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Julia Allison, the Star editor-at-large whose Diane von Furstenberg dress made a chesty, low-cut appearance at Friday's TechCrunch9 party, where she was hunting for geek boyfriend/sysadmins, also turned up at Saturday's Laughing Squid "Paradise Lost" event. But apparently no one had told her anything about the event, held in San Francisco's down-and-out Bayview neighborhood — like the fact that it was a community-arts fundraiser. Here's what happened when the New York slickster tried to swan her way through the door without paying.


An eyewitness report from Lori at the party gate, which Allison so inelegantly tried to crash:

I was heading up the door at the Laughing Squid "Paradise Lost" party when in breezed Julia Allison and her entourage. She went right by the staff taking the measly $10 for entrance and when stopped and informed that she needed to pay, she responded "You've got to be kidding me" in a voice indicating that we were far beneath her. Evidently one of her handlers saw this and gave us a ten for her entrance.

She then swung her hair at us and started walking through. We stopped her again and told her that we needed to stamp her hand to which she responded "I don't get my hand stamped". We told her that she needed a stamp for entry so she gave a very limp hand to the door person and said, "I only want a little bit of stamp right here" and showed him where and how to apply.

Bitch.

Sounds like Allison is fitting right in and making lots of friends on her swing through Cali! Hope you have a super fun time, Julia! (Photo from Allison's blog, where she misidentifies the Laughing Squid event as a TechCrunch party)