Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Revlon Chief Ronald Perelman Missed His Own Hamptons Apollo Event with Sting, Bon Jovi, Pharrell, A List Celebs

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Where was Ronald Perelman last night?

The owner and chairman of Revlon was mysteriously absent Saturday night from the annual fundraiser he hosts for the Apollo Theater. Perelman very often “plays drums” with the Roots, the house band. Last night’s performers included Sting with Shaggy, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Chaka Khan, Pharrell Williams, Mavis Staples, Jamie Foxx, and, of course, Jon Bon Jovi.

There were plenty of A list celebrities (Jimmy Fallon, Robert Downey Jr., Christie Brinkley) at the show, which takes place at Perelman’s massive property called The Creeks, in Wainscott, the village between East Hampton and Bridgehampton.

But there was no sign of Perelman himself, who never misses the event. As one reveler put it, “he’d have to have been pretty sick to miss this.”

So what happened? Perelman’s spokesman tells me that he came down with a bacterial infection on Friday and had a temperature of 103. He spent the night in Cornell Medical Center, New York Hospital. “He’s home now and doing much better,” says the rep.

 

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
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