The Daily Dish (meaning gossip page) at the N.Y. Daily News says today that bad-boy Beverly Hills publisher Michael Viner, no stranger to the pages of L.A. Observed, and his wife Deborah Raffin are splitting up. In fact, Viner had just sat down to breakfast at Nate & Al's with Larry King last Saturday when he was served the divorce papers. (Scroll way down)
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