Her publicists have been many and ambitious over the last few weeks. At most events, the publicists really don’t want to know you that much. However, for the last couple of weeks, Mariah’s publicists have been working the press lines, introducing themselves, getting cards, etc. Clearly someone’s decided to pull out all the stops for this album.

She’s wearing Ralph Lauren.

Party guests included Jermaine Dupri, Sean Combs, Jay Z, Kanye West, and Robin Williams.

It’s a sign of Robert Deniro’s clout that Vanity Fair throws an annual party every year to help open the Tribeca Film Festival. Although the guest list is a mere shadow of their Oscar party, it’s still a very useful event to cover. It’s even more interesting that Vanity Fair and the festival are able to have their party in the New York State Supreme Court building. The court is located downtown and is best known as the venue where Martha Stewart strolled in and out carrying various expensive handbags during her trial.

Who do you call to rent a courthouse for a party? It’s hard to imagine the red tape involved. Nonetheless Vanity Fair was allowed to turn the place into a glamorous night club for the evening.

Claudia Schiffer showed up. We almost never see her in New York. Her husband, Matthew Vaughn, is here to promote his new film “Layer Cake.” He’s directing X-Men 3, so it looks like he’s broken through to Hollywood big budget movies.

Nicole Kidman appeared as we had speculated. She was a little more accommodating than last night, but we still saw more of her back than her front. It’s a good looking back though.

Sheryl Crow continued her unusual bout of press-friendliness. Power to her. It’s not that hard.

The best moment though came when Robin Williams, who was shooting a movie just up the street, walked by and jumped in the press pen. He grabbed a camera and started shooting the celebs arriving for party. Everybody in the pen broke out laughing. I guess he hadn’t been invited. Robin Williams is another one of those people who’s as fun off the camera as in front of the camera. They’re rare though. Very.

I wish I had some pics of it, but I was down the block when it happened. I might see him tomorrow night at Lincoln Center event. Mariah Carey’s album release party is also tomorrow night, so I’ll be running around quite a bit.