· You can always count on Star to go above and beyond the call of duty. Staffers were reportedly present at a Video Music Awards party and offering patrons $20 to go spy on the Olsen twins, who were holed up in the "powder room." Yeah, we bet it was a powder room. Bonnie Fuller, you best not miss the boat on this one. [Page Six]
· Madonna realizes that perhaps she should ask the Kabbalah crew how, exactly, they're spending her donated millions. Brilliant — this religion is going to be over, like, tomorrow. [The Sun UK]
· Now that hotel heiress Paris Hilton is doing professional nobody Simon Rex, Simon's ex-girlfriend Nicole Lenz has taken up with Paris' ex-boyfriend and former director Rick Salomon. This socialite group is like a big, incestuous high school with more money and, we bet, more herpes. [Page Six]
· Gubernatorial spawn Emily Pataki, who's covering the convention for television show "Extra," gets a camera in first daughter Jenna Bush's face at the "R" party on Sunday. After Jenna uncomfortably submitted to the questions, she went inside and did what any Bush twin would do: pounded some beers. [NYDN]
· And yet more from the VMAs: a crew member from Usher's yacht dies on a late-night dive, P. Diddy's party opens to the public and things go to shit, and Paris Hilton makes out with Christina Aguilera. Okay, I'm certain I'm the only one who hasn't been with Hilton at this point. [Page Six]