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Color us surprised to discover that we're in the midst of L.A.'s Fashion Week, the paste-eating cousin of possibly incestuous parentage to the significantly more glamorous events staged in places like New York, Paris, and Cleveland. But in the interest of helping our friends in the fashion world protect their precious runwayside seats from brash interlopers with vague genetic ties to some of our city's most powerful residents, we pass along today's Page Six story about the efforts of an alleged distant cousin of Steven Spielberg to secure the VIP treatment that is her possibly nonexistent birthright:

"Its emily spielberg steven spielbergs niece . . . Sorry I'm emailing you so late please put me on the list . . . please try for front row. This is a late e-mail cause I'm in the process of switching publicists. Thanks me plus one," the seat-seeker wrote.

Informed by Henman the show was full, Emily then asked for standing room for herself and her mother, "and we can find a seat." When Henman responded that the only exceptions were "A-list celebrities and media," Emily fired back: "I think spielberg is a list, don't u?"

The publicist finally told the alleged Spielberg relative, "You are not Steven and you are not accepted. Have a nice day!" But she remained undeterred. "I'm attending every other show I want. The reason for the late notice is because I was in paris for their fashion week . . . I see a problem with front row, but you can't even get me plus one into the show?"

Fashion show staffers should be on high alert: As Spielberg's publicist told Page Six, "People do this. They'll toss out a name on the chance that no one will check. Could it be someone who is three or four or five times removed, someone that hasn't been heard from in 30 years? It's possible," hinting that these namedropping, unconnected menaces could soon clot the audiences of our finest second-tier fashion shows, greedily occupying seats that should rightfully be awarded to slightly higher-profile people not really deserving special consideration, like Jillian Barberie and Stephen Dorff.