America's queen turns 45 today! Sarah Palin, not Latifah. She's almost as old as Alaska's very statehood! We already gave her our present (bad advice). But she also has a present for America:

Add Wolfgang and Peter Zwiener to the list of restaurateurs facing a lawsuit filed by Maimon Kirschenbaum. The most despised attorney in New York restaurant history is now taking aim at Wolfgang's Steakhouse (and the Zwieners), slapping a class action suit against the company on behalf of employees at its Park Avenue and Greenwich Street locations. The suit accuses the Zwieners of failing to pay workers minimum wage and withholding overtime pay. It's basically the same suit that Kirshenbaum has filed against every other restaurant in town, a list that includes Nobu, Jean Georges, Le Cirque, Bouley, BondSt, Balthazar, Haru, BLT Steak, BLT Prime. The only bad news for Kirshenbaum is that at the rate he's going—and given the number of restaurants closing down these days—he'll probably be out of people to sue by 2011 or so. Maimon's latest legal offensive appears below.

Today we have a deflowered starlet, a druggie actress, a prophetic actor, and a hair-dyeing diva.

You know who hasn't been so happy to see so many corporations shed their fancy private jets in recent months? The companies that manufacture them, not surprisingly. Cessna is now planning to run an ad campaign to counter the perception that flying private is a big waste of cash. Says the head of one industry trade group: "The vast majority of the time, these jets are flying offices, where people can conduct business and have confidential discussions that could never occur on a commercial jetliner." Isn't that what airplane lavatories are for? [WSJ]

Courage; Good Judgment; The confidence to forge ahead. These are just a few of the attributes that businessmen who own private jets possess. Frugal businessmen who've given up their jets, however, are bitch-ass punks.

In 1963, when Gloria Steinem posed as a Playboy bunny for a magazine piece, we're sure her dearest hope was that she'd pave the way for young female reporters to mount shocking exposés on contemporary hot button issues with the help of their decent bods. What she probably didn't predict was that those exposés would, nine times out of ten, involve going undercover at cosmetic surgery consultations. Melanie Berliet, who last year performed a slightly more original bit of girly stunt journalism when she worked as a naked sushi model, is the latest in a long line to submit her face and body to the scrutiny of plastic surgeons for our edification. As you'll be less than amazed to hear, the doctors recommended she have stuff done!

• Blythe Masters, JP Morgan Chase's head of global commodities, has lowered the price of her 6,800-square-foot townhouse at 150 Reade Street, which she listed for $14 million just last month. It's now on the market for $11.9 million. [Cityfile, Warburg]
• Linda Formo Brandes, the ex-wife of billionaire investor Charles Brandes, has paid $10 million for a 42nd and 43rd-floor duplex at 515 Park Avenue. [Cityfile]
• Interior designer Thomas Britt has put his 5,000-square-foot, 8-bedroom home in Water Mill on the market for $13.2 million. [Real Estalker]
• Where can you safely buy given the current market turmoil? Try Jamaica, Queens, says Massey Knakal Realty's Robert Knakal. [AFB]

The Journal reports that Ruth Madoff, the wife of Bernie Madoff, withdrew $15.5 million from a brokerage account in the weeks before her husband's arrest. Clearly, this must be a total coincidence since she knew absolutely nothing about the scheme. [WSJ]

John Mayer gifts at a 15-year-old level; Prince Harry still offends every non-white person he encounters and Sarah Jessica Parker will always be saddled with cheap jokes. It's arrested development.

It's a day that tabloids have been counting down to for months now—Jennifer Aniston turns 40 today. Others celebrating: Sarah Palin is 45. Jeb Bush is 56. Sheryl Crow is 47. Brandy is turning 30. Kelly Rowland is celebrating her 28th. Carey Lowell, the actress and wife of Richard Gere, is turning 48. BMG chief exec Barry Weiss is 50. IAC's Michael Jackson is 51. Interior designer Kitty Hawks is 63. British fashion designer Mary Quant is 75. Aubrey O'Day is celebrating her 25th. And Burt Reynolds is 73.

Yuli Ziv, an internet marketer, has for some reason decided to form a "guild" for fashion bloggers called Style Coalition. The idea is to be as toothless and sold-out as fashion magazines.

• Eight bank CEOs will appear in front of the House this morning to defend their use of billions in bailout money. Expect serious fireworks. [Reuters, BN, WSJ]
• Four top execs at Merrill Lynch took home $121 million in bonuses just before the firm was sold to Bank of America. [WSJ, BN, NYDN]
• More on the lukewarm reception to Tim Geithner yesterday. [NYT, BN]
• Credit Suisse reported a fourth-quarter loss of $5.2 billion. [BN]
• Both Goldman and Morgan Stanley have suggested that they want to give the government back the billions they took in bailout funds. [NYT]
• RBS is cutting 2,300 jobs. [Reuters]

Following Chris Brown's alleged attack on girlfriend Rihanna, the rumors flew: Brown tried to kill her; he bit her fingers; Rihanna is in hiding. But what sparked the whole incident?

• It's still unclear what set off Chris Brown and Rihanna's fight on Sunday night (and both have been tucked away in hiding since it occurred). Could it have had something to do with Leona Lewis? Paris Hilton? Was a sexually transmitted disease involved? One person Brown might want to consider explaining himself to is Jay-Z, who reportedly "hit the roof" when he found out about the attack and is now telling friends that Chris is a "walking dead man." [Star, OK!, Gawker, NYP]
• Mickey Rourke and Courtney Love have been secretly dating for the past three weeks. Sounds like a perfect match. [Telegraph]
• Prince Harry is in trouble for making racially-insensitive comments. [Sun]

It was upsetting enough for employees to hear the New York Daily News was ending its 401(k) contributions (memo below). The jokes about bigwigs' extensive stock holdings only made matters worse.

Prof. Leopold Munyakazi was suddenly accused of genocide by the Rwandan government after challenging the official line on 1994 atrocities. Now NBC News is helping the regime drive him from American academia.

Disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier stands accused of bilking investors out of $400 million and could end up spending 30 years in prison if he's eventually convicted of conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud. But he isn't sitting behind bars for the time being. Last week a federal judge allowed Dreier to return home on $10 million bond, provided he hire round-the-clock security to keep tabs on him. So where did he go home to? Permit us to show you around! We found a Prudential Douglas Elliman video tour of the One Beacon Court apartment from 2007, which was filmed shortly before Dreier paid $5.425 million for the 2,900-square-foot pad (with massive terrace) on the building's 34th floor. Dreier has redecorated a bit since then—according to court documents, he has this Robert Wilson video installation featuring Salma Hayek hanging on the wall, for example—but you'll still be able to see it's a step up from Rikers Island.

It's one thing for Jay Leno to be mocked endlessly by rival David Letterman for moving to an earlier timeslot. Far more insulting: Being branded a scab by his own union .

iRobot is best known for its Roomba vacuum cleaner, an automated dustbuster for the domestically lazy. But as a Daily Show investigation reveals, it also makes millions on killing machines for the U.S. government.

As impressive as M.I.A. was at the Grammys and on the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, the burst of attention is attracting uncomfortable questions about her purported support for a terrorist groups.