Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

Dylan Lauren celebrated the re-launch of Dylan's Candy Bar on Monday night with a bash at her Third Avenue store. In addition to siblings Andrew and David and mom Ricky, guests included Woody Allen and Soon-Yi (with their kids), Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and wife Vanessa Trump, Lauren Bush, Dan Abrams, Olivia Palermo, Katie Lee Joel, Rachel Roy, Fabiola Beracasa, Stacey Bendet, Eric Villency, Jamee Gregory, Bettina Zilkha, Amy Sacco, Thom Filicia, Dori Cooperman, Ingrid Sischy, Dave Zinczenko, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Karen Duffy, Kira Plastinina, Jason Biggs, Tyson Beckford, and fraudster Tatiana Boncompagni. [PMc, NYO, Wireimage, GoaG]More

Spottings | Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise boarding a helicopter ... Ed Westwick and Blake Lively shooting a Gossip Girl scene in Brooklyn Heights ... Lipstick Jungle star Paul Blackthorne riding a bike in the Village ... Kristen Johnson walking through the meatpacking district ... Al Pacino eating lunch in the Village ... Tim Robbins playing roller hockey in Greenwich Village ... Cynthia Nixon chatting on her cell phone in the Hamptons ... Sam Waterston posing with his son James outside a Broadway theater ... Liv Tyler leaving her apartment in the West Village ... and Keri Russell taking a jog in the rain.

• Meet the heavyweight political donors who live at River House.
• Have you looked inside Natalie Portman's apartment?
• Henry Kravis gave $5 million to charity last year. And he's still smiling despite the economy.
  
• Have you called George Whipple, Tom Colicchio, Jon Tisch, Cynthia Nixon, and Nathan Lane recently? We did.
  
• Jason Pomeranc's hotel has been delayed many times. But he's had other things on his mind.
• Have you heard about the Manhattan doctor who spent $10,000 on his dog's bark mitzvah?
• Meet Devorah Rose, New York's most relentless social climber.
  
• Nancy Jarecki's rather unusual new ad campaign.

Voicemail at the apartment of Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni.

Previously: Jonathan Tisch, Nathan Lane, Hamish Bowles, Victoria Gotti,  John Leguizamo, Carl and Gail Icahn, James Lipton, Dylan Lauren, Andre Balazs, Atoosa Rubenstein, Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler, Lewis Black, Katie Couric, and Tinsley Mortimer.

• A judge has decided to keep Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook's divorce case open, and Diana Bianchi, the teenager Peter cheated on Christie with, says she's willing to testify if need be. [NYDN]
• Jennifer Lopez didn't behave like her modest, low-key self at the Catherine Malandrino store on Long Island last week. She wanted the store to be shut down so she could shop alone and one of her (armed) bodyguards demanded the diva get a 50 percent discount. And she left without buying a thing. [Page Six]
• Cynthia Nixon is pissed about rumors last week that she had breast augmentation surgery. Turns out the breast cancer survivor was at the hospital for a three-month checkup with her oncologist. [Rush & Molloy]
• Katie Couric is wanted! Not really, but the New York Department of Taxation wants to get its hands on her for the $210 she owes from 2003. [NYDN]

1) At the Harold Pratt House, the New Yorkers For Children Fall Gala was previewed with a Tuesday night gathering of Campion Platt, Andre Leon Talley, Jeffrey Kalinsky, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Dayssi Olarte De Kanavos, Douglas Hannant, Kate Schelter, Katie Lee Joel, Derek Blasberg, Debbie Bancroft, Joy Bryant, Daniel Benedict and Andrew Saffir, Annelise Peterson, Jamee Gregory, Fern Mallis, Jennifer Creel, Fabiola Beracasa, Oscar De La Renta, Thakoon Panichgul, Tom Florio, Zac Posen, Zani Gugelmann, Lauren Santo Domingo, Phillip Lim, Heather Mnuchin, and Peter Som. [Guest of a Guest]

2) Many of the above then headed down to Chelsea, where the fashion crowd embraced their new style icon Michelle Obama at a cocktail party and dinner fundraiser organized by Vogue and Calvin Klein.

• More dirt today about Anne Hathaway's breakup with Raffaello Follieri: She's living at the Gramercy Park Hotel while he's staying in a rental in Trump Tower. Evidence that this might be a PR stunt for her new movie: the exes may have met up for dinner at Cipriani last night. [Page Six]
• They're already battling over child support, but now 50 Cent is suing ex-girlfriend (and mother of his son) Shaniqua Thompson for defamation, after she told reporters that he set her Long Island house on fire. This is going to get ugly. [Rush & Molloy]
• Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon may have both had minor surgeries in the last two weeks. Kristin apparently had varicose veins removed on her legs, and Cynthia underwent breast augmentation. [Page Six]
• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie still have twins on the way, but they're already planning their next adoption as soon as the babies are born. At what point does this become weird? [MSNBC]

So the gays are officially marrying each other in California. And there are a few celebrities sprinkled in among the hordes of couples now rushing to the altar: George "Mr. Sulu" Takei of Star Trek married his partner Brat Altman today, and Ellen DeGeneres says she plans to marry her longtime girlfriend, Portia De Rossi, later this month. But what about here in New York? Which locals are going to take advantage of David Paterson's recent decision to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and fly out West to pick up a marriage license of their own? More

• Was she depressed or just drunk? Months after Kirsten Dunst returned from rehab, she's now telling people she never suffered from alcoholism at all, and instead checked in to treat depression. Whatever you say. [Us Weekly]
• Shocker! Jack Nicholson may have once gone to a brothel in Germany. [Page Six] 
• Sean Avery was spotted wearing a Phillip Lim jacket in East Hampton. A gift from Anna maybe? [Rush & Molloy]
  
• TV-lawyer Dylan McDermott doesn't need an attorney for his divorce case—he's representing himself. [Page Six] 
• Sex and the City premiered in New York last night. Sarah Jessica Parker wore Nina Ricci, Kim Cattrall wore Vivienne Westwood, Cynthia Nixon wore Narciso Rodriguez, and Kristin Davis wore Donna Karan. [NY Post]
• The fallout from Naomi Campbell's Heathrow freakout isn't over yet. She's set to return to the airport's police station to be formally charged sometime this week. [MSNBC]