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Playboy Mansion sold at Hef price

Also in Tattle: Roots Picnic, Miss USA, Sally Field and much more

HEY CUPCAKE, in some sort of cosmic joke, the Playboy Mansion has been sold to the private equity firm manager whose fund owns Hostess.

And Twinkies.

And Ding Dongs.

USA Today reports that Daren Metropoulos of Metropoulos & Co., plans to buy the home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles.

The Playboy Mansion was listed at $200 million, but we're guessing that had less to do with the number of bedrooms (12) than who was in them. A final sale price was not disclosed.

The Wall Street Journal, which broke the mansion news, reported that Metropoulos is familiar with the mansion as Hef sold him an adjacent house, seven years ago, for $18 million.

So was he "the boy next door"?

Metropoulos has agreed to let Hef, 90, live in the mansion, which comes with five acres, a grotto and a zoo license (for the heavy petting?), for the rest of his life.

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On Saturday,

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

and

Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter

announced that the Roots Picnic will be expanding to New York city this fall.

Monday, the details came in. It'll be a two day Picnic-as it was in Philadelphia in 2012-with The Roots, D'Angelo and John Mayer headlining on Oct. 1 and the Wu Tang Clan, David Byrne and Nile Rodgers of Chic (all backed by the Roots) on Oct. 2. The shows will take place in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, behind the main branch of the New York Public Library.

There will be Philly flavor, besides The Roots, on the bill both days. Chill Moody plays Oct. 1 and DJ Jazzy Jeff on Oct. 2.

No date yet on ticket sales.

Tattle did Miss USA

It happened too late for yesterday's Tattle - we think celebrity silliness for 24 hours a day but the company only pays us for 8 of them - but in case you missed it, the new Miss USA is anArmy officer from the District of Columbia who gave perhaps the strongest answer of the night when asked about women in combat.

"As a woman in the United States Army, I think . . . we are just as tough as men. As a commander of my unit, I'm powerful, I am dedicated," Deshauna Barber, 26, said. "Gender does not limit us in the United States."

Barber is the first-ever military member to win Miss USA. She said she plans to use the pageant's spotlight and her title to support veteran's causes and tackle the issue of suicide and PTSD among military members.

TATTBITS

* Emmy- and Oscar-winner and fountain of youth-finder

Sally Field

will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of

The Glass Menagerie

, playing a part she has tackled before but never managed to shake.

Field will play Amanda Wingfield, the faded Southern belle at the heart of the Tennessee Williams play. She played Amanda in 2004 at the Kennedy Center but said that run felt too short.

The new "The Glass Menagerie" will play the Golden Theatre, beginning Feb. 14, with an official opening night set for March 23.

* The publisher Portfolio told the Associated Press on Monday that it had acquired Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success. The book is slated for next spring.

According to Portfolio, a business imprint of Penguin Random House, the book will advocate an "inclusive and celebratory" vision for working women and help them "create the lives they want to live."

Ivanka is an executive vice president in her father's company - whoa, can she give us tips on how to get that job - and the author of The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life.

* What was supposed to be a surprise Kanye West show in NYC turned to chaos as more than 4,000 people swarmed Webster Hall, which only holds 1,500, early Monday for the pop-up show. Shortly before 2 a.m., Webster Hall tweeted that there would be no show.

Police made one arrest for disorderly conduct while dispersing the crowd.

* And in Freehold Township, police say 28 people were injured when a crowd of mostly teenage girls rushed the stage at a Dolan Twins show Saturday night.

Police Officer Daniel Rehberg told the Asbury Park Press the girls hyperventilated, some suffered ankle injuries and bloody noses. Seven people were hospitalized.

Police took the stage and told the crowd to settle down.

Two questions: How can anyone settle down when they're so close to the Dolan Twins?

Who are the Dolan twins?

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.

gensleh@phillynews.com

215-854-5678 @DNTattle