50 Cent holds party to trumpet new film. Tom Brady spotted at N9NE Restaurant. Paula Abdul may be choreographing show.

Details leaking from rapper 50 Cent's weekend promotional bash to trumpet his movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" could get the attention of watchdogs of the broadcasting industry.

Spies tell me 200 of the top hip-hop deejays around the country were flown in on somebody's dime for a weekend of decadence.

The itinerary included free booze stops Friday and Saturday at OPM, the nightclub at the Forum Shops at Caesars, and Crazy Horse Too, the strip club.

Prepaid lap dances were part of the latter.

Back in July, Sony BMG agreed to pay a $10 million fine for what New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer called widespread payola schemes that implicated Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez.

50 Cent motored around in an armored vehicle with fellow rappers Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and Mobb Deep and their security personnel.

Five custom buses were to transport the deejays to the various party hot spots.

The rapper's handlers rented out OPM's VIP Orchid Room for both nights and prepaid for 100 bottles.

The advance team's most unusual request: OPM and the Crazy Horse were asked not to play any songs by 50's rivals Fat Joe, Game and Ja Rule.

A Crazy Horse source tells me the club called in an extra 60 dancers on top of its usual stable of 250 to be available for the Paramount Studio/Interscope Records party.

THE SCENE AND HEARD

Roy Horn's stem-cell treatment, which appears to be a success based on his progress, cost a cool $500,000, upfront, I'm told. His treatment was to continue, but then came the shocking death of his stem-cell researcher. Dr. Albert Scheller of Germany's Leonardis Clinic was found dead Aug. 29 in his room at The Mirage while in town to visit Horn. ...

We may be seeing a lot more of "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul. There's buzz that she's choreographing a show for a new theater at the Silverton. Maybe that recent sighting of Abdul at Club Paradise was research to check out some new moves. ...

Much-decorated French chanteuse Line Renaud is being honored Monday with her induction into the Walk of Stars during ceremonies at the Paris Las Vegas. A Bob Hope discovery, she opened at the Dunes as the featured performer in "Casino de Paris" in 1963. A three-month engagement turned into two years and she returned in 1968 for another two-year run. ...

Dame Edna, one of the most celebrated comics in the United Kingdom, has signed a 16-show deal starting Dec. 18 at the Luxor. She's been appearing on Broadway in her all-new "Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance."

SIGHTINGS

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spinning heads Friday at N9NE restaurant (Palms). ... Hogs and Heifers owner Michelle Dell, her bartenders Pamela Faye Jenkins and Julie Trotter and marketing gal Jessica Hirshon, fetching the top bid of $7,500 for a quadruple date at First Friday's bachelorette auction for blondes. The winning bidders were Frederick Apcar, owner of the Celebrity nightclub, and Zac Conine, who appeared in the reality show about the Golden Nugget.

THE PUNCH LINE

"The jurors in the trial will be seeing graphic images of his atrocities -- like the picture of Saddam (Hussein) in his underpants." -- David Letterman

Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or nclarke@reviewjournal.com.