Nicole Richie's friends showed their affection for her by paying some high-priced party planner to throw her a baby shower over the weekend. This is the sort of thing rich people do to avoid having to expend what small mental capacity they have on anything remotely resembling a creative pursuit. Plus blowing up balloons is really hard when you're trying to snort coke off a coffee table at the same time, so you better just let someone else do all that.
The baby shower was, for some reason, Wizard of Oz-themed. There were life-sized figures of characters from the movie set up in the Beverly Hills Hotel and a Wizard of Oz cake. And Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was playing, and everyone noticed eerie parallels between the music and what was happening. Then they realized it was only the drugs kicking in.
Guests at the shindig reportedly included Paris Hilton (the Tin-Woman?), Lauren Conrad, Samantha Ronson (a dude at a baby shower?) and Sophie Monk, fiancee of Joel Madden's brother Benji. Conrad said of the affair:
The shower was great. It was really cute.
Of course someone else had to write that for her.
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