If you've ever hung out in Scottsdale, you know that the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is the only spot worth staying at. I took my family there last year at it was the bomb. Now that Cindy Crawford's millionaire hubby Randy Gerber of the famed Gerber Foods family has open his new club there, the hip factor just went through the stratosphere.
Exhibit A, the Superbowl party Maxim hosted Friday at the swank Stone Rose Lounge that just opened. With temps dipping into the 30's, it wasn't exactly a hot party -- despite sizzlin' music and stars like Ludacris and Diddy in attendance.
Huddled around heat lamps and fire pits, non-chauffeured guests were required to park in a carnival-like lot next to the resort, trek to a large white tent in another parking lot, enter a line where employees guarded the guest list, get a wristband, haul up to the hotel itself and then have the wristband verified with a flashlight by a security guard at the entrance.
Once inside, attendees sipped cocktails made with Patron Tequila, drank Heineken beer, mingled with scantily clad models posing in Perry Ellis garments and watched go-go dancers gyrate next to DJs on two outdoor stages. Later, surprise musical guest Akon and T-Pain performed.
Other stars at the Maxim party included Ludacris, Tom Petty, Sean "Diddy" Combs, John Elway, Rick Fox, Tamera Mowry, Rob Schneider, Reggie Bush and Kim Kardarshian, Akon, Tamia and Grant Hill," former "Dancing with the Stars" contestants Stacy Kiebler, Ian Ziering and Mario Lopez, and cast members from "Entourage."
If you've ever hung out in Scottsdale, you know that the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is the only spot worth staying at. I took my family there last year at it was the bomb. Now that Cindy Crawford's millionaire hubby Randy Gerber of the famed Gerber Foods family has open his new club there, the hip factor just went through the stratosphere.