Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson

Celebrity News

Report from the Riviera

Former Knicks star Amar’e Stoudemire shopped up a storm with three women at the Louis Vuitton store in Monaco, and then spent 20 minutes filling out forms for the VAT (value added tax). Later, his ladies gambled in the Monte Carlo Casino while he was outside on his phone. Calling his agent? He still doesn’t have a team . . .

Taxi king Gene Freidman held his annual Fourth of July bash in the South of France, ending with an all-night poker game where he bested “attorney to the oligarchs” Ed Mermelstein, and 5wpr chief Ronn Torossian. Freidman didn’t fare as well in a race around the peninsula of Cap Ferrat in taxi-yellow motor scooters, coming in last . . .

The Post’s Dana Schuster reports Cher — unrecognized by the locals — got off a tender from a private yacht in St.-Tropez with Kyle Richards, the aunt of Paris Hilton, and they strolled together into Club 55.