Friends and family gathered at a Southern California home recently to celebrate King's birthday with backyard concert that featured performances from some of his oldest and dearest friends.

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Her husband, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, is doing a terrific job and Patty has become just one of my dearest friends and just always a spot of courage in a sea of work. (Laughter.) So where's Patty?

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The Wall Street banker-turned-lingerie queen rented nothing less than New York's famed Carnegie Hall, plus a whole 85-piece orchestra, so she could regale 2, 500 of her dearest friends and family -- including dad, Manila construction tycoon Felipe Cruz -- with compositions by Schumann and Rachmaninov.

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