WASHINGTON — Sarah Jessica Parker had the hired help primping and preening around her West Village town house yesterday, getting it ready for her big bash tonight for President Obama.
The “Sex and the City” star’s home has been a beehive of activity all week, as Parker’s maids and gofers gussied up the place for the star-studded fund-raiser on behalf of Obama’s re-election campaign.
Parker even had a housekeeper out dusting the front door with a Swiffer Sweeper.
Laborers yesterday were toting in rolled up rugs, after previously hauling in stacks of chairs, bouquets of flowers and a piano for the reception, which was organized with the assistance of Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
High rollers from the movie and fashion worlds are paying $80,000 per couple to rub elbows with the president and First Lady Michelle Obama at the event. But a lucky sweepstakes winner who contributed at least $3 online to Obama will join the hobnobbing.
The town house that Parker owns with movie-star hubby Matthew Broderick wasn’t the only New York locale abuzz about today’s visit by the first couple.
After the reception at SJP’s home, the Obamas will trot over to a fundraising dinner at The Plaza hotel. The entertainment includes a performance by singer Mariah Carey.
The event, however, will be a little awkward for Obama, because it’s being co-hosted by Newark Mayor Corey Booker — who is on the outs with the president and his campaign team.
The Post reported last week that an Obama administration official said that Booker was “dead to us” after the mayor went off message on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Booker told a national audience on the talk show that Obama’s attacks on GOP rival Mitt Romney’s career at private-equity firm Bain Capital were “nauseating” and made him “very uncomfortable.”
It also could be uncomfortable for Obama during his visit earlier in the day to Ground Zero, where he will come face-to-face with one of Romney’s top campaign surrogates, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Christie, who has ruthlessly attacked the president, will join Gov. Cuomo to brief Obama about progress on One World Trade Center.
DOORKEEPER: Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s elegant West Village town house gets some final touches yesterday in advance of a fund-raiser being thrown for President Obama tonight. (Santiago Baez)
DOORKEEPER: Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s elegant West Village town house gets some final touches yesterday in advance of a fund-raiser being thrown for President Obama tonight. (
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Additional reporting by Josh Margolin