Polo star Nick Roldan gives an obviously uncomfortable Kourtney Kardashian a ride on his pony (Click on the photo for more)
Polo star Nick Roldan gives an obviously uncomfortable Kourtney Kardashian a ride on his pony (Click on the photo for more)
Among the pretty people: Reid Boren and Lora Atkinson, co-chairs; Taylor Collins, Junior Chair; man-about-town JC Collado; former Palm Beach County Commissioner Bob Kanjian; Barcardi CEO John Esposito, who lives in Jupiter; former gubernatorial galpal Kelly Heyniger, and plenty more. Richard Rogers, son of Mary Kay founder Mary Kay Ash, picked up a large portion of the party’s tab, allowing the non-profit to maximize revenues. Check out Page2Live’s big gallery, by Mike Jachles: Click here or on the photo above.
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Buble, Friday at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise (Click on the photo for more)
Kourtney and Khloe
They picked a fine time to visit!
Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian, who are in South Florida to film season 2 of Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami, will tape an episode in Wellington Sunday afternoon.
At the International Polo Club Palm Beach.
Yes, John Goodman’s place.
For some reason, the company producing the Kardashians show for E! is trying to keep the whole polo trip hush-hush. And Shamin Abas, the club’s spokeswoman, declined comment.
But the cast and crew are expected at the club’s brunch and afternoon match.
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Sunday polo events at IPC often attract celebs. The likes of actress Hillary Duff, singer John Legend and pop icon Madonna have been spotted in the stands over the past few years. But these have been strange times for the venue.
Late last season, 21 ponies died in the middle of a match after being accidentally poisoned, creating a stir nationally.
And a month into this season, Feb. 12, IPC founder Goodman allegedly drove his Bentley into 23-year-old Scott Wilson’s car in rural Wellington, killing him. Authorities are investigating whether drugs and/or alcohol played a role. Goodman hasn’t been seen at his club since, preferring instead the more anonymous confines of fine Miami Beach hotels.
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Woods (Click on the photo for more)
According to new documents released in the Thanksgiving car crash that eventually brought golf prodigy Tiger Woods back down to earth, Woods’ wife handed ambulance personnel two bottles of pain medicine which she told them Woods took earlier in the day.
The paperwork, released by the Florida Highway Patrol to the Orlando Sentinel today, also shows that Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, tried to ride to the hospital in the ambulance with Woods.
The paramedics, however, barred her from entering, saying that the case was domestic violence-related.
The state troopers’ notes also intimates that the hospital where Woods was taken after he hit two curbs then a tree while pulling out of his driveway in Windermere, went all out to protect Woods’ reputation.
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On the Friday afternoon of the crash, according to the Sentinel, troopers went to the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee and asked for medical records that could have shown whether Woods was DUI. An emergency nurse there told them that the records department was closed until the following business day, Monday. When they returned at 7 a.m. Monday, troopers were told the computer system with medical records was down.
Within a week, women who said they had affairs with Woods were coming out of the woodwork, and Woods went into virtual hiding, including sex rehab, until he made his televised apology Feb. 19. Some believe he may return to golf next month at the Masters.
Woods suffered minor injuries in the crash. He was cited by the FHP for careless driving and fined $164.
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Casey
For the second time since 2007, the Palm Beach area chapter of the Red Cross is losing its CEO after a brief tenure.
Larry Casey, the visible frontman of the disaster-responding charity, told Page2Live he’ll step down on April 9. He has been leading the non-profit’s branch, which reaches into the Treasure Coast and cuts across Florida to the west coast, for just 20 months.
Casey took the reins from J.B. Hunt, who was fired in 2008 because she made it a habit to take decisions without discussing them with the board.
About his departure, Casey said he is looking for a change in his career. And he’s taking in a teenage family member, with whom he plans to spend more time.
Privately, according to an insider, Casey had expressed frustration with the American Red Cross’ current drive to take more control of local chapters.
And then, Casey always seemed more at ease in one of his previous jobs, as longtime aide to former Republican U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw.
“It’s just the right time to go,” Casey said. “Hurricane season is still a few months away and the chapter will have time to find someone else.
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Among his proudest achievements, Casey cited the more than $1 million — mostly through small checks — raised for earthquake relief in Haiti over just two months.
While Casey managed to stabilize the finances of the chapter, meanwhile, its reserves have been dwindling steadily over the past years — from $5 million when former CEO Dean Dimke left in 2006 to about $700,000 now.
“We flat out need money,” said chapter Chair Michael Lampert, a tax lawyer. “But that has nothing to do with Larry leaving. We are sorry to see him go.”
As for Casey’s replacement, Lampert said the chapter would “welcome a CEO who’ll stay for four or five years.”
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Will you know my name? You bet! Guitar god Eric Clapton (Layla, Tears in Heaven) rocked the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise Thursday night. Click here or on the photo for more South Florida concerts.
]]>The bottles of rare Chateau Lafite, Mouton-Rothschild and Chateau Margaux brought in thousands, although organizers were still counting the loot late Thursday. And it was all for charity: National Enquirer heiress Lois Pope’s Disabled Veterans LIFE Memorial Foundation. Pope is raising money to build a memorial to wounded warriors in Washington, D.C.
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Wine consultant Dennis Foley shows off a bottle of Staglin Family Cabernet Thursday night at Mar-a-Lago (Click on the photo for more)
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Beckham, last night in Manchester (Reuters)
To the rest of the world, L.A. Galaxy superstar David Beckham’s gesture Wednesday night didn’t mean much.
But in England, it was the equivalent of Becks flipping the bird at Palm Beacher Malcolm Glazer!
Heartthrob Beckham, who’s with AC Milan in Europe when U.S. soccer is off in winter, was lingering on the pitch after playing against his old Manchester United squad when a fan handed him a green-and-gold scarf.
Beckham put it around his neck.
And the Brit media went nuts.
Yep. Just of a scarf.
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Glazer
Glazer, the 81-year-old owner of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, borrowed heavily to buy ManU in 2005 for $1 billion.
In a country where the great American pastime of buying something with someone else’s money is frowned upon, fans smelled a rat. And immediately took a real dislike to Glazer.
Glazer, who sold one of his Palm Beach mansions last year for $24 million and then started renovations on a $22 million-beachfronter a few blocks away, immediately raised United ticket prices. He sold its most popular players.
And now that Manchester United is even deeper in the hole, dislike has turned to hatred — and unhappy fans started wearing green and gold (the colors of the old Manchester club 100 years ago) scarves in protest.
Incidentally, Glazer has been so scared of Manchester fans since he bought the club that he hired extra security guards in Palm Beach. Once, he called Palm Beach Police to report a helicopter innocently hovering over his ‘hood, fearing the rabid ManU supporters were on to him.
But so far, no green-and-gold hooligan has showed up on his doorsteps — yet.
No one picked up the phone of Glazer’s home in Palm Beach.
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John Goodman, at a polo function with actress Hillary Duff (Click on the photo for more)
The family of fresh college graduate Scott Wilson, who was killed Feb. 12 when his car was broadsided in rural Wellington by International Polo Club Palm Beach boss John Goodman, is “very pleased” with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office’s investigation into the accident.
This, despite the facts that no finding has been released a month after the incident, or that Goodman hasn’t been charged, according to one of the Wilsons’ attorneys.
Goodman survived with minor injuries, and authorities are considering criminal charges. Goodman, 46, was at two parties before the accident, and was accused by his ex-wife last year of being a cocaine abuser.
“Scott’s parents understand that this is a high-profile situation and that everyone involved is trying to dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s,” said West Palm Beach attorney Scott Smith, who represents Wilson’s dad, William. “The family doesn’t want anyone to make a mistake on this.”
When asked about a recent Page2Live scoop about the fact that Palm Beach County Fire Rescue firefighters and paramedics failed to find Wilson, who drowned strapped in his seat in the upside down car submerged in a canal, Smith said the family wants to allow the agency to investigate its response to the crash.
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Wilson's car (Click on the photo for more)
“They (the Wilsons) are simply 100 percent convinced that the only reason that Scott’s car ended up upside down and underwater in a cold, dark canal is the reckless and outrageous actions of John Goodman,” Smith said. “He drove at a high rate of speed and blew through a stop sign.”
Smith said rescuers could have done little for Wilson. His car was so banged up that water rushed inside as soon as it hit the canal.
“The damages to Scott’s car were horrific,” Smith said, “probably the worst I’ve seen in a two-car collision.”
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