Paula Abdul Leaves Party After 10 Minutes

Good champagne. Upscale hors d' oeuvres. Mannequins in the basement. A non-D.C. type of crowd and atmosphere where reporters won't go all paparazzi on you. What more could singer Paula Abdul have wanted? Tough to say. But Abdul left last night's V magazine party in the bowels of Washington's Kalorama neighborhood just 10 minutes after the party started. A petite woman dressed in black from head to toe, Abdul came, barely looked up and left so fast that even the sparse early crowd barely noticed she was there. That is, until she was gone. In her defense, Abdul was on fairly vigorous party schedule. Before the V party, she attended The Creative Coalition's "Night Before Dinner" at Mari Vanna DC. Sponsored by Veuve Clicquot and Belvedere Vodka, guests at the V party enjoyed the alcohol and fare as well as peering into the indoor swimming pool inside the quirky home of D.C. Architect Arthur Keyes. Some partygoers thought it resembled "Brady Bunch" house. Later in the evening singer John Legend showed up with an attractive woman in a long red dress. Throughout the evening a procession of important looking people walked in. "Who is that woman in the red dress?" a male partygoer asked about a different woman in a different red dress. An extremely thin woman in black lace was also the subject of many side conversations. Spotted in the crowd: People's Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, Andrei Greenawalt from the White House Chief of Staff's office, Politico's Kevin Cirilli, The Hill's Alexandra Jaffe, Mila Beca from Saks Jandel, The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove, BuzzFeed's Hunter Schwarz, David Shuster's producer, Daniel Marans, D.C. publicist running the party, Dannia Hakki, SKDKnickerbocker's Jill Zuckman.

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Paula Abdul Leaves Party After 10 Minutes

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