Forget the recently overdosed former tennis champ Jennifer Capriati!

Someone else with local ties has signed on for the upcoming Celebrity Rehab: Rachel Uchitel, Tiger Woods‘ mistress No. 1.

Uchitel in February in Palm Beach (Click on the photo for more)

Uchitel, who grew up in the family of a Palm Beach-based Midwest banker, starts filming the VH1 show made famous by host Dr. Drew Pinsky next month, for a late fall airing.

Several reports claim Uchitel met with the good doctor Friday in Beverly Hills and declined his invitation at first. But when producers threw in another $250,000 to beef up her jackpot to $500,000, Uchitel agreed. Uchitel is joining a motley crew who B- and C-listsers already signed: former model Janice Dickinson, former teen idol Leif Garrett, Party of Five’s Jeremy London, The Hills‘ Jason Wahler, Internet pinup Tila Tequila and Playboy playmate Shauna Sand.

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Sarah Jessica Parker at the premiere of Sex and the City 2 Monday (Click on the photo for more)

Just ahead of Friday’s release of Sex and the City 2, the stars of the movie and the HBO series that inspired it as well as famous fans stepped on the Radio City Music Hall’s red carpet Monday night in New York City for the world premiere of the much awaited summer sequel.

Sarah Jessica Parker garnered most of the attention in a bright yellow Valentino gown. And true to their character in the chick flick, co-stars Kristin Davis wore a hot pink pink vintage number while Kim Cattrall donned the expected sexy gold gown. Flame-haired Cynthia Nixon picking a black strapless frock.

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Among the hangers on: Actresses Liza Minnelli (who plays herself in the new movie), Jennifer Love Hewitt, Bo Derek (yep, she’s still around), The Hills‘ Whitney Port, Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), radio shock jock Howard Stern and part-time Palm Beacher Donald Trump.

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Kim Cattrall, at Monday's premiere of Sex and the City 2 (Click on the photo for more)

Trump, with wife Melania last month at Mar-a-Lago (Michael Price/Special to Page2Live)

Mar-a-Lago owner Donald Trump called for Chinese products entering the United States to be heavily taxed.

His words on CNNMoney.com this morning, however, weren’t so diplomatic.

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The part-time Palm Beacher and star of NBC’s The Apprentice told CNN his acquaintances in China make fun of us.

The developer explained how the Chinese sell us their products at tremendous profits because they’re virtually untaxed, then loan that money back to the United States by buying treasury bonds.

“I think that’s terrible,” Trump tells Poppy Harlow. “Look, I know lots of folks in China. They think we’re the dumbest sons-of-bitches in the world, all right. They think our representatives don’t know what they’re doing. They laugh at us behind our back. I’d tax China very, very heavily.”

Makes sense!

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O'Reilly addresses fans Friday night at Mar-a-Lago (Click on the Mike Price photo for more on the event)

Fox News superstar Bill O’Reilly, the non-nonsense host of the top-rated The O’Reilly Factor, preached to the converted Friday night at Palm Beach’s Mar-a-Lago.

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In his “State of the Union” talk, the conservative host blasted liberal rival MSNBC, calling it “little” because “eight people watch it.”

Comparing the White House to the Chicago mob, O’Reilly said he hopes for low approval ratings for Pres. Barack Obama because, when that happens, The Factor’s ratings go up.

And he predicted that Republican Mitt Romney would take on Obama in the 2012 presidential elections, with Sarah Palin’s third party candidate siphoning votes from Obama.

But O’Reilly, 60, didn’t really come to talk politics. He came to help shine the limelight on a newbie on Palm Beach’s charity landscape: the It Happened to Alexa Foundation. And it worked. About 400 people paid up to $600 for a photo with O’Reilly, his speech and a steak dinner.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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