RICHARD JOHNSON: Gisele Bundchen’s ex-boyfriend slams Tom Brady
Scott Barnhill, who dated Gisele Bundchen long before she met Tom Brady, will never forget meeting the quarterback at Harry Cipriani.
“I was walking in and he was walking out,” the top male model told me.
Scott Barnhill walks the runway during the Berluti Menswear Spring/Summer 2018 show during Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2017. (Peter White/)
“We bumped shoulders and he said, ‘I make more money in one day than you make in a whole year.’” It was the only time the two met.
Barnhill took Gisele to Costa Rica one summer on his annual surfing trip, and she bought property there and built a house.
The model was recently there with her two sons, but without her husband.
“She’s always known what she wanted,” Barnhill said. “I wish the best for her.”
Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen attend the 2019 Hollywood For Science Gala on Feb. 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Kevin Winter/)
A source said, “Scott is the real reason why Gisele became famous. She mentions Alexander McQueen but it was her campaigns with Scott that catapulted her.”
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One nasty lawsuit has finally been settled between socialite Taylor Stein, the daughter of former nightlife mogul Howard Stein, and her former lover William Lauder, the grandson of Estée Lauder.
Lauder, 62, a zealot for privacy, sued Stein, 55, after their 15-year-old daughter posted about him on social media.
Stein, who once worked as a hostess at her father’s Upper East Side restaurant Brown, has a $7 million house in Los Angeles’ pricey Bel Air area that Lauder bought for her.
She also gets $1 million a year under a legal agreement that prohibits her from getting within 100 yards of his family, or blabbing to the press.
A certain newspaperman who shall remain nameless was deposed in the case after Lauder accused Stein of leaking. But the journalist testified he had never seen an email Stein allegedly sent him.
The litigation was settled a few weeks later.
“Taylor always liked older rich guys,” according to a former friend.
The list is impressive: Hamptons vineyard owner Christian Wolffer, private equity boss Teddy Forstmann, real estate heir Bill Zeckendorf Jr., and Apollo Global boss Leon Black.
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Kelis poses backstage during the 2nd annual Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards on June 24, 2022 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Randy Shropshire/)
Kelis rocked the Southampton Arts Center’s “After Dark” party.
As she launched into her megahit, “Milkshake,” waiters with Cardi B’s new liquor-infused Whipped Shots squirted the creamy concoction directly into the mouths of dozens of guests.
Waiters also provided drinks covered in the Cardi B confection for those too shy to have a direct squirt — or those who wanted seconds and thirds.
Alexander Hankin and Andrew Warren pulled together a junior committee that boasted Ivy Getty, Conor Kennedy, Gaia Matisse, Grace Murdoch, Princess Noor Pahlavi and Ming Lee Simmons.
The host committee included Jack Brinkley-Cook, Sophie Elgort, Greer Grammer and Hayley Hasselhoff.
The crowd danced past 2 a.m.
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George Wayne attends The Daily Front Row's 20th Anniversary New York Fashion Week Party on Feb. 10, 2022 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/)
George Wayne hasn’t held his Downtown 100 party for three years thanks to COVID, so this 26th edition “will be epic,” Wayne vowed, even though it won’t be downtown.
The bash will be held Sept. 13 at Nebula on W. 41st St. “Downtown is a state of mind,” the writer told me.
The 100 includes designers Tom Ford and Nicole Miller, restaurateurs Drew Nieporent and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and models Christy Turlington and Helena Christensen.
How did Martha Stewart make this list though she lives up north in Bedford?
‘’Because it’s about the mix and pedigree,” Wayne said. “She still defines that chill, accessible ideal even more and more these days. So Martha made the cut this year.”
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John Paulson and his new girlfriend Alina de Almeida were holding hands and looking very much like a couple in love at the Hampton Classic last Sunday.
“It was a table-hopping schmooze fest,” said Hampton Sheet publisher Joan Jedell.
“Many attendees wouldn’t know there was a riding competition going as they seemed more interested in the flow of baby-doll dresses by Zimmermann and Love Shack Fancy on many women ... fat, skinny, tall, short ... it was more about the dress than how some of them looked wearing it,” Jedell quipped.
The crowd included Molly Sims, Jessica Capshaw, Brooke Shields, Diana Taylor and Michael Bloomberg.
Others enjoying the Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs catered lunch included Kelly Klein, Don Lemon, John Catsimatidis, Donna Karan, Lorraine Bracco and Kelly Bensimon.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (Drew Angerer/)
Sen. Ted Cruz, his wife Heidi and daughter, Caroline, 11, went to metal magnate Andy Sabin’s party at his house in East Hampton.
Sabin gave them a tour of his private zoo where they petted pigs, peacocks, pheasants, quails, rabbits, goats, chickens and a giant tortoise. Andy said, “I never saw so many liberals who wanted their picture taken with Senator Cruz.”
Guests included Julia Haart, Daphne Oz, Rep. Andrew Garbarino, Jill Zarin and Afsaneh “Sunny” Akhtari, who shared an ice team trip to the Mister Softee truck with the Republican Texas senator and his family.
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Photographer Patrick McMullan attends an event at ICP Museum on April 4, 2013 in New York City. (Taylor Hill/)
Patrick McMullan celebrated his 67th birthday with a party in Southampton.
The famed photographer received a citation from the NY State Assembly hand-delivered by Patrick’s friend, Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright.
The citation credited McMullan for his help establishing “New York’s role as the social and artistic capital of the world,” and said that, as a cancer survivor, “Patrick has overcome setbacks and has become one of the most resilient contributors to New York society.”
Among those applauding were “Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, “Real Housewife of New York” Luann de Lesseps and the party’s hostess Jean Shafiroff.
Patrick’s only request was “No pictures,” which gave him the night off.
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Jared Leto, wearing a skateboard outfit of colorful shorts and a T-shirt, set a bevy of beautiful women’s hearts racing while at a party at builder Joe Farrell’s house in the Hamptons where the actor was staying. Bill O’Reilly was surrounded by more mature fans.
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Side by side at the new Aman club in Manhattan was Chris Rock and Israel’s ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan.
