Well-known Boca Raton divorce lawyer Doreen Yaffa’s job hasn’t soured her too much. The fetching blond was hitched to Fort Lauderdale karate school owner Jeff Wilson in a sunset ceremony Saturday at the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach. And she did something that, as a divorce lawyer, she’d frown upon: She married the dude after a four-month courtship! Pre-nup? Unclear. Yaffa divorced her life and business partner, Samuel Yaffa, a year ago.

Romney, tasting the spaghetti sauce

The next presidential election is three years away, but a contender in the race that saw U.S. Sen. John McCain emerge as the Republican’s candidate last year is already working on unseating Pres. Barack Obama. Mitt Romney, a conservative former governor of Massachusetts, was in Boca Raton this weekend for a dinner at the $2 million-home in east Boca of real estate investor Mark Guzzetta. Guzzetta cooked — Italian, of course — and a dozen local swells wrote checks for a total $25,000 to Romney’s political action committee, Free and Strong America. Also in da house: Florida Senate President Jeff Atwater. Check out Page2Live’s gallery:

< Back

Next >

Picture 1 of 4

Boca businessman Mark Guzzetta with Romney

Bova received the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Leader of the Year award in 2004 (Palm Beach Post archives)

The scandal that engulfed the well-known Fort Lauderdale law firm of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler has spilled into the Boca Raton restaurant biz.

Tony Bova, 58, a Boca resident and the high-profile owner of a string of area restaurants, counts disgraced attorney and political power broker Scott Rothstein among his partners in at least a half-dozen ventures.

And chief among those are Bova Ristorante, Bova’s pride and joy on Boca’s Federal Highway, and the chain Bova Restaurant Group.

Bova Ristorante, where older guys with slicked-back hair loved to hook up with women too young for them, mysteriously closed its doors shortly before Rothstein took off for North Africa last month.

And no one’s talking.

“Tony Bova has no comment at this point,” a spokeswoman said.

Bova’s association with Rothstein, who’s believed to be the principal in a $500 million Ponzi scheme and just returned to Florida to face the music, surprised observers.

“Tony was a very successful restaurant owner in his own right,” said Tom Prakas, a hospitality-business broker. “I don’t know why he needed Scott Rothstein.”

One strange thing regarding Bova and Rothstein is that their businesses last year spent more than $200,000 on political causes, mostly in a heated race across the Palm Beach County line.

For more, please look below or click (Read more…)

Todd English and Erica Wang in happier times (Courtesy New York Post)

– Celebrity chef Todd English won’t let a minor inconvenience like his ex-fiancee’s arrest stand in the way of his empire’s expansion in South Florida. Suddenly BFFs English and food entrepreneur Lirim Jacobi (founder of the Taverna Opa party chain) are opening a branch of Olives, English’s signature restaurant, at the old Opus 5 in Boca Raton, according to the local foodie Web site jannorris.com. The new Olives should be open in Boca Center by the end of November. Jacobi and English are also working on Wild Olives, another new joint located at CityPlace in West Palm Beach. The gossip rags, however, is where the particularly photogenic English, 49, has been dwelling recently. He was to have married employee Erica Wang at the St. Regis in NYC. But the runaway groom called her from an appearance at the CityPlace Taverna Opa to tell her it just didn’t feel right. They called it off. Last week, Wang was arrested for throwing a watch at the chef in a fight.

Stephanie Seymour and Peter Brant in Wellington (The Palm Beach Post)

– The divorce of part-time Palm Beachers Stephanie Seymour, the former super model, and her newsprint mogul polo-playing hubby, Peter Brant, is getting more venomous by the day. The two, who co-own a $5.5 million weekend home on Dunbar Road, have been duking it out since May in a Connecticut court. Now, Brant is claiming in paperwork obtained by the New York Post that Seymour secretly traveled to Palm Beach on a day she was supposed to be with their kids last week, and “broke into” their home. She supposedly took $700,000 worth of stuff. Broke in? According to county records, Seymour’s name is on the deed.

The Loebs (Courtesy NickLoeb.com)

Florida Senate hopeful Nick Loeb dropped out of the District 25 race a day after Page2Live reported that his Swedish wife had filed for divorce.

Loeb tells The Palm Beach Post’s George Bennett that he’ll personally reimburse donors who contributed a total of more than $100,000 to his campaign.

He also tells Bennett that wife Anna Loeb ran into an old boyfriend in Sweden this summer and rekindled with that dude.

She filed for divorce Oct. 2, just weeks after getting picked up for DUI.

“I wish things could be different,” Loeb said.

For more, click here.