Celebrity Pre-Derby party helps fight Diabetes Celebs of all shapes and colors turned out for the pre-derby event the Barnstable Brown gala on Friday night. The posh evening was host to many people in show business, including Larry Birkhead, returning to the event where he originally met Anna Nicole Smith in 2004. I’m sure it was an emotional outing for him. The parties proceeds went to the cause of finding a cure for diabetes, a disease that is running rampant in this country.

Other attendees of the part included Jenny McCarthy, Cybill Shepard, Bobby Flay my favorite chef from Iron Chef America, and actor Jerry O’Connell of Sliders fame. The event was started by two sisters Patricia Barnstable Brown and Priscilla Barnstable after the death of David E. Brown, Patricia’s husband, in 2003 when he succumbed to diabetes. All the money raised will fun research at the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky.