South O' the Highway (and the North too)

East Hampton designer Betsey Johnson and her business partner, Chantal Bacon, celebrated the 30th anniversary of their business surrounded by friends, family and fans in their SoHo store. They launched the Betsey Johnson label on August 10, 1978, on Johnson's birthday.

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Rumor has it that Southampton's Howard Stern married Beth Ostrosky last weekend in a ceremony performed by the couple's close friend, actor Mark Consuelos.

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Dan's Papers columnist Katlean de Monchy's new TV segment series, "In a Celebrity Minute," got off to an auspicious start when her coverage of the Jonas Brothers concert at the Ross School was used by "Entertainment Tonight." Katlean has now completed five TV celebrity packages.

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Professional event planner David Monn recently hosted an Olympic-inspired party at his Water Mill home. Guests enjoyed a 26-piece band, Chinese pagodas, the Beijing games televised on a huge rooftop screen and waiters in tight athletic gear. Shun Lee Palace and East Hampton's Laundry catered. In attendance were Aby and Samantha Rosen, Martha Stewart, Jonathan Tisch, Rick and Kathy Hilton, Jeffrey and Linda Chodorow, Donald Marron, Arnold Scaasi, Rory and Elie Tahari, Nicole Miller, Tom Felicia, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict.

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WFAN's golf and tennis correspondent Ann Liguori, just back from covering the PGA Championship, is hosting her Ann Liguori Foundation Charity Golf Classic on Monday, October 6, at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton. The outing benefits the Weill Cornell Medical College's Healthy Children, Healthy Futures, an outreach program that teaches families about good nutrition and fitness as a cancer preventative. www.annliguori.com for more info.

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Blue Star Jets CEO Todd Rome will wed Vanessa Brahms this week in Southampton. More than 200 guests will attend the nuptials, to be held at Nello Summertimes, where the couple met last August. Coincidentally, Rome's ex-wife, Carole, also met her fiancé, Florida Governor Charlie Christ, at Nello's.

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On Saturday, August 16, the cast of "Gossip Girl," including Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Leighton Meester, Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford, Jessica Szhor, Taylor Momsen, Nicole Fiscella and Metthew Settle, attended the vitaminwater® celebration for the show's upcoming season premiere at the EMM Group Estate, the private home of Eugene Remm and Mark Birnbaum. The show's second season premieres on September 1 on the CW network.

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Hillary Dobbs, 20-year-old daughter of CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, was the highest-ranking American Show Jumping rider on a recent trip to Europe. A winner of 10 grand prix, and two gold medals for the US Nation's Cup teams, she will be photographed for a top fashion publication before heading to the Hampton Classic, and then returning to Harvard.

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Russell Simmons was honored alongside Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, at Frances Hayward's "Art for Animals" dinner held recently at Grey Gardens. Also in attendance were Beth Ostrosky, Randy Kemper and Tony Ingrao, Michael Mione, Michele Gerber Klein, Anne Dexter Jones, Wendy Diamond, R. Couri Hay, Dr. Robert and Janie Schwalbe, Diane and Jodie Fanelli, Salvatore Strazzullo and Debbie Bancroft.

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Seen recently were Robert DeNiro at the Montauk Yacht Club; Adam Sandler at the Artful Dodger in Westhampton; Jon Bon Jovi at Townline BBQ in Sagaponack; Ed Burns and Christy Turlington at Cherrystone's Clam and Lobster Shack in East Hampton; Ethan Hawke at Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett; Katie Couric at Turtle Crossing in East Hampton; Marty Richards, Marjorie Gubelmann and Jeffrey Chodorow at Almond in Bridgehampton; and David Yurman, Kathleen Turner, Chevy Chase and Lou Reed at Nick & Toni's.

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