Weekly Juice: Angeleno mag pool party, Avalon hotel Wednesdays, Alex Hitz hosts book signing and more

by: Caroline & Lauren - August 3rd, 2010   Filed under: Invites, New Stores in LA, Weekly Juice
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Weekend report …

It’s been a slow couple weeks with lots of people on va-ca but went to Kevin Parker (Rain Management Group) and Billy Park’s bash on the Palihouse rooftop last week – where I was late in discovering Walter (who was the host at the Chateau for 12 years) has now taken up residency at the Palihouse. He tells me he is still performing every now and then on a music night he runs in the courtyard on Tuesdays. I also saw Chris Huvane (Management 360 new hire / former GQ Senior West Coast Editor), Marc Mitchell (Harvard Westlake ’95 and founder of Urban Daddy) and Matt Waldstein (Crossroad ’95, Attorney at Law - Abrams & Waldstein LLP).

Willem Broad (Buckley, Mont Clare, Hollywood High) and his band mates Nick Biddle (Buckley) and Brandon Rauch of FIM has an “Almost Famous” party that I almost went to – which he told me involved lots of pool toys.

I hate to mention the wedding of a certain former first daughter but DJ Mia Moretti and violinist Caitlin Moe were the entertainment which is pretty cool since that is who plays about half the good parties in L.A. – including the recent Carrera party at the Chateau – so it makes me wonder if Chelsea Clinton knows what shes doing or if they somehow found themselves a very cool event planner – I need to contact BMF Media about that.

This week …

We got an invite from to a private preview of the new mall in SM called Santa Monica Place. The preview will benefit PS Arts and features the new restaurant Xino located on the “dining deck” with an after-event at the new Bloomingdale’s.

Louis Vuitton also told me a NEW LOUIS VUTTION store is also opening Friday in Santa Monica Place!!

Also got an email from Carrie Wick over at Greg Link’s new company Brand Link telling me there will be two new restaurants in the mall opening Friday as well – Richard Sandoval’s Zengo and La Sandia – Zengo is Chinese-Mexican (think duck tacos) and La Sandia is ”homespun Meixcan cooking” with a “tequilla library.”

RJ Williams’ (Crossroads) Young Hollywood studios located in side the Four Seasons hotel, which is still so amazing/cool/weird to me, has been getting a lot of heat lately – in a good way! That Bachelor girl who laughs too much went in yesterday – which was a good day to get her because of the finale last night. Also in the studio yesterday were Chris Angel and Giovanni Ribisi promoting his new film Middle Men - premiere is thursday at the Archlight, movie comes out Friday.

Kiehl’s is sponsoring a motorcycle ride with Fred Durst & Alain de Cadenet up the coast in the different Kielhs locations with well know biker names from around L.A. See separate post for more.

Looks like Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills is about to become cool – Ashlee Margolis is hosting a night there – co-hosts include jeweler Anita Ko, Jimmy Choo publicist Sara Riff, Ian Edelman Writer (“How to Make It in America”), and director/photographer Patrick Hoelck (who directed Scott Caan’s last film). UPDATE FROM THE EVENT: Cabanas, rustic pizzas, Prosecco surround the cute pool with an easy exit valet pick up in the back. I saw LA NATIVES  Cliff Cantor (Beverly, former pro poker player / aspiring recluse), Jesse Erhman (Crossroads, Warner Bros), Laura and brother David Katzenberg (Harvard-Westlake, “Hard Times of RJ Berger”), and Louise Roe (from The City who now has a reality show called “Plain Jane” on the CW at 9pm where she helps blah girls get not so blah guys).

Carly Steel invited me to a party for Coco Cola heir Alex Hitz – he is hosting a soiree for his friend Susan Fales-Hills to celebrate her new book “One Flight Up”. UPDATE FROM THE EVENT: Guests included Rochelle Gores Fredston (daughter of Alec Gores and owner of Arcade boutique), Wendy Stark (former editor of Vanity Fair, daughter of Ray Stark), Nikki Haskell, Barbara Davis, Marilyn Heston, Degen Pener, Pauletta Washington (Mrs. Denzel), Dale Mason Cochran (Mrs. Johnnie), Alfre Woodard, Bravo director of development Christy Dees, and Cory & Colet from ITV … Alex, who caters all his own events, has a gift for world class southern comfort cooking, had tea sandwiches & champagne; the hit hors d’oeuvre of the evening was his signature bacon wrappd dates. Alex’s family friend and guest of honor, Susan Fales-Hills, a beautiful author, Harvard grad and contributer for Vogue, Travel and Leisure and Town& Country, was on hand at the base of Alex’s outdoor infinity staircase to greet guests, graciously signing and giving away copies of her book “One Flight Up” about “a pack of feisty thirty-somethings, all friends since grade school at Sibley Academy, an Upper East Side institution for sophisticated ladies-in-training”. http://susanfales-hill.com/one-flight-up.html

Tamsin Lonsdale is having a Super Club at the Hollywood Tower – a historic landmark and residential building on Frankin and Gower. UPDATE FROM THE EVENT: Overheard among cute 1930′s striped bathing suit models, news that Richard Branson’s new production company is about to open offices in Santa Monica in his deal with Relativity Media’s Rogue Pictures. Marika Krissman tells me she has done a board over-haul as the recently inducted MOCA Contemporaries board President. Attendees include Adam Divello (creator of The Hills and The City), Sarah Weidman, VP of Development at Style Network, Tatiana Kelly & Jim Young – producers around town.

Also on for this week, Angeleno Magazine is hosting a beauty day at the new JW Marriot pool I have yet to see – but is really cool because it looks over the Staples Center downtown at the which is sort of nestled next to the towering new Ritz Carlton where Wolfgang’s new restaurant WP360 is located.

Film Fashion is having a walk-in for a new designer they rep named Gustavo Cadile this week – which is cool because you get to go in showroom which is in the bottom floor of the Pacific Design Center and they have racks and racks of samples and all the celebrities come in there to be fit. I think Film Fashion had more updates of celebs in their client’s gowns during the Oscars than any other single fashion PR.

In news from Prada, T.I. wore Prada to his wedding to Tameka this past weekend in Miami. And then again at the premiere of “Takers” held at the Arclight Cinerama Dome thursday this week (Aug 04).

Rachel Krupa sent over an invite for her movie night at The London this Friday … “Love Actually” is the film.

Jessica Meisels is overseeing the opening 25 Park in the Malibu Lumber Yard this weekend. Jessica tells me the new boutique will carry cool brands like – Antik Batik, by Malene Birger, Elizabeth and James, Haute Hippie, Gryphon, Vanessa Bruno, Hanii Y, Megan Park, Sachin and Babi, Rick Owens Lillies and Duarte. They also carry baby/childrens clothes like Cacharel, Stella Cove and Eberjay. Right is Brooke Burke shopping with her little one there this week.

The Malibu Lumber Yard – owned by Richard Weintraub and Richard Sperber – are seeking an additional partner to support their investment in the mall according to the Malibu Times.

Coming up …

And Michael Rosenberg (aka Rosie) my former boss while at Maverick Films (now no longer) and producer of”Hung” has a birthday coming up …  Emmy’s, Emmy’s, Emmy’s, but not before Teen Choice monday. The Resnick Pavillion at LACMA will be complete soon with lots of parties coming in September to open the new wing.

*Every week at The Daily Truffle we highlight the invitations we receive in order to include our plans, plans of our friends and plans we wish had time for! Invitations are for editorial purposes and are not meant as announcements or open parties.

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Is Paris Hilton the Dr. Dre of reality TV stars?

by: Caroline - January 6th, 2010   Filed under: L.A. Natives, REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS
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Ever noticed that almost every reality star is FROM L.A.? You may not have noticed if you didn’t go to school with ten of them — but we did and we are here to take you on a deeper look at all the L.A. Natives from Beverly High, Crossroads (Spencer Pratt, Roxy Olin, Whitney Port), Buckley (Paris Hilton, Kim Stewart, Nichole Richie), and Malibu High (Brody Jenner, Chad Rogers) who have single-handedly created a world of reality shows between them and their friends – ALL STARTING WITH PARIS.

In 2004, when I was at The Lounge on a Thursday, or a Monday at Joseph’s (thank you Bolthouse), Paris would strut in with Kim Stewart, Nichole Richie, Caroline d’Amore, her sister Nicky Hilton, Kim Kardashian and possie. The paps out back Jen Rosero use to hold at bay with her giant fist would DIE over Paris coming out – cause she’s model tall and model thin and model pretty; add in a household name like Hilton and you have a celebrity in the making.

Enter Untitled Management – the “IT” Management company of the day who was sister companies with Maverick Films (Madonna) who was still in it’s infancy and later turned into Mark Morgan films (my old boss – love Mark) who is responsible for a little series called TWILIGHT. Jason Moore at Untiled Management was very looped in, very charismatic, all over town, knew everyone, etc and basically turned local celebrity Paris Hilton into household name.

Paris is like the Dr Dre of reality stars because for every person she makes famous, they make three people famous, and they make three people famous! Paris even has a mentor who brought her up (not really but) Jamie Johnson paved way for it to drool over “children of” on TV and was too ahead of his time, with his sort of weird, kind of amazing doc Born Rich (2003), about NY kids.

  • From Paris, The Simple Life was born and Nicole Richie got famous, from Nicole, Rachel Zoe (her stylist) got famous and got her own show The Rachel Zoe Project. Taylor Jacobson (Beverly Hills High), is Rachels assistant on “The Rachel Zoe Project.” Also, from Nicole Richie, the much loved Adam Goldstein aka DJ AM (RIP) got famous and was eventually given his own MTV show Gone Too Far which was aired after his death :(
  • From Paris, her mother Kathy Hilton got famous and was given her own realty show called I Want To Be a Hilton on NBC.
  • From Paris, her aunts Kim and Kyle Richards became recognizable to the casting directors of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills who immediately decided to build the cast around Kim and Kyle Richards. Kyle brought on her bff Lisa Vanderpump (love her!) and Lisa brought on Adrienne Maloof and Adrienne brought on Taylor and Camille.
  • From Paris, Kim Stewart got famous who is the daughter of Rod Stewart and older sister of Sean Stewart. Sean Stewart was cast on Celebrtiy Rehab which also featured L.A. native Seth Binzer (Crazytown and I think went to Beverly but I know for sure he was in CBS ;) his tag name was “Back”). He was later cast of Sons of Hollywood with Randy Spelling (John Thomas Dye) and David Weintraub, all LA Natives. Tori Spelling also landed a show with her husband Tori & Dean.
  • From Paris, Nicky Hilton got famous and from her, David Katzenberg (Harvard-Westlake) her bf got famous – watch for his new MTV show HARD TIMES.)
  • From Paris, Caroline d’Amore got famous and she had a little Miami show she hosted briefly but also got famous for being hot, being a hot Dj, and being – BY FAR – the sassiest girl on the catlwalk every year Smashbox had LA Fashion Week, and at every To Be Free show (when Spin Shoppe and The Alliance use to host), etc.
  • Simple Life paves the way for Filthy Rich cattle drive - Courtenay Semel and Kourtney Kardashian are cast.
  • From Paris, Kim Kardashian got famous because they use to go out a lo. Soon Keeping up with the Kardashians is born. Kim paves the way for her sisters to become stars and they branch out with Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami. Then Kim’s friends and sometimes publicists Jonathan Cheban and Simon Huck got the showThe Spin Crowd based on their company Command PR.
  • Keeping up with the Kardashians paves the way for Pretty Wild with Alexis Mieiers from (or maybe not) The Bling Ring (who robbed Orlando Bloom, etc.).
  • From Paris, Brody Jenner got famous. They use to hang out a lot and were friends from high school. Brody is Kim Kardashian’s step-brother and Spencer Pratt is his best from from Crossroads high school in Santa Monica. Spencer was sort of masterminded the entire Princes of Malibu show (remember that? re watch it – its good and very truthful about Malibu Colony). After the Princes of Malibu, Brody was seen on The Real OC all the time with his friends 3 promoter buddies Taylor Mosher (LA native, promoter and designer for ArchAngel and known as “Sleazy T” on The Hills), Ryan Cook (the adorable Canadian promoter with blonde curls, always on The Hills), and Frankie Delgado (who I love, also a promoter and a regular on The Hills). A little side not but Jared Najjar used to be the financier behind Brody and Spencer’s success and helped them start all start Archangel jewelry. Jared recently opened Prism gallery on Sunset and has a lot of support from modern art world royalty like Dasha Zhukova and PC Valbormida and even hosted the after for the annual MOCA gala during it’s first year. From The Hills, Lauren’s boss at People’s Revolution, Kelly Coutrone got her own spin -off show Kell on Earth.
  • From the Real OC, The Hills was born. Spencer Pratt was responsible for getting his friends from Crossroads (high school) in Los Angeles on the show - Whitney Port,who later brought on Roxy Olin and his sister Stephanie Pratt (Crossroads).
  • Then The Hills segways into The City and Whitney brings along bff Roxy Olin (also a Crossroads girl)- on which Olivia Palmero, already made famous by www.socialightrank.com (now defunct), becomes a reality star
  • The City with Olivia Palmero paves the way for High Socity with Tinsely Mortimer
  • LA / Malibu native Chad Rogers, a realtor at Paris Hilton’s dad’s company Hilton & Hyland and friend of Paris, gets a show -Million Dollar Listing - with two other realtors Josh Flagg and Madison Hildebrand - all of whom happen to also be LA Natives - coincidence? I think not!
  • Paris’ new show on Oxygen, ”The New Untitled Paris Hilton Project,” will feature her new gang of closest friends Brooke Mueller (Charlie Sheen’s ex), Jennifer Rovero (Hilton’s photographer, and former Playboy model and ex-girlfriend of Fred Durst) and fellow socialite Allison Melnick. Allison - party promoter, celebrity wrangler and bff to Paris – has had many cameos on reality shows already, including P Hil’s My New BFF.

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