This just in: Salahis to highlight cruise event, Alexander McQueen's death was a suicide

Alexander McQueen holds the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, an honor that he received from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, in October 2003. (Reuters/Matthew Fearn)

From White House crashers to professional party guests? For the third time in just over a month, Tareq and Michaele Salahi are the advertised attraction at a splashy event. First, hosting duties at a Las Vegas club; then, top billing at an Aussie polo match; and now, hipster collective Brightest Young Things is touting them as the stars of a cash-bar Potomac cruise-ship party Thursday night. Okay, awkward question, but ... no, "they're just friends with one of the organizers," a rep told us. "No appearance fee."

A London coroner has ruled that Alexander McQueen, grief-stricken over his mother's death, hanged himself in his apartment the night before her funeral. The Associated Press reports that the inquest hasn't yet made a formal suicide ruling, but that police don't suspect otherwise, and that the fashion designer did leave a note behind.

By The Reliable Source | February 18, 2010; 1:00 AM ET
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Ummm... not true on your so called reliable sources. The Salahes are living in Australia this winter according to their PR Rep I spoke to a week ago.

Posted by: dcnightlifescene | February 18, 2010 8:45 AM | Report abuse

dcnightlifescene, you are wrong, they were coming to the party, but the Post completely missed the entire point of why they were coming, they were STOWAWAYS on a boat party. Get it? Anyway, now they're getting too much media attention over this so they cancelled on us... maybe: http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/are-the-white-house-party-crashers-really-coming-to-cruisin/

Posted by: cale | February 18, 2010 12:24 PM | Report abuse

the washington post never get's it right.
these two women reporters from this page are desperate!
they were never going to this - dinner cruise? ugh huh.
Australia is what I heard too.
maybe the post made it up to sell tickets for a friend.

Posted by: SusanDove1 | February 19, 2010 11:32 PM | Report abuse

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