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Then, out of the blue: "Have you ever cheated on me?"

Not toothe fingers lying on top of the CAA logo "Why are you asking me this?" And then I ask, but also know, "Have you?"

"I just want to know if you’ve always been faithful to me" She looks back at the script and then at the TV, showcasing a lovely pink fog, whole minutes of it "I care about that, Victor"

"Oh baby, always, always Don’t underestimate ently on the lips She responds by pushing into me too hard and I have to pull back and whisper, "Oh baby, I’m so wiped out" I lift my head because the new Soul Asylum video is on MTV and I want Chloe to watch it too but she has already turned over, away froood one, taken by Herb Ritts, sits on Chloe’s nightstand, the only one I let her fra tomorrow?" I ask softly

"I don’t think so," she says, her voice muffled

"Do you knohere he is?" I ask her hair, her neck

"Maybe it doesn’t matter"

Arousal for Chloe: Sinead O’Connor CD, beeswax candles, ne, a lie Beneath the scent of coconut her hair smells like juniper, evenChloe sleeps across frohtbeach pretending it’s su under a palht flight, gliding across another red carpet, paparazzi waiting, Mira, a drea into night white-sand beaches in the South Pacific, a sunset over the Mediterranean, the French Alps, Milan, Paris, Tokyo, the icy waves, the pink newspapers froazines with her unblemished face airbrushed to death and cropped close on the covers, and it’s hard to sleep when a sentence from a Vanity Fair profile of Chloe by Kevin Sessuh we’ve never met she looks eerily familiar, as if we’ve known her forever"

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Vespa toward the club to have breakfast with Damien at 7:30, with stops at three newsstands to check the papers (nothing, no photo, slooks stark and nondescript, all white walls and black velvet banquettes, my line of vision is interrupted frequently by flashes fro a Thai-rice-field-worker hat, a video of Casino Royale on some of the monitors, Downhill Racer on others, while upstairs Beau and Peyton (ahe by oons fro black Polo shirts, finish up breakfast, today’s papers spread out everywhere with : Richard Johnson in the Post, George Rush in the News (a big photo ofin Variety, Michael Musto plugging it in the Voice, notices in Cindy Adaull, Billy Norwich, Jeanne Williae under the naent Bill’s voicea vanilla hazelnut decaf iced latte, holding a Monte Cristo cigar he keeps threatening to light but doesn’t, looking very studly in a Comme des Garcons black T-shirt under a black double- breasted jacket, a Cartier Panthere watch wrapped around a selasses locked on a pretty decent head, a Motorola Stortac cell phone next to the seht a 600SEL last week, and he and the goons just dropped Linda Evangelista off at the Cynthia Rowley show and it’s cold in the roowould be flat and bright and pop if it wasn’t so early

"So Dolph and I walk backstage at the Calvin Klein show yesterday-just two guys passing a bottle of Dewar’s between them-and Kate Moss is there, no shirt on, ar, Why bother? Then I drank one too ht Dolph has a , he’swife in italics, baby, so there wasn’t a bih the VIP room was filled with eurowolves but no heroin, no lesbians, no Japanese influences, no British Esquire We hung out with Irina, the e Siberian-Eskimo supermodel Afterup in an igloo" A pause "The evening, er, ended solasses, rubs his eyes, adjusts thelances at the headlines splashed over the various papers "Helena Christensen splitting up with Michael Hutchence? Prince dating Veronica Webb? God, the world’s a mess"