Seen here, from the Fox Business launch party at the Met last night: 1. Jason Beckman, Fabiola Beracasa's banker boy. Currently missing in action. 2. Fabiola Beracasa, socialite freshly back from Beijing. ("I could feel the oppression!") 3. New York Observer majority owner and bridge and tunnel real estate mogul Jared Kushner, desperately trying to escape being photographed with his girlfriend who is: 4. Ivanka Trump, here coquettishly looking away as to not be photographed publicly with her boyfriend, Jared Kushner. (She has such good hair!) Why they were there: Fabiola's mom, Veronica Hearst, is good friends with Rupert Murdoch; Mr. Murdoch dined chez la famille Beracasa last week. Mr. Kushner is a newer Murdoch friend, though does enjoy spending time on the big Murdoch boat. Related: Kushner is a huge Counting Crows fan! Rain King is one of his favorite songs.

Oh my God. It just occurred to us. Ivanka Trump is so going to convert down the road to marry Observer publisher Jared Kushner! There will be at last a Jewish Trump! She's just like Charlotte on "Sex and the City." I am wringing my hands and maybe going to cry!

On the Howard Stern show yesterday, Donald Trump noted that, according to a listener, his daughter "Ivanka was dating a 'very rich guy—not as rich as me, but a very rich guy' from a 'real estate family.'" Translation: That is basically a blessing from the goyim for New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner! ("Rich"="good.") Anyway, that's exactly the kind of Trumpism that we imagine gets the hackles up on Jared's daddy, New Jersey kingpin (and good pal of gay American Jim McGreevey) Charles Kushner. But hey, the real estate union of Jersey Jared and Manhattan Ivanka is good for everyone for now—just like an arranged marriage between little empires! Though we still don't think it's remotely possible that Jared will ever marry the shiksa. Prove us wrong, you adorable lovebirds! We want to believe.

Jared Kushner, the owner of the New York Observer and bridge and tunnel real estate magnate, has purchased... a 10-story office building on the far West 44th Street? For $87.5 million? Hmm. There's a dot we're not able to connect yet here. It's on the tip of our mind-tongues.... In any event: Kushner immediately twirled his invisible mustache and promised to more than double the rents in the building. [Real Deal]

Near the end of day yesterday, Gawker's Doree Shafrir handed in her two weeks notice. She'll be leaving us for the New York Observer, where she'll write and report on "ideas." (That role has been, it seems, officially unfilled since the departure of Sheelah Kolhatkar for Portfolio over the winter.) Doree began here as an "associate editor" last October, and early this year transitioned to reporting on the media full-time. She can only be replaced here at Gawker with a terrifying room full of jerry-rigged threshing machines held together with baling wire and lubricated with grain alcohol. We sincerely wish her the best of luck in destroying Jared Kushner from inside his own shop—or, at least, in bringing that paper what the boy publisher may not know it so desperately needs.

Phil Weiss crops up in today's New York mag with a write-around profile of king of all media Matt Drudge, who could not be found anywhere. (It does contain pretty much everything you might need to know about Matt, except where he is and if he's gay or not and why there might be Spanish overheard at what might or might not be his house.) This is becoming something of a trend at New York. In the hopper over there, that we know of, there are forthcoming stories on former Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald, a story sort-of-maybe about our boss Nick Denton, and a story about New York Observer owner and Jersey boy-king Jared Kushner; each subject is, when we last heard, variously barely or sort-of not-at-all participating. Do Adam Moss and his band of boys just crave rejection? Is there a self-help book for this?

Today's Page Six stumbles when it should have scooped: "Sightings: Maxim Deputy Editor Chris Wilson howling out a Monkees song with N.Y. Observer writer George Gurley, followed by fellow Observer scribe Spencer Morgan and his girlfriend, Vanity Fair fashion editrix Alexis Stewart, belting out Heart's "Magic Man" at Sing Sing." So close! Alexis Stewart is Martha Stewart's crazy daughter. Spencer Morgan is dating Alexis Bryan. Shelby Bryan's daughter. You know, Vogue editor Anna Wintour's lover Shelby Bryan? Crazy, right? (Sort of better than Spencer's boss Jared Kushner dating Ivanka Trump even.) Please God, let them have children together and make Anna Wintour a grandmother at the same time as Colonel Potter becomes a great-grandfather!

New York Observer owner Jared Kushner and his dad, convicted felon Charles, sell off nearly $2 billion in New Jersey real estate in order to focus on "fewer properties but larger transactions" in New York City. To the rest of New York's real estate families, though, they'll always be bridge and tunnel. [Star-Ledger]

You know how all those long newspaper stories about Rupert Murdoch never say where he is at any given moment? It's because, like Barry Diller, he's always on a boat—and because no one who doesn't already know where they are doesn't need to know. Mr. Murdoch arrived to meet his boat on the French Riviera on the 17th, to attend the Scientology wedding of James Packer and Erica Baxter at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc. (Actually, they had to marry off-shore, because they hadn't been in France for a month and that's the law there.) Hey, small world! You know who just got back from Nice yesterday? New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner and his friend Ivanka Trump!

Why, it's another feather in golden child and New York Observer owner Jared Kushner's cap! We're sure his family back in Livingston, NJ is absolutely kvelling with delight. And we can't help but notice that Ron Burkle (bottom row) is looking a little haggard in that pic. Radar got ya down, Ron? (Click image for the full array of Power Players.)

Author and former Observer blogger Philip Weiss has taken to the pages of The American Conservative to detail how he felt he was forced out by Observer owner Jared Kushner and his former Harvard friend, Observer editor Peter Kaplan, for writing incorrectly about Israel. (Also, we find out that Weiss did the blog for free! Uh, what?) Weiss claims that as he got increasingly strident about his feelings about Israel, Kushner and Kaplan's quiet discomfort with his blog grew, and it didn't help that the paper was being totally besieged by complaints. Kushner comes from an Orthodox Jewish family, and his family has also long donated to Jewish and pro-Israel causes. And from Weiss's account, it sounds like this is Kaplan's lone Achilles heel that he might have for any Kushner editorial thoughts. Definitely Weiss made Kushner uncomfortable, if not unhappy.

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"Your next few weeks of The New York Observer," a subscriber was recently informed by letter, "will be your last, unless you respond to this, our final renewal notice. Just think, after a few short weeks, no more writers, like, Rex Reed, Joe Canason and Andrew Sarris, ... no more breaking news stories exposing New York's power brokers, political shakers, business moguls and society mavericks...no more of New York's pre-eminent guide to arts and culture...no more of The New York Observer." No more Joe Canason! How could we, like, deal with that? Let alone the idea that we might miss the insights of, like, Tom Skokka or Sara Vilokome— Vilcommer— Vilkkker— eh, you know, the saucy chick who writes about the movies! Fortunately, publisher Jared Kushner has offered to extend the subscription to the ever-thinning paper a generous four weeks. Equally fortunately, his name is spelled correctly.

Yesterday, a Massachusetts court upheld a $2-million defamation award against the Boston Herald and some of its reporters, including David Wedge. Because we don't know anything about anything, we called in David Lat, the fine (yet deliciously shallow!) legal mind behind Above the Law, to tell us what this means for newspapers and bloggers who don't like getting sued—and what it means for those who do so enjoy suing.

A tipster reports seeing blond power-couple Ivanka Trump and her current boytoy, New York Observer owner and fellow real-estate scion Jared Kushner, at Bowlmor Lanes last night. (Bowling! Together they're learning about how the poor live!) Maybe they were celebrating the fact that the Observer got out on time and actually got printed this week. Or maybe they bought a building or two! "Every now and then they sneaked a kiss," our spy reports. "They seemed to have been enjoying themselves until we made a big deal of them."

A Midtown-based media operative reports on a frightening state of affairs: It's Wednesday, and the New York Observer is nowhere to be found! Could this have anything to do with Monday's website relaunch? Is Jared Kushner trying to tell us something? In any case, our tipster says that the newsstand on 43rd and 7th said the paper would come "maybe tomorrow," though the newsstand in the Conde Nast Building was confident it would arrive "later this afternoon." (In Penn Station, we can personally report, this week's paper is totally MIA, and the paper-selling ladies did not give a damn.) As our tipster says, "They all said it just didn't come." Now that would be a 21st century newspaper!

The significance of holding last night's party to celebrate the New York Observer and its new website at the Four Seasons restaurant was intentional, obvious, and not at all lost on anyone. Despite its recent Frank Bruni demotion to two New York Times stars, the restaurant remains the symbolic and probably actual center of New York old-guard media power. After so many years of playing gadfly to the media, politics, and real estate elite of this city, the Observer and its boy-owner and his advisers chose to make a very specific sort of statement.

Yesterday, we found out that New York Observer goldenboy Jared Kushner has been mucking about with none other than Trump Organization goldengirl Ivanka Trump, complete with PR-man assertions of "friendship." But! Were we just pawns in one of Kushner's maniacal games? Yesterday we were contacted by several Observer staffers, who said that about a week ago, Kushner had been parading Ms. Trump around the Observer offices, "as if he wanted one of us to tell you guys, because he knows that everything here gets leaked. So of course, we didn't." The pair reportedly entered Kushner's office, "leaving the door open," one Observer staffer said, though this staffer also remarks that the whole thing "seemed weird." We've been used, in some horrible image management co-branding scheme! Kushner, you rascal! (*Shakes fist*) We'll get you next time.

We're hearing that bachelor millionaire playboy and New York Observer owner Jared Kushner has a new playmate! The two of them have lots in common. Both love to discuss their recent acquisitions (and, of course, their fathers'), and we imagine that their shared Ivy League backgrounds also provides much pillow-talk fodder. Unfortunately, they are doomed to be just friends, as Ivanka Trump is most certainly not a Jew. Too bad, really; their kids have some intense super-genes at their disposal. For the official word from Jared's spokesperson, it's just that "they're buddies."

When Jared Kushner, tall boy-king of the New York Observer, sent out an email to his staff last night, it was during the most hectic part of the Tuesday night close, and he may have given a few folks mini-strokes.