Ms. Homsey launched into her seven-step plan for packing a section with VIPs.

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Growing demand may mean even more frequent dinner parties at her 110-sq-m apartment, which features a few dozen photos of her with vips like Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

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Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois recently became the first GOP senators to endorse same-sex marriage, and a supportive brief was filed with the Supreme Court by dozens of other Republican VIPs, including several former governors.

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Originally conceived as a royal palace for visiting VIPs, the nearly-500-room hotel sits on 52 acres of gardens (complete with 600-year-old olive trees imported from Lebanon) and guests are chauffeured around in Cadillac golf carts.

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