[Bobby Patentleather from "Twilight" kisses Claire from "Lost" while filming a scene for "Remember Me" on Long Island; image via Splash]

John Ensign revealed that he had an affair with a married former staffer (her husband, another former staffer, tried to extort Ensign because of his shitty mortgage and Ensign got him two jobs)), and then all his interns quit.

Today we have a vainglorious and slightly nutty music bigwig, a radio host whose losing two prize jewels, and something about a divorcing couple who might be Jon & Kate?

Cricket-loving billionaire Allen Stanford, dubbed "Mini-Madoff" by hypemongers like us after allegedly scamming $8 billion from investors in a Ponzi scheme, has finally been indicted. He surrendered to the Feds late yesterday. Of course, he is innocent.

What's the social etiquette of the shared cab ride? No talking, to touching, no cell phones—pretty much exactly like the subway during morning rush hour—reports the Times in a piece today about the city's ur-shared taxi stand at the subway no-man's land of 79th and York. For the last 20 years, commuters have been sharing rides (at $6 a pop) between the UES and Wall Street. But now similar stands will be coming to other places like Penn Station and Grand Central.

Whether it's the real sun (or the sort of glow that can only come from a bottle or fluorescent lamp) is up to you. But you'll find the answers after the jump.

June 18 @ 11pm Wearing mustard colored pants and walking with his hand around some hipster girl wearing argyle socks and blue pumps. He had some magazine stuffed in his back pocket. [Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com]

Oh, sweet irony: "The hedge fund that kicked Veronica Hearst out of her Palm Beach mansion and forced Elizabeth Taylor and Kathy Ireland to bankrupt their jewelry business through predatory financing is now in some trouble of its own." [Dealbreaker]

Someone is shopping a tape of Leighton Meester boning an ex-boyfriend, Robert Pattinson gets hit by a cab, Jennifer Garner tries to breakup Ben Affleck and Kevin Smith, Susan Boyle goes bonkers again and Beyonce screws over a club owner.

• Anthony Sbarro, heir to the pizza empire founded by his parents in the 1950s and a vice chairman at the company, has sold his 1,600-square-foot apartment at the Essex House on Central Park South for $3.25 million. [Cityfile]
• After ten months and three price cuts, financier and philanthropist Eli Broad has decided to take his full-floor apartment at the Sherry-Netherland off the market. The two-bedroom co-op, which Broad first put up for sale last August for $15 million, had most recently been listed for $10.95 million. [WSJ]
• Money manager Raymond Cubero and his wife, Kathleen Comerford, have put their Trump Tower duplex on the market with Paula Del Nunzio for $14.995 million. [NYO, BHS]

Salman Rushdie turns 62 today. Buffed-up gym owner David Barton is 45. Money manager Mario Gabelli is turning 67. Model May Andersen turns 27. The Insider's Lara Spencer is 40. Joseph McShane, the president of Fordham University, is turning 60. Phylicia Rashad is turning 61. Actress Kathleen Turner turns 55. Attorney Helene Kaplan is 76. Interior designer David Netto is turning 40. Former financier and deputy mayor Ken Lipper is 68. Hugh Dancy, the actor and fiancé of Claire Danes, is turning 34. Zoe Saldana turns 31. Sadie Frost, the actress and ex-wife of Jude Law, is 44. And Paula Abdul is turning 47. Weekend birthdays after the jump!

• The owner of M2, the club formerly known as Crobar and Mansion, says he may sue Beyoncé now that she appears to be backing out of a deal to perform at the club for $200K. [P6]
• It's been nearly 10 months since Jeremy Piven put a deadly piece of fish in his mouth and the sudden onset of mercury poisoning forced him to drop out of a Broadway show and seek medical treatment. He's feeling much, much better now, he'd like you to know. And he's still sticking to that fishy story about fish, evidently. [People]
• During a recent concert in Manchester recently, Britney Spears shouted out, "What's up, London," a line that did not go over well with the crowd. [Sun]
• Jennifer Love Hewitt is writing a relationship advice book. The secret to landing sweet, charming men like Carson Daly and John Mayer: coming soon to bookstores everywhere! [People]

In a highly anticipated speech that was actually carried live on CNN, Iran's Supreme Ayatollah claimed that his country's recent election was legitimate and called for the protests, which he blamed on the U.S., Britain and Israel, to end. [CNN]

Dan Abrams is soon launching Mediaite, his very own "Drudge meets Huffington Post," which he'll certainly use to promote clients of his endlessly shady PR firm. He's now looking for contributors who, like him, have no qualms about selling out.

Danny DeVito was a guest on Letterman's show last night and Letterman took the opportunity to ask DeVito about his most recent episode of public drunkenness.

A controversy erupted Thursday afternoon when Politico reported that Olive Garden was pulling its Late Show advertising in the wake of the controversy over Letterman's Palin jokes. Olive Garden then denied this. Regardless, the "Fire Letterman" crowd wants more blood.

If you read one profanity-laced diatribe about labradoodle owners today, let it be this one.

Japanese intelligence has learned that Kim Jong Il plans to fire a Taepodong rocket at Hawaii, possibly on the 4th of July. Wait, what?!

Newser, the news aggregator co-founded by intern-shagging media blowhard Michael Wolff, has secured $2.5 million in first-round funding. The source is reported to be numerous individual investors, who must have been unfazed by the Wolff goat-molestation rumors. [Paid Content]

Allen Stanford, the billionaire financier accused of orchestrating the second-largest Ponzi scheme in recent memory, was (finally) indicted on criminal charges on Thursday, and he surrendered to the FBI a few hours later. [NYT, WSJ]