Leonardo DiCaprio was seen locking lips with his rumored love interest Vittoria Ceretti during a late-night party at a club in Ibiza, Spain.
In video exclusively obtained by Page Six, the 25-year-old model is seen making out with the 48-year-old “Titanic” star, whose back is up against the wall of the Hï Ibiza club at around 4:30 in the morning on Aug. 9.
DiCaprio was dressed inconspicuously in his usual black baseball cap and black T-shirt ensemble.
Ceretti, for her part, had her hair slicked back in a ponytail and wore a sparkly one-shoulder top that reflected off of the club’s LED lights.
The pair were making out for a few seconds in the corner as EDM music blasted all around them.
The video then pans over to the crowd and back again to the “Wolf of Wall Street” star and the Italian stunner, who seductively dances on him.
Page Six has reached out to reps for DiCaprio and Ceretti but did not immediately hear back.
Just hours prior to the PDA-packed romp at the discotheque, the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” star spent a day on a yacht in Formentera, Spain, with two other bikini-clad beauties.
He was photographed on Aug. 9 sailing the Mediterranean Sea with “Love Island” star Arabella Chi and another gal pal, who both wore matching animal-print swimsuits.
His longtime friend Tobey Maguire and British Vogue editor Edward Enninful were also aboard the yacht.
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It is unclear when DiCaprio met Ceretti, but they were seen hanging out for the first time together a few weeks after the “Don’t Look Up” star’s Spanish escapades.
DiCaprio took his rumored fling out for an ice cream date on Aug. 22 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
They were photographed going for a stroll together at the time, while they each took a bite of their sweet treats.
An eyewitness claimed that they noticed a “vibe” between the two and added, “The way they were talking to each other. … You could feel the energy.”
Billionaire James Dolan has quietly moved to auction off the upscale Tao nightclub and restaurant chain — a move that insiders said looks like a desperate bid to fund the ballooning tab for a costly project in another arm of his entertainment empire, The Post has learned.
The New York mogul’s Madison Square Garden Entertainment — the conglomerate that owns not only the landmark home to the New York Knicks and Rangers, but also Radio City Music Hall and the Rockettes, among other properties — has hired Goldman Sachs to explore a sale of Tao Group, sources close to the situation said.
First-round bids for Tao — whose pricey clubs have long been playgrounds for Wall Street financiers and celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, Bella Hadid and Justin Bieber — are being submitted now, two sources with knowledge of the situation said.
Houston Rockets and Golden Nugget Casino owner Tilman Fertitta is a rumored suitor for Tao, one of the sources said.
Last month, a Morgan Stanley analyst calculated that Tao — which operates 32 New York City restaurants and clubs like Beauty & Essex, Lavo and Bar Moxy, as well as dozens of other venues in hotspots like London, Singapore and Dubai — was worth $524 million.
By that estimate, MSGE’s 67% stake in Tao would be worth $274 million, when subtracting Tao’s $85 million in debt. Insiders say that’s a sum that could help Dolan close a $600 million gap in the construction budget for the MSG Sphere, a state-of-the-art entertainment venue he’s building in Las Vegas whose price tag has nearly doubled to $2.2 billion.
Nevertheless, insiders say Dolan wants a premium price well above Morgan Stanley’s valuation as Tao expands beyond its New York City and Las Vegas base to the Middle East and Miami.
“Jim is looking at a 12 times Ebitda multiple,” a source with close knowledge of the sale said, which would be nearly $800 million. “It’s probably worth seven to eight.”
“Lots of rents on Tao properties are up in the next five years,” the source added, explaining why the multiple should be in the single digits. “You also have to continually reinvest.”
The source believes Dolan needing money to fund The Sphere might take a more reasonable price, although the source added that Dolan has a history of exploring and then canceling auctions.
MSGE declined to comment when contacted by The Post on Wednesday.
In 2017, Madison Square Garden had acquired its controlling stake in Tao for $181 million, with Tao founders Marc Packer, Rich Wolf, Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss retaining a minority stake in the business.
Tao has lately recovered from business woes that started even before the pandemic. The company was at risk of defaulting on its debt in 2019 after its revenue fell in half. MSG came in and loaned Tao $49 million after Tao lender JPMorgan refused to roll over its full $100 million loan, sources said.
Last year, Tao Group paid $99 million to acquire Hakkasan Group — a global chain of upscale restaurants and clubs with outposts in London, Las Vegas the Middle East and Asia — a deal that was generally considered to be shrewd and lucrative, sources said.
Sources said the Tao sale looks like a key source of cash for Dolan as he looks to raise money for the MSG Sphere. On Dec. 22, the project announced it had borrowed $275 million from a JPMorgan-led lender group.
On Dec. 6, MSGE announced it was going to spin off its namesake arena, along with Radio City Music Hall, the Radio City Rockettes and Christmas Spectacular and other live-entertainment properties into a separate, publicly traded company this spring. Proceeds from that spinoff could total nearly $600 million if it’s successful, according to analysts.
Meanwhile, MSG Networks — the so-called regional sports networks, or RSNs that air local cable-TV broadcasts of Knicks games, as well as those of the NHL’s Rangers, New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils — will remain at the parent company that currently houses the Tao Group and the MSG Sphere.
A judge dismissed the 2021 kidnapping case against the Colorado gay nightclub shooter even though she had previously raised concerns about the defendant stockpiling weapons and explosives and planning a shootout, court transcripts obtained Friday by The Associated Press reveal.
Relatives, including the grandparents who claimed to have been kidnapped, had also told Judge Robin Chittum in August last year about Anderson Aldrich’s struggles with mental illness during a hearing at which the judge said Aldrich needed treatment or “it’s going to be so bad,” according to the documents.
Yet no mention was made during a hearing this July of the suspect’s violent behavior or the status of any mental health treatment.
And Chittum, who had received a letter late last year from relatives of Aldrich’s grandparents warning the suspect was certain to commit murder if freed, granted a defense attorney’s motion to dismiss the case as a trial deadline loomed and the grandparents had stopped cooperating.
The revelation that Chittum regarded the defendant as a potentially serious threat adds to the advance warnings authorities are known to have had about Aldrich’s increasingly violent behavior and it raises more questions about whether the recent mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs could have been prevented.
Five people were killed and 17 wounded in the Nov. 19 attack. Aldrich was charged last week with 305 criminal counts, including hate crimes and murder. Aldrich’s public defender has declined to talk about the case, and investigators have not released a motive.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said transcripts of court hearings in the case confirmed his view that “more could have been done to prevent the violence.”
Dershowitz acknowledged that he didn’t know every detail in front of Chittum during the hearings but said that while judges are typically supposed to be umpires, “judges are usually more aggressive in cases like this, when the handwriting is on the wall.”
In many cases, Dershowitz said, prosecutors can overreach to get a conviction, but “here, you have the legal system failing.”
Chittum’s comments in Aldrich’s kidnapping case had previously been under a court seal that was lifted last week at the request of prosecutors and news organizations including the AP. Chittum’s assistant, Chad Dees, said Friday that the judge declined to comment.
“You clearly have been planning for something else,” Chittum told Aldrich during the August 2021 hearing, after the defendant testified about an affinity for shooting firearms and a history of mental health problems.
“It didn’t have to do with your grandma and grandpa. It was saving all these firearms and trying to make this bomb, and making statements about other people being involved in some sort of shootout and a huge thing. And then that’s kind of what it turned into,” the judge said.
Aldrich — whose defense lawyers say is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns — spoke to Chittum in court that day about repeated abuse as a young child by their father and longtime struggles with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder, the transcript shows.
(The vast majority of people with mental illnesses are not violent, studies show, and experts say most people who are violent do not have mental illnesses. Additionally, nonbinary people and advocates warn against making assumptions about people with nontraditional gender identities.)
Aldrich, who was largely raised by their grandparents, wanted to join the military as a teenager but decided it wasn’t going to happen, the transcripts show. The suspect described refusing to take medications and then “getting on track” after moving to Colorado, obtaining a medical marijuana license and starting college, according to the transcripts.
“I also went to the (shooting range) as often as I could since the age of 16,” Aldrich testified, the transcripts show. “My mom and I would go … sometimes multiple times a week and have fun shooting. This is a major pastime for me. Going to school, working and then relaxing at the shooting range.”
Aldrich said they went to Dragonman’s shooting range east of Colorado Springs, where the dirt driveway was lined by mannequins that looked bloodied Friday. Nearby were rusted vehicles, some peppered in bullet holes. Two people who appeared to work at the range said they did not know Aldrich and declined further comment.
Shooting at the range “was highly therapeutic for me, and was a great way to spend spare time,” Aldrich told Chittum.
When Aldrich’s grandparents made plans to move to Florida, the suspect became despondent. Leading up to the 2021 confrontation with authorities, Aldrich started drinking liquor regularly and smoking heroin, dropped out of school and quit working, the transcript shows.
The charges in that case against Aldrich — who had stockpiled explosives and allegedly spoke of plans to become the “next mass killer” before engaging in an armed standoff with SWAT teams — were thrown out during a four-minute hearing this past July at which the prosecution didn’t even argue to keep the case active.
The prosecution was the responsibility solely of the district attorney, said Ian Farrell, associate professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, noting that judges like Chittum have no power to force charges.
“Since a deadline for proceeding with (Aldrich’s) trial was coming up and the prosecution clearly was not ready to proceed … the trial judge had no choice but to dismiss the case,” Farrell said.
Judges can appoint special prosecutors in extreme situations, such as when a decision not to prosecute is done in bad faith, Farrell said. But the 2021 case did not appear to rise to that bar, he said, because witnesses in the case were unavailable.
Howard Black, spokesperson for the district attorney’s office, has said he cannot share information about the kidnapping case because it’s part of the current investigation. El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen has said his office did everything it could to prosecute the case, including trying to subpoena Aldrich’s mother, but has repeatedly declined to elaborate.
During the 2021 standoff, Aldrich allegedly told the frightened grandparents about firearms and bomb-making material in the basement of the home they all shared. Aldrich vowed not to let the grandparents interfere with plans to “go out in a blaze.”
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Aldrich livestreamed on Facebook a subsequent confrontation with SWAT teams at the house of their mother, Laura Voepel, where the defendant eventually surrendered, was arrested and had weapons, ammunition and more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of explosive materials seized.
The FBI had received a tip on Aldrich a day before the threat but closed out the case just weeks later with no federal charges filed.
By August 2021, when Aldrich bonded out of jail, the grandparents were describing the suspect as a “sweet young” person, according to the transcripts. At two subsequent hearings that fall, defense attorneys described how Aldrich was attending therapy and was on medications, the transcripts show.
In an October 2021 courtroom exchange, Chittum told Aldrich to “hang in there with the meds.”
“It’s an adjustment period for sure,” Aldrich replied, to which the judge replied, “Yeah it will settle, don’t worry. Good luck.”
The case had been headed toward a plea agreement early this year but fell apart after family members stopped cooperating and prosecutors failed to successfully serve a subpoena to testify to Aldrich’s 69-year-old grandmother Pamela Pullen, who was bedridden in Florida.
There is scant discussion in the transcripts of efforts by prosecutors to subpoena other potential witnesses — including Aldrich’s mother, grandfather and a fourth person who is listed in court documents but not identified.
Although authorities missed some warning signs about Aldrich’s capability for violence, the opposite happened across the country in Minnesota this week, where a man who said he idolized Aldrich was arrested after trying to buy grenades from an FBI informant and building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against police, according to charges.
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