• The new meatpacking lounge Country Club has opened on 14th Street. [Grub Street, Eater]

"Rudy Giuliani's son Andrew has been kicked off the Duke University golf team and is suing to get back on. The 22-year-old aspiring pro golfer claims in a federal suit that Duke's new golf coach trumped up a series of allegations to force him out and turn his classmates against him." [NYDN]

On Portfolio.com's new business luminaries-authored blog, ("Playas"? Really?), everyone's favorite tyrannical movie mogul Harvey Weinstein gets some stuff off his chest. You might be surprised—disturbed, even—to hear that while he is tirelessly dedicated in his efforts to get people to appreciate profound, important indie films, all the goddamn media cares about is promoting crappy blockbusters and writing about "the youngest young starlet."

The Post has a roundup of new developments in the financial district, including District (where Amy Sacco is "lifestyle consultant"), Dwell on Wall (designed by Philippe Starck), the Nobu Hotel (opening in 2010), and the New York iteration of the Setai, which is being imported from Miami. [NYP]

It's bad enough when bridesmaids are picky about the cut of the peach satin dress they're asked to wear. But now it seems that some horribly insensitive women are unwilling to have a bit of surgery to make sure everyone looks their best on the big day. Don't they know they probably need it done anyway? Today the Times reports on the alleged trend for women in a wedding party to have group cosmetic enhancements at the behest of the bride:

A slow news week for the New York Post has turned into a very busy one for Mr. Richie Randazzo, the doorman at 1021 Park Avenue who won a $5 million jackpot back in June thanks to a lucky scratch-off ticket. On Tuesday, we learned that since landing his big pay day, Richie has been skipping work to hang out with a new prize, a youthful Swedish model by the name of Sabina Mari Johansson. Then yesterday the Post treated us to an extensive photo gallery of how Randazzo and Johansson pass the time these days. (In hot tubs in Atlantic City, apparently.)

Burt Pugach is the Queens man who hired a man to blind his girlfriend Linda by throwing acid in her face, went to prison for 14 years for his crime, and then remarried her after he was released. Dan Klores (left) is the PR titan-turned-filmmaker who secured rights to the couple's story and made the 2007 documentary Crazy Love, which earned critical acclaim and a slew of awards. It seems the mutually beneficial Pugach-Klores relationship has ended: Last week, Pugach—a disbarred ex-attorney—had his lawyers serve Klores with a $15 million lawsuit. The reason? Klores recently signed a deal with HBO to turn the documentary into a feature film. Pugach, naturally, wants a much bigger check for handing over the rights to his story. The entire lawsuit—including Pugach's claim that Klores attempted to woo him by shlepping Linda Fiorentino to their first meeting at the Shalimar Diner in Rego Park!—after the jump.

Voicemail at the apartment of Vogue's Hamish Bowles.

Well, we suppose it's more innovative as a marketing strategy than giving freebies to Kate Moss and Ashley Olsen: To celebrate its quilted chain purse, which has been around since 1955, Chanel is dropping a huge spaceship-like gallery in the middle of Central Park beginning in October.

This is the one day when Jennifer Lopez has the right to act like a diva: The new mom turns 39 today. Also celebrating: Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth turns 40 today (although she looks like she's 12). Anna Paquin is 26. Michael Richards of Seinfeld fame turns 59. Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz is 66. Artist Alex Katz is 81. Director Gus Van Sant turns 52. And scandal-plagued baseball star Barry Bonds is 44.

• Ashley Dupre seems to have found a new married man to take her to expensive hotels and treat her to drinks from the minibar. After spending the day shopping in Midtown (left), she checked into the Gramercy Park Hotel with Thomas "TJ" Earle, who owns a New Jersey asphalt company and lives in a "McMansion" with his wife and two kids. [NYP]

Did Bob Pittman sell Dany Levy's email newsletter, Daily Candy, to cable giant Comcast for $75 million? That's the rumor. [Gawker]

• Ford announced an $8.7 billion loss for the second quarter—its worse ever—and an $8 billion write-down. [NYT]

In a world where hetero marriages are falling apart all over the place, it's nice to know we can rely on the gays to keep our romantic ideals intact. At the Couture Council of the Museum at FIT cocktail party, multi-tasking man-about-town Simon Doonan revealed to The Cut that his longtime boyfriend, designer Jonathan Adler, was going to make an honest man of him. So why, after being together for more than a decade, have they decided to make it official? Well, you can't expect a Jewish mother not to push for a wedding:

Ann Dexter-Jones eating with her daughters, Sam and Charlotte, at Bar Pitti ... Sam Ronson walking through the East Village just a few hours later ... Madonna sitting in the back seat of an SUV en route to a recording studio ... Lindsay Price showing up on the set of Lipstick Jungle ... Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour shopping in SoHo ... Mariah Carey wearing a midriff shirt and pastel mini-skirt outside MTV ... James Van Der Beek posing for photos backstage at Avenue Q ... Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly acting silly for the cameras while walking to the premiere of Step Brothers ... An attention-seeking Kourtney Kardashian flashing her underwear during a lunch at Bar Pitti with boyfriend Scott Disick and then, later, posing outside the Waverly Inn.

Reps for Ethan Hawke have confirmed that the actor's wife (and the former babysitter of his two kids with ex-wife Uma) gave birth to a baby girl last Friday. Welcome to the world, Clementine Jane Hawke! [People]

Investment banker Peter Huang has placed his apartment at 740 Park on the market for $38 million, Michael Gross reveals today. The duplex (4-5D) features a private elevator landing, wood burning fireplaces, grand staircase, and separate set of stairs for the staff, just so you don't have to worry about tripping over Guadalupe in the middle of the night when you head downstairs on your ritual Oreo run. More photos below.

Lydia Hearst is many things—heiress, model, actress, journalist, selfless soup kitchen volunteer. (Okay, we're not so sure about that last one.) But ping pong champion? The obscenely social 23-year-old won one game and lost another at a ping pong tournament at SoHo House on Monday night. And she did it in a gold Phillip Lim dress and heels, too. Somewhere Randy is beaming with pride. [W]

• The fact that Marc Jacobs is "brazenly gay, has a messy love life and can’t stop posing half-naked in front of people" means that a branch of his store is a perfect fit for Provincetown, Mass, says Mike Albo. [NYT]

"A New York City man has been accused of using homemade keys to break into about two dozen street parking meters and take about $1,420 in coins." And it only took him six months. [WNBC]