Tony who? He may be a foreign dignitary, but in celebrity-saturated Miami Beach, Blair is barely a boldface name.
Dec. 30, 2006
On the Miami Beach celebrity scale of J.Lo to your Aunt Hadassah at the Hebrew Home, British Prime Minister Tony Blair ranks somewhere around that homeless guy on Lincoln Road who wears a Santa suit all year round.
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For starters, there are the accommodations: a three-story, 10,000-square-foot mansion worth at least $11 million.
Actually, it's not the accommodations but the hosts who seem to be the issue: Robin Gibb and his wife of 21 years, novelist-poet-artist Dwina Murphy-Gibb.
The Gibbs, big supporters of Blair's Labor Party, have a notoriously open, omnisexual marriage. ''We like to cruise and we like to watch,'' Robin Gibb has said in interviews, just the sort of comment that caused London's Daily Mail to harrumph on Thursday: ''Shameless! Blair's freebie holiday at Bee Gee mansion,'' and ``House of decadence where JFK took his mistresses!''
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''Downing Street insisted that the Blairs were paying their way, while Mrs. Gibb, a bisexual Druid priestess from Northern Ireland, undermined their defence
by insisting that no money was changing hands,'' The Times reported. ' `It's a friendly arrangement,' she told one newspaper.''
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You know, you just can't make this stuff up.