Unaware of the happenings that took over the entire Beach and bewildered as to why the city streets looked more like the crowded VIP room at Privé, my newly blonde friend declined to entertain me for the evening. The lovely lady opted instead for a night of sexy debaucheries at Suite.

Normally, I’d be heartbroken, but I’ve been known to shout out “Fuck art, let’s dance” many times during Art Basel. So, who am I to judge if she wants a sleepless night fueled by liquor and cocaine instead of sculptures, art and psychedelic color schemes? Hmmm, I’ll bet she’d have come if I’d have gotten hold of some good hippie acid. Of course that’s next to impossible ever since William L. Pickard, the Harvard-educated organic chemist, and Clyde Apperson got sent to jail and 95 percent of all LSD disappeared with them.

All you can Curran

Anyway, I’m pretty sure I wasn’t hallucinating when I saw the home at 248 Washington, the Fish Cyclone as it’s often referred to, morph into a private underground bash that put all the other Halloween shindigs to ghoulish shame. Robert Curran, the acclaimed fashion photographer, opened his home for an all-you-could-drink mega party that encompassed a few floors and culminated with a rooftop vista. The only bad thing about the party is that it ended before 1 a.m., leaving the party people spilling out onto the rainy streets and into Privé. That’s where Vanessa Menkes, vice president of communications, is employed. I only bring it up because she wants me to let everybody know that it was actually Lesley Abravanel who said she had never heard the rumor that the Opium Group was interested in purchasing B.E.D., and that she is not a mentirosa. (She just doesn’t always tell the whole truth.)

The rumor mill

The whole truth is exactly what I promised you last week regarding yet another acquisition by the Opium Group in its never-ending bid to conquer clubland and then the world. Well, I’m not done teasing you yet, but here’s a clue: It’s not B.E.D., but the Opium Group has already lost a bid to buy it out. Now, it seems they are going to get another go at it. Any guesses?

Posing for Posen

On Tuesday, The 411 headed over to Fisher Island, where Fifth Avenue and Zac Posen along with Lea Black, Sarah Bromley, Ingrid Casares, Tutti Irizarry, Loretta Mattos and Michelle Rubell were about to kick off a spectacular soiree at the Vanderbilt Mansion to promote Posen’s spring and summer ’08 collections. Grey Goose will provide the booze and Mokaї maniac DJ Ross One will throw down the grooves as the models shake their assets for some of Miami’s elite and me, of course. A spot in Gen Art’s 2001 Fresh Faces in Fashion Show put the Brooklyn-born Posen on the fast track, which is exactly where I’d be if I could meet a freakin' deadline for once.

Spotted:

She’s not as hot as her sister, but Ashlee Simpson was seen with Pete Wentz at Cameo on Wednesday night.

Mickey Rourke in the middle of a catfight at Mokaї, where some woman who felt scorned by El Marielito and his date went up to the actor and bit him on the face. The woman was escorted from the premises by security.

Gabrielle Union, Michelle Pooch and Mark Tamis all celebrated birthdays on the Tuesday before last (Oct. 30) at the Delano, where the Sugar Hill Gang wished them all a happy birthday with a special performance.