New York, March 29-April 2 - Janet Jackson spent the week in a whirlwind of events to promote her new recording, Damita Jo. (We thought “Look at my breasts” was Jackson’s middle name, but it’s really Damita Jo.) Monday, Jackson appeared on the David Letterman show, and later Virgin Records tossed a record release party at new hotspot Spice Market. Jackson and maybe-fiancé Jermaine Dupri turned up late, both dressed in all white, (waaaaay after Labor Day), while a stream of limos delivered Patti LaBelle, Deborah Cox, sort-of presidential candidate Al Sharpton, rapper Ja Rule, Ice T, Queer Eye Jai Rodriguez and designer Betsey Johnson. We thought Courtney Love had headed back to L.A. after her own recent arrest-prone record promotion tour, but she stumbled in to the party late. Reportedly Justin Timberlake was invited, but declined.

We don’t know which genius at ABC’s Good Morning America conceived Jackson’s free outdoor concert for Wednesday morning, (booked months before the Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction, per Diane Sawyer), but about 3,000 fans arrived by 6 A.M. to stand in the freezing drizzle to watch Janet’s two-song performance. (That’s the concert you all saw at home, warm, in your pajamas.) That afternoon, Jackson signed CDs, indoors, at the HMV store in Harlem.

Unlike Courtney Love, we’re positive Janet’s back in L.A., where on Friday she appeared on On Air with Ryan Seacrest. Several thousand fans gathered for the concert at Hollywood and Highland (newsflash to ABC News – outdoor concerts during April work in L.A., not in New York), one sporting a T-shirt with the slogan “Lighten up America, it was only a boob!” During interviews, Janet remained mum on her rumored upcoming marriage to Dupri, so maybe her pierced-belly jewelry saying “JD’s” (Jermaine Dupri’s) was a wardrobe malfunction.

With Jen Lowery in Los Angeles