
What's that we hear? More scandal coming out of Wenner Media's walls?
The house that Rolling Stone built might be tidying itself up and begging staffers for Hurricane Katrina donations, but that's going to do little to dam the coming waterfall of borderline slander oozing from 1290 Sixth.
We're told a Wenner staffer just put the finishing touches on a South Beach tell-all, with notorious negotiators The Firm already repping the scribe and shopping it around to publishers (and film studios).
The "fictional" roman a clef Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves: The Memoirs of a South Beach Party Girl is going to name drop SoBe's boldface names, from Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Todd Oldham to Chris Ciccone, Niki Taylor, Patricia Field and Diddy — with the drug-fused, sex-laden tales to match.
We've got nightclub impresario Chris Paciello caught in a compromising poolside position with Jennifer Lopez at the Delano along with Candace Bushnell parading naked with a local party boy.
Anna Wintour's reaction to The Devil Wears Prada should pale in comparison to the seething that's sure to infiltrate the SoBe set.
Oh, plus there's the coming-of-age tale of the Wenner writing narrator, from her befriending of an heiress to her eventual New York (and Jann Wenner office) arrival. And with the fat book deal (we're hearing a six-figure sum is on the horizon), this Wenner staffer might wave goodbye to her desk — and leave it a mess just to spite Jann.
(In the interest of maintaining a smidge of journalistic integrity, we placed a call to Jann Wenner's office. Thus far, "No comment." For now.)
