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Wanting to be all right-n-fair about stuff, we contacted Jared Paul Stern's lawyer Ed Hayes for comment. Hayes tells Gawker, "He has not been contacted by authorities and, while he made a mistake, he will put this behind him." OK, we'll take that as a concession that Stern did something wrong — which is kind of obvious, but whatever.

Meanwhile, as Day One of Payola Six draws to a close, our minds are still reeling. Sixers getting freebies and doing favors is no news, but evidence to the tune of something as concrete as $100K is still pretty shocking. Some things to mull over this weekend:

• Where's Sessa von Richthofen's client list? Seeing as she's about 24 hours away from being Page Six editor Richard Johnson's wife, we'd love to know who she represents and how they've been treated by the column.

• At one time, we think early in the process, Jared Paul Stern was consulting for Radar. Burkle is currently rumored to be involved in funding the magazine's re-relaunch. That's a coincidence we can't quite translate, but it's interesting to note that Radar mastermind Maer Roshan has received mostly glowing mentions in Page Six.

• In terms of more vague payola, it's worth noting that Chris Wilson gets the royal treatment at Scores — free lapdances in the VIP room, exclusives on which drunken starlet pole-danced on what night... So what's gone down at Scores that hasn't been reported? How many lapdances does it take to keep negative press at bay?

• Going through LexisNexis, we're noticing that Page Six items about Ron Burkle weren't as terrible as, say, items we've seen written about ourselves. But the coverage wasn't exactly sycophantic, either. There has to be a reason Burkle set up Stern, and a logical explanation as to why Stern would take the bait. So what did Page Six have on Burkle that he wanted to keep quiet?