It's a rare event when Page Six issues a correction — which means when they do, it's handed down from the top. Or Steve Rubenstein.

So today's item, which backtracks on a report that Darren Star stole the idea for his Cashmere Mafia from ex-friend Candace Bushnell's Lipstick Jungle, should be cause for suspicion.

P6 says their March 25, 2008, item is the one they're retracting, but in fact it was their original item, on April 30, 2007, that claimed Star stole the concept and pitched it to ABC while Candace was bunking at his house; now the Post says ABC approached Star directly. "The two shows were conceived independently," they insist. (It was that first item, last year, that also claimed the 13-year friendship between the two had gone sour after the backhanded dealings.)

Which begs the question: Just who threatened what against the Post to score this event?

Read P6's original item in full below.

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The war between former BFFs Darren Star and Candace Bushnell may have come to an end, at least to declare a winner in their similarly scripted series. Bushnell is set to wear the crown, with her Lipstick Jungle on NBC having new episodes ordered, while Darren Star's Cashmere Mafia looks all but dead on ABC, though a spokesperson denies any decision has been made. The decision comes down to ratings: Lipstick commanded around 7.5m viewers, while Cashmere pulled in just 5.5m.

So why did one win out over the other, when they're basically the same plot? Maybe it's because the girls in Cashmere went to, ahem, Cielo.

"Yisgadal v'yitkadash" is just about the most awesome description of ABC's Cashmere Mafia we've heard so far. Too bad it's the Jewish prayer for the dead, and is being said in top Hollywood circles regarding the show's future. Snagging 5.7 million to Lipstick Jungle's 6.4 million on NBC, we're a bit worried we made the wrong post-Sex and the City TiVo-based investment.