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Salman Rushdie, who survived a fatwa and four marriages, celebrated a “wild” 65th-birthday party at the Four Seasons Restaurant on Tuesday night. The party thrown by Michelle Barish, which was complete with a titillating show by burlesque dancer Hazel Honeysuckle, included guests like hot Hollywood couple Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, The New Yorker Editor-in-Chief David Remnick and Diane von Furstenberg. Barish had declined a marriage proposal from the literary lothario in February, who presented her with a 7-carat emerald-cut diamond ring, but apparently the pair are still very close. “It was an incredible, wild and elegant party,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying. Guests were reportedly treated to a routine by experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson and kept the posh power-lunch restaurant rocking until midnight. Each guest received a hollow leather-bound book containing a scroll of Rushdie writings. Barish and Rushdie dated on and off after her split from Marquee co-owner Chris Barish.

Salman Rushdie celebrates `wild` 65th b’day bash in NY