EXCLUSIVE: Calvin Klein and boy toy reconcile

Calvin Klein is reconciling with his troubled much-younger boyfriend Nick Gruber, and recently whisked him away on a romantic Mexico break, sources exclusively tell Page Six.

Blond-haired , blue-eyed, former erotic model Gruber, 23, and Klein — who is 47 years his senior — split in January 2012 after two years, following Gruber’s infamous incident punching a political intern and being arrested for cocaine possession after a night of partying at his Greenwich Street apartment.

Gruber then headed to a rehab facility in Arizona, with rumors that the 70-year-old fashion mogul was footing the bill and had flown him there via private jet.

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Nick Gruber and Calvin Klein in 2010.

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Nick Gruber

After the breakup, penniless Gruber announced he was working on a tell-all titled “Obsession: My Life With Calvin Klein,” and told Page Six Magazine he was the first man Klein ever fell for. He also claimed Klein once made him take a lie-detector test after suspecting he’d cheated.

Gruber announced he was also working on a reality show about his relationship with Klein, having moved to LA and started dating John Luciano. But by February this year, Gruber and Luciano broke up, and Gruber had a change of heart and pulled the plug on his book.

A source now tells us, “Calvin feels very protective over him. Despite all that has happened, and everything he’s done, he still loves Nick.”

We’re told Klein flew Gruber to Mexico and the two met up at an exclusive resort there. The source added, “Calvin wants to keep it low-key.”

Another source said, “Nick and Calvin had been texting and met up at the Chateau Marmont [in Los Angeles] about a month ago. Nick and John broke up around February, but remained friends. John actually encouraged Nick to get back with Calvin. He thinks it would be helpful for him.”

A spokesperson for Klein said: “I can confirm they are friends and no more. There is no relationship whatsoever, but at the same time Calvin holds no grudges and has put whatever problems they had 

Reason behind Naomi and Vlad’s break

Naomi Campbell and Vladimir Doronin put their five-year relationship on a break because the Russian billionaire is “too swept up in the celebrity lifestyle” that the supermodel is part of, a source tells Page Six.

Naomi counts stars like Leo DiCaprio and Diddy as part of her social circle, but unlike Vlad, she views partying with her celeb friends as work, not as play, says the source.

Page Six revealed that the two were on the rocks earlier this week. An insider told us, “In many ways their relationship is like a business arrangement. Naomi brings glamour to his hotels and properties, and he treats her extremely well. But they spend a lot of time apart due to work commitments.”

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Happier times: Vladimir Doronin and Naomi Campbell attend "The Beaver" premiere at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2011

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The supermodel and the billionaire

The couple were last seen together on the beach in Miami in March. Doronin, 50, was noticeably not with Campbell, 42, as she attended numerous Oscar parties in Hollywood in February.

A source told us, “Naomi and Vlad have broken up, and he’s been out partying in New York.” A spy added that Doronin was recently spotted at the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel, flirting with a blonde.

Campbell’s career, meanwhile, has skyrocketed with her TV show “The Face” and she also appears in a sizzling shoot on the cover of this month's Vogue Brazil.

Doronin, who has been building a futuristic mansion for Campbell in Moscow, is expected to be among the guests at her 43rd birthday bash May 22, which is reportedly taking place in Ibiza.

Despite his long relationship with Campbell, Doronin has not divorced his wife, Ekaterina, even though they are believed to have separated in about 1998. Prior to their split, Ekaterina was married to the property mogul for 24 years, and they have a teenage daughter, Katia.

Bill’s failed Zep-lomacy

No wonder Bill Clinton didn’t make peace in the Middle East — he can’t even bring Led Zeppelin back together.

The former president failed at a mission of classic-rock diplomacy last year when he was dispatched by the Robin Hood Foundation to get the legendary British rockers to reunite for the 12-12-12 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden for victims of Hurricane Sandy — and they said no.

Foundation board member Harvey Weinstein recruited Clinton for the task, “60 Minutes” reported yesterday.

“Harvey Weinstein had this great idea that we could enlist Bill Clinton to convince Led Zeppelin to reunite,” said Robin Hood Executive Director David Saltzman.

“The president was terrific — ‘I really wanna do this, this will be a fantastic thing, I love Led Zeppelin.’ And Bill Clinton himself asked Led Zeppelin to reunite, and they wouldn’t do it.”

Clinton made the request of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC

The last time Led Zeppelin played together was at London’s O2 Arena, in 2007.

Sarah Jessica Parker To Celebrate Teen Winners Of The Scholastic Art And Writing Awards

On Friday, May 31 at Carnegie Hall, actress and arts advocate Sarah Jessica Parker and fashion designer Zac Posen will share the spotlight with the talented teens who received national honors in the 90th annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

More than 800 teens from 47 states, along with their families and teachers, are expected to attend the celebration. There, 15 graduating seniors will receive Portfolio Gold Medals, the Awards’ highest honor, which includes a $10,000 scholarship. For the first time in the Awards’ 90-year history, the ceremony will be webcast live so people across the nation can share in the celebration.

Presented by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is the country’s longest-running, most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative teenagers, and provides students across the country with opportunities for exhibition and publication of their work. The celebration of this year’s winning students and teachers kicks off May 31, when two giant Times Square screens at 1515 Broadway will promote the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards every two minutes throughout the day, and the Empire State Building will be lit in gold to honor the student winners. After the Carnegie Hall ceremony, the Alliance’s annual Gold Key Gala will take place at The Edison Hotel, and on June 1, the Awards’ National Student Exhibition will open at Parsons The New School for Design and Pratt Manhattan Gallery, showcasing select Award-winning student work.

At the May 31 ceremony at Carnegie Hall, Ms. Parker will congratulate the students and offer words of encouragement. “It takes courage as well as talent to step out as a writer or an artist, and I’m delighted to have the opportunity to personally congratulate these outstanding teens,” Ms. Parker said. “Finding out that people other than your parents and your teachers truly believe in your work can validate the courage these teens have shown in presenting their work to the world, and help to carry them forward into their lives and their careers.”

Mr. Posen will be presented with the 2013 Alumni Achievement Award. “As a young person, your work is often not understood or appreciated by those around you, since some people feel you are too young to be a ‘real’ artist,” said Mr. Posen. “To receive one of these Awards is an important moment in the life of a young artist or writer. It shows that someone believes in your work and sees something of promise in it.” Video congratulations will also be delivered by First Lady Michelle Obama and Girls star and creator Lena Dunham, an alumna of the Awards. Other notable artists and writers who received a Scholastic Award when they were in high school include Robert Redford, Andy Warhol, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, John Lithgow, Robert Indiana, Ken Burns, John Baldessari, Truman Capote, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath.

“When you look at the notable list of past winners, it is really clear that the Scholastic Awards have helped fuel America’s creative output since they were established 90 years ago,” said Virginia McEnerney, Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. “The founder of the Awards, M.R. Robinson, who also founded Scholastic Inc., dreamed of a day when teenagers who are creative would receive the same kind of accolades as teenagers who are athletic. The Awards strive to do that every year by recognizing talented teens, first in their local communities and then on a national stage.”

The exhibits of winning students’ work will be open to the public through June 15; starting in the fall, a traveling exhibit of student work entitled ART. WRITE. NOW. will visit cities across the United States, ensuring that work by these outstanding teens is accessible throughout the country. The exhibitions and accompanying public programs are co-sponsored by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center.

2013 marks the 90th anniversary of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, which attracted more participants than ever before, with more than 230,000 submissions in 28 categories including dramatic script, journalism, humor, novel-writing and science-fiction, as well as painting, sculpture, photography, fashion design, film and animation, and video game design. Each student work was blindly adjudicated, first locally through the 116 affiliates of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and then nationally by panels of judges comprised of renowned artists, authors, educators, and industry professionals. This year’s list of jurors included Edwidge Danticat, Myla Goldberg, Kurt Andersen, Red Grooms, and Elizabeth Wurtzel, among others.

Works were judged on originality, technical skill, and the emergence of personal vision or voice. More than 1,600 outstanding students in grades 7–12 from throughout the nation, as well as students in American schools abroad, were chosen to receive national medals. Select honors provide students with cash awards totaling $200,000, and graduating seniors who received national medals are now eligible for an additional $8.5 million in scholarships from more than 60 colleges, universities, and art institutes across the country. The teachers of national winners were also recognized with Awards. A complete list of the 2013 national winners is available here.

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit, identifies teenagers with exceptional creative talent and brings their remarkable work to a national audience through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Founded in 1923, the Awards is the longest-running, most prestigious program of its kind, having fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students through recognition, exhibitions and publications. Over the past five years alone, students have submitted nearly 900,000 pieces of work and more than $25 million has been made available in scholarships and awards to top winning participants. The Alliance partners with 116 regional affiliates across the country to bring the program to local communities, and works with a network of more than 60 colleges and universities to increase the range of scholarship and award opportunities. With the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Alliance is a founding partner of the National Student Poets Program, the country’s highest honor for youth poets, which selects five students exclusively from current Scholastic Art & Writing Award poetry winners. More information about the Alliance and its programs can be found at www.artandwriting.org.

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The devil wears sellout

Total sellout

The new sequel to ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ finds heroine Andy ditching her moral compass to live the life of a social-climbing material girl

The heroine of this summer’s hot beach read runs a high-end, celebrity-obsessed weddings magazine. She’s getting hitched to one of New York’s most eligible bachelors, a sexy businessman from an old-money family. And it looks like a baby may be in her future!

All par for the course, chick-lit-wise. Except the bride-to-be is Andrea “Andy” Sachs, scrappy heroine of Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel “The Devil Wears Prada,” last seen telling Miranda Priestly (a thinly veiled Anna Wintour) to go f - - k herself, ditching her designer duds and opting for a non-glitzy life as a serious writer.

Andy of “The Devil Wears Prada” now embraces the lavish lifestyle rejected by Anne Hathaway in the 2006 film.

Which has us wondering: Has Andy Sachs sold out?

“Revenge Wears Prada,” out June 4, will find no shortage of readers eager to catch up with all their favorite characters a decade later: Evil assistant Emily, bitchy art director Nigel and, of course, Miranda Priestly all return in Weisberger’s new book.

In 2013, we catch up with Andy in the bridal suite at the exclusive upstate Astor Courts Estate, where she’s shortly to be married to her handsome prince — who also happens to be a principal investor in her glossy upscale magazine, The Plunge.

Sure, everyone likes a success story. But the appeal of Weisberger’s protagonist in the first book — a roman à clef, so really, the author herself — was her role as a plucky Everywoman dropped into the baffling, pretentious world of high fashion and New York media elite.

Drawn from Weisberger’s own yearlong tenure as assistant to Vogue editrix Wintour, the book saw Andy suffering the trials and tribulations of working for the tyrannical, demanding editor of Runway, the world’s top fashion magazine. Eventually rising to the occasion — and absorbing some style savvy along the way — Andy uses the experience as a training ground, but ultimately rejects Miranda and Emily’s world as empty and soulless.

Anne Hathaway brought the character to life in the 2006 movie, starring along with Meryl Streep as Miranda, Emily Blunt as Emily and Adrian Grenier as her long-suffering boyfriend Nate (Alex, in the book), a non-glamorous chef who always urged her to be true to herself.

Toward the end of the film, Andy admits to him that “I turned my back on everything I believed in, and for what?”

“For shoes,” Nate says.

Afterward, we see her taking a job at the dingy offices of the New York Mirror, a paper that takes a shine to her article on janitor unions — and is as far from Runway as one could possibly get.

“The Devil Wears Prada” might have been literary fluff, but in Andy Sachs it gave young, professional women an admirable role model, someone who entered the maw of Manhattan’s opulently wealthy high-fashion industry, came out stronger for it and chose to go squarely in the other direction.

Wowsa! That’s Kelly?!

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Wow! Is that Ozzy Osbourne’s pudgy daughter, Kelly, looking svelte in the pages of the July Cosmo?

Yes, it’s her. After shedding 70 pounds and a drug habit, the lavender-haired rocker kid, 28, is adjusting to life as a sex symbol and the attention that comes with it.

“I get hit on all the time now, and I’m the biggest bitch about it,” the cover girl tells the magazine.

“I’m, like, ‘I’ve always been me. You didn’t like me before!’ ”