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Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran isn’t buying what her co-stars are selling. Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of entrepreneurs pitching all kinds of ideas from the genius to the ridiculous — like spray can music — in the new media capital of the world … St. Petersburg Florida! read more AKPC_IDS += "3038,";

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Tropical bash in Union Square Barbara Corcoran knows that subtle’s no way to celebrate. The real estate mogul, who sold the Corcoran Co. in 2001 for about $70 million, now appears on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” and she threw a tropical-themed Tuesday night bash in honor of her book “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 Into a Billion Dollar Business.” Glittery shirtless dudes distributed mai tais at the Union Square space while Barbara sat in a throne  beneath a tree of billion-dollar bills bearing her likeness. Co-author Bruce Littlefield wore a costume that made it look like he was being eaten by a shark. And “Today’s” Al Roker was just being his bad self. read more AKPC_IDS += "3020,";

Success is the best revenge Barbara Corcoran will never forget what her former real-estate partner and live-in beau, Ray Simone, told her when she informed him she was leaving him and going into business for herself: “You will never make it without me.” Corcoran walked out because, as she writes in her hot-off-the-presses book, “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 Into a Billion Dollar Business,” Simone was having an affair with their secretary (whom he later married). So we’re not surprised to hear that her ex was one of the first people Corcoran invited to her book party this Tuesday at 15 Union Square West. So far, Simone hasn’t RSVP’d, but Corcoran’s husband of 22 years, real-estate investor Bill Higgins will be on hand to fete his wife. read more AKPC_IDS += "3017,";