Strip Scribbles: Riley Keough + ‘Girlfriend Experience,’ Vince Neil, Christie Brinkley

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Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley at Union in Aria on May 28, 2010.

By Robin Leach (contact)

Monday, April 11, 2016 | 6:36 p.m.

Sasha Grey Spins at Nikki Beach

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Is The King turning over in his grave? Elvis Presley might be shocked to know that his granddaughter, Riley Keough, daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough, is going naked as a prostitute in the new series “Girlfriend Experience” on Starz.

Riley premiered Sunday night as the replacement to porn star Sasha Grey as a New York call girl in the spinoff of Stephen Soderbergh’s provocative 2009 film. Riley, who starred in the Oscar-winning “Mad Max” Fury Road,” is newly married to Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen.

Riley plays second year law-student, 26-year-old Christine Reade, who pays for her studies as an intern at a Chicago law firm by offering call-girl services at $1,000 an hour with a two-hour minimum. In Sunday night’s debut, she was seen undressing fully naked on a bed.

Cameras also filmed her cleaning herself with a tissue after a client encounter, then taking a shower. The episode showed how a prostitute friend lured her into sex work and being tempted with an envelope stuffed with $100 bills. “The Girlfriend Experience” offers talking, listening and emotional support with graphic physical intimacy.

SPIRIT SIZZLERS: Christie Brinkley and Lisa Vanderpump are set to dazzle at the 73rd Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America convention at Caesars Palace from April 18-21. The supermodel is launching her line of Bellisimo Italian sparkling wines, and the reality-TV star is showcasing her new sangria mix.

During the convention, our Southern Wine and Spirits leader Larry Ruvo will be honored with the Lifetime Leadership Award. The exposition is the largest gathering of America’s wine and spirits distributors and suppliers, and more than 2,500 people are expected to attend.

Larry also will be presented with the Community Hero Award by Caesars Entertainment on Wednesday at the Rio recognizing his corporate citizenship in supporting countless causes and charities through his philanthropic sponsorships, especially at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.

Last year, the Caesars Foundation announced a three-year commitment to underwrite clinical trials and an online brain health index at the brain center.

Vince Neil and Las Vegas Outlaws

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STARS SCUFFLE: It started with a friendly lunch of the three members of the private Gold Jacket club: Nicolas Cage, Carrot Top and former Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil.

An overly aggressive fan wanted their autographs and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer, pestering them nonstop. It resulted in Nic calming Vince down after the duo had been held by Aria security for an hour.

Vince was not arrested, as reports indicated. He was given a ticket for battery and says he did not grab the woman’s hair and only pushed past her to get away from her.

UNIQUE ART: New York artist Peter Tunney is creating an original painting made from every one of Tony Bennett’s album covers from the 1950s to the present in honor of the singer’s 90th birthday being celebrated at Keep Memory Alive’s “Power of Love” gala to benefit the Lou Ruvo Center on May 21 at MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Peter has titled the painting ”The Good Life,” and it will be up for auction with the winning bidder getting the artwork plus a record player and all the vinyl albums!

ROMANCE RULES: More than 1,000 authors of love stories will attend the big Romance Book convention opening at the Rio on Tuesday and continuing through Sunday. Fifteen literary genres including fantasy, paranormal, erotica, Steampunk, suspense, historical and contemporary romance will be represented.

More than 4,000 people have registered for the convention, which features nightly dress-up themed parties. Lectures include how to write sex scenes and churn out romance novels fast and frequently.

Circus Ringmaster Kevin Burke

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DOUBLE DUTY: Kudos to actor Kevin Burke, who does double duty all week with his “Defending the Caveman” nightly at 8:30. He will be subbing with his comedy magic act for Adam London each afternoon at 4, too.

Both shows are at The D Las Vegas downtown, so he won’t have to race up and down the Strip as he has done in the past.

BOOK RELEASE: “No Future Without” is a fictional book based on the real-life accidental death of Jayne Post’s 16-year-old son, Paul. While riding his bike near home in Henderson in 2003, Paul was hit by a teen driver and died. Jayne is co-creator and star of “Marriage Can Be Murder” at The D with husband Eric Post.

Jayne also is the co-senior pastor and founder at Sin City Church with Pastor Rhonda Baker, the first church known to be started by two women. The book is available as of today on Amazon.com in Kindle and print. It’s the harrowing tale of a mother’s worst nightmare. Jayne said: “This book has been 10 long years in the making, and it felt surreal. So many people sent encouragement along the way so I could share the important message of choosing forgiveness in tragedy.”

Drew Carey, right, with instructor Andy at Vegas Indoor Skydiving.

STAR SURVEILLANCE

“The Price Is Right” host and improv comedy actor Drew Carey earned his wings at Vegas Indoor Skydiving over the weekend. He experienced body flight inside VIS’ 22-foot tall wind tunnel and afterward posed for photographs with his flight instructor, Andy.

Stunning Victoria’s Secret angels Taylor Hill and Josephine Skriver, with a bevy of lingerie models, celebrated Josephine’s birthday at “Absinthe” on Sunday night under the tent outside Caesars Palace.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, cycling star Lance Armstrong and boxing promoter Bob Arum and 100 of their guests were at Jenna and Michael Morton’s Crush at MGM Grand after Manny Pacquiao’s victory over Timothy Bradley Jr. in their third fight Saturday night.

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Angie Fator and Terry Fator flank Don Rickles at the Orleans.

Among the celebrities paying homage to comedian Don Rickles during his shows at Orleans Showroom were Mirage headliner ventriloquist Terry Fator and his wife Angie, just back from their delayed California wine country honeymoon, and Four Queens insult magician headliner Mike Hammer.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was at the new sports pub The Still in the Mirage over the weekend to watch the Masters golf tournament.

Australian DJs The Stafford Brothers partied at Hyde Lounge in T-Mobile Arena during the Guns N’ Roses concert.

Playboy Playmate Kennedy Summers hosted at Chateau in Paris Las Vegas. Kennedy was 2014 Playmate of the Year after winning Miss December 2013.

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Robin Leach of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” fame has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past 15 years giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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Latest dust-up in plus size wars: Amy Schumer vs. Glamour

By LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) – Amy Schumer took to Instagram in a black bikini to – punctuate? – her feelings about being included in a special edition of Glamour aimed at celebrating “chic at any size.”

That’s exactly what the cover sings in a tagline accompanying a photo of Ashley Graham, who made her mark in modeling wearing lingerie for the issue’s partner, the Lane Bryant chain of stores aimed at the plus-size women’s market.

The content inside the special edition out this week amounts to repurposed stories from previous Glamours, including a cover shoot with Schumer, but it doesn’t reference her as plus size – only as one of several women “who inspire us,” along with Graham, Melissa McCarthy and Adele.

No matter. Schumer took to Twitter when the magazine was released Tuesday questioning as “odd” why she wasn’t told of her inclusion and declaring the “plus size” label unnecessary in general. Not that there’s anything wrong with being plus, she was quick to note.

“Plus size is considered size 16 in America,” she tweeted. “I go between a size 6 and an 8. … Young girls seeing my body type thinking that is plus size?”

She went on to deem the magazine’s decision as “not cool glamour not glamourous.”

As social media dust-ups often go, Glamour’s editor in chief, Cindi Leive, had some tweets of her own. She noted the issue was aimed at sizes 12 and up and said she DOES find Schumer’s regular message of body positivity and talking back to body haters “inspiring,” as the cover indicates.

Leive said she agreed with Schumer that sizes 6 and 8 are not “plus size,” nor is size 12, the “frequent size of plus models” and a size smaller than the average American woman.

“We love Amy Schumer, would never want to offend her,” she tweeted. “To be clear, @glamourmag special edition never called her plus-size…”

And then the apology: “But women of all sizes can be inspired by one another’s words. So sorry if implication was otherwise, Amy”

Schumer’s publicist said the actress and comic was not available Wednesday for further comment.

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