Las Vegas Weekly

August 20, 2008 · 4:41 PM

Cher drops in on Clinton’s birthday bash

By Robin Leach

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, according to the old expression, so who would have guessed that Caesars Palace headliner Cher would team with Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens to celebrate former President Bill Clinton’s birthday?

Our Nevada Senator Harry Reid joined the unlikely dinner group at starchef Tom Colicchio’s Craftsteak restaurant inside the MGM Grand for Clinton’s 62nd birthday celebration.

I’ve probed and prodded to get full intimate details of their summit -- but

regret to inform I can’t even tell you if Cher sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President”’ a la Monroe! I can’t even advise if Cher sat beside the President in the absence of Sen. Hillary Clinton out campaigning on the “Obama for President” trail.

What I do know is that oil-baron T. Boone did further amplify all of his proposed wind and solar power ideas to solve the energy crisis -– and that Cher and he had an animated positive dialog about it. Maybe she’ll do his next set of revealing TV commercials boosting the cause?

But, oh to be a fly on the wall of that dinner group. I could have filled Luxe Life columns for a week!

Photo: Wicked Creative

Holly Madison, best known as Hugh Hefner's No. 1 girlfriend on E! Entertainment's hit reality series "The Girls Next Door," was at Cathouse in the Luxor.

STAR SURVEILLANCE: Meanwhile elsewhere on the Strip, actor Danny Glover enjoyed dinner at Strip House inside the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino … TV personality and model Holly Madison, best known as Hugh Hefner's number one girlfriend on E! Entertainment’s hit reality series The Girls Next Door, was at the CatHouse ultra lounge in the Luxor where she became “new friends” with the scantily-clad dancers of the CatHouse Coquettes ... hometown hero, R&B superstar Ne-Yo filmed the music video for the New Kids on the Block new single, titled “Single” at the Jet nightclub in the Mirage. When filming ended he returned to the club to party and was greeted with Jet’s sexy dancers lining his banquette as his own new single “Closer” was played.

Photo: Light Group

After filming the music video for New Kids on the Block's new single, titled "Single," Ne-Yo returned to Jet in The Mirage to party.

Photo: Light Group

Ne-Yo.

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