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Remember when we posted on a recent LA Times article, claiming that Danielle Steel--that's "Ms. Steel" to you--spends $4 to $5 million a year at Barneys on shoes for herself and her children? At least, so says Barneys shoe sales associate John Rutenberg. Well, according to Danni--via a member of her posse, Cody--she does not. The email you sent to Ms. Steel's website regarding what she spends on shoes per year was forwarded to......

We love Danielle Steel. A lot. Why? We can't pinpoint; there are many reasons to adore this SF-based writer. Her soft-focused images on the back of her books; her rumored affection for SFist mascot Vanessa Getty; her shifting into reverse with homely SF society; her daughters (fun!); her sons (sexy!); her home (insane!); her work (scintillating!); her money (loads!) -- we can't pick one reason. We just kinda like the gal. And according to......

Victoria Traina and Danielle Steel at New York Fashion Week. Team Traina! Picture from Style.com By SFist Elaine......

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells: 55. Number of pictured people whose names we recognize: 1 (Gavin Newsom's sister). Minority count: 7 (about 15%, and not counting the Egyptian mummy). Getty v. Traina: 2-2. (counting Gavin Newsom's sister as a Getty; counting the anonymous person who claimed to be Trevor Traina as a Traina.) Number of receding male hairlines: 16. Number of non-receding male hairlines: 5. Number of hats: 2. Numbers in......

In terms of showy San Francisco-based author biographies, J. T. Leroy's always had Danielle Steel beat. She may have a zillion parking spaces in Pacific Heights and some colorful marital history, but Leroy's alleged life story, complete with trailer-trash teen mother and lurid sex-n-drugs anecdotes, is both mediapathic and the purported foundation for his fiction. It is not, however, any sort of foundation for author appearances. Leroy's fishy public appearances are a postmodernist's wet......

The media orgasmatron following Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla through their edge-free trip to San Francisco peed itself the other night as the royals on-deck chortled their way through that old chestnut, Beach Blanket Babylon. "Prince is Charming!" "Prince of a Guy!" "This Prince doesn't go by an unpronounceable symbol!" (okay, we made that last one up.) A whole coterie of hangers-on attended the soiree, including Duke Gavin and the fallen Lady Kimberly of Guilfoyle, smiling and bobbing slightly as the royals passed, but not holding hands. Gavin -- you must start seeing other people. Other attendees included former Secretary of State George Shultz (in his role as the husband of Charlotte Maillard Shultz, the Chief of SF protocol), Kamala Harris, the owner of the Giants, Willie Brown, and Danielle Steel. Mrs. Shultz also apparently made a cameo in the show, flying on a wire and dressed as Wonder Woman. Ah, of course. Prince Charles didn't seem to get most of the jokes, but apparently chuckled at a bit involving men dressed as poodles. And what would a visit to SF be without a protest? Giving it that special SF flavor, Medea Benjamin and Code Pink marched outside the theater, in pink wigs and chanting, "UK out of Iraq." Maybe the Prince would have paid more attention if they'd dressed as poodles instead. Picture by Chris Stewart of the Chron. That hat is so rad....

No doubt soon to become a regular column! The plebes who merely rent in Pacific Heights were no doubt circling the blocks fruitlessly Saturday night in a vain attempt to find parking as 400 members of the upper crust of the upper crust -- the part of the pie that turns black and falls off in the oven, it's so upper crust -- all drove separate cars to Gordon Getty's 71st birthday party. No word if Danielle Steel let people use any of her 26 parking permits for the evening. The house was bedecked in roses, just like when Ben Affleck proposed to J. Lo, and these folks are so A-list, you don't even know who they are:

Then you had my knowledgeable colleague, glam Anne Lawrence, who could have stepped right out of "The Aviator." Over there was skier, surfer, and jeweler Erin Dianda, who avatars as Alana Leigh. ... Don't forget that other California blond dream, Beth Townsend ... or those hard-working women whose good works give Society a good name: Vanessa Getty in white ... snow angel Donna Ewald Huggins ... Allison Speer ... Tatiana Sorokko, whose Russian allure fits right in with this house, which is right out of Tolstoy in its grandeur, hospitality and commitment to bringing people together. ...