New York Post

Socialite scales sculpture

- Esmith@nypost.com

THERE was “panic” at the Faena Hotel during Miami Art Week — when art-world fixture and recent divorcée Libbie Mugrabi and 83year-old bon vivant Anthony Haden-Guest scaled a multimilli­on-dollar golden unicorn sculpture by Damien Hirst to take a photo.

They mounted the mythical beast toting one of artist Linjie Deng’s yin-yang calligraph­y works, part of Mugrabi’s private collection.

A source told Page Six of the stunt, “Management and security freaked out, but the duo got a photo before listening to the pleas to climb down off the museum piece, which remained unharmed.”

Mugrabi happened to be wearing a pill charm bracelet based on Hirst’s “Controlled Substances” series that the artist gave her a decade ago, we hear.

A source said of the scene: “The climbing of the statue was meant to be a harmless prank, but the hotel peeps freaked . . . It was funny and cute to everyone but them.”

Mugrabi — who recently settled a multimilli­on-dollar divorce from art-collecting scion David Mugrabi — was in Miami to throw a dinner party and launch her new eponymous brand. An invite seen by Page Six told guests to “dress f - - king fabulous.” We hear that the venue “could hold over 200, but Libbie held her guest list to approximat­ely 50, who only took their masks off when they sat to eat.” Guests included Petra Khashoggi, Martina Basabe, designer Alvin Valley and the artist Jared Ryan Shaw, who “was live painting Libbie’s new handbag line with hearts and her Libbie logo,” a source said. The insider added, “Libbie also gave out her new line of hats that have ‘word paintings’ on them. Anthony’s read ‘Psycho Fan,’ Libbie’s read ‘Icon,’ and others said ‘Boujee’ and ‘BAF,’ ” which apparently stands for “busy as f - - k.”

We’re told “the dinner was vegan,” and “somebody sent a cake for Libbie’s [41st] birthday . . . She was embarrasse­d, because her birthday was last month! But she was a good sport about it.”

We reported that Mugrabi’s mom, Jane Scher, was snapping up art in Miami as well.

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