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The “Drive Gorgeous” Rally and Dinner was hosted by Jaguar and Hogan last week on Further Lane in East Hampton at the former Bouvier summer estate. The event included a unique driving experience in the new Jaguar XK for a select group of drivers, including Lydia Hearst and Luigi Tadini, Thom Filicia, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Nacho Figueras, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, Patrick McMullan, Fabian and Martina Basabe, Food Network chef Dave Lieberman, Plum TV host Jenny Mayer, and more. These lucky drivers departed Further Lane for the Rolling Stones former haunt, the Memory Motel in Montauk. Here, they participated in a competition with a surprise reward for winners Jenny Mayer and Dave Lieberman – Rolling Stones tickets! Then they headed to the Church estate, the former home of Andy Warhol, where they shared folklore from the days when Warhol hosted his legendary parties at the country house, and finally, returned to Further Lane for a dinner on the grounds of the Bouvier estate. They were joined by friends, including Tommy Mottola and wife Thalia, Kelly Klein, Allison Sarofim, and Stella Schnabel.

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East Hampton’s Sean Combs, formerly known as Puff Daddy, then Puffy, then P Diddy, and finally just Diddy, — is Diddy no more, at least in Britain. The musician and entertainment mogul has agreed to drop the Diddy name as part of an out-of court legal settlement with London-based music producer Richard “Diddy” Dearlove, best known for his 1990s dance remix of Blondie’s “Atomic.”

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Stony Brook University presents its first program at Southampton College this weekend. President Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny will welcome participants, and East End resident and novelist Peter Matthiessen will give the keynote address, “Greed and Heritage” at the Wine, Food and Culture Symposium. Limited registration online at www.stonybrook.edu/sb/winecenter/Southampton on September 15.

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Lily Pulitzer, the iconic, preppy Palm Beach label, hosted a party in celebration of Fashion Week at Marquee on September 14. Hosts and guests included New York’s social set, among them Hamptonites Amanda Hearst, Lydia and Gillian Hearst Shaw, Lauren Bush, Dabney Mercer, Palmer Jones, Elizabeth Meigher, Tamie Peters Thomas, Annie Churchill, and Dani Stahl.

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Powerhouse attorney Barry Slotnick hosted his annual fundraiser at his Amagansett home this past weekend for Pediatric Cancer Research. Revelers included Fox 5’s John Rowland and Joanna Tult of the American Civic Association in Amagansett. They were relieved the house was equipped with plenty of candles when the blackout hit (courtesy of Tropical Storm Ernesto). The lights were only out for a moment but the candles remained lit. A good thing since the lights went out again, half hour before the party was over.

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Ann Liguori is being honored at the “Building Communities” golf tournament on October 10, which is sponsored by the Family Counseling Service, a community based agency serving the greater Westhampton community. The event will take place at Hampton Hills Golf and Country Club. Honorary Chairman Denis Sheahan, Publisher of House Magazine, will also be in attendance. To learn more about FCS visit us at www.familycounselingsvc.org

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Not even Hurricane Ernesto could stop “A Night in New Orleans” kick-off benefit at the home of Henry Buhl in Southampton last weekend. Big band leader Alex Donner performed Dixieland Jazz for designer Anait Bian, Donna Zillka and Ann Washburne. Donner will lead a slew of Louisiana musicians and singers, along with New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Sofiane Sylvia, when they perform at 24 Fifth Avenue to help raise funds for the displaced singers and musicians of Katrina on Sept. 14.

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The all-male, internationally celebrated, a cappella Group “High Cs” of Stony Brook University performed last weekend at Gurney’s Inn, entertaining the guests with classic oldies and contemporary pop. Everywhere they sang, the audience went wild, especially at the spa and the beach.

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Hamptonite Lauren Bacall spoke at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International last Monday, where she was greeted with warm applause. She discussed the making of the film How to Marry a Millionaire, the 1953 flick with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.

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The final leg of Eliot Spitzer’s last tour before the primary began with a flight from Buffalo to the Hamptons. There, the city-bred candidate for Attorney General got a crash-course in fishery at a Shinnecock Village, where he and running mate David Paterson, candidate for lieutenant governor, toured a vessel. After a quick pep rally in Suffolk County, the group headed to Paterson’s grade school, Spitzer will continue to campaign straight through Primary Day, pausing only on Monday for the 9/11 ceremony and to commemorate a state trooper who was killed upstate.