• Jersey Shore's Ronnie sorry that he's a raging homophobe. [TMZ]

• Well, this doesn't happen, everyday: last night at The Box, a transsexual cabaret performer booted on Susan Sarandon. [Gawker]

• Heidi Montag really excited about designing clothes. Sadly, you can't tell from the expression on her face. [People]

• The Top 9 celeb apologies. OMG Tiger, there's a spot left, for you! [EOnline]

• Lawyer who helped Astor son Anthony Marshall is officially disbarred. [NYP]

• SPiN to open a restaurant inside its private ping pong club. [Eater]

• What's next for the cast of Jersey Shore. [People]

• Georgina returning to Gossip Girl. [EOnline]

• How to suck up to your boss without being totally obnoxious. [CNN]

• Anthony Marshall might avoid jail time. [NYP]

• Kristin Cavallari celebrates 23rd birthday with nightclub bash. [JustJared]

[Frederick Hafetz , Anthony Marshall's lawyer pictured Left] As an anxious press crowd gathered around the visibly sullen Frederick Hafetz, Anthony Marshall's defense attorney, months of inter-family turmoil enveloping uptown New York concluded with a few short statements outside the Manhattan Supreme Court. The lawyer proclaimed that his client, son of the late Brooke Astor, "plans to appeal." He also somberly asserted that, "Anthony loved his mother." More»

The Astor verdict is in, Anthony Marshall has been convicted.  The late society chronicler Dominick Dunne is most certainly sitting in social Heaven quite disappointed to have missed the haute monde trial of the semi-century.  The case involves the late Brooke Astor, an upper east side dowager renowned for her class and altruism, and her son Anthony Marshall, 85, who allegedly attempted to defraud his Alzheimer-impaired mum out of $60 million dollars (already pledged to New York charities) with the help of real estate lawyer Francis Morrissey, 66.

The original complaint not only shocked the social world with the alleged betrayal of a beloved social icon by her own son and heir, but also detailed a state of squalor in which dame Astor was allegedly rendered by her plotting son and his wife.  The report makes Grey Gardens look like the Taj Mahal and Edith Beales' last days seems like paradise.

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