THE debt-ridden diva behind http://www.SaveKaryn.com is a few grand richer – thanks to a spate of publicity that began with a Post story last week.
“I’ve made a couple thousand dollars,” she said of her plea for strangers to help pay her bills, “and I haven’t even counted the donations from yesterday and today.”
The gifts have been pouring in for Karyn, a twentysomething resident of Cobble Hill, who turned to the Internet for relief after racking up $20,000 in bills for designer clothes and makeup.
But not everyone is sympathetic toward her cause.
Besides receiving 1,200 new e-mails, the site http://www.savekaryn.com has inspired a fiery response from two Staten Island residents who were so offended by Karyn’s bikini-wax binges that they launched http://www.SaveKarynNot.com.
“We couldn’t believe people were actually donating money,” said Scott Dolce, a 26-year-old IT manager.
He and friend Diane (who, like the target of her site, won’t reveal a last name) want people to give their cash to charity, not credit-card addicts.
“It’s not a ‘bash Karyn’ site,” insisted Dolce. “It just says, let’s go ahead and do some good for a good cause.”
The site directs viewers to a number of different charity organizations – especially multiple sclerosis, of which Diane is a sufferer – and charts how much money they’re donating.
“We’ve got $555 so far, and it hasn’t even been a week,” said Dolce.
He even went so far as to thank the Prada princess.
“She inspired us,” he said, “and hopefully we’ll inspire others.”
Karyn, for her part, hasn’t seen the site that takes her to task. “But I think it’s a lovely idea,” she said.
The reformed shopper plans to do her part for humanity, too, by giving her Web address away to another debt sufferer.
“I’ll keep [the site] up until the debt is gone,” she said, “then pass the torch to someone else.”
SaveWorldCom.com, perhaps?