March 18, 2008
ASHLEY DUPRE IN 'GIRLS GONE WILD' VIDEO
Eliot Spitzer's high-priced hooker better learn to grab the cash - fast. Ashley Gone Wild Photo Gallery "Girls Gone Wild" honcho Joe Francis today offered $1 million for Ashley Alexandra...
BELL COP SHOOTS FROM THE HIP
By IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON One of the plainclothes detectives accused of unleashing a 50-bullet barrage that killed Sean Bell shot aimlessly at the victim's car and claims he only fired a...
Scene: Karen Millen
At the opening of the Karen Millen US flagship boutique in Soho, FIT student Alicia Wasberg wears a Calvin Klein piped jacket and Chloé shirt."I shop everywhere. I have to...
3 DOWN: Duque, Va. Tech and Bonds
1. Orlando Hernandez topped out at 81 mph in his simulated game. Met officials will spin this by saying it is early still or that Hernandez does not need top-end...
The Wild, Wild East
By FRED KERBERSo when was the last time the Hawks weren't eliminated by now? Or by Valentine's Day?Anyway, tomorrow night's game in the Meadowlands is huge for playoff implications. The...
TRANSCRIPT: OBAMA'S 'A MORE PERFECT UNION'
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of...
Men of 'Stop-Loss'
Ryan Phillipe, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and others walk the red carpet for the new MTV film, "Stop-Loss," which tells the story of a soldier's return from Iraq.
Donatella does morning TV
My favorite Italian blonde is in town to launch Versace menswear at Barney's this evening.Here she is on the Today Show looking remarkably subdued.I can't wait to see what she's...
WEST VILLAGE SEX ATTACK SUSPECT NABBED
A suspected teenage sex fiend who viciously attacked two women during a 15-minute terror spree in the West Village early this month has been captured, authorities said yesterday. Anthony Rosado,...
Spring accessories: A shoe-stravaganza!
Shop today's heelsShop yesterday's high end heelsGo behind the scenes to sneak a peak at the shoes, including an $11K pair of crystal-studded stilettos.Stay tuned:Wednesday: Under $100
PATERSON: I'VE HAD SEVERAL AFFAIRS
ALBANY -- The latest sex scandal involving a New York governor widened Tuesday afternoon after newly inaugurated Gov. David Paterson revealed that he had affairs with "several" women -- not...
Catch The Bus To 'Idol' Camp
'American Idol' judge Simon Cowell The competition is getting fierce as the 11 remaining contestants on "American Idol" battle one another for that once in a lifetime chance at super...
Anthony Mingella (1954-2008)
It's a real shock to read that director Anthony Minghella, who was only 54, died suddenly early today while undergoing "routine'' surgery. Minghella won an Oscar for the Oscar-winning "The...
'American Teen' Opens Sundance at BAM
"American Teen,'' Nanette Burstein's documentary about the 2005-2006 school year at an Indiana high school, will open the third annual Sundance at BAM program on May 28. The rest of...
Starr Report: It's a Locke
Six charities will benefit from "American Idol's" annual "Idol Gives Back" show April 9: the Children's Defense Fund, The Global Fund, Make It Right, Malaria No More, Save the Children...
3 UP: Hansen, 2005 Draft and El Duque
1. I remember in 2005 when there was criticism of the Mets (who took Mike Pelfrey) and the Yankees (who took C.J. Henry) for not taking Craig Hansen out of...
STATE OF AFFAIRS
ALBANY - Gov. David Paterson revealed today that he had affairs with several women, including a state employee, since about 1999. The admission came a day after The Post learned...
MURROW HS CHESS MATES ARE CHAMPS
They're still the kings. Perennial chess powerhouse Edward R. Murrow HS staged a nail-biting, come-from-behind victory over the weekend in Saratoga Springs to clinch the top spot in the state....
KERIK HIRES NEW LAWYER
Former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has a new lawyer in his corner as he battles federal corruption charges, The Post has learned. After nearly two months of interviewing prospective lawyers,...
MCG: IT WAS 3-MENDOUS SEX
Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday said his driver did indeed ride shotgun in three-way sex romps with him and then-wife, Dina. "This happened," the gay former governor, 50,...
8TH-GRADE 'FAIL' PLAN IS PASSED
Education officials voted at a raucous meeting last night to hold back eighth-graders who don't meet education standards. By an 11-1 vote, the Panel for Education Policy ended the practice...
STRIP CLUB AN EYESORE: SUIT
This wasn't the kind of eyeful a married Manhattan man had in mind when he went to a West Side strip club. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, stockbroker...
BELL-BULLET CLAIM A TALL TALE: LAWYER
If an NYPD laser expert's calculations are correct, one of the cops who fired at groom-to-be Sean Bell was shooting from 14 feet in the air, a defense lawyer charged...
GUN SCARE AT JEWISH SCHOOL
A bullet pierced the front door of a Jewish school for girls in Brooklyn at the end of the school day yesterday, authorities said. No one was hurt. The Be'er...
SAD CRANE TOLL CLIMBS TO SEVEN
The bodies of three more victims - including a hardhat who tried in vain to save a colleague and a suburban Miami woman - were pulled yesterday from the rubble...
BLOOD AT BLOOMIE'S
A man was injured when he was thrown through a plate glass window at Bloomingdale's yesterday after a fight broke out near the landmark East Side store, cops said. The...
HACK FROM HELL
A cabby who unleashed a frightening foul-mouthed tirade on a female passenger who tried to pay him with a credit card - and then drove off with her cellphone and...
SUICIDE WATCH ON MADAM
A convicted Manhattan madam with ties to the escort service favored by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is on suicide watch in a New Jersey jail cell, sources said yesterday. But...
GREAT DAY IN GREEN APPLE
Irish skies were smiling on New York's St. Patrick's Day parade yesterday as revelers celebrated their inner green. The sun shone on shamrocks - and on the steps of dancers,...
JURY STILL OUT ON NIXZMARY
Jurors weighing the fate of Nixzmary Brown's stepfather ended their third day of deliberations yesterday without a verdict. The panelists deliberated all day yesterday and were still not ready for...
ONE MORE COP-PROBER GOES DOWN
An NYPD captain has pleaded guilty to submitting phony time sheets and accessing confidential computer records while he worked as a lieutenant in the department's corruption-fighting Internal Affairs Bureau, The...
SEX POL 'SCARRED ME FOR LIFE'
Disgraced City Councilman Dennis Gallagher apologized yesterday in a Queens courtroom to the woman he sexually abused - and agreed to resign and enter alcohol treatment. His 52-year-old victim, in...
HILL RAPS 'O' OVER WAR
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday accused Barack Obama, an early Iraq war opponent, of choosing "silence" instead of acting to stop the conflict, then hit John McCain for planning...
REV.'S RANTS SHAKE VOTERS' OBAMA FAITH
More than half of voters are less likely to support Barack Obama for president after hearing the anti-American rants of his longtime Chicago pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a shocking...
TIGER WOODS' $65M SAND BUNKER
Tiger has a brand-new lair - a $65 million estate in the Hamp tons where he can send his chip shots flying into the ocean. Located on exclusive Gin Lane,...
'WE'RE ON TOP OF IT,' PREZ SAYS
President Bush conceded yesterday that the US economy is undergoing a "difficult" period, but said his administration is "on top of the situation" - and ready to take urgent new...
GOTTA GRIM AND BEAR IT
St. Patrick's Day 2008 was the unluckiest day ever to be a Bear Stearns employee. Thousands of stunned, saddened and steamed Bear Stearns workers showed up at their jobs yesterday...
THE BEAR CRASH: CASE STUDY 1
Bear Stearns Chairman Jimmy Cayne (below) has taken a $1.1 billion bloodbath. Cayne - the battered brokerage's former CEO and its largest individual shareholder - saw his holdings in Bear...
THE BEAR CRASH: CASE STUDY 2
The colossal collapse of Bear Stearns didn't just break the backs of its millionaire executives. Messenger Christopher Minto , who has worked at the company's Midtown office for 18 years,...
PAUL PAYS AN ARM & A LEG
Paul McCartney's vicious, years-long divorce battle ended yesterday in a $48.6 million judgment for ex-wife Heather Mills, making her one of the richest divorcées in marital history. Although Justice Hugh...
SHOCK CLAIM IN TUPAC ASSAULT
Two pals of Sean Combs' planned a 1994 attack on rival rapper Tupac Shakur, fueling a blood feud that has since claimed the lives of hip-hop's most promising stars, according...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS A man was arrested at JFK Airport after threatening to set off a bomb, police said yesterday. Moshe Pollack, 26, who was visiting from Montreal, approached a gate agent...
A MAN OF THE PEOPLE, A MAP OF THE FUTURE
MEET America's newest political star. A lifelong Democrat embraced by hard-line Republicans. A king of one-liners with a serious agenda. A black man breaking through one of the nation's most...
SAVE THIS KID FROM HELL PAIR
AREN'T we forgetting someone? It's as obvious as the stench regularly emanating from the Jersey swamps that Dina Matos McGreevey was well aware her husband, the gay ex-Governor Jim, preferred...
LOTTERY
NEW YORKBD-> Midday Nos. Mon.: 625; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 1173; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 295; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 6259;...
TIGER TAKES ANOTHER
Don't look now, but Tiger Woods is get ting close. Close, that is, to earning his distinction as the dominant golfer of all time. Woods won his fifth straight PGA...
PATERSON'S PREDICAMENT
'Let me reintroduce myself: I am David Paterson, and I am the governor of New York state." Thus began a new, if decidedly uncertain, period in state history. Paterson's relatively...
KEEP ON BUILDING
Is New York in grave danger from fall ing construction cranes? It may seem that way after Satur day's horrific crane collapse on E. 51st Street, which killed seven -...
WEATHERING WALL STREET WOES
DEAR Gov. Paterson: As you took office yester day, you referred to Wall Street's continuing meltdown and noted that "our economy appears to be headed toward crisis," adding that you'll...
FECKLESS FRIENDS
GOV. Paterson got a lot of applause at yesterday's convocation of the usual suspects in Albany - but his inaugural ovation was no longer, nor more enthusiastic, than that tendered...
MINISTER MESS
IN the first sermon Barack Obama ever heard from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor railed against "white folks' greed," the bombing of Hiroshima and "the callousness of policymakers in...
CRANE CRASH: FIX THE FLAWS
LAST Saturday's crane collapse on Manhat tan's East Side serves as a sad indictment of the city's failure to guard against the pub lic-safety hazards resulting from New York's historic...
PORN & PAPER SALES: POST PIX UNFIT TO PRINT
I don't appreciate your opportunistic display of Ashley Dupre's seductive picture on the front page of The Post ("Bad Girl," March 14). I'm sure you sold a lot of papers...
WALL ST. DAZED
Bear Stearns' fire sale to JPMorgan Chase for $236 million - less than Yankees star Alex Rodriguez's historic contract - helped push down shares of financial companies yesterday as investors...
SALVAGE OPERATION AIMS TO STEM FALLOUT
Bear Stearns is toast but still very edible. Regulators yesterday temporarily seized control of the 85-year old firm's future, and dispatched a caretaker squad of troubleshooters led by JPMorgan Chase...
NO EASY FIXES FOR BERNANKE
CHAOS and confusion! That's the only way you can describe what the Federal Reserve faces as it meets today to discuss interest rates. There's no doubt that Fed chief Ben...
BLOODBATH AVERTED AS FED SOOTHES MARKETS
Despite wild swings between the highs and lows of the day of more than 300 points, Wall Street managed to avoid the carnage that was widely expected and actually carve...
LEHMAN IS NOT READY TO FULD
Shares of Lehman Brothers tumbled as much as 40 percent yesterday as nervous investors raced to sell shares on fears that the Wall Street investment bank would meet the same...
DOLLAR'S WEAKNESS
Hammered to record lows against the euro, the US dollar may plunge still deeper versus other key currencies as the Federal Reserve slashes interest rates amid the financial crisis. The...
STREET'S BAD-BOY FIRM GOT ITS COMEUPPANCE
The rarified world of economists at the Federal Reserve got to settle their long-simmering grudge against Jimmy Cayne for turning his back on them a decade ago in a scary...
DEAL'S DOWNTOWN DOMINO
BANKING giant JPMor gan Chase said yesterday that it will probably move its investment-banking unit into Bear Stearns' headquarters at 383 Madison Ave. - a step that landlords and brokers...
SPRINT CEO WILL BE FEATURED IN TV SPOT
Sprint, struggling with a customer exodus and confusing marketing, is tapping its new chief executive to star in its latest TV spot. CEO Dan Hesse, who joined the No. 3...
EDGAR'S SONGBOOK
The beat goes on for Warner Music's Edgar Bronfman Jr. The media mogul has inked an incentive-laden contract extension - potentially worth in excess of $90 million - that will...
NY TIMES HEDGES BETS, ALLOWS SEATS TO FUNDS
A pair of hedge funds critical of The New York Times' stock performance and Internet strategy have gotten two directors appointed to the company's board. In a bid to stave...
PHILADELPHIA - CRADLE OF INDEPENDENCE
Famous for more than cheese steaks, pretzels and Tastykakes, Philadelphia is where the Declaration of Independence was signed. This major city is rich with history. Philadelphia, Pa., was once our...
SUGAR HIGH
* Diane von Furstenberg metallic sandal, $350 at Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave. *Theory metallic sandal, $345 at Bloomingdale's, 1000 Third Ave. * Metallic Heel, $325 at toryburch.com *...
VOICE OF CHOICE
WHILE you may not know his name, you know his voice. Marlon Saunders is a performer and a producer - he's even a professor at the famed Berklee College of...
MPFREE
* Marlon Saunders, "Afro Blue My Mind" The singer puts his spin on '70s-style R&B and soul, infusing this track off his album "A Groove So Deep: The Live Sessions"...
IT'S A BRAVE NEW ART WORLD FOR ARTHUR
JOSEPH Arthur has set up his own arts utopia with a gallery in DUMBO, creating the perfect place to paint, play and perform - and sell the results on Internet....
STARR REPORT
It's a Locke Six charities will benefit from "American Idol's" an nual "Idol Gives Back" show April 9: the Children's De fense Fund, The Global Fund, Make It Right, Malaria...
WALK THIS WAY
ASHTON Kutcher doesn't just know his way around gor geous older women, he knows his way around a good laugh as well. Take his newest producing gig, "Miss Guided," a...
THE 'IDOL' FEUDING IS 'REAL'
'AMERICAN Idol" crank Simon Cowell says his constant on-air bickering with co-stars Paula Abdul and Ryan Seacrest is "real." Explaining how he has no chance to plan out any fake...
1ST PRIZE: 'HELL' CHEF JOB
THE fourth season of "Hell's Kitchen" will have a twist, of sorts. This time around, the show's winner will work directly under irascible host Gordon Ramsay in his new LA...
SPECS FOR SPEARS' ROLE
Britney Spears is punching a timecard again - instead of the paparazzi. The pop-wreck filmed a guest appearance on CBS' "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER" last week in which she...
YOUNG AT HEART ALSO FACE PERIL
MAX S. Gerber is a for mer pediatric pace maker recipient who received the news of his heart problems with, as he remembers it, "terror, upset and screaming." Now 34,...
SPORTS SHORTS
HGH: Review says it won't help Athletes who take human growth hormone may not be getting the boost they expected. While growth hormone adds some muscle, it doesn't appear to...
GONZALEZ' PICKS IRK HALL
Seton Hall athletic director Joe Quinlan was not pleased that basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez wrote a column for a national newspaper in which he offered tips on how to pick...
BAYLOR RISES FROM THE ASHES
WE see the same scenes year after year, March after March, and it can be easy to grow immune to them. CBS trains its cameras on a handful of basketball...
LOVE THE DRAKE, BUT GO WITH MEMPHIS
Colorful CBS College Sports Network analyst Pete Gillen, who coached Xavier to the Sweet 16 in 1990 and Providence to the Elite 8 in 1997, breaks down the NCAA Tournament...
RING THE BELL FOR ROUND 1
The NCAA Tournament is full of drama and dreams. Some first-round matchups figure to be more intriguing than others. The Post looks at the best games, the best individual matchups...
TIGER'S ADDICTION
ORLANDO - In the wake of the theatrics Tiger Woods treated the sports world to late Sunday afternoon at Bay Hill, vanquishing poor Bart Bryant's dreams by holing out a...
CURSE OF THE DEVIL
The Devils now try to make the elephant irrelevant. Dumbo flies on the wings of the Rangers' five victories over New Jersey this season, and disappears if the Devils triumph...
ISLES' ROOK SET TO SKATE
Kyle Okposo saw plenty of familiar faces when he skated with the Islanders for the first time yesterday. Thanks to all the injuries the team has suffered this season, there's...
ZEKE REIGN LOOKS TO BE OVER & DON
INDIANAPOLIS - A person who spoke with Donnie Walsh yesterday told The Post the Pacers' CEO expects to speak with the Knicks about the potential presidency later on this week....
JIM'S FINALLY COMING TO HIS SENSES
AS best as I can tell with out anybody of consequence confirming or denying - or, for that matter, returning a phone call/e-mail - there's sweeping validity to a rival...
METS TOOK LO ROAD
VIERA, Fla. - Paul Lo Duca insisted yesterday that when he was a free agent this winter, the Mets' contact with him ranged from non-existent to downright insincere. The catcher,...
NECK'S NAGGING VALENTIN
VIERA, Fla. - The pinched nerve in Jose Valentin's neck is causing the veteran Met to feel an agonizing sensation. "It's like somebody just sticks a knife in you," Valentin...
NETS AIM TO END ROAD SKID
Oh, no, back to the road. As much as the Nets want to believe the worst is behind them, until they can win a road game the skeptics will have...
SHOOT 'EM UP
When in doubt, shoot. Except, it is doubtful the Rangers have the shooters. Michal Rozsival, their best hammer from the point, admitted yesterday to some disbelief he can get the...
THE CURSED ARE FIRST
TAMPA - Maybe it's jarring for the fans who for so long reveled in the doctrine of Yankees Up and Boston Down to recognize the Red Sox, of all people,...
DICE-K TO START BOSOX OPENER IN JAPAN
TAMPA - Terry Francona probably didn't mean to be quite so literal in announcing that Daisuke Matsuzaka will start the Red Sox' March 25 season-opener in Tokyo against the A's....
TRIP TO VA. TECH PLEASES PLAYERS
TAMPA - Big league ballplayers are in love with the routine of spring training. Arrive early, work out, play a game and go home. Even the rare long bus ride...
ANDY'S ELBOW SOLID
TAMPA - From the fourth floor offices of Legends Field to The Bronx, the biggest area of concern for Yankees officials is the starting rotation. The Yankees are going to...
TANKS ANYWAY
IT is not often that Orlando adds a new theme park. Nearly ten years have passed since the debut of Universal's superlative Islands of Adventure in 1999. So when SeaWorld...
NOW IT'S DARK
THE on-slope rivalry between skiers and snowboarders is so 10 years ago. There's a new downhill battle brewing in the picturesque village of Saint-Sauveur, Quebec. The question: Are you a...
HOP INTO SPRING
NOTHING quite says "Spring is here!" like being reminded that Easter is just around the corner. (This weekend, to be precise.) What better time to take a quick break? We've...
STATE OF AFFAIRS
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson carried on an extramarital affair for several years, The Post has learned - a thunderous bomb shell dropped the day he was sworn in to succeed...
WIFE TO DISGRACED NBA REF: STAY AWAY!
The estranged wife of disgraced NBA ref Tim Donaghy, who The Post last year exposed for taking part in a NBA betting scheme, on as making illegal bets, has filed...