1,999 Black Tie VIPS Celebrate SLS's Opening

The empire of SBE has a new castle. The SLS Hotel (The Meridien'05) on La Cienega celebrated its grand opening with a 2000 person basement to rooftop mega party last night (Thurs 4 Dec).

 Hip Hop icon Jermaine Dupri ("Mr. Jackson if you're Nasty" 'current) owns So So Def Records, but So So Ignored the black tie dress code.

 He plays a nightlife mogul on The Hills, and Entourage. Now SBE CEO Sam Nazarian (USC'97) is angling to be Paris Hilton's next BFF. (The show's current winner/loser was there also.)

P.S. No cameras allowed inside. These were hustled from Wireimage.