Even with a brand-new business administration degree from the University of Miami, Robert Riva hasn’t really been in high demand on the job market.

So he did the next best thing to getting a job: He used his boyish good looks, soulful eyes and fancy Palm Beach breeding and set out to be a reality TV star!

Riva, 22, is expected to become one of the main staples on a trashy-but-popular reality fare, Love Games. How trashy? Well, the house where the action takes place boasts a “boom-boom room.” Season 2, taped in the winter, premieres on the women’s cable network Oxygen on April 18.

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The program’s premise: Natalie Nunn, Lea Beaulieu and Amber Buhl, stars from Oxygen’s scandalous The Bad Girls Club, are vying for the affection of 15 boys. By the eighth and final episode, only one of the girls and a boy are left and viewers try to figure out if the relationship will last.

As Riva puts it: “It’s the poor man’s (The) Bachelor.”

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Riva, a graduate of Palm Beach Day School and Benjamin School, is the son of well-known marketing exec Maribel Alvarez. He knows instinctively the kind of exposure he could receive from the average million-plus of viewers per episode, especially when involved in on-air challenges that include doing jumping jacks in his Speedos.

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Where the Boys Are actress singer and actress Connie Francis (above), aka Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, was honored by Il Circolo, the Italian American Society of the Palm Beaches, as Woman of the Year Sunday night in Palm Beach.

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The group picked Francis, 72, as her 1950-60s songs found renewed interest over the past months because of the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking teen cult movie.

To a male fan at a table who shouted “We love you!,” an unflappable Francis replied: “I love you, too! Where were you when I married all those stiffs?” (Francis was married and divorced four times.)

The singer of such classics as Who’s Sorry Now and Where’s Your Heart lives part-time in a downtown West Palm Beach highrise.

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Among the 200-plus at the wingding: Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach Bishop Gerald Barbarito; Consul General of Italy Marco Rocca; and Palm Beach philanthropist John Scarpa.

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– Fort Lauderdale’s declares Connie Francis Day

– The Historical Society of Palm Beach County’s Antique Row walk

– The Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s first Palm Beach gala

– The Everglades Foundation Gala, with Kenny Chesney

Lahti (via Facebook)

Golfer Tiger Woods is back on the dating scene, and somehow landed a pretty, 22-year-old graduate student at West Palm Beach’s Northwood University, according to several unconfirmed news reports.

According to records the woman, identified as Alyse Lahti, lived down the street from Woods in Windermere, near Orlando, with her stepdad.

The stepdad, Alastair Johnston, is a high-ranking employee of IMG, the sports agency that represents Woods.

A woman at Johnston’s other home in Cleveland, where IMG is based, and where Lahti grew up, told Page2Live that Lahti no longer lives there and couldn’t be contacted. Lahti didn’t respond to emails asking for comment.

As a Northwood student, Lahti once again lives close to Woods, whose new home is in Jupiter Island.

With blue eyes and blonde hair Lahti, 13 years younger than Woods, bears a faint resemblance to Elin Nordegren, Woods’ ex-wife and the recent buyer of a $12.2 million-house at Seminole Landing in North Palm Beach.

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Lahti (via Facebook)

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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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Lappin

Put on your hip-waders for this one.

The federal lawsuit brought against Palm Beach Pops maestro and founder Bob Lappin by former orchestra general manager Jill Kaplan is oozing some serious sleaze.

With the case headed to a July trial, the revelations of sexual shenanigans at the highbrow orchestra — including late-night nudity and sex at the institution’s West Palm Beach office — are coming fast and furious.

And so is evidence that include receipts for battery-operated sex toys that the maestro allegedly bought for ex-underling Kaplan!

There are also depositions about the usage of such toys, the number of times the maestro received oral sex and public displays of affection in front of musicians.

“We are vigorously defending the claims,” said attorney Keith Sonderling, who represents both the non-profit orchestra and the 71-year-old Lappin.

Kaplan, 49, filed a federal lawsuit a year ago alleging that Lappin, who’s also the orchestra’s CEO, dangled the non-profit’s health benefits as incentive to keep her on the job so that they could continue their affair.

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