• Software entrepreneur Peter Norton has gone into contract to sell his 45th-floor, 4,415-square-foot apartment at the Trump International, which had been listed most recently for $17.9 million. Norton probably won't have to worry about moving: He paid $6.8 million for a smaller condo on West 13th Street back in August. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Todd Waterbury, creative director of Wieden + Kennedy's New York office, paid $1.375 million for a ninth-floor, one-bedroom apartment at 180 West 58th Street. [Cityfile]
• The government of Iceland has put the four-bedroom home of its UN ambassador at 417 Park Avenue on the market for $5.6 million. [WSJ, SC]
• Gaetano Sallorenzo, the former CEO of Calvin Klein Jeans in Europe and Asia (and who now runs Italy's Fashion Box Group) has paid $1.645 million for a pied-à-terre at 133 West 22nd Street. [Cityfile]
• Retired Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata has cut the price of the apartment building he owns at 43 Crosby Street for the seventh time since first listing it for $22 million in January 2008. It's now on the market for $15 million. [WSJ, PDE]

Most banks are running for cover these days, seeking out ways to cut costs whenever possible. Not TD Bank! The company that scooped up Commerce Bank last year says it plans to continue expanding, which means pretty soon you'll be able to cash in your change (or pick up free treats for your dog, left) on every corner in the city. The next stop for the recession-defying bank, according to a spokesman: "We have another store under construction at Canal and Lafayette in Chinatown opening at the end of March." Take that, WaMu. [NYO, Flickr]

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has reportedly decided not to run for reelection this fall. The 89-year-old is "expected to make his intentions public in the next few weeks," a source tells the Post, "but hasn't yet settled on who he'd prefer to see as a successor." [NYP]

Chelsea Clinton is celebrating her 29th birthday today. Elizabeth Taylor is turning 77. Josh Groban is 28. Ralph Nader is 75. Joanne Woodward, the Oscar-winning actress and widow of Paul Newman, turns 79. Actor Noah Emmerich is turning 44. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Johnny Van Zant is 50. Rozonda Thomas (or Chilli) from TLC is 38. And the head of the 92nd St. Y, Sol Adler, turns 55. Weekend birthdays—including Olivia Palermo's big day—after the jump.

• The Treasury Department announced a plan to save Citigroup from near-certain doom. The government will take a 36 percent stake in the company, three-quarters of the bank's shareholders will be wiped out, and the board will be overhauled. Vikram Pandit? He keeps his job. [WSJ, BN, NYT]
• New GDP figures indicate "the U.S. recession deepened a lot more in late 2008 than first reported." The figures haven't been this bad since '82. [WSJ]
• Stocks tumbled this morning on the Citigroup and GDP news. [BN]
• Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed Bank of America seeking the names of the Merrill execs who received $3.6 billion in bonuses. This comes after BofA CEO Ken Lewis failed to provide the details during his deposition yesterday. [DB]
• A "mutiny is brewing" within UBS's investment banking unit following the ouster of the bank's CEO, Marcel Rohner. [NYP]
• Blackstone reported a fourth-quarter loss of $827.1 million. [BN]
• Bernie Madoff moved $164 million from London to New York in the weeks before he was busted, according to new court documents. [NYP]
• Scammer Sam Israel has moved from a prison hospital back to prison. [AP]

• After a handful of false alarms (and after claiming they were weren't even engaged) Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen finally got married yesterday, tying the knot in a small ceremony at a Catholic church in Santa Monica. [Us, People]
• It looks like Jeremy Piven won't be penalized for walking away from Speed-the-Plow, since officials from Actors' Equity and the Broadway League couldn't come to a consensus at his hearing yesterday. [NYT, NYP]
• Russell Simmons has agreed to pay Kimora $40,000 a month in child support until their daughters turn 19. [People]
• Derek Jeter is supposedly dating a 22-year-old FIT student. Given she enjoys playing his voicemails for her group of friends, you probably shouldn't expect the relationship to last very long. [NYDN]

You may be seeing some new taxis on the street in the near future!

• A preview of what's planned for Milan Fashion Week. [Vogue UK]
• Roberto Cavalli isn't the only designer in Milan grappling with the gloomy economy: The parent of Gianfranco Ferré is now bankrupt, and some Italian designers are hoping for a government bailout. [NYT, NYM, Telegraph]
• You won't find too many Americans shopping in Milan these days thanks to the economy and dollar. Ukrainians, however, are everywhere. [IHT]
• What recession? The champagne flowed in London this week. [Fashionista]
• Michelle Obama debuted a new hairdo last night! [NYM]
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have a new men's line in the works. [WWD]
• Fashion's "10 most controversial obsessions." [Pipeline]

• Eric Hara is leaving David Burke's Townhouse and Fishtail. He'll be replacing Joël Antunes as executive chef at the Plaza's Oak Room. [TFB, GS, DJ]
• Inakaya opens tonight. And the bathrooms totally rock. [GS, Zagat]
• Burger expert Josh Ozersky comes up with a revised list of NYC's top 10. [CS]
• Padma Lakshmi is "putting her passion for meat into a new commercial for Hardee's Bacon Western Thickburger." No comment. [People]
• Megu may take over the Merkato 55/Bijoux space on Gansevoort St. [DBTH]
• Dock's Oyster Bar on Broadway has closed its doors. [Eater]
• Your obsession with healthy food is killing your kids, just so you know. [NYT]
• According to a new poll, 41% of people in NYC describe themselves as "overweight" or "very overweight." The actual number? More like 56%. [NYP]

Meet April Charney, a lawyer who specializes in helping underwater homeowners stay in their homes, as she literally sinks into the oceanic backdrop behind her. You couldn't find a better way to sum up these difficult economic times if you tried. [Business Insider]

Simon Doonan, Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow hit the market in less than two hours! Act fast! Opportunities like this don't come around very often. Plus the money goes to a good cause, which should make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, independently of the fact you're going to actually sit down with Andy and watch him masticate. [Bailey House 21st Annual Auction]

Eliot Spitzer came out of hiding the other night to make an appearance at an event organized by The Atlantic, money manager Boykin Curry and his wife, interior designer Celerie Kemble. Billed as a "Not State of the Union viewing party" (and held at a townhouse owned by Russian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik), the former governor took to the mic after President Obama finished his remarks before Congress and explained to the crowd who he thought deserved blame for the current economic crisis:

Partners & Spade, the latest venture by Andy Spade, opened a new outpost on Great Jones Street last night. The shop, which is only open on weekends and sells objects from $10 to $80,000, doesn't sell any "products," though. Spade prefers to calls the items on display "installations." And what is the most popular "installation," according to Spade? "A collection of Lehman Brothers–branded merchandise ranging from an infant onesie to a golf-ball set, all procured on eBay." This white Lehman-branded baseball cap is priced at $80. Sure, you could buy the same exact cap on eBay directly for one-eighth the price. But it wouldn't have Spade's seal of approval, would it? [Vanity Fair]

It seems someone is stalking Rush Limbaugh! Apparently Limbaugh's caretaker in Palm Beach called 911 yesterday to report that a woman had tried to sneak on to Limbaugh's property when the gates of the compound opened to let in Rush's Maybach. She's been described as white, between 30 and 40 years old, and she's reportedly driving a "new white sedan of undetermined make." Ann Coulter is a little old to match the description, yes. But Rush's new fiancée fits the bill and they do say OxyContin can impair judgment, so you may want to take that into consideration. [Page2Live]

Cameron Diaz getting in a cab ... Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo walking out of a restaurant on Madison ... Alec Baldwin arriving at JFK ... Sarah Jessica Parker leaving her townhouse on Charles Street ... Katie Holmes standing on the set of The Extra Man in Chelsea ... Fran Drescher leaving the Empire Hotel ... Ed Westwick eating a candy bar on the Gossip Girl set ... and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt leaving The Little Mermaid on Broadway with their kids in tow.

• Jerry Seinfeld has a new project in the works for NBC. The Marriage Ref will feature celebs "judging couples in the midst of marital disputes." [THR]
• The Times is scaling back the number of issues it publishes of T. [NYP]
• The Gray Lady does say it has enough cash to last through '09, though. [E&P]
• Denver's Rocky Mountain News is shutting down on Friday. [AP]
• Fox has renewed The Simpsons for two more seasons. [Variety]
• ABC collected $72 million for the 26 minutes of ad time it sold during the Oscars. Overall, ad spending fell by 10 percent this year, though. [TVW, NYT]
• Doubledown Media, which ceased operations recently, is bankrupt. [MM]
• You can now download CBS shows to your iPhone. Enjoy. [NYT]

The Plaza's developers have been having a hard time keeping residents as of late, and now it looks like they're having a tough time keeping the doormen around, too. Ed Trinka, the building's longest-serving doorman, is leaving his post today after 46 years on the job. Trinka just turned 65, which was why he said he was now bidding goodbye to the hotel. But it's also possible the overpriced $43 Dover sole at the "stagy, oppressive" Oak Room was a factor.

Hoping to lose a couple extra pounds before spring break? Still deciding which diet will get you into that size-zero bikini the fastest? A group of Harvard researchers just released the results of a comprehensive study of four different weight loss methods, which was conducted over a two-year period and involved 800 participants. So which one worked the best?

Victoria Floethe is the young writer who had a lengthy affair with Vanity Fair contributor and author Michael Wolff, according to our sources. But Wolff isn't the only prominent man the self-described "femme fatale" has been connected to in recent years: Gawker.com just published some additional info on Floethe's rather prolific past here, if you're keeping score at home. In the meantime, you'll find a few more photos of the young writer who has captured the attention of so many older men after the jump.

The sale of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé's vast art collection has ended and the final sales tally is in. All told, the Christie's event took in $484.6 million, making it the biggest private art auction in history. If you missed the action in Paris and you're a bit bummed about it, do note that Bergé says he now plans to sell Saint Laurent's former apartment on Rue de Babylone. You couldn't find a pied-à-terre in Paris with a more impressive pedigree if you tried! [WWD]