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Bernie Madoff Taking Palm Beach Down With Him

egw — 2009-04-15T11:33:34-05:00

Right now disgraced faux-financier Bernie Madoff is cooling his heels in an undisclosed jail (probably to keep the pitchforked masses from descending). But if he were allowed to walk free, he'd pretty much have nowhere to go anyway: Not only is his Manhattan penthouse on sale and several of his toys seized, he's now being blamed for bringing down his second home of Palm Beach as well. It's true, you can't go home again.

The penthouse was quietly put up for sale in January, around the time Madoff was first confined to house arrest there. (Well, that's gotta be awkward!) But his Palm Beach pad has been seized by the feds to help repay the people he swindled, as was a yacht and an Aston Martin he gave to his brother Peter last year. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Florida mansion has dropped some 20 percent in value since being assessed last year, adding untold hours to the time Madoff will spend making license plates in the clink.

Fall TV 2008: "Privileged" Is "Gossip Girl" with More Bikinis

egw — 2008-08-29T13:00:18-05:00

Jaunted is planning our fall travel with some help from the networks. Check out our Fall TV 2008 Map to go where your new favorite characters go.

What if the Gossip Girls were shipped to sunny Florida? That's the rough premise behind the CW's new series "Privileged" (Sept. 9, 9 pm), starring Joanna Garcia (left) as an Ivy League-educated tutor to two filthy rich and spoiled orphans (Ashley Newbrough and Lucy Hale of last year's "Bionic Woman" remake).

The series, based on the Zoey Dean novel How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls, is set in Florida, where the girls' grandmother (Anne Archer, Michael Douglas' wife in "Fatal Attraction") is raising them. But it's shot in SoCal, which is how "Hills" star Lauren Conrad was able to film a guest spot earlier this week.

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· Four More Join CW's "Privileged," "Easy Money" [Zap2It]
· "Privileged" [Official Site]
· Lauren Conrad To Appear On CW's "Privileged" [OMG!]

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Colin Farrell Thumbs It

sedona — 2005-09-13T09:36:09-05:00

Oh, Colin Farrell, what were you thinking? Maybe back in Boho (?) Ireland it's still easy to thumb it when you're wasted and need to get from point A to point B, but in the U.S., not so much...Didn't you see 'Something About Mary'? A cardinal rule of road travel is to avoid hitchhiking.

The NY Post reports that party boy Farrell was hanging out in Palm Beach and got hella crunk, then had to get back to the Breakers later that night. Call a cab? His driver? Nah....just hitchhike, great idea Colin! The Post's tipster picked him up and said he "looked really wasted".

The best part: he invited his female driver back up to his room (of course). She intelligently declined.

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· Ride Thumber [NY Post]