Today we have a music exec who really knows how to dump a girl, three film directors who enjoy the company of Thai women, and a TV star who's got game.
• Real estate titan Ara Hovnanian and his wife Rachel have quietly listed their co-op at 820 Fifth Avenue. The 6,500-square-foot apartment, which happens to be former home of Tommy Hilfiger, can be yours for $36 million via broker Serena Boardman, provided you can pass muster with a board known for having the "strongest chins, highest noses and cruelest standards." [NYO]
• Developer Louis Cappelli and his wife, actress Kylie Travis, have put their apartment at 515 Park Avenue on the market. The 6,500-square-foot, 13-room, six-bedroom spread is priced at $29.5 million. [NYO, BHS]
• New York Mortgage Trust founder Steven Schnall and his wife Sherri have put their townhouse at 2 North Moore Street back on the market. The 11,000-square-foot behemoth is now listed for $33 million. [Curbed, Real Deal]
Gisele Bundchen leaving her apartment in the West Village ... Kanye West carrying a duffel bag at JFK ... Liam Neeson leaving the Broadhurst Theatre on West 47th Street ... Music producer Rick Rubin holding a shopping bag outside his hotel in Soho ... Jennifer Lopez posing on the sidewalk after an appearance on Good Morning America ... Kim Kardashian talking on her phone at JFK ...... Solange Knowles crossing the street in Midtown ... Chace Crawford on the set of his new movie, Twelve, in Central Park ... and Ciara leaving dinner at Da Silvano.
A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that people were making fake commericals in honor of subway dermatologist Dr. Jonathan Zizmor. Now candy bar conglomerates are referencing him in their ad campaigns. We can't imagine where where this fascination with Zizmor will take us next, but a radio talk show sounds like a good start. [Urbanite]
There's been a lot of talk lately about how this is the age of narcissism. But the age of humiliation would probably be a more apropos tag line for an era in which an apparently sane and gainfully employed woman can create a website to facilitate her desperate search to get a boyfriend within a year—and it doesn't even seem that bizarre! We can only hope that her actual wish is for a book deal or reality show, because that would be a lot less tragic. [CNN]
Jack Nicholson turns 72 today. Filmmaker John Waters is turning 63. Hotelier Jason Pomeranc is 38. Real estate developer Billy Macklowe is 41. Jewelry designer Kenneth Jay Lane is turning 77. Real estate super agent Kathy Sloane turns 64. The View's Sherri Shepherd is turning 42. Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan turns 43. And State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. is 66 years old today.
Jared Kushner has a new apartment where he'll soon be spending quiet evenings in the company of Ivanka Trump: The real estate scion and Observer publisher has paid $3.225 million for a two-bedroom, seventh-floor condo at 21 Astor Place. Described by the listing agent as a "sexy apartment," the duplex condo loft comes with two bedrooms, a home office, 2.5 baths, and "elaborate designer staircase." It looks like Kushner got a discount, too. The apartment had been listed at $3.5 million. Floorplan after the jump!
• Lindsay Lohan is "drowning her sorrows" over Sam Ronson in a "sea of men," including 90210's Kellan Lutz and British paparazzo Chris Jepson. She's also going out all the time again, and hit up six clubs in one evening last week. But that's probably just because she's naturally very energetic. [P6]
• In related news, LiLo tells E! that she isn't in talks to join a topless show in Las Vegas, but she'd be willing to dabble in the burlesque world for the right price. [OK!]
• Uma Thurman's rep says she and Arpad Busson did not get married in the Bahamas last weekend, although it's rumored the couple is planning a "low-key" wedding this Saturday instead. [E!, Sun]
• Daphne Guinness was supposedly overheard telling a friend that she and Andre Balazs aren't "seeing each other seriously," since she's about to move in with French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. [P6]
Rihanna and Chris Brown might be at the same party in the same room at the same time; Lindsay Lohan brazenly spent hours in the company of males. What does it all mean?
• Morgan Stanley reported a larger-than-expected loss for the first quarter this morning. The bank reported it lost $177 million, down from the $1.41 billion profit it collected during the same period in 2008. [WSJ, NYT, BN]
• David Kellermann, the chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, was found dead in his Virginia home, the result of an apparent suicide. [WaPo, BN]
• Things have gone from bad to worse for Steve Rattner: New York City's comptroller is investigating whether Quadrangle "intentionally misled or deceived" city pension funds by failing to disclose finder's fees. [WSJ]
• Spring sales normally begin around Memorial Day. They're starting much earlier this year, although retailers would prefer if you called them "promotions," okay? [NYM]
• The ridiculously delayed sixth season of Project Runway—which Lifetime CEO Andrea Wong is ridiculously describing as "fashionably late"—will debut on August 20. [THR]
• What does Kate Moss do with her old Topshop dresses? She hands them off to her poor assistant, naturally! [Grazia]
• The shoot for Prada's fall ad campaign took Steven Meisel four days to complete and required the presence of a live horse. [FWD]
• Arnold Scaasi, best known for dressing Abigail Fillmore for her first public appearance as first lady in 1850, is the latest designer to complain about Michelle Obama's wardrobe. [WWD, Vogue UK]
• Is Rachel Zoe looking for an assistant on Craigslist? Possibly! [CL via Racked]
