Moral of the story, don’t trust the Hollywood elites.
It was probably a seat warmer. At the Hollywood events they have a bunch of people waiting in the wings to fill in seats when somebody is going to be gone a while (or permanently, lots of folks leave after their category is done) so that audience pan shots don’t show a bunch of empty seats. Seat warmers are slightly better than schmoes off the street.
Gee, was Lindsay Lohan there?