Ibiza isn’t just an island to go party on, it’s a nightclub in D.C. and it had its share of inauguration parties this week.  The big boy belonged to the RIAA/Feeding America Inauguration Charity Ball hosted by Rihanna. The RIAA stands for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Guests included Rihanna, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kanye West, Cher, T.I., Shakira, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Lilly Collins, Mitch Bainwol (Chairman & CEO, RIAA), Vicki Escarra (President and CEO, Feeding America), Sara Gore and many more.

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Downbythehipster posted this Ibiza image perhaps hoping to invoke some sort of envy in his small readership who may have flocked to the Hamptons instead, or to make all five of them feel as if he knows what he is talking about. Since he doesn’t, we’ll help him out. Hotspots across the Mediterranean Sea are riddled with “gift girls” throughout the summer reaching a highpoint in August.

There is nothing unique or fleeting about it. If you have the euros and you want to pay, you too can be a “hitter” for a stint in Ibiza or Monaco or wherever.

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We are unleashing the first in our series of “Where will they be? Play along.

With all the current talk about Nello’s, we have decided to profile our favorite Nello’s patron, the precocious, six and a half year old darling, Madisonne.

Madisonne is best described as a professional dress twirler and can be found parading around the upper east side’s Nello’s on Saturday afternoons in one of the hundreds of dresses she owns by Luna Luna Copenhagen. She is in fact, the favorite of Nello Balan’s little cupcakes and is usually accompanied by her no-name sister who is 2 years her junior and whom Madisonne goes back and forth with being completely supportive of and utterly disgusted with.

Madisonne’s hobbies consist of heading the Brearley after school ballet program (which she helped start last fall), shopping, collecting ponies (real ones), curling her hair into ringlets “just like the fabulous Tinsley does”, and pouting. Madisonne has recently shown an interest in fashion to her mother’s delight. She can most frequently be found in the dressing room at Berkley Girl on Madison Avenue (though lately she is beginning to think that the store that tailors to 8-12 year olds is a little too immature for her tastes and thus has branched out to the Bergdorf children’s section, Bambini for teens and Olive & Bette’s downtown.). Her favorite “dress down” item is her Pucci inspired “Flowers by Zoe” skirt. If she can’t twirl in it, she won’t buy, end of discussion.

Madisonne’s dislikes include her younger sister (half of the time), bratz dolls (“so unlady-like”), people that spell her name “Madison” or “Madisen”, Claire’s stores, lame birthday parties that she feels obliged to attend to, and her co-parts from Spence that “dress in clothes from Ibiza and Calypso and think they are “free spirits”.

Where will Madisonne be in 15 years?