This afternoon, Diddy and Ciroc Vodka offered Mayor Bloomberg $1 million to change the iconic New Years Eve sphere blue. Diddy and Ciroc will donate the $1 million to a charity benefiting the people of New York in an exchange for turning the sphere blue.

CÎROC Ultra Premium Vodka, the Official Vodka of New Year’s Eve, and Sean “Diddy” Combs have made an unprecedented offer to the City of New York: the brand and the hip-hop mogul plan to donate $1 million to a charity on behalf of the city in exchange for a New Year’s Eve ball takeover.

The brand has already secured an enormous presence in Times Square this holiday season with its impressive billboards, but in true Diddy fashion, the plan doesn’t stop there. The vodka brand wants to change the historic crystal ball to reflect its iconic blue sphere. The color of the sphere originates from a unique plant that grows in the Gaillac region of France, where CÎROC is still produced, and serves as a symbol of prosperity for the area even today.

“As the ‘Official Vodka of New Year’s Eve,’ it’s only fitting that we take over New York, the most iconic New Year’s city in the world,” said Combs, who entered into a strategic marketing alliance with the ultra-premium spirit more than one year ago. “I’m going to give every adult in America a taste of what it’s like to enjoy a sophisticated celebration with Diddy, and what better time than while ringing in the New Year.”

Consumers should also stay tuned for a soon-to-be-announced campaign this holiday season that will focus on one of the most important aspects of sophisticated celebration—responsibility.

For more information, visit http://cirocvodka.com.

While Lindsay has been taking to her MySpace blog to vent about her troubled life, Dina is living it up. The “Mother of the Year” - who constantly claims she doesn’t go out to nightclubs with her kids - took her just-turned-21 son, Michael, to 1Oak the other night to celebrate his being of legal drinking age. But unlike her old days of clubbing with Lindsay, the mom of four left the bash early. One partygoer told us, “Michael had a low-key night.”

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THERE was a sad twist at the private memorial service for Mark Ruffalo’s kid brother. The family gathering for hairdresser Scott Ruffalo, 39, was held in Los Angeles without his remains because the coroner had to keep the body longer than usual for the ongoing police investigation, sources tell The Post’s David Finnegan. Scott’s body was finally released this week and cremated. He was shot in the back of the head in his Beverly Hills apartment in what cops are probing as a homicide.

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Introducing Bronx Mowgli Wentz!

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz debuted the first photo of their 1-month-old son on his Web site on Christmas day.

“Happy Holidays to all of our friends! Love Pete, Ashlee and Bronx,” the holiday e-card reads.

“We decided to share the best gift we could ever receive with you: Bronx Mowgli Wentz. We couldn’t be happier. And in the spirit of the holidays, we’d like to encourage you to give on your own,” the couple writes. “Below is a list of worthwhile charities that need your support: TheIRC.com, RoomToGrow.org and RichieMaddenFoundation.com.”

Wentz blogged earlier this month that “like every celeb couple, we were offered mounds and mounds of money by mags, from here to Guam, to pimp out the baby. We just don’t want to go down that road with him.

“We are not placing judgment on those that do, as they often use the money in a very charitable way,” he said. “However, we have made the decision to not sell Bronx’s baby pictures right now.”

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Kendra Wilkinson and NFL wide receiver Hank Baskett will wed June 27 at the Playboy Mansion.

The Girl Next Door revealed she planned the date around Baskett’s football season with the Philadelphia Eagles.

“He’s going to come out here,” she told Robin Leach at the Las Vegas launch of The Girls Next Door book. “We can’t have a wedding anywhere else because my grandma can’t fly. So I’m waiting for him to come out here and help me plan. I’m ready to just get married.”

“I love football, but I never thought I would marry a football player,” she told Leach’s Las Vegas blog. “We all have our perfect match, I have.”

Meanwhile, it seems Wilkinson, 23, is having second thoughts about whether or not she wants Playboy mogul ex boyfriend Hugh Hefner, 82, to walk her down the aisle.

“I think so, but I don’t know yet…it’s so weird,” she told Leach.

Hefner has admitted he’s been thinking twice about letting his ex Kendra Wilkinson get away.

“There may be a moment at the ceremony when I have second thoughts…may have to negotiate this,” Hefner told E! earlier this month.

(Although he must not be too torn up over losing Wilkinson: “Nothing has been the same” since the “two very lovely twins [Karissa and Kristina Shannon, 19] walked into my life,” he said.)

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There’s 50 and fabulous. And then there’s Donatella Versace.

The fashion designer, once famed for her curves, appeared tired and gaunt as she strolled along a beach in the Caribbean.

The 53-year-old, who is spending the Christmas period in an exclusive resort on St Barts, has previously admitted to having cosmetic surgery to stave off the signs of ageing.

But yesterday onlookers claimed it was likely that the mother of two’s love of sunbathing will prove her undoing.

The habit has taken a heavy toll on her skin, which appears to be deeply wrinkled and loose on her emaciated frame.
She has also desperately clung to her long platinum blonde hair despite it making her appear much older.

Miss Versace, who is worth £500million, battled a cocaine and alcohol addiction for more than a decade, and was forced into rehab four years ago.
She said at the time: ‘I did it for myself, first. You can’t do it for another reason. I knew I was hurting people.
‘And if I wasn’t functioning, nothing around me was functioning - I was aware of that.’

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