This is an Instagram photo Stella McCartney posted yesterday. Gwyneth Paltrow doing some kind of “No leaks!” tampon-commercial jump-pose. I guess the bikini is designed by Stella? I’m surprised it fits. Because nothing Stella designs ever fits. As I was glancing through Stella’s Instagram, I was reminded that Gwyneth had also attempted social media too – she has a Twitter page. She hasn’t tweeted since April 12th. What’s up, Goop?

As you can imagine, people are still talking about Gwyneth’s appearance at the East Hampton Library fundraiser, where “authors” signed copies of their books, etc. We covered the shade being thrown at Goop earlier this week – Jay McInerney tweeted something and Cristina Oxenberg wrote a blog post slamming Goop. So what really happened?

Dennis Fabiszak, a spokesman for the library, said it was no big deal.

“There was not a disturbance at the event. Gwyneth helped raise a lot of money for the East Hampton Library. She signed a lot of books for guests at the event. We are very thankful to Gwyneth and all the other great authors and look forward to having them back next year,” he said in an email.

McInerney told Speakeasy today that his tweet was a reflection of reports from Oxenberg and others at the party, though he noticed “a hubbub” that he figured was surrounding Paltrow.

“I was reacting more in sympathy to Christina than to any personal injury,” he said. “I was seated about 10 places away from Christina so I was mostly engaged with the people who had actually come to see me.”

Fabiszak also said Oxenberg’s blog post “was meant as a funny yet slightly snarky post that got blown out of proportion. The author has written a clarification piece.”

[From the Wall Street Journal]

Catherine did write a “clarification piece” but it reads like one of my mock-posts on Lady Gaga’s high art or my coverage of Gwyneth’s “wardrobe suggestions for peasants.” Here’s Oxenberg’s piece:

Allow me to clarify, the divinity Ms. Paltrow was perfection itself. Gorgeous, and sweet and thoroughly professional. She was mobbed by adoring, worshipful fans and at all times she remained poised and gracious. Her bodyguards were only doing their job. And in fact she did need them.

While my writing style is cheeky and irreverent, my goal is simply to spin entertainment.

I’m delighted so many readers found my account amusing, I thoroughly enjoyed myself that day. And frankly I was grateful for the material as I knew it would make writing my Sunday blog all the easier. It wrote itself. It’s just that I then forced the episode through the meat-grinder that is my sense of humor, merely to jazz things up. Certainly not with the intention of hurting anybody’s feelings, or ridiculing anyone, that is not my style. Honestly, I have no beef with Gwyneth!

That’s entertainment, folks!

[From Oxenberg’s Facebook]

Lainey thinks that Gwyneth is so powerful, she had the criticism shut down. I’m not so sure. I think both Oxenberg and McInerney realized too late that when they were talking about Gwyneth, they would be reaching a wider audience than they expected. What was meant as “just among friendly elites” bitch-fest turned into a wider audience who now thinks that all parties are rather immature.

Photos courtesy of Instagram, WENN.