom line: Those who enjoy Playboy for the articles probably enjoy Rachel’s Adult Entertainment and Steakhouse for, well, the food.

Rachel’s, which is located at the corner of I-95 and 45th Street in West Palm Beach, turns 10 years old this weekend.

In a decade, it went from a controversial newbie — the city banned the opening of newer nudie bars after Rachel’s was built — to an unlikely local business institution.

Check out Page2Live’s gallery of Friday’s event:

Hauserman

And the watering hole that gave Palm Beach mansion dwellers a reason to cross the Intracoastal is celebrating its rite of passage with the unveiling of an inside face lift, drink specials and the occasional shapely female guest star.

Reality TV fixture and Playboy model Megan Hauserman hosted Friday’s party. Hauserman, who grew up in Boca and graduated from Olympic Heights, is known mostly for fronting VH-1’s doomed Megan Wants a Millionaire.

The dating show was cancelled last month after three episodes when one contestant, Ryan Jenkins, became a suspect in the murder of his wife, model Jasmine Fiore.  Jenkins off-ed himself during the manhunt.

“I’m trying to focus on more positive stuff,” Hauserman tells me.

She said she agreed to host Friday’s party because she constantly heard of Rachel’s as a teen in Boca.

“All the boys at school would talk about it,” she said.

To the disappointment of many, Hauserman didn’t strip. She just strutted around in a skimpy cocktail waitress’ outfit.

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Technosluts, anyone? (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

Now, here’s something you don’t see in Palm Beach County.

At least, not in public.

Fort Lauderdale’s swanky Voodoo Lounge throws “Technosluts” parties every few weeks.

Part Mad Max, part Saw with a dash of Escape From L.A., the wingdings are slowly growing into the area’s largest fetish gatherings.

And they are keeping it mostly clean! Check out Page2Live’s photo gallery below, by Michele Sandberg.

Fox in the upcoming Jennifer's Body (Courtesy 20th Century Fox)

It’s a feud — Port St. Lucie vs. Miami Beach!

PSL product Megan Fox’s beef with Transformers franchise director Michael Bay, a Miami Beach resident, has taken an ugly turn as the hottie prepares for her big gig hosting the Sept. 26 premiere of Saturday Night Live.

The two have been going back and forth this summer, with Fox recently calling Bay a cross between Napoleon and Hitler for his tight grip on the production of Transformers 2.

Not that the tart-tongued Bay needed it, but anonymous members of his longtime film crew have come to his rescue with a letter to Bay’s fans describing the former PSL cheerleader as “ungracious, “unappreciative” and “untalented.”

Yikes! How’s this for a Hollywood feud made in SoFla?!

“Yes, Megan has great eyes,” the letter reads, according to popeater.com, “a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy. . . Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes, we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it’s very cringe-able.”

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