Is New York City over? Hard-core New Yorker Lena Dunham appears to be the latest obnoxious celebrity to try her luck on the West Coast. The creator, writer and star of the HBO TV series "Girls'' is doing for four young, slutty, self-absorbed and white female characters who live in Brooklyn what the series "Sex and the City'' did for four middle-aged, slutty, self-absorbed and white middle-aged female characters who lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
But now, Dunham has done the unthinkable.
The pleasantly plump portrayer of aspiring writer Hannah Horvath, known for her habit of appearing naked on TV, has bought a sweet, swanky house in Los Angeles. Actress Michelle Williams has already replaced snowbanks with mudslides, leaving Brooklyn for LA with her daughter by her boyfriend, the late actor Heath Ledger. Brooklyn-bred rapper Jay Z and his songstress wife, Beyoncé, shockingly decamped from Manhattan with their daughter, choosing to spend their lives in the land of smog, face-lifts and hybrid SUVs.
But the latest possible defection is all the more surprising because the tattooed Dunham, 28, last year told Vogue magazine that Tinseltown is not her cup of kale.
"I like Los Angeles,'' she told the mag, "but more than two weeks and I start to get a very sad feeling. If I do start to feel at home here, someone should really worry about me." Maybe it's time to worry.
Or not.
Dunham, who spends several weeks in Los Angeles each year to work on her show, has bought a $2.7 million, 2,500-square-foot crib off LA's Sunset Strip that once sheltered the late producer, TV actor and "Breakfast at Tiffany's'' movie star George Peppard Jr.
It boasts three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a guest house, gardens, a saltwater swimming pool and the kind of hedge-guarded privacy that one can't find in Brooklyn Heights, where Dunham has lived since December in a more than $4.8 million four-bedroom condominium apartment with her rocker boyfriend, Jack Antonoff, 30. She also owns a $500,000, one-bedroom pad in the Heights.
Maybe Dunham wants to hide amid the tar pits. In her 2014 best-selling memoir, "Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's 'Learned,' '' Dunham wrote that when she was "a weird 7-year-old'' growing up on Long Island, she spread open the vagina of her then-1-year-old sister, Grace, with her fingers and masturbated while lying in bed with her sibling as a young teen. She also confessed to bribing the child to win a five-second kiss on the lips.
"Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying," she wrote.
After TruthRevolt.org posted a story accusing Dunham of being a sex abuser, her lawyers threatened the conservative Web site with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit if it didn't remove the piece from cyberspace and issue a public apology. It refused. Dunham has not sued.
She issued a statement to Time magazine in which she apologized if "situations described in my book have been painful or triggering to read.''
"I want to be very clear that I do not condone any kind of abuse under any circumstance,'' she wrote. "I am also aware that the comic use of the term 'sexual predator' was insensitive, and I'm sorry for that as well.''
In the memoir, for which Dunham was paid a cool $3.7 million advance by publisher Random House, she also claimed that she was sexually assaulted by a prominent Republican student named "Barry'' in 2005 when she was 19 years old and attending Oberlin College in Ohio. But after a prominent Republican former Oberlin College student named Barry raised money with the intention of suing, Random House issued a statement:
"The name 'Barry' referenced in the book is a pseudonym. Random House, on our own behalf and on behalf of our author, regrets the confusion.''
Dunham's rep told me in an e-mail, "Lena does go back and forth between NY and LA but considers NY her home.'' And, "Lena will be updating the book for the paperback this summer. We don't know the content of what those updates will be.''
Is New York over? Or are New Yorkers done with entitled, spoiled brats?
Enjoy LA, Lena Dunham. And please, stay there.
Bibi shows Bam how it's done
Bibi said what President Obama will not. "The greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons,'' Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, told a joint session of Congress on Tuesday in a masterful speech.
The president believes he can negotiate with Iran to halt its nuclear program, while refusing to even utter the words "Islam'' and "militant'' in the same sentence. With or without this country's help, Israel will fight to prevent itself from being wiped off the map.
Little miss camelout
"I am a Kennedy. Google me. If you don't let me in, the governor will be calling.''
These fighting words were allegedly uttered by Kyra Kennedy, 19, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the late Mary Richardson Kennedy and a grandniece of slain President John F. Kennedy,
Emily Smith of The Post's Page Six reported.
Witnesses said the underage debutante appeared drunk as she was refused entry by a security guard to an over-21 area of an upstate New York nightclub last week armed with her older half-sister's passport as identification while on a road trip with pals to a party at Syracuse University.
Does the world revolve around some members of the Kennedy clan?
They seem to think so.
Hoping Cindy is the real deal
A photograph recently emerged of supermodel Cindy Crawford, a 49-year-old married mother of two, wearing a bra and panties with her naked midsection seemingly marred by stretch marks and her thighs looking thicker than we've ever seen them. Women everywhere cheered.
But was the photo, tweeted out last month by a British journalist, then taken down, real?
Celebrity photographer John Russo, who shot Crawford for the December 2013 cover and a spread in Marie Claire Mexico magazine, gave a statement to ABC News saying that the image was stolen or unlawfully accessed, then altered and distributed to the media.
Crawford and the magazine did not comment on Photogate.
She looked like a real person.
Most likely to secede
More than a dozen towns in upstate New York are threatening to try to secede from the state and become part of Pennsylvania. This, after Gov. Cuomo yielded to wrongheaded environmentalists in December and banned hydraulic fracturing — "fracking'' — in New York, a method of removing natural gas from the ground which could bring jobs and money to impoverished communities.
Fracking is legal in the Keystone State.
In order to secede, the towns need approval from the New York and Pennsylvania legislatures, as well as from the federal government.
I hope they get it.
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