Dauman, a friend acknowledges, is partying as hard as ever. Though he's grown sick of the scene in San Francisco, Dauman spends freely to find fun elsewhere, jetting to Vegas some weekends to party with his New Yorker girlfriend at events with a around four females for every male. (This is a new girlfriend; the dominatrix Dauman was said dating is history.)

Dauman's also returned to New York on a near-monthly basis, including for Fashion Week in February, and this summer to his parents' vacation home in East Hampton.

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Or so we're told. But Dauman's hedonism doesn't seem to have affected his work. Though his side gig, a music startup, appears defunct, the Columbia JD and MBA got a promotion at Google last month, from "Strategic Partner Development Associate" to "Strategic Partner Development Manager." (See the excerpt from Dauman's LinkedIn profile at left.)

Presumably this means Dauman will have more responsibility around local content acquisition, as his father has described his job. This could help sell his bosses on a New York move; AOL, the New York Times and Huffington Post are all duking out in the city and surrounding markets for local news website dominance.

It certainly wouldn't be Dauman's first time finagling an advantageous transfer. Below, Dauman Sr., well-to-do CEO of Viacom, describes how no less a negotiator than Google chief Eric Schmidt was persuaded to hire Dauman Jr., despite the Viacom suit.

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None of the invited reporters, as best we can tell, are film critics. Instead, they cover technology and business. Here's my bet: Most will show up, if only to get facetime with Viacom's CEO, who rarely makes it to northern California. But if Viacom really wanted to offer local hacks a good time, Zweig should have invited Dauman's son, Philippe Jr. For one thing, Philippe Dauman Jr. works at Google, which means he'd have an interesting perspective on the copyright dispute. And the kid knows how to party. Heck, if Junior shows up, we'll skip the movie and go wherever he leads us. We hang out with journalists far too often, and we're sure he's more fun than the lot who'll show up to the screening.

• Viacom's favorite tech reporters:
• Miguel Helft, New York Times
• Elinor Mills, CNET
• Owen Thomas, Valleywag
• Jackson West, Valleywag
• Scott Morrison, Dow Jones Newswires
• Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle
• Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times
• Rob Hof, BusinessWeek
• Mark Hachman, Ziff-Davis
• John Paczkowski, AllThingsD
• Mark Glaser, PBS
• Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
• Eric Auchard, Reuters
• Liz Gannes, GigaOm
• Brad Stone, New York Times
• Matt Richtel, New York Times
• Vindu Goel, San Jose Mercury News
• Eric Savitz, Barrons
• Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
• Tom Claburn, CMP
• George Anders, Wall Street Journal
• Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News

Dauman Jr.'s got his dad's Park Avenue pad in which to throw parties. According to people who have attended, they're the kind of snorting-lines-off-models'-behinds bacchanalia we never get invited to with lots of girls, boys, boys and girls. We've also heard he goes out with a professional dominatrix. How does he fit all this into his schedule? Unlike us, he doesn't waste time wishing he was Philippe Dauman Jr.