Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

Jim McGreevey: Five Years Later | It was five years ago yesterday that Jim McGreevey announced he was "a gay American," and said he was resigning as New Jersey's governor. What's he up to now? He's studying divinity and spends free time volunteering at a church in Harlem, and he tells the Star-Ledger that he's made peace with the past. ("I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.") Also, as you probably could have guessed, he had a pretty good idea for how Eliot Spitzer was feeling during his sex scandal last March: "I felt pain for his family, and I prayed for his family, and I knew that he would once again discover productive service as he has. He's an incredibly bright, capable individual and he will continue to serve in different ways." [NJ.com via Gothamist]

Happy Birthday | Josh Schwartz, the man responsible for bringing you The OC and Gossip Girl, turns 33 today. Jim McGreevey, the man responsible for bringing New Jersey its most embarrassing political scandal—up until two weeks ago, that is—turns 52. Director M. Night Shyamalan is turning 39. Karenna Gore Schiff, the novelist daughter of Al and Tipper Gore, is turning 36. Publishing exec Jamie Raab is 56. American Express' marketing chief, John Hayes, is turning 55. Victoria's Secret model Marisa Miller is 31. Actress Melissa George is turning 33. Reality TV star Adrianne Curry is 27. Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is turning 37. And Soleil Moon Frye, who will always be Punky Brewster to you and me, celebrates her 33rd birthday today.

• Hope you're ready to go through it all over again: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis have all agreed to participate in a Sex and the City movie sequel. [Us]
• Graydon Carter should really consider writing a nutrition cookbook: It seems Madonna's secret to eternal youth is the salmon with lentils at the Waverly Inn. [L&S]
• Still more drama from the inaugural festivities in DC earlier this week: Chris Matthews got pissed about having to wait on line, Sharon Stone was annoyed she had to co-host a segment on CNN with D.L. Hughley, and Halle Berry went into panic mode after her dress got caught in an escalator. [P6]
• Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted on a flight doing yoga in the aisle recently. Is this becoming a trend? [Star]
• Charges against Mathias Guerrand-Hermès have been dropped. [NYDN] More

• Gordon Ramsay says he's partnering with Victoria Beckham to open a restaurant in LA. Yes, a restaurant. Whether she'll actually taste any of the food served there is anybody's guess. [P6]
• Kirsten Dunst tells Harper's Bazaar that the real reason she went into rehab earlier this year was because of depression, and because she's "enormously co-dependent." [People]
• Mariah Carey's former record producer is writing a book about their four-year relationship although Carey's lawyers are hoping to put a stop to it. [P6]
• Behind the scenes video from Ellen DeGeneres's wedding to Portia de Rossi. [NYDN]
  

Dina's Fight Comes to an End | Dina Matos probably isn't smiling right now: a divorce court judge ruled this afternoon that she is not entitled to alimony from her ex, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey. Dina had asked for $1 million in the suit. She'll end up getting $109,295 as well as $1,075 a month in child support for their daughter, Jacqueline. It's a nice belated birthday present for Jim, who turned 51 the day before yesterday. Dina can take comfort that thanks to the sexual embarrassment of another politician, her humiliation won't dominate the nightly news tonight. [NYT, NYP]

Happy Birthday | New Jersey's former governor—and gay American—Jim McGreevey turns 51 today. Also celebrating: The man who brought Gossip Girl to TV, Josh Schwartz, turns 32. Publishing queen Jamie Raab turns 55. Creepy director M. Night Shyamalan is 38. The man to blame for all those celebrity-laden American Express commercials, Amex marketing chief John Hayes, is 54. Reality "star" Adrianne Curry, who you probably fondly remember from America's Next Top Model and My Fair Brady, is 26. And former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is 36.

• Mary-Kate Olsen is the last person federal investigators want to question before they close the Heath Ledger case. But the 4-foot-11, 90-pounder is refusing to talk unless she's granted immunity from prosecution. [NYP] 
• Tyra Banks is undergoing a makeover to look like Michelle Obama for the September cover of Harper's Bazaar. [Page Six]
• Christina Applegate has been diagnosed with breast cancer, although her reps say it was caught early enough so it's not life threatening. [NYDN]
• What a shame: Paris Hilton is refusing to endorse a presidential candidate. [Page Six]

So the gays are officially marrying each other in California. And there are a few celebrities sprinkled in among the hordes of couples now rushing to the altar: George "Mr. Sulu" Takei of Star Trek married his partner Brat Altman today, and Ellen DeGeneres says she plans to marry her longtime girlfriend, Portia De Rossi, later this month. But what about here in New York? Which locals are going to take advantage of David Paterson's recent decision to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and fly out West to pick up a marriage license of their own? More

Poor Dina Matos McGreevey. Since her split from "gay American" Jim McGreevey, New Jersey's former first lady has gone from buying designer duds at Neiman Marcus to shopping the sales rack at T.J. Maxx and the Gap. And not only has Dina had to give up her private chef and security detail, she says she now has to do her laundry at her parents' house because she can't afford a washer and dryer, and their six-year-old has to sleep in a baby crib because Dina didn't have the scratch to buy a bed. Looks like Les Miserables has been revived in Springfield, NJ! Things are going to get even tougher this week when Dina loses her job as an administrator because the hospital she works at is shutting down. But she's hoping a judge feels her pains and awards her the $51,000 a month she's been seeking as part of a divorce settlement. Who knows, by the end of summer, she might finally be able to pick up some bedsheets so poor little Jacqueline Matos McGreevey doesn't have to sleep on a bare mattress.

• Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey had a messy day in court yesterday. He's in debt to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars thanks to legal fees and alimony payments. Plus, he's got to pay his partner, Mark O'Donnell (who works for billionaire developer Charles Kushner) $3,000 a month in rent. True love! [NJ.com]
• Desperate publicity stunt du jour: JE Englebert, the owner of Prime and Suzie Wong's, is offering Lindsay Lohan a free mink coat after it was reported Lohan stole a coat from a Columbia student at 1Oak two weeks ago. [Page Six]
• Silda Wall Spitzer came out of hiding last night to make an appearance at a benefit for Children for Children, a foundation she founded. She looked "radiant," which may have something to do with the fact she left her disgraced husband at home. [NYDN]
• Derek Jeter may or may not be dating Minka Kelly, of NBC's Friday Night Lights. [Page Six]
• Kristin Davis tells Health magazine she was an alcoholic when she was younger. Not quite a sex tape but a nice little nugget of PR just a week before the Sex and the City movie opens. [Us Weekly]
• Ivana Trump's marriage to boytoy Rossano Rubicondi already appears to be in trouble. The couple never went on a honeymoon and then didn't turn up on the French Riviera as expected. Let's be optimistic and assume they've spent the last month locked away in luxurous suite sipping champagne and eating strawberries. [Page Six]