Payola Six: Junket If You Got It
Today, we learn that we're working for the wrong column:
The News learned that Page Six writer Chris Wilson was treated to a long-weekend junket in California's Napa Valley last June, courtesy of Jaguar North America.
The junket included round-trip airfare, meals, drinks, his hotel stay, and the opportunity to drive vintage Jaguars around the Napa Valley, according to Anne Kleinert, a spokeswoman for Jaguar.
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Rubenstein said Wilson told him he did not write about Jaguar for the Post or Page Six.
OK, so maybe Wilson didn't write about Jaguar. But someone at Page Six did, as recently as March 6. The Jaguar-heavy item:
Talk about Oscar week party-crashing taken to the extreme. On Thursday night, a friend of director Guy Ritchie chased down a hit-and-run driver on Sunset Boulevard after the woman behind the wheel crashed into the $120,000, 2007 XJR Jaguar he was being chauffeured in and sped off. The unidentified pal was coming from partying with Madonna and her husband at the double-top-secret Soho House location in the Hollywood Hills. As a sponsor of the special Oscar party house, Jaguar has been shuttling celebrities to and from its VIP club - including Paris Hilton, Quentin Tarantino, Sienna Miller and Anne Heche.
Tit for tat, though it hardly seems worth the cost of dinner at French Laundry.
