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VIP Central at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Tonight

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September 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM | by | Comments (0)

New York City's Waldorf-Astoria is the place to be for celebrity sightings tonight.

Not only is the old-school glam dame hosting delegates for a United Nations Summit (we hear international mucky-mucks like former President Bill Clinton and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe are booked at the hotel), but a who's who of professional athletes, including tennis hottie Andre Agassi, volleyball beauty Gabrielle Reece and Kevin Everett (former tight end for the Buffalo Bills) will be honored as "Sports Legends" at a charity dinner hosted tonight by the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis.

And the legend will only grow as retired NBA star Scottie Pippen and former boxing lightweight Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini will also be included among the ranks of honored athletes and NBC sportscaster Bob Costas hosts.

Obviously, the invite reads like a network lineup for ESPN. But the tickets don't come cheap. Dinner starts at $850 a head and goes up to as much as $100,000 a table. Perhaps the chef is plating up some delectables that outdo the vintage steakhouse fare at the Bull & Bear, but steep ticket prices haven't held anyone from coming back to this annual event for the last 23 years -- even if Hilton's ownership has watered down the Waldorf's cache.

But then, the event has always turned out a stellar cast of sports celebs in the past, with the likes of Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan and even Joe DiMaggio turning out to support this national fundraising arm of the spinal cord injury research center The Miami Project. More details can be found here.

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