Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

♦  Madonna's neighbors in her Central Park West building aren't happy that she has turned her seventh-floor apartment into a music studio. (It was originally supposed to be an office for Guy Ritchie.) Now she stays up all night blaring music and practicing for her shows. [NYDN]
♦  Alex Rodriguez is thinking of following Madonna on tour next month when she plans to make stops in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. [R&M]
♦  Is Jennifer Aniston secretly leaking pregnancy and marriage rumors about herself to the tabloids as a way to steal attention away from Brangelina? [MSNBC]
♦  Friends of Padma Lakshmi want everyone to know she is not a gold digger. She's a "hard-working, self-made woman" who just happens to only date extremely wealthy, older men. [P6]
♦  Peaches Geldof and Max Drummey's 97-day-old marriage may already be on the rocks. [The Sun]More

♦  Britney Spears went to a Bronx school yesterday to visit some children. Unfortunately, the school was closed for the second day of Rosh Hashanah, so her handlers had to rustle up a bunch of other kids for the photo op. [OK!]
♦  Adnan Ghalib is backtracking on his Britney sex tape story. He now says there never was one to begin with. [MSNBC]
♦  Larry Flynt says his company has already shot a new porn movie starring a Sarah Palin look-alike, although he's not revealing the title yet. [R&M]
♦  Are Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady getting married? [Chicago Sun-Times]
♦  The woman who spotted Heather Locklear's car swerving and dialed 911 was former Us Weekly staffer Jill Ishkanian, who now runs a paparazzi photo agency of her own. [MSNBC]  More

♦  Charges will not be filed against Shia LaBeouf in connection with his car accident in LA in July. He may still lose his license, though, for failing to submit to a blood-alcohol test after the crash. [E!]
♦  Lindsay Lohan is so scared of her dad that she may take out an order of protection against him. [P6]
♦  Last week it was rumored Leonardo DiCaprio and Bar Rafaeli had split up. Now it's rumored they're back together. [OK!] 
♦  Robert De Niro is a giant pain to work with who makes "weird midnight phone calls." Or at least that's what Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino said in a taped phone conversation from 1997 that's just now been leaked. [P6]
♦  Julia Roberts left the Waverly Inn covered up in a pashmina, which means it's time for a fresh round of rumors that she's secretly pregnant. [The Sun]More

• Jennifer Lopez competed in a triathalon in Malibu, then flew to New York to throw Marc Anthony a birthday party at the Bowery Hotel. It's unclear, though, if she ever had an injured foot, which was the reason she gave for pulling out of the Project Runway finale last week and now some are wondering if a fight with Harvey Weinstein over a movie role was the real reason she cancelled. [People, NYDN, MSNBC]
• As if life didn't suck enough for Jeffrey Epstein, the imprisoned money manager: now some of the girls he paid for sex are suing him. [P6]
• Lindsay Lohan isn't a fan of Sarah Palin. Via a post on her MySpace page, she told the VP contender that she could "suck it." [NYDN]
• In other Lindsay news, she punched a paparazzi outside the Bowery Hotel last night because she thought he tried to trip her. [TMZ]
  
• Eliot Spitzer was spotted in Cambridge dropping off daughter Elyssa at Harvard. [R&M]
• Mark Ronson and Daisy Lowe have split up. [Mirror]

• New revelations from the legal battle between The Weinstein Co. and NBC over Project Runway: It turns out that Tim Gunn didn't get paid a dime for his participation during the show's first season (he got paid just $2,500 per episode for the second), Harvey Weinstein hates Bravo chief Lauren Zalaznick, and Bravo didn't send Heidi Klum a respectable thank-you gift, even after the show became a major hit. [R&M]
• What's financier Jeffrey Epstein doing now that he's behind bars? He's using his free time in a Florida jail to email models back in New York and send them chocolates. [Page Six]
• The bartender who was serving Shia LaBeouf the night of his DUI arrest says the actor was pounding shots and acting a bit crazy. But now cops are suggesting he may not have actually caused the car crash, because the other driver ran a red light. [Page Six, People]

• Ashley Dupre's reps, who have been negotiating deals on her behalf, say she's interested in "journalism and lounge singing," and that she "sees herself as a kind of Dr. Phil." Appropriately, the $2 million TV offer she's considering would team her up with the producer to reunited Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher.  [NYP]
• Ivana Trump fell off a banquette at Denise Rich's big party in St. Tropez last week and had to be carried off the boat by husband Rossano Rubicondi. [Page Six]
• Silda and Eliot Spitzer were spotted having dinner last week and "made two seconds of eye contact during dinner." [Page Six]
• Indiana Jones actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested for drunk driving on Sunday. [NYDN]