On Sunday night, Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education” aired live from the Beacon Theater in New York City with a full slate of celebrities. Jimmy Buffett and his wife Jane were in attendance (view red carpet photo here), and when host Jon Stewart asked the audience to open [...]

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Jimmy Buffett attended a Houston dinner party on Friday night to honor artist John Alexander: Few at the Hotel ZaZa dinner Friday night could have anticipated the entertaining barrage of praise, humor and gentle barbs continually lobbed at artist John Alexander. It was, after all, a celebration of his remarkable career, a dinner for 135 that seemed [...]

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Jimmy and Jane Buffett’s second child turns sixteen today. Sarah Delaney Buffett was born April 1st, 1992. The song “Delaney Talks To Statues” from the album Fruitcakes was written about her. I wonder if Jimmy was at the Florida DMV this morning? Happy Sweet Sixteen Sarah Delaney! Buffett has two other children: Savannah Jane, age 28, and Cameron [...]

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Lucy Buffett, sister of Jimmy Buffett and owner of Lulu’s at Homeport in Gulf Shores, Alabama, has ordered another 10,000 copies of her new cookbook after the first 2,000 went quickly. WKRG TV has an interview with Lucy about “Crazy Sista Cookin”: “I always wanted to write the book.” she told News 5’s Bill Riales. “I [...]

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The Palm Beach Post has an article on Jimmy Buffett’s former pilot Randy Leslie, who was let go by Buffett a year and a half ago and died in December: “Did Buffett Botch Jamaica Pilot’s Exit?” “Randy said to me about a year and a half ago: ‘They’re retiring me!’ He didn’t seem to know why,” [...]

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Seven years ago today Jimmy Buffett was ejected from a Miami Heat game for swearing at referee Joe Forte, who didn’t even know who Buffett was. Jimmy is a season ticket holder and regularly attends Heat games. After the game, referee Joe Forte said that he ordered the singer moved during the fourth quarter because “there [...]

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CupCakes for the Tribe details the similarities and differences between Jimmy Buffett and billionaire investor Warren Buffett, whom Jimmy refers to as “Uncle Warren,” in their latest podcast. On first blush they may appear as if they’re worlds apart, but Warren Buffett and Jimmy Buffett, having respectively built huge empires and fortunes based on their fields [...]

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Jimmy Buffett’s sister Lucy “Lulu,” owner of Lulu’s at Homeport, has released a new cookbook. “Crazy Sista Cooking: Cuisine and Conversation with Lucy Anne Buffett” is the next best thing to being there. “Inside you’ll find laugh-out-loud anecdotes, wit and wisdom from Lucy’s own kitchen, festive party menus, Buffett family favorites, and plenty of telling it [...]

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BuffettWorld would like to wish Jimmy a very happy 61st birthday today! Buffett was born December 25th, 1946 to James Delaney and Mary Lorraine “Peets” Buffett in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Other famous persons who share the same birthday with Jimmy include Sir Isaac Newton (1642), Rickey Henderson (1958), Annie Lennox (1954), Barbara Mandrell (1948), and Humphrey Bogart [...]

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The Press-Register has an article on Buffett’s grandfather’s shipwreck in Mobile: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday ordered a condo developer to stop digging up the sunken remains of a four-masted schooner once captained by the grandfather of singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. The decaying wooden hulk is that of the Chiquimula, a longtime Mobile Bay-area landmark, [...]

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