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Happy birthday to you: Maloof celebrates hardy with Palms Girls finalists.
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Jennifer Garner's co-star and ex, Vartan stuck to the suite's pool table--and to a very tall, very busty blonde with whom he arrived holding hands. He and the Un-Jen appeared very cozy, a fellow partier tells your Club Queen. "Michael definitely had himself a lady friend," the eyewitness told me.
The three Wilson brothers, Luke, Owen and Andrew, also hit the party, but they mostly stuck to their own posse, which included tennis ace Pete Sampras.
Any ladies with them? Come on. With guys like that, there has to be a lady, or 20. "Actually," the eyewitness tells me, "Luke had two girls with him. But they were just friends. You know. Buddies."
Hey, that's how it always starts.
Forget Goin' to Disneyland!
A Club Queen pop math quiz: How many dollars worth of Cristal champagne can a newly crowned middleweight champ, plus one Vegas prop comic, plus a given posse of five or six other partiers, minus all inhibition, drink in a given night?
The answer: 15 bottles, times $800 a bottle--the charge at Club Vibe, inside the Aladdin Casino's fancy Desert Passage forum of shops.
Just to make sure I'm clear, we're talking Twelve. Thousand. Dollars.
The astoundingly talented fighter in question: Philly boy Bernard Hopkins, who, just hours earlier at the MGM Grand, had flattened the tragically pretty Oscar de la Hoya, leaving the poor Adonis writhing--yes, writhing--on the mat.
Upon steamrolling young Oscar, a now-pinstriped champ Hopkins floated and stung his way over to the Desert Passage at the Aladdin Hotel, where he took over the second floor of the Club Vibe VIP lounge, along with comedian Joe Trammel, a star of the V Variety Show at the Aladdin. (Don't know Joe? Man of 1000 Faces? That guy.)
 | Big leagues: Boston Public's Peldon plays for the Junior League.
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"I guess," one club insider told me, "that when those fighters are really in shape, they can really drink. I think they had to pay for the champagne themselves, but once they started drinking, they didn't want to leave. They partied into the wee hours of the morning."
Oh, and just in case you were worried, the Hopkins-De la Hoya bout was the very same fight that Nicole Kidman graced, wearing a Moulin Rouge-esque black bead-and-lace number, causing tabloids to pant over who her mystery date was. The guy, it turned out, was Eric Watson, kiwi millionaire and, buzz would have it, Nic's new beau.
And, hey, just to complicate things: Yes, that is the same Watson who brawled with another rumored Kidman beau, Russell Crowe, in a London restaurant two years or so back.
Scene, Seen, Scene
Boston Public starlet Courtney Peldon, winning a hand of poker against Gary Martin, director of studio operations at Sony, during a Los Angeles junior league casino night fundraiser ... Philadelphia Flyers alumnus Bob Kelly getting roasted by a model dressed as Catwoman during a Stanley Cup Champions celebration at the Borgata in Atlantic City ... Hot poker goddess-of-the-moment--and Ben Affleck mentor--Annie Duke slipping into the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York for a guest spot on Letterman ... Lovebirds Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z--minus the usual entourage!--hitting the tables at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut ... Foxy American Idol runner-up Kimberly Caldwell, sizzling in a red-dress, flanked by brunette look-alike sister Christy, on the red carpet before George Maloof's other birthday party at the Palms.
george maloff photo by amy graves/wireimage, courtney peldon photo by mike guastella/wireimage
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