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Agranddaughter of former Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin is following in his famous footsteps — only in video instead of print. Kyra Breslin, 29, is launching “Finding Lauren,” a five-episode podcast, on Monday. It’s the story of Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old Indiana University student who vanished without a trace after a night of partying 10 years ago.
“I was a year behind her. That school was wild. You go there not thinking about anything but having a good time,” Breslin said.
“You think you’re invincible, that nothing will happen to you. But then there was just this big, disastrous tragedy. All I heard about was her disappearance. It defined my college experience.”
Kyra Breslin, who runs her own public relations firm in New York, graduated from Indiana University in 2014 with a degree in journalism.
Private investigator and former NYPD Detective Bo Dietl, who was hired by the Spierer family and got to Bloomington four months after she disappeared, told me, “We’re still actively involved, until we can find some closure.”
“People still talk about it, ask about it,” Kyra said. “More than anything, I hope this keeps people talking until someone comes forward. It’s horrible.”
Anthony Scaramucci says his SALT conference was such a hit at the Javits Center this week, it’s coming back there next year.
“We sold the place out. We couldn’t fit people in. It was a total success,” the hedge fund executive and former White House communications director told me. The confab was previously held in Las Vegas.
The three-day event, launched by our presumptive next mayor Eric Adams, featured billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen, ex-Yankees manager Joe Torre and ex-Mets manager Bobby Valentine.
Plus there were generals — John Kelly and H.R. McMaster — and financiers Dan Loeb, Mark Lasry, Ray Dalio and Michael Novogratz.
But the biggest surprise was Paris Hilton, who was there helping her fiancé, Carter Reum, find customers for his venture capital firm.
“People just thought it was inappropriate,” one attendee told me. “You couldn’t take it seriously. We were all rolling our eyes.”
Past SALT celebrities include Will Smith, Mike Tyson and Caitlyn Jenner.
Scaramucci (photo) was just rolling. “It was a shot in the arm for New York. I love this city.”
Peggy Siegal is alive and well and writing her memoirs with the help of Christopher Mason.
Siegal was a top movie publicist until her relationships with Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein caused her to lose work and her invites to top events.
“These are dear friends of mine, treating me like I have leprosy,” Siegal told Vanity Fair last year.
Mason, a Brit known for his bow ties and for performing wickedly funny songs at parties, confirmed he’s working with Peggy on her story.
Fans of “Tipping Point” author-turned-podcaster Malcolm Gladwell are in for some disappointment now that the weather has turned chilly in upstate New York.
During the summer, the diminutive writer with distinctively high curly hair would boldly bare his chest bones as he sweatily jogged shirtless through the town of Hudson’s popular and hilly historic cemetery.
Now they’ll just have to settle for fully clothed ogling at the posh Maker Hotel’s sidewalk cafe, where Gladwell and his laptop usually make camp.
Margot Robbie is the most favored woman among the computer nerds who put famous faces on the naked bodies of non-famous women for kinky fun.
DeepFaceLive, released last month on the code-hosting platform GitHub, allows users to replace their own face with a beauty such as Robbie while using messaging programs Zoom and Skype.
The “Harley Quinn” actress is one of the favorites among deep fake porn creators, but her publicists don’t want to talk about it, which is understandable. It’s a dubious achievement.