The Wednesday Party Report
Graydon Carter, Robert De Niro, and Ron Perelman hosted a Vanity Fair-sponsored dinner at the State Supreme Court House last night to celebrate the opening of the Tribeca Film Festival. They were joined by Carter and De Niro's wives (Anna Scott Carter and Grace Hightower) and Tribeca Film Fest co-founders Craig Hatkoff and Jane Rosenthal, as well as a long list of guests, including Bono and Ali Hewson, Kanye West, Diane von Furstenberg, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, Tory Burch and Lyor Cohen, André Leon Talley, Fran Lebowitz, Spike Lee ... (continued)
... Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Andre Balazs, Debra Messing, Rachel Roy, John McEnroe and Patty Smyth, Larry David, Steve Newhouse, Lizzie and Jon Tisch, Nicholas Pileggi and Nora Ephron, Nan Talese and Gay Talese, Salman Rushdie and Pia Glenn, Sandy Brant and Ingrid Sischy, Joy and Regis Philbin, Veronica and Ray Kelly, Linda Wells, Cornelia Guest, Muffie Potter and Sherrell Aston, Jonathan and Somers White Farkas, Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn, Joel Klein, Patti Harris, Christine Quinn, Bob Morgenthau, Justine and Jeff Koons, Georgianne and Christopher Walken, Julie Chen and Les Moonves, Steve Kroft, Christiane Amanpour, Jane and Brian Williams, Kathy and Tom Freston, Deborah Grubman, Amy and Howard Rubenstein, Peggy Siegal, Vivi Nevo, Julie Taymor, Sybil and David Yurman, Gayle King, Josh Lucas, and Ron's daughter, Samantha (above). [PMc, Wireimage, HuffPo, NY1]
• Last night, the Food Bank For New York City honored Jon Bon Jovi at its Sixth Annual Can-Do Awards Dinner at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers. JBJ was joined by the event's co-hosts, Mario Batali and his wife Susan, along with guests like Bill Clinton, Bono, Anthony Bourdain, Tom Colicchio, Rachael Ray and John Cusimano, Emeril Lagasse, Katie Lee Joel, Rocco DiSpirito, Mariska Hargitay, Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen, Stanley Tucci, Steve Buscemi, Helena Christensen, Michael Stipe, Isaac Mizrahi, Kenneth Cole, Katie Ford, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, as well as his wife Dorothea Bon Jovi. [PMc, Wireimage, NBC, Faded Youth]
• Jill Kargman celebrated the release of her latest book, The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund, with a party at the Frédéric Fekkai salon in Henri Bendel on Monday night. She was toasted by more than 200 women (and a few men), including Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, Marjorie Gubelmann, Celerie Kemble, Alexandra Lebenthal, Stacey Bendet Eisner, Allison Aston, Gigi Stone, Kate Schelter, Byrdie Bell, Meredith Melling Burke, Gillian Miniter, Sylvana Soto Ward, Sabine Heller, Melissa Berkelhammer, Bronson Van Wyck, Daniel Benedict and Andrew Saffir, and her parents, Arie and Coco Kopelman. [PMc, VF, WWD]
• Padma Lakshmi hosted the Blossom Ball to benefit the Endometriosis Foundation of America at the Prince George Ballroom on Monday night. She was joined by Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Brown, Fern Mallis, Helena Christensen, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, Dr. Tamer Seckin, and a handful of models, including Oluchi Onweagba, Alexandra Tomlinson, and Nicole Trunfio. [PMc, Wireimage]