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WENDY Williams is single and ready to
mingle — with strippers.
The talk-show queen — who has recently
canceled a string of stand-up comedy appear-
ances because of her scandal-strewn personal
life — had a wild night out at FlashDancers
strip club, Page Six is told exclusively. We heard
Williams started Saturday night at the launch
party for Rick Ross’ new album, hanging with
DJ Khaled, Fat Joe, French Montana and re-
ality superstar Nene Leakes at Up & Down.
Spies say that Williams, French and Leakes
continued the party at the Tribeca jiggle joint.
We’re told the trio “burned their way”
through Don Julio 1942 tequila and threwmoney for the dancers. They were “super
friendly with the staff,” said a spy.
It was something of a rap rapprochement for
Leakes and Williams. The two have been at
odds for years over everything from vandal-
ized Hermès purses (Leakes defaced her own
purse with lipstick; Williams called it tacky) to
rumors that Leakes had slept with Williams’
then-husband (which she denied) to reports
that Williams sabotaged Leakes’ talk show.
Leakes posted a picture of them at Up &
Down with the caption, “When you get the
call that says... Sis, let’s get off the bulls - - t
and get on some real s - - t.”
Williams has been on a hiatus from her long-running syndicated show after a battle with
Graves’ disease, the very public infidelity of her
husband and producer, Kevin Hunter — who
had a daughter with Sharina Hudson while
still married to Williams — and a stay in a re-
hab facility in Queens. She canceled a string of
dates on her “For the Record... Umm Hmm!”
comedy tour because the “goal and purpose of
the tour has been sidelined by the headlines.”
In an interview with the New York Times,
Williams explained that her rehab stint
stemmed from knowing the Hudson story
would break, so, she thought, “Let me go some-
place where you’re not allowed to have the
whole bottle of wine.” Reps didn’t comment.SOPHIA Cohen — the 26-year-
old daughter of billionaire hedge
funder Steve Cohen — got en-
gaged to her financier boyfriend
Jason Levine in Montauk over the
weekend. We’re told that the cou-
ple “took the quintessential roman-
tic long walk on the beach and
ended up engaged,” with Cohen
later showing off a “massive oval
diamond ring.” The two toasted the
moment at a Saks-sponsored bar-
becue at Hero Beach Club on Sat-
urday in front of the party’s hosts,
Sara and Erin Foster. Cohen
works at top art gallery Gagosian,
while Levine is a vice president at
private equity firm L Catterton.Future investment
WOODY Allen’s new film, “A
Rainy Day in New York,” has no
US distributor after being dumped
by Amazon, but continues to get a
warmer response in France. The
2017-made film — whose stars, in-
cluding Rebecca Hall (above),
donated their salaries to Time’s
Up — will open the Deauville film
festival before a nationwide re-
lease. US critics caught a Paris
screening, and are calling the rom-
com “so fatuously cliched it makes
pumpkin spice look edgy,” with
“scenes of a young female journal-
ist being hit on by much older
men... playing as cringe-worthy.”French entrance
THREE years after he was igno-
miniously ousted from the “To-
day” show, Billy Bush is still sore
about his co-hosts trying to “un-
dercut” him during his five
months on the show, according to
a new interview. A New York
Times story published Sunday —
about his comeback to TV after he
was canned in 2016 when the infa-
mous “Access Hollywood” “Grab
’em by the p - - - y” tape surfaced
— said that Bush “still holds some
resentment about his time at NBC
where, he said, other ‘Today’ hosts
sought to undercut him.” But a
source told Page Six that Bush
may have been referring to his
9-o’clock-timeslot co-host Tam-
ron Hall. The insider said the pair
had a “personality clash,” but
added, “We don’t really know why
Billy would go there now. He still
blames the producers for firing
him.” Page Six previously reported
the Trump tape was an inside
leak from NBC News to take Bush
down after he didn’t make the best
impression. The host — whom
“Today” insiders called a “frat
boy” — then got a public talk-
ing-to over his Ryan Lochte in-
terview, in which the Olympian
fabricated a story about being
robbed at gunpoint in Rio. Al Ro-
ker told him: “He lied. He lied to
you, he lied to Matt Lauer, he lied
to his mom [and] he left his team-
mates hanging while he skedad-
dled.’’ Bush will host Fox’s “Extra”
reboot, “ExtraExtra,” which
launches next month. A rep for
Hall didn’t immediately comment.Bush still burning
MIKE Tyson at Philippe Chow
Uptown... DJ (and Goldman
Sachs CEO) David Solomon on
the ones and twos at Gurney’s
Montauk... BILL and Hillary
Clinton at the Springs Tavern in
East Hampton sharing a slice of
Key lime pie after dinner...
MICHAEL Strahan, Jimmy
Johnson, Howie Long and
Terry Bradshaw shooting an
NFL promo at Ball & Chain in
Miami... BRAVO reality star
Carl Radke at Coco J’adore.THE fashion world is grieving the death of Isabel Toledo, the designer known for
creating the “lemongrass yellow” dress that Michelle Obama wore to the 2009 in-
auguration. Toledo died Monday at 59 of breast cancer. The Cuban-American fashion
fixture’s husband is renowned illustrator Ruben Toledo. The couple met in high
school in New Jersey, and he told W Magazine of Isabel in 2015: “She would show up to
school with the most adventurous asymmetrical haircuts and yellow and charcoal tinted eyes... Just the
most incredible things that a 13-year-old ever saw.” Toledo presented her first collection in the mid-’80s,
but launched to more widespread fame for the Obama dress. Her friend, “Younger” actress Debi Mazar,
posted online: “My heart was ripped out today. I’m in shock. I woke up to news that one of my best friends,
mentor, sister, God-Mother to my daughter... had passed.” She added, “I was blessed that Isabel dressed
me for EVERY important event in my adult life... my wedding, my premieres, press, etc.”Single star’s bosom buddies
NYC fashion world in mourning
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Smith
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Mara Siegler
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Carlos Greer
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Vanessa
Hudgens (right) —
reportedly 5-foot-
— and a pal add a few
inches with platform-
heel boots at Hot
Rock on Holly-
wood Boule-
vard in LA.Sightings
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