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Oct 19, 2016

Photos: Michelle Obama Rocks Versace At Final State Dinner

Other people were there, too, and they also wore clothes.

Oct 18, 2016

Chance The Rapper, Seinfeld, And Gwen Stefani Among Obama’s Final State Dinner Guests

Mario Batali will be cooking for the dinner, which is in honor of the Italian prime minister.

Feb 12, 2014

Photos: Veep Meets VP, And Other State Dinner Highlights

The highlight of the evening came thanks to the clever seating of Vice President Joe Biden next to VEEP’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Sep 05, 2010

Salahi to Auction State Dinner Dress, Pose in Playboy

Photo by Bravo Sometimes headlines write themselves; this is one of those instances. Between lawsuits from caterers, landscapers and PR firms, apparently Tareq and Michaela Salahi are losing the clothes right off their backs. According to the Washington Post, Michaela Salahi, one-half of the stealth White House-crashing twosome, plans to auction off her infamous red sari, worn to the state dinner for India, next month — Jedi powers not included. Auctioneers conservatively estimate that…

May 20, 2010

Salahis Stopped by Secret Service Near White House

This sounds like it must be a joke, but apparently, it’s not. Infamous White House crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi were stopped in a limo by Secret Service officers near the White House Wednesday night, the Associated Press is reporting. The incident occurred at the same time that President Barack Obama was hosting his second state dinner, this time in honor of Mexico’s president. Reliable Source puts the now certifiably insane Salahis at Kellari…

Jan 12, 2010

Duh, Carlos Allen’s State Dinner ‘Invite’ Isn’t Real

If you watched that Good Morning America segment with accused White House crasher Carlos Allen and his D.C. attorney, A. Scott Bolden, you saw an image of the “invitation” Allen provided to the show as proof that he “got an actual invite in the mail” to the Nov. 24 state dinner. But true to form, Reliable Source is now here to smack down that assertion. Allen’s “invite” looks instead an awful lot like the…

Jan 11, 2010

Carlos Allen: ‘I Was Invited’ to White House State Dinner

Accused “third crasher” Carlos Allen, along with his attorney, A. Scott Bolden, appeared in an interview with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts earlier this morning. While insisting that he was actually invited to the Nov. 24 White House state dinner (“I got an actual invite in the mail,” he said), the story Allen told today sounded (not to mention looked, the guy could not have appeared to be more uncomfortable) like a pretty big…

Jan 05, 2010

What is the HushGalleria Mansion?

The “HushGalleria Mansion” The Washington Post has its own story up now about the so-called “Third Crasher” at the Nov. 24 White House state dinner. His name is Carlos Allen, and he’s the man behind HUSH Society Magazine and the HushGalleria Mansion, a private party space located inside a large rowhouse in Mt. Pleasant. We noted the Newsmax.com article that first reported the “third crasher” story at the end of the day yesterday, but…

 
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