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Eva Longoria Parker's Expanding Restaurant Empire

The restaurant world may not be having its best season but one celebrity restaurateur is ready to expand. People Magazine reports that Eva Longoria Parker is taking her Beso restaurant concept to Las Veas. Beso Las Vegas will open on New Year's Eve 2010 with an event hosted by Longoria Parker. The exact venue is still under construction but the menu will resemble Beso Hollywood with items like Eva's tortilla soup and chili rubbed skirt steak on the menu.

Longoria Parker and her business partner celebrity chef Todd English (who already has a version of his signature restaurant Olives in Las Vegas) plan to make the Las Vegas version a little different with a variety of specials and drinks and an upstairs lounge called Eve. Las Vegas is a smart move for a burgeoning restaurant chain, Although tourism is down in Las Vegas, the city still brings in hungry tourists looking for a special experience. Tao Las Vegas has topped the list of highest grossing independent restaurants for several years.

Longoria Parker is also planning a series of smaller airport versions called Besitos (little kisses in Spanish). The first one will be in Los Angeles. English can guide her there too, his Bonfire restaurant has outposts in both Boston's Logan Airport and New York City's JFK Airport.

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Montblanc to Auction Celeb Portraits for Charity

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Writing Instruments, Auctions, Art, Charity

Montblanc, makers of fine pens with the famed "snow cap" motif (above), will auction off a series of celebrity portraits to benefit UNICEF in September. On Friday, May 8, they're hosting a benefit at Sotheby's in New York to announce the World Exhibition Tour of the photo project honoring the involvement of 12 great actresses and their efforts to "support UNICEF's fight against inadequate education and illiteracy". Sienna Miller, Eva Longoria, Christina Ricci, Emily Blunt, Marcia Cross, Andie MacDowell, Helen Hunt, Lauren Hutton, Milla Jovovich, Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon and Mira Sorvino are featured in a series of signed portraits by photographer Roger Moenks.

The portraits will be on display from May 6 - 13 at Sotheby's New York before traveling to London and then Los Angeles where they'll be auctioned off to benefit at a charity gala dinner on September 8th, International Literacy Day. Based on an original concept by Signature International, a cultural and artistic charitable initiative, each actress was photographed "portraying her favorite literary heroine in celebration of the art of writing." Each portrait will be presented to the winning bidder accompanied by a limited edition Montblanc writing instrument covered in the finest diamonds and sapphires.

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Tags: celebrity, diamonds, Eva Longoria, EvaLongoria, Lauren Hutton, LaurenHutton, Marcia Cross, MarciaCross, Montblanc, photography, Sothebys, UNICEF

R�sidence Sup�rieur "Extreme Luxury" Concept

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Journeys, Wheels, Real Estate Developments

Financial whiz turned "lifestyle designer" Richard Nilsson apparently felt that plain old luxury had lost its luster, so he decided to focus on "extreme luxury." When he was running a business empire Nilsson was only able to take one week off per year, so for his first project he came up with the "Résidence Supérieur" concept as an ultimate retreat where vacationing moguls and movie stars could pack as much luxury and privacy into their vacation as possible, cost be damned.

The first RS is the Villa Oxygene in Cannes on the French Riviera. In addition to ultra-luxe surroundings, it includes exotic sports cars, a private jet and helicopter, yacht, butler, chef, bodyguards and basically anything else you could wish for. Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria recently shot an ice cream commercial there, and Nilsson is now planning other equally outrageous outposts. See the gallery for pix.

Gallery: Residence Superieur

The villa's Lamborghini and Wiesmann roadster

Tags: Cannes, Eva Longoria, EvaLongoria, French Riviera, FrenchRiviera, Lamborghini Gallardo, LamborghiniGallardo, Residence Superieur, ResidenceSuperieur, Richard Nilsson, RichardNilsson, Villa Oxygene, VillaOxygene

Eva and Tony's Piaget Wedding Jewelry

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Jewelry, Timepieces, Celebrity Shopping

So Eva Longoria and Tony Parker finally made it official this past weekend when they got married in France. What better way to promise their eternal love to each other than with these beautiful and unique Piaget Possession wedding bands -- made of two bands that are "inseparably linked, turning together for eternity." Eva's features double rows of brilliant cut diamonds divided by a row of 27 square cut diamonds down the center (for a total of 107 jewels), and Tony's is elegance in its simplest form. Both rings are 18k white gold and, per the couple's request, have a personalized French engraving on the inside.

In addition to choosing Piaget for their wedding bands, Eva also ordered a one-of-a-kind timepiece made as a wedding gift for her new husband. A customized version of the Piaget Polo watch, the Piaget 'Number 9' features a 43mm white gold case, a slate grey 18K gold and titanium bezel and matching slate grey dial, and 50 diamonds in the shape of his MVP number 9 -- so it's truly just for him.

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Eva Longoria's Wedding Photos Worth $2 Million

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Events

Most brides just have to worry about who they're going to have take their wedding pictures, but Eva Longoria and fiancé Tony Parker also had to decide who would get the rights to publish them. The biggest bidders for exclusive rights to wedding coverage were People magazine and OK!, with OK! coming out on top by offering $2 million dollars.

The wedding is planned for this weekend, July 7th, in a castle just outside of Paris. I wonder how much Eva and Tony are paying for their own personal wedding photos? Think $2 million will cover it?

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Eva And Todd's Plans To Heat Things Up

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining, Celebrity Shopping

It's a big week for celebrities in the restaurant business. First we had Danny DeVito in South Beach now comes news that Eva Longora is investing in a restaurant in Hollywood, California. And she's partnering up with one of my favorite chefs, Todd English. The restaurant will feature upscale Tex-Mex (Ms. Longoria is from Texas). This makes English and odd choice. He's famed for his rustic Italian food with an emphasis on seafood. But perhaps after the closing of his last restaurant, English Is Italian in New York, he is in need of a change of pace. Eater LA reports that the restaurant will be located on the corner of Ivar and Hollywood and will open in the next few months. I'm there if there is a chance of a Todd English sighting. Yum.

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