Las Vegas Weekly

November 25, 2008 · 9:15 AM

Jamie Foxx promotes new album with back-to-back parties at Tao and Lavo

By Robin Leach

Look, kid! It's The Jamie Foxx Show!

Photo: Hew Burney

Oscar-winning actor-singer Jamie Foxx discovered a new way to party during his most recent Las Vegas visit: bounce back and forth between sister nightclubs Tao and Lavo nightclubs at The Venetian and the Palazzo, respectively. He jumped between the two hotspots so much that it was difficult to track down where he started and where he wound up!

But this Ray and Dreamgirls movie star-singer sure knows how to party and get the ladies all over him. At one point, he simply picked up a security guard’s flashlight to shine it on the dance floor and pick out the girls he wanted by his side!

At Lavo in the Palazzo, Jamie kept on his diamond-studded sunglasses and a black scarf, and his all-male entourage followed him to a couch where he danced and sang along with DJ Five’s playlist. When Bell Biv Devoe’s “Poison” blasted across the club’s sound system, the all-guy group broke into an orchestrated routine on the dance floor.

Over at Tao in The Venetian, Jamie’s crew had grown to 30 people for his arrival there. He grabbed the club’s mic and held court standing on the catwalk. First, he reminded the crowd that his new album is released on Dec. 16 -- and then he started singling out ladies from the dance floor using the flashlight.

“There was no shortage of sexy young women who wanted to get up close to him and shake it for him,” said one spy witness.

That ’70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama grabbed another mic, and, for a few moments, he and Jamie battled it out with some beat boxing. Record mogul Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds also was at Tao hosting his brother’s bachelor party in a secluded skybox and watched Jamie’s show on the dance floor.

Also at the two clubs were True Blood and Desperate Housewives actor Mehcad Brooks, Janice Dickinson’s son Nathan, who appears on her reality TV show The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, and, for the second consecutive night, actor Brian Baumgartner of NBC’s The Office, who hit Tao and then Lavo’s outdoor hookah terrace.

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