Man, things must be slow these days in kiwi land!

The national lottery of New Zealand is putting out a new game called Trump Up Your Life.

Trump, as in The Apprentice’s Donald Trump!

The New Zealand winner, announced later this month, will get $100,000 plus a trip to NYC with an entourage of three.

According to several of New Zealand’s newspapers, the lottery will also throw in top-flight luggage, a six-night stay at the soon-to-be-openTrump SoHo, $10,000 per person for petty cash, a round of golf at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, a chauffeur-driven limo on-call and a meet-and-greet with the owner of Palm Beach’s Mar-a-Lago.

Trump is reported to have gotten a few bucks for his participation but it’s unclear how much!

Melania Trump and Petra Levin, co-chairs of the Heart Ball (Michael Price/Special to Page2Live) Click on the photo for more

The Heart Ball, which benefits the American Heart Association, is one of the biggest charity galas of the Palm Beach season. More than 500 guests attended the shindig at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday night. Donald Trump arrived with wife Melania, who was co-chair with socialite Petra Levin. It was one of the first times this season that the Trumps were together. This, a week after stories started to spring up that there’s trouble in their marital paradise. Still, the ball was tremendously successful, raising a whopping $1.5 million in one night. Check out the Michael Price’s gallery by clicking on the photo, or here.

Trump at the convention center Saturday (Special to Page2Live)

With rumors swirling that there’s unhappiness in his marriage to model Melania, something he forcefully denies, Mar-a-Lago owner Donald Trump spent Saturday afternoon shopping for St. Valentine’s Day at the Palm Beach Jewelry Art and Antique Show. The event, at the convention center downtown WPB, ends tonight. I’m told The Donald, who looked like a vulgar tourist, hovered quite a bit near the Sherry Sheaf Private Jewelers booth and eyed a 46-carat aquamarine necklace and pendant circled by 5.45 carats of diamonds (see below). The star of The Apprentice didn’t buy it (Boooo!) but promised he’d be back today.

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Trump International Golf Club member Harry Theodoracopulos heard some dreaded words in a letter from club owner Donald Trump last year.

“Harry, I don’t know what your problem is,” Trump wrote (here and here), ” . . . due to you inappropriate conduct, your use privileges and membership rights are being suspended at Trump International Golf Club immediately.”

But then, Trump heard from Theodoracopulos words he dreads just as much: Pay up, dude! You owe me $204,800!

All that’s in a lawsuit that Theodoracopulos filed against Trump last week in a Palm Beach County Circuit Court, claiming that Trump didn’t follow club bylaws when he told him to take a walk. The lawsuit claims that the Greek businessman’s ouster caused him “great embarrassment and humiliation.” He was given a few minutes to clean out his locker and escorted out of the West Palm Beach club by a security guard.

For more, Trump’s accusations and the poll look below or click (Read more…)

There was a plethora of well-known locals poolside at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night, for the preview of the upcoming Heart Ball, also at Donald Trump’s private club.

Philanthropist Patrick Park, honorary chair of the Valentine’s Day affair, whet the appetites of about 225 would-be Heart Ball guests with cocktails and a Michael Kors/GRAFF fashion show.

And judging from those gawking at jet-setting fashionista Kors’ models, including a couple of billionaires, it seems a given that the American Heart Association will get close to the 2008 record take for a Palm Beach party, $2.38 million.

Michael Kors' model get ready to show off their wares Saturday night at Mar-a-Lago (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

Seen along the impromptu catwalk: corporate raider Wilbur Ross and wife Hilary; Netscape founder Jim Clark, who set aside his dislike of Palm Beach society to take his much-younger bride, Australian model Kristy Hinze Clark to the party; beer mogul Stephen Levin and his wife, former Miss Germany Petra Levin; TV host Regis Philbin and wife Joy; and more.

Check out Michele Sandberg’s gallery by clicking here, or click on the photo.

Hoping to raise more than $600,000 in what’s becoming one of the social season’s must-be-seen-at rendez-vous, more than 500 people jam-packed the Alzheimer’s Community Care black-tie gala Friday night in Palm Beach’s Mar-a-Lago.

The event showed signs that there’s light at the end of the tunnel for area non-profits, whose budgets for big deal fundraisers have been stretched thin.

The Alzheimer’s entertainment ( salsa demonstrations), decorations, food (including lobster and a salad named after Mar-a-Lago owner Donald Trump), drinks and the atmosphere all looked and felt “pre-Madoff,” when it wasn’t rare for a charity to spend $300,000-$500,000 on such things.

“We didn’t order fresh flowers,” said gala Chairwoman Geri Morrow. “But for everything else, we went all out.”

Alzheimer’s Community Care is a West Palm Beach organization that provides care to patients and caretakers dealing with the debilitating disease.

Check out Michele Sandberg’s 68-photo gallery of the fiesta by clicking here or on the photo.

Ivana Trump (Courtesy The Insider)

Is millionaire jet-setter Ivana Trump being shown Palm Beacher’s courtesy after Delta Air Lines, local and federal authorities all declined to pursue criminal charges against the foul-mouthed socialite?

The 60-year-old Trump caused long delays for fellow passengers on a jet to New York City’s LaGuardia Airport on Saturday afternoon after she became what Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies called “belligerent,” swore at children and caused the taxiing plane to return to the terminal.

She then refused several orders from deputies to leave her first-class seat. She relented and was escorted to her waiting chauffeur.

Delta officials, by the way, rescheduled her flight for Sunday.

So, at a time of security tightening in airports, why won’t she be prosecuted? Actually, she’s having a grand ole’ time.

“Ivana left a day late and flew to London today,” said her rep, Catherine Saxton. “If this wasn’t Ivana Trump, there would be no news. Besides, a lot of people who called her said they understand why she did it. Noisy children on a plane is a problem.

“Everything’s fine. Life goes on.”

Actually, Saxton said, the former wife of developer Donald Trump is negotiating a contract to star in a British reality TV show.

Delta, what gives?

Read the company’s amazing response, and take the poll, below or by clicking (Read more…)

Palm Beach jet-setter Ivana Trump, who you’d think would fly private, was booted off a commercial flight departing Palm Beach International Airport this afternoon.

Trump, 60, a former wife of TV star and developer Donald Trump, was not charged with a crime but was escorted off the first-class cabin of Delta flight 2377 to New York City’s LaGuardia Airport and to her waiting chauffeur.

The way a spokeswoman with the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office puts it, the departing jet’s pilot called deputies about 2:30 p.m. because of a foul-mouthed and unruly passenger in seat 1C, in first class.

When the lawmen arrived, they discovered the abusive passenger was the well-known socialite. They described her as “belligerent” and “aggravating.”

According to PBSO, Trump first was unhappy about her seat. Flight attendants offered her another, and headphones, to calm her down. But then Trump became more frustrated when children started running up and down the aisle while screaming.

You won’t believe the language Trump used. Look below or click (Read more…)

Crist with political sugar daddy Donald Trump Saturday at Mar-a-Lago (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

The guv’s people say not much should be made of this, but here’s the cold hard fact: Gov. Charlie Crist attended the March of Dimes’ yearly “Glitz” fund-raiser Saturday at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago — without First Lady Carole Crist.

On their first anniversary!

“Oh, she’s waiting for me at home,” Crist told Page2Live’s shutterbug. “It is our anniversary.”

Crist stayed at the Palm Beach club until about 9:15 p.m.

Crist was hitched to the then-Carole Rome in his hometown of St. Petersburg on Dec. 12, 2008, before a plethora of political operatives and GOP supporters.

Thing is, it’s not unusual these days to see the first lady and the governor alone at separate functions. A week ago, Carole Crist appeared alone at The Colony in Palm Beach to help raise cash for the National Center on Family Homelessness.

This time around, Crist was spotted having dinner with Carole at the Colony Hotel Friday night. But Carole’s absence at the March of Dimes the following evening was even more surprising because she was an event chairwoman last year. She’s also a close friend of local chapter benefactors Annie Falk and Lori Stoll. Both socialites attended.

For more on the party, and the photo gallery, look below or click (Read more…)

CNN star Larry King is back in South Florida this weekend for a charity gala, and Sunday’s Miami Dolphins game.

Through the 1960s and the early ’70s, the 76-year-old King made a name for himself on Miami radio, as a d.j., commentator and an announcer on Dolphins broadcasts.

The King’s first stop, Friday, was at Mar-a-Lago for the de facto kickoff of Palm Beach’s gala season, Lois Pope’s Lady in Red Gala. The 16th annual fund-raiser brought more than 500 people to Donald Trump’s club, with proceeds going to building a memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring disabled war veterans.

“I emceed the ground breaking of the Vietnam memorial in D.C.,” King told Page2Live. “There should be one for disabled veterans, too. That’s why I came.”

Earlier this fall, Pope found a way to guarantee that the gala would be a sell out in a tough economy. She offered to Palm Beachers the opportunity to celebrate their own occasion at her fiesta. So, Manalapan widow Terry Ebert celebrated her wedding to Joe Mendozza while Jersey couple Elissa and Dominic Papparone celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.

Check out Michele Sandberg’s gallery of Lady in Red:

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