Cheat Sheet

Wall Street may be feeling shaky, but at least the rich and famous can still let their hair down. Hollywood’s finest are gathering tonight in Dubai for a $23 million party—said to be the priciest private shindig ever staged—to launch the world’s most expensive resort, the $1.5 billion Atlantis. The 1,539-room hotel, on the emirate’s man-made Palm Jumeirah island, is playing host to 2,000 celebrities, The Daily Mail reports, including Robert De Niro, Oprah Winfrey, Charlize Theron, and Kylie Minogue, who’s being paid $3 million for a one-hour set. Oh, and there’s a fireworks display, the world’s largest ever. Sol Kerzner, the South African billionaire who owns Atlantis, said the lavish to-do was the only way to promote his $1.5 billion investment: “If I had it all over again and I understood that the timing was what it was, one might modify a couple of the things...but not significantly.”