Gazelle Sightings
Last night, The Lamb’s Club hosted a relaunch party for Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, which Gripepad readers know will be out September 27th in a new updated edition, followed by the debut of an e-book version in October. The New York Observer, Whom You Know and The Corsair are the first out […]
Anatomy Is Destiny: The Return of Model (not that she ever left)
The new edition of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, gets some ink in the tabs today. In the Daily News, Gatecrasher-in chief Frank DiGiacomo writes (page down to final item) that the update “finds news in the world of 6-foot genetic accidents [and] reveals the legal travails and failed comeback of Elite founder […]
Model “blew the lid on the backstage of the fashion world.” Unreal Estate “makes ‘Chinatown’ look like Disney Land.”
“What a swell party it was,” writes Steve Garbarino in Room 100, the Thomson Hotel blog. “In 1996, journalist-author Michael Gross (“740 Park,” “Rogues’ Gallery”) blew the lid on the backstage of the fashion world: the champagne, the anorexia, the lesbo sex, the diva behavior, the model agency parasites, the delicious cruelty of it all. […]
Correction: For The Record
The new edition of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, to be released September 27, 2011, contains an inadvertent error in an update chapter. On page 520, a quote regarding John Casablancas, founder of Elite Models, and his relationship with the agency’s current owners, is misattributed. The words “He wouldn’t take direction,” attributed to […]
New York’s Meanest?
The business pages at the New York Post think Ezra Merkin, a resident (above, right) of 740 Park, might be New York’s worst Blue Meanie. It seems he’s spent more fighting an arbitration award to a victim of the Bernie Madoff (above left) mess–he was one of Madoff’s big middlemen–than the size of the award […]
“A Namedropper’s Paradise,” says Library Journal. “A Cultural History of Wealth,” says Publishers Weekly.
The first notices for Unreal Estate are trickling in. “Having portrayed New York’s rich and famous in 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery, which focused on shenanigans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gross heads west to investigate the wealthy corners of Los Angeles and the rich who settled there throughout the 20th century,” says Library […]
“Sure to have tongues wagging!”
PureWow Los Angeles–a daily lifestyle tipsheet “for fabulous women of substance”–touts my upcoming pre-publication appearance for Unreal Estate at Las Ventanas in Cabo today. They say the book is “sure to have tongues wagging all over the West Side.” And in Baja, too!
Cash Still King at 740 Park (For Most)
Elise Knutsen of the New York Observer reports that the paper has received a letter from Brown Harris Stevens,the management company for 740 Park Avenue, firmly denying a source’s contention last week that it or the building’s board had any knowledge that one of BHS’s owners, Kent Swig, had borrowed against his 740 apartment (now […]