February 21

Update! 
Geffen & Lingvall Split

Just three weeks ago I posted a blog entry about David Geffen (200th richest man in the world) and his relationship with hot 28-year-old boy toy lover Jeremy Lingvall (shown posing with Geffen at the White House in 2008). I came across a notice this morning that they have split up. Here’s the report:

“After six years of a life he could only dream of, former California college student Jeremy Lingvall has finally split from his partner, billionaire media mogul David Geffen. The pair have parted ways because ‘the relationship had simply run its course’, the New York Post reported. A source also claimed that there was ‘nobody else involved’.”

During their relationship Lingvall accompanied Geffen everywhere, even to the White House. Jeremy attended dozens of A-list celebrity parties he would have never have had access to on his own. But with no civil partnership or other property arrangement, Lingvall will not be entitled to any of Geffen’s riches now that they have split. Lingvall and Geffen began a relationship the year Jeremy graduated from college, 2006. I suppose Lingvall will have to dust off his resume and beef up his gigs as a DJ, often in partnership with Scissor Sisters’ front man Jake Shears; they call themselves Krystal Pepsy. I’m not kidding.

It must have been inevitable. I suppose 28 is a bit long in the tooth to be maintaining boy toy status. Bonus content: two tantalizing trivia tidbits about Geffen (God, I feel like a gossip columnist):

#1: The three-way relationship that is DreamWorks studios was consummated in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House, after a state dinner for Boris Yeltsin in 1994, when Geffen was awakened at one-thirty in the morning by a call from Katzenberg and Spielberg (they had been relegated to DC’s Hay-Adams Hotel for the night), who said to Geffen, "Let's do this." Geffen and Clinton were thick back in those days, and Geffen stayed over many times during Clinton’s presidency. Later, Geffen was to host Clinton at his Malibu compound, also on more than one occasion.

#2: Last year (February 2010) Carly Simon finally revealed that the actual inspiration behind her hit track “You’re So Vain” wasn't a boyfriend at all – it was record producer David Geffen. When she wrote the song in 1972, Geffen was head of her Elektra record label. She was inspired to write the damning lyrics after Geffen put all his time and energy into promoting her rival, Joni Mitchell.

My original post about Geffen and Lingvall (January 30):
http://maletanlines.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-30.html

OK. Enough celebrity gossip. Back to the tan lines.