NEW YORK — The most unlikely guest at the $50 million wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in Venice was newlywed Huma Abedin, who was Hillary Clinton’s right hand.

Abedin just married Alex Soros, son of leftie billionaire George Soros, but she came alone.

The word among those in the know is that the Democratic Party got her invited through Anna Wintour.

“With several billionaires attending the wedding, including Bill Gates, it was a good time to talk about the midterms and opening up their checkbooks,” said my source. “Apparently honeymoons be damned.”

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Steve Stanulis was an NYPD cop, a male stripper, actor, producer and bodyguard for Kanye West for five years. But his most exciting job is as a private investigator.

The Staten Island native founded Silver Shield Investigation Services. “We’re fixers, like Ray Donovan,” he told me.

One client was a woman who hired a male escort who drugged her and videotaped her having sex and then blackmailed her.

Posing as a fellow male escort, Stanulis befriended the blackmailer.

“He invited me to come with him and I wore a wire and he talked about how he drugs women and blackmails them.”

Stanulis explained who he was and told the creep he had him on tape. “So he backed off.”

No charges were brought, he said, because his client, who shall remain nameless, “just wanted it gone.”

Stanulis just launched a podcast “Bulletproof: The Operator Files,” and one of his first guests will be Michael Dowd, the NYPD officer who spent 12 years in prison for helping a drug cartel.

Dowd, once asked if he considered himself a police officer or a member of organized crime, answered, “I don’t know, both?”

“He wants to tell his story,” Stanulis said.

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Rue Matthiessen, who grew up in the Hamptons, has written a novel “Woman With Eyes Closed” that explains what’s been lost as farms were replaced by McMansions.

The daughter of late author Peter Matthiessen, who co-founded The Paris Review, told me, “The Hamptons is a victim of its success. I weave that into my book.”

Rue remembers the working-class farming and fishing village vibe and community rituals — like calling the operator to make a four-digit phone call.

She recalls the snowstorm of 1961 that knocked out heat and electricity for several days and how she and her mother moved in with a neighbor who had heat.

The Hamptons art scene and its attraction to thievery provided the plot. “I thought, ‘Gosh, I can fictionalize this.’”

Rue will be signing her book at the East Hampton Library’s Authors Night Aug. 9 with James Frey, Maureen Dowd and Griffin Dunne.

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Anthony Scaramucci, the Wall Street operator who was President Donald Trump’s press secretary for 10 days during his first term, will star July 26 at “The Next Level Life: Mindset Mixer.”

The get-together, at a private estate in the Hamptons, will also feature Fox Business host Liz Claman, former CNBCer Jon Najarian, and Northwell Health’s robotic surgery pioneer Dr. Agostino Cervone.

The event won’t be too serious though. There will be gourmet bites and music spun by by Lil Sumpin’ Sumpin’.

As one giddy publicist exclaimed, “This is where deals are made, ideas ignite, and connections redefine futures.”

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The highlight of the party Amy Green threw on a 300-foot yacht off the coast of Ibiza was a mermaid.

“We had an aerialist who emerged from the ocean in a net,” said Amy, whose husband Gary is an heir to SL Green Realty Corp., Manhattan’s largest office landlord. “It was unbelievable.”

DJs Blond:ish and Camelphat spun for such guests as movie director Michael Bay and Abe and Erin Lichy from “Real Housewives of New York.”

The bash was aimed at reducing the huge amount of plastic garbage in the oceans. The couple has raised over $6 million for the Green Vision Foundation.

“The message was bringing people together to help the planet,” Amy said. “We don’t have to use plastic.”

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Lauren Day Roberts knows how to throw a swanky Southampton soiree. Vintage cars, hors d’oeuvres, NYC Ballet dancers all on the 8-acre estate she shares with husband Bob.

“It’s a beautiful day for drinks and good friends,” she told the A-List philanthropic crowd.

Candace Bushnell, Larry Wohl, Leesa Rowland, Dottie Herman, Maria and Kenneth Fishel and Jean Shafiroff rubbed taffeta shoulders.

Palm Beach and Manhattan editor Katlean de Monchy threw together the guest list. But the real star of the afternoon was $30 million dollars worth of Leviev diamond jewelry supplied by cohost Chagit Leviev.

When former “Saturday Night Live” stylist Sue Kort tried on a $2.8 million necklace, someone yelled “Run!” Everyone laughed except for security (and there was a lot of it) so Kort stayed put.

Leviev donated a portion of the baubles’ bottomline to charity. “Art has the power to open hearts,” Chagit said. And wallets for a good cause.

Others in the posh party, to benefit the Southampton Arts Center, included R. Couri Hay, Ana Martins and NPR host Bill McCuddy who was pretty sure he “fell asleep on a plane to Paris and woke up in Versailles.”

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Alexandra Daddario, 39, who starred in the first season of “White Lotus” with Jennifer Coolidge, is baring more than just her skin in her Social Life cover story from publisher Justin Mitchell.

In an intimate sit-down with Editor-in-Chief Devorah Rose, the sexy actress opens up about on-screen nudity:

“It doesn’t bother me to be nude on screen. I don’t do it for the sake of doing it. I do it because it’s right for the role.”

Daddario, who’s currently playing a sorceress in the supernatural horror thriller “Mayfair Witches” on AMC, didn’t hold back when it came to describing what draws her to certain roles.

“The darkness doesn’t scare me. The sexuality doesn’t scare me. That’s all part of being human. I think it’s fun to let that loose now and then.”

The bodacious actress, who starred in the movie “Baywatch” with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Zac Efron, confessed, “I never thought of myself as sexy. I spent more time hiding my body than showing it. I didn’t do the nude scenes because I felt bold or confident. Those scenes were both hard and vulnerable … but that’s also what made it a challenge.”

Don’t mistake the goddess energy for ego — she’s making movies with both feet on the ground. The cover story hits the newsstands this weekend.

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Cuba Gooding Jr. and his girlfriend of six years, Claudine De Niro, the former daughter-in-law of Robert De Niro, led a conga line of nearly one hundred guests around the Southampton Arts Center to the tune of “Love Train.”

The song was performed live by That Motown Band during the 5th annual “Whimsy: Motown Magic” benefit at the museum.

Among those joining in the fun were board members Jamee and Peter Gregory, Sylvia Hemingway, Kara Ross, Elyn Kronemeyer, Nicole Salmasi, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Jean Shafiroff, and the institution’s executive director Christina Strassfield.

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