• Warren Buffet donates the largest amount ever given to a charitable cause by a single human being: $37 billion to a philanthropic foundation started by Bill Gates. Buffet still has $7 billion left over to live on.
• That’s ‘ot. Paris Hilton and James Blunt do dinner together at London’s Cuckoo Club.
• Kids get carded. All Belgian children under 12 will carry electronic ID cards to track them if they go missing.
• We’ll always have Harlem. A portion of 103rd Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been renamed Humphrey Bogart Place.
• The dead zone: TV’s 83-year-old superproducer Aaron Spelling died in his enormous mansion Friday from complications brought on by a stroke that was not as mild as initially reported when it occurred last Sunday. “I am grateful that I recently had the opportunity to reconcile with my father,” said Tori in a statement, “and most grateful we had the chance to tell each other we loved one another before he passed away.”
• Kevin Richardson leaves his “little brothers” in Backstreet Boys to “pursue other interests.” We had no idea there still was a Backstreet Boys.
• The dead zone pt 2: Patsy Ramsey, mother of slain six-year-old beauty-pageant contestant JonBenet, died Saturday of ovarian cancer in Atlanta. She was 49.
• Marcia Cross marries her stockbroker.
• Yes, they really want to hurt him. Boy George is due to appear today before an angry Manhattan judge to satisfy the court’s demand for the $1,000 fine and five days of community service that was his sentence for falsely reporting a burglary last year. George had hoped to put on a fashion show as payment.
• The dead zone pt 3: E Pierce Marshall, who took Anna Nicole Smith to court again and again to prevent her from getting the multimillions his daddy J Howard Marshall promised her before he died (you know the story), himself died unexpectedly Tuesday from a “brief and extremely aggressive infection.” Interesting. He was 67.