• Felix Gillette surveys the recent drama at MSNBC and chats with network president Phil Griffin about the decision to drop Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchoring the presidential campaign. [NYO]

Naomi Watts doing some pre-baby shopping with a friend in Union Square ... Sarah Jessica Parker taking a walk downtown ... Petra Nemcova walking into the Diesel show ... Rosario Dawson crossing the street outside Balthazar ... Julia Stiles shopping in the West Village ... Bette Midler hugging her daughter outside the Bryant Park tents ... Betsey Johnson walking through the rain in Midtown ... Jessica Alba carrying her baby ... Mary-Kate Olsen sitting front row at the Proenza Schouler show ... Adrian Grenier having lunch outside with friends ... Jessica Simpson getting out of a taxi with pal Ken Paves ... Kanye West and Jay-Z making their way into the Marc Jacobs show ... Natalie Portman showing up to the front row at the Derek Lam show ... Martha Stewart leaving Bryant Park after attending Marc Jacobs' show ... and Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham leaving the Waverly Inn.

"As many as 25 apartments in the world-famous Plaza are back on the market, with many owners struggling to sell their units in the problem-plagued building," Braden Keil reports today. Good news if you need a little leverage as you negotiate with Deborah over Tommy's $50 million apartment! [NYP, Corcoran]

Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld will walk away with an exit package worth $214 million if, as some analysts suggest, he steps down voluntarily and retires to a life of golf alongside Chuck Prince and Stan O'Neal. [The Deal via Dealbreaker]

Poor Lydia Hearst is still stuck in the hospital, having been rushed to the New York-Presbyterian ER last night for kidney stones. But this is Fashion Week, dammit, and there's socializing to be done, and so she's going to fight through the pain. "She is still expected to be seated front row at the Tommy Hilfiger show Thursday, and to attend London Fashion Week next week." Lance Armstrong would be proud, babe. [Star]

The Smoking Gun has a list of items that Anne Hathaway had to turn over to the FBI since the dapper young gentleman who gave the items to her—Raffaello Follieri—will now officially be spending the foreseeable future in prison. For those of you updating their calendars at home, Raffi will will back in court on October 3rd for sentencing. [TSG, AP]

Obsessive brandbuilder Tory Burch reveals what she did on Monday, and of course it sounds impossibly energetic, organized, and glamorous, beginning with a 6am run in Central Park while wearing The Row (the Olsens' label; t-shirts start around $300). She then dons a Carolina Herrera dress and Pierre Hardy pumps, expertly mothers her three boys, lunches at Swifty's, attends fashion shows, and ends the day with a friend's party, to which she wears her own sequined minidress.

• Frank Bruni visits media mogul central, Michael's, and hands the restaurant the zero-star review it fully deserves ("gloppy, affected pub grub") although he points out that the food there "isn't really the point," which is true, too. [NYT]

It's really quite impressive that Naomi Campbell even has time to squeeze in her primary occupations of getting hairweaves, throwing monumental tantrums, and hanging out on yachts in between stints of court-mandated community service. Last year's sterling contribution to the New York Sanitation Department is currently being followed up with work in a London soup kitchen. (Sadly, her community service back home forced her to miss the finals of US Open, where she appeared last Sunday, left.) Naomi is not actually required to come into contact with any homeless people—let's face it, they've been through enough—but is "doing paperwork in the back office." Still, her supervisors might want to keep, say, paperweights and large staplers out of reach.

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As if it wasn't enough that Eliot Spitzer's career, credibility, and friends disappeared into thin air when his sexual improprieties were exposed, now his legal bills are going up. Two former New York Racing Association officials have filed suit against Spitzer for prosecuting them when he was attorney general. Spitzer had argued that the officials had taken bribes to allow overweight jockeys to ride in races, but the officials were later cleared of the charges. Now the two men involved, Mario Sclafan and Braulio Baeza, say Spitzer cost them their jobs and their reputations and they'd very much appreciate $100 million or so for conspiracy, abuse of process, and false arrest. (How much do state racing officials get paid?). The full 38-page complaint after the jump.

Ashton Kutcher is a tech entrepreneur now, have you heard? He's launched BlahGirls, an "animated celebrity gossip series." But he's not the only one! Other big-timersgetting in on the action include Damon Wayans and MC Hammer, who started DanceJam.com, the "largest dance floor on the planet." [BusinessWeek, NewTeeVee]

Television has misled us yet again: Apparently, you shouldn't hire a personal trainer based on his rippling physique and because you intend to have an affair with him to get back at your cheating husband. Or those shouldn't be the sole criteria, at least. [Newsweek]

Do try to be extra nice if you bump into Donna Karan during Fashion Week: She's had better weeks, that's for sure. Jeff Moss, Karan's stepson-in-law—her late husband's daughter's husband—pleaded guilty yesterday to being high on Xanax and GHB when he got into a car crash on Long Island last year, a wreck that killed a 60-year-old woman. Moss pleaded guilty to all 14 counts against him, including manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and driving under the influence of drugs. He's expected to spend two to six years behind bars.

Do you think that Anna Wintour's feelings (she has them, right?) are hurt by the media's insistence on paying attention to other countries' Vogue editors, and even speculating that they might replace her? The other day this adoring profile of Paris Vogue's Carine Roitfeld (Julia's mom) called the rumors that she might replace Anna "delicious," and today the Times introduces us to Carine's friend Aliona Doletskaya. The "focused and formidably confident" editor of Russian Vogue, who has, of course, a "lithe physique, foxlike features and predilection for curve-skimming dresses," is also rumored to a contender for the US job.

Unfortunate news for all you rappers out there with a taste for diamonds and gold: Not only is Jacob the Jeweler behind bars, but the Wall Street Journal reports today that "bling" is a lousy investment, too. [WSJ/Wealth Report]

With his brother Donald, Si Newhouse controls Advance Publications, the publishing empire that owns Condé Nast, a long list of newspapers, and countless other media assets. It's a business he inherited from his father. And it's made him one of New York's richest men for decades now, with a net worth estimated by Forbes earlier this year at $8.5 billion. A reclusive figure, Newhouse rarely speaks with reporters or attends events, preferring his top editors (like Anna Wintour, Graydon Carter, David Remnick) and executives (Chuck Townsend, Richard Beckman, David Carey) to talk to the media and soak up the limelight instead. But it's the low-key mogul, of course, who takes home the big checks, which he spends on art (his Picasso collection is reportedly enormous) and donating money to various philanthropic concerns. Which causes exactly?

John DeLucie, the chef at the Waverly Inn and now consulting chef at Charles, responds to the suggestion that Ron Perelman may be a backer of the West Village hotspot: "That's not true, but he's a very good customer nonetheless. It’s me, Graydon, Emil Varda, Sean MacPherson, and Eric Goode." [Grub Street]

• Joel Schumacher, the director behind St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, and Batman Forever, has paid $1.36 million for a 790-square-foot condo at 25 Fifth Avenue. [NYO]

Worst outfit spotted in the tents during Fashion Week? [TONY]