Going Negative
Pre-travel COVID testing can be a pain in the nose. Read all about it here in my debut on the Departures web site.
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What Goes Around Returns for Gerald Marie
Gerald Marie, formerly the head of Elite Models in Paris, a husband of Linda Evangelista, and one of the villains in my 1995 book Model, is back in the news, charged with raping young models, according to the Sunday Times of London. Its story is locked but today’s New York Post includes a synopsis. If […]
Beekman Town House Now Thats a price drop
The New Koch
Julia Koch, widow of conservative tub-thumber and Kansan conglomerateur David Koch, is the subject du jour for Michael Kaplan in the New York Post today–and 740 Park, where they lived together, and she now owns their apartment, looms over the story.
Veronica Uncovered
Ben Smith in the Times has a great piece on the latest dramas at the male-dominated women’s magazine publisher Hearst this morning. Twenty-nine years ago, a glamorous woman briefly ran the sprawling Hearst Magazines empire–creating public dramas galore and defying its reputation for discretion. In one of my three stories on Hearst Magazines that year, […]
Goodbye, Javanka
RIP, June Dyson of 740 Park
June Dyson, 101, who lived at 740 Park Avenue for 41 years, died earlier this month. She was the widow of Charles Dyson, a public-school educated leveraged buyout specialist who put together a conglomerate in the 1950s and 1960s and then became a public official and philanthropist. He also served on the building’s […]
Need a Good Book?
With containment, isolation and quarantine ongoing in much of Ameeica, I’m shacking up with a diverse batch of good books in May. I abandoned Hilary Mantel‘s The Mirror & the Light despite having devoured the first two books in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, but loved Julian Barnes‘ The Man in the Red Coat. Now I’m […]