Looks like Gramercy Park Hotel is going to be The Heartbreak Hotel for a little while for actress Anne Hathaway.
Page Six reports that Hathaway is shacking up in Ian's place while her ex, Raffaello Follieri gets a new rental in a Trump Tower. Reports say the two split because of all the shady stuff Follieri has been accused of such as misappropriating his charity funds and bouncing a $250,000 check.
But all is not lost yet. The ex-couple are reportedly expected to dine at Cipriani.
For now, we think Anne is in good hands. If anyone knows about financial trouble and the law, Anne needs to look no further than Ian Schrager himself who did time in jail for evading the IRS. There, there, Annie. Ian will make it better.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know by now that last night marked the end of the Democratic primaries and, effectively, the end Hillary Clinton's campaign (though she has yet to concede).
Clinton was in NYC addressing supporters at Baruch College at an "end-of-primaries celebration event" when the world received word that Obama had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
Afterward, according to Radar, Clinton campaign staffers headed over to the Gramercy Park Hotel to an end-of-primaries Clinton-funded afterparty. Up in the posh penthouse of Schrager's exclusive boutique property, Clinton staffers drowned their sorrows in expensive cocktails. Radar describes the scene:
"It's a sad night, for sure," [a staffer] sighed, as John Mellencamp's political rally staple, "This Is Our Country," blared away on the loudspeakers . . . "We put in a lot of hard work on this campaign, so it's tough to see it end like this." She paused to take a sip of her Chardonnay. "I guess it's time to look for a new job."
Well, we guess if you've gotta go, you might as well go out in style.
We always enjoy news about the Hotel Chelsea that doesn't involve a murder, a peeping Tom, or a hostile takeover.
We popped into the hotel last Friday to tour some of the first-floor rooms that had been transformed into mini-art galleries as part of the PooL Art Fair. Different emerging artists were able to showcase their work in the Chelsea's historic rooms. One lucky artist got to show off their work in the room where Sid Vicious may have killed Nancy. Here's a review from artinfo.com.
There was some quite excellent work here and -- as though to underscore how distant the whole enterprise was from the other fairs -- nobody tried to sell me anything. Come back next year, PooL. You'll be very welcome.
This art fair was put on by the hotel's new management BD Hotels who seems to be trying hard to respect the hotel's bohemian past. (Note: BD Hotels also manages the just-opened Greenwich Hotel, not that we care or anything.)
If you aren't aligning yourself with the new establishment then stop by the Museum of the City of New York tonight. The museum is hosting an evening dedicated to the 125th Anniversary of the Chelsea Hotel. Yes, the hotel is that old. There will be a reading and a panel discussion to commemorate the milestone. The event will also be showing a video interview with beloved former manager Stanley Bard.
Oh and it wasn't completely drama-free during our visit to the hotel. FDNY made a stop in to investigate a hoarding problem by one of the residents. Which is probably as representative of the Chelsea's wild boho spirit as the artwork hanging from the walls.
The Greenwich Hotel is set to open in four days and we managed to get some snaps of the place today.
There wasn't a whole lot of activity going on at the place. It looked like almost all of the exterior construction was finished but we gather there is still some work to be done inside.
We peeked in a bit at Ago which occupies the ground floor and there were a couple of dudes in suits milling around.
We also spied some people sitting on a windowsill on the first floor but they were definitely not hotel guests. Ho-hum.
All in all, this "overbaked cookie" looks like it's done to us. We'll find out how the opening goes on Tuesday.
If Ian Schrager and his minions have decided that Paris Hilton and her ilk are not welcome at the hip Rose Bar inside the Gramercy Park Hotel, then her sister Nicky Hilton is certainly not going to get in. And Page Six reports that's exactly what happened to the failed hotelier the other night:
Spies outside spotted her "desperately trying to get in" to the hip hotel's Rose Bar, where Tory Burch, Lydia Hearst, Padma Lakshmi, Vincent Gallo, Brittany Murphy, Stavros Niarchos and Vito Schnabel were toasting Serge Azria's label, Joie.
"Nicky was texting Andy Valmorbida to come out and get her," said the spy. But we hear the billionaire art dealer was too busy canoodling with Lenny Kravitz's ex, Sandy Meyer, to lend the Hilton sister a hand.
Wait a minute! Who let Stavros in??
To see who's allowed in the Rose Bar, click here for a list.
Once again, big ups to Hotel Maven CourtneyMay for dropping this excellent photo of the rooftop terrace atop the Gramercy Park Hotel into the HotelChatter Flickr Pool. We totally get why J.LO had her baby shower here.
See more of Courtney's rooftop pics after the jump.
Jennifer Lopez's twins aren't due until February but they already got VIP access to the elitist bars of Gramercy Park Hotel.
Last Saturday, Lopez and her hubby Marc Anthony were the guests of honor at a pink and blue themed baby shower on the hotel's rooftop terrace.
Jennifer arrived in a chic black overcoat and stylish highheels. The mother-to-be "looked very pretty - and very pregnant," according to an eyewitness.
Of course, the Lopez-Anthony offspring will probably have to prove their worth as they get older but it's safe to say that Schrager and his minions will probably grant them (at least once) access to the Rose Bar upon turning 21.
PYT: Pretty Young Thing. Shame on you if you didn't know this.
Since it opened, The Rose Bar at Gramercy Park Hotel has been an exclusive celebrity hang-out. This we know from way back when Ian Schrager had his minions ban Paris Hilton and "her ilk".
That said, plenty of other young blonde celebs are allowed to hang there, like the Olsen twins who are practically VIPs.
And we're noticing a strange new trend of older men making out with such PYTs at the Rose Bar. For instance, last week Ashley Olsen was seen making out with Lance Armstrong. Now, this week there are reports of Owen Wilson "getting cozy" with Jessica Simpson over the weekend.
Ok so Lance and Owen aren't really old men (Lance just finished the NYC marathon in under 3 hours yesterday) but still, these guys were licensed drivers in the 1980s while Ashley and Jessica weren't even potty-trained. Who's next? Leonardo Di Caprio and Hilary Duff?
We say grizzled Liza Minelli should turn this trend around and bring Zac Efron in there for a make-out session.
If Ian Schrager and his minions have decided that Paris Hilton and her ilk are not welcome at the hip Rose Bar inside the 
