The
Second Installment of an ongoing NYSD Personages
List. There are several thousand
names which have appeared over the past five years
on the New York
Social Diary. All separated by no more than two or
three degrees of separation, whether among the living
or who, in the words of our late friend John
Galliher,
are "up in heaven," the Personages List
is designed
to enhance the reader's familiarity with many of these names.
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NYSD
Personages - 8/18/05
Catherine Aron
*George Abbott
Ayesha abdur-Rahman
Dan Abrams
Gillis McGill Addison
Bruce Addison
*Frances Beatty Adler
*Judith Agisim
*Herb Allen
Serena Altschul
Christina Alvarado
*Victoria Amory
*Harry Loy Anderson
*Nane Annan
*Donna Estes Antebi
Si Anthony
Courtney Arnot
*Mort Zuckerman
Jim Zirin
*Ezra Zilkha
*Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer
Scott Zenko
*Bobby Zarem
Ron Ziegler
Vivien Wyser-Pratt
Victoria Wyman
*Lynn Wyatt
Renee Wood
Sheila Wolfe
Joslyn Wohl
Henry Wolf
Scott Wilpon
P. Withridge Williams Jr.
*Bunny Williams
*Angus Wilkie
Sandra Whitney
*Nancy Whitney
*Matt White
*Maureen White
*Galen Weseton
*Elizabeth "Lally" Weymouth
*Governor William Weld
*Tom Werner
*Berge,
Soffia, and Thorunn Wathne
*Sessa von Richthofen
*Connie Wald
*Baron Hubert von Pantz
*Michael Vollbracht
*Nicholas Varney
*Mark Udell
*Ivanka Trump
*Regine Traulsen
Samantha Topping
Kimberly Tufo
Patrick Thomas
Jean Tailer
Clark Swanson
*Louise Sunshine
*Dr. Patrick Stubgen
*Robert Stilin
*Robert A.M. Stern
*Jonathan Steinberg
*Francesca Stanfill
*Theodore Sorenson
*Daisy Soros
*Lesly Smith
*Bruce Snyder
*Nick Simunek
NYSD Personages - 8/10/05 |
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Robert
A.M. Stern and Bunny Williams
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Chelsea
Clinton and Jill Kargman
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Sydney
Shuman
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Todd
Meister and Rena Sindi
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Margo
Langenberg |
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Bobby
Zarem |
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Cathy
Hardwick and Michael Vollbracht |
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Allen Kramer and Nick Simunek |
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George
Abbott – one of the greatest showmen in
the history of Broadway. Playwright, actor, director and
producer
known as “Mr. Abbott” whose career paralled
the development of modern theater. His first play was performed
in 1911. He was involved in more than 120 productions.
Born in 1887 in Forestville, New York, he first appeared
on Broadway in 1913. His most notable directorial efforts
were Jumbo, On Your Toes, The Boys From Syracuse, Pal
Joey, Twentieth Century, On The Town, Where’s Charley?
Call Me Madam, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Three Men on a
Horse, Best Foot Forward, Out of This World, Me and Juliet,
Wonderful Town, Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Fiorello, A
Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, Flora the
Red Menace, Take Her She’s Mine, How Now, Dow Jones? Mr. Abbott’s career spanned eighty years. He won
five Tonys, a Pulitzer, was nominated for an Oscar (for
All Quiet on the Western Front), was honored with a Kennedy
Center Award in 1982 (when he was 95), and died in 1995
at 107. His most famous protégé of our time
is the distinguished Broadway producer and director Harold
Prince.
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Frances
Beatty Adler and Allan Adler
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Frances Beatty Adler – New
Yorker, art dealer (executive with Richard Feigen
Gallery), active in
cultural and philanthropic endeavors; chairwoman
of the Drawing Center.
Judith Agisim – New
York public relations woman specializing in fashion.
Herb Allen – New York investment banker
(Allen & Company); founder of the highly
publicized annual Sun Valley retreat highlighted
every year by Vanity Fair, principal in the
Global Education Network, a private, for-profit
company established to distribute online
versions of college courses over the Internet.
Peripatetic, a natural-born organizer, Mr.
Allen was once married to Broadway dancer
and director Ann Reinking.
Victoria Amory – Palm
Beach, married to Minot Amory, hostess,
party planner
and newspaper columnist.
Harry Loy Anderson – Palm
Beach native, socialite and banker.
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John
Livesay and Donna Estes Antebi
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Nane
Annan – The beautiful Swedish-born wife
of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, lawyer, artist, half-niece
of the legendary
World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg. Mrs. Annan, who frequently
travels worldwide with her husband, is actively involved
in in WASH, an international campaign promoting the importance
of water, sanitation and hygiene to women and girls in
the world. "Access to water and sanitation is necessarily
a community concern, and the special needs of women and
children have teo be understood at a political level. Because it is the women and girls who bear the brunt of
the burden
of lack of safe water and sanitation. They are the ones
washing babies and infants, and they are teeeh ones most
intimidated by the lack of sanitation.”
Donna Estes Antebi – Los Angeles/Hollywood socialite
and activist for children’s health care.
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Mort
Zuckerman and Felix Rohatyn
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Mort
Zuckerman – Son of a wealthy Canadian housing
developer, Montreal-born real estate and media investor,
the very
rich owner of the New York Daily News, US News and
World Report maintains quarters in Boston, New York
and Washington. He made a name for himself in New York
through his big
building business deals and dating well-known often social
woman such as Diane von Furstenberg, Arianna Huffington
(then Stassinopoulos) and Gloria Steinem, to mention only
a few. A longtime bachelor, for years he was considered
one of the top prizes in the trophy wives competition before
he was married briefly. His media investments gave him
automatic access to opinion-makers platforms which, not
surprisingly, he apparently revels in. Self-styled as a
political liberal, as owner of the Daily News,
it is often said that his need to be liked and accepted
by the social
and political elite of the city inhibits his editorial
influence to the point of dull neutrality. Because of that,
although the Daily News still has its historically
largest tab circulation, Rupert Murdoch’s Post remains the
gotta-have-it tabloid of choice to the very same elite
that Mr. Zuckerman hankers after.
Ezra
Zilkha – International banker, Iraqi-born,
with his devoted wife Cecile, prominent New York socialite
and philanthropist
and a major supporter of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Diana
Quasha, Audrey
Gruss, and April Gow
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Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer – Young
mother, daughter of Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder, and granddaughter
of Estee
Lauder of the cosmetics empire; an executive with the family
company and an active member of the young social set in
New York.
Bobby Zarem – Longtime Broadway
and Hollywood publicist, almost legendary fixture of the
Elaine’s late night
literary crowd.
Lynn
Wyatt – Texas princess, wife of oil and natural gas
tycoon Oscar Wyatt, sister of famed Texas high fashion
retailer Robert Sakowitz, Mrs. Wyatt is a charter member
of the international jet set. Her birthday celebration
in summertime on the Cote d’Azur is attended by society,
royalty and show biz (Elton John is always in attendance
unless he has a previous booking commitment). Famous for
her fashion and her jewels (get a load of those emeralds!),
she’s a major force in Houston cultural and philanthropic
circles, and there’s not a major event in New York,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, London or Paris that she’s
liable to miss.
Bunny
Williams – One of the most popular and successful
interior designers working out of New York today, enhanced
by her
domestic/business partnership with antiques dealer John
Rosselli, Williams is an industry unto herself. A friendly,
cozy personality belies a shrewdness that can deal with
the egos and temperaments of the very rich like a world
class diplomat. Adopter and rescuer of stray dogs, her
first task at waking is to read in bed for an hour before
rising. Novels; no non-fiction – that’s her
day job.
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Rosita,
the Duchess of Marlborough
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Angus Wilkie – Antiquarian
writer and expert, specializer in Beidermeir. With partner,
interior
designer Len Morgan,
he operates the highly successful Cove Landing shop on
Lexington Avenue and 72nd Street and outside of Essex,
Connecticut.
Nancy
Whitney – Dog-lover, sometime rescuer of
greyhounds, keeper of the flame of her great-grandmother
Gertrude Vanderbilt
Whitney’s West 8th Street New York Studio School.
Matt White – New York and Los Angeles interior designer.
Maureen White – National Finance
Chair of the Democratic Party, wife of former New York
Times reporter and Lazard
Frere partner Steve Rattner, mother of their four children,
Ms. White also serves as a U.S. Government Representative
to UNICEF and Chairman of the Leadership Council on Children
Affected by Armed Conflict. Before her career in Human
Rights work, Ms. White worked as an international investment
strategist. The White-Rattners are very prominent on the
New York media/political/social scene.
Galen Weston – Canadian businessman, one of the world’s
richest (reported $9.3 billion) grocery store magnate (company
started by his grandfather) and real estate investor, developer
of Windsor, a luxury community near Vero Beach, Florida;
friend of royalty, married to the Irish-born Hilary Weston,
prominent members of the international social scene.
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Lally
Weymouth and
Joe Cohen
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Elizabeth “Lally” Weymouth – Heiress
and daugher of the late Philip and Kay Graham of the Washington
Post, sister of the current Post publisher;
syndicated columnist in the field of international affairs,
Ms. Weymouth
maintains residences in New York, Southampton and Washington.
Perhaps because she grew up in a family of boys, with a
powerful mother and father, Ms. Weymouth has the earned
reputation for being perfunctorily polite in the social
sense and “nice” when she wants to be, but only.
Governor
William Weld – Former Massachusetts governor from
an old line family, now residing in New York, involved
in media investment and considered a contender for public
office (gubernatorial) in the state of New York.
Tom Werner – Born and bred New Yorker,
a Park Avenue lad who went West and with business partner
Marcy Carsey
made a fortune in network television programming, later
acquired the San Diego Padres and was, for awhile, the
steady date of Katie Couric, hostess on NBC’s The
Today Show.
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Francesca
Stanfill
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Berge,
Soffia, and Thorunn Wathne – Three
very pretty blonde and blue-eyed sisters from Iceland who
are business
partners
in a highly successful high-end packaging firm. Berge and
Soffia appear publicly with Thorunn for major social/ philanthropic/cultural
events and openings where the three wear identical designer
gowns. Thorunn is the more public figure and frequent companion
of retired Tiffany executive Harry Platt.
Sessa von Richthofen – German-born
steady companion of Richard Johnson, whose column Page
Six runs daily in
the New York Post.
Connie Wald – Longtime social hostess
of Beverly Hills and Hollywood, widow of film producer
Jerry Wald.
Baron
Hubert von Pantz – Late Austrian bon vivant, husband
of Avon Products Terry McConnell, creator (in the 1930s)
of Schloss Mittersill, charter member of the international
jet set.
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Ivanka
Trump
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Michael Vollbracht – Brilliant illustrator
of the celebrated, a man who’s lived the “life’s
a banquet,” friend of the famous (Elizabeth Taylor,
Bill Blass, etc.) and now fashion designer of the Bill
Blass fashion house.
Nicholas Varney – New York jewelry
designer, son of interior designer Carlton Varney and Suzanne
Varney.
Mark Udell – owner of London Jewelers.
Ivanka Trump – the bright and beautiful daughter
of Ivana and Donald Trump, graduated with honors from Georgetown,
attended Wharton School of Business and now working in
the real estate business.
Regine Traulsen – Moroccan-born,
New York, and Palm Beach real estate investor/socialite.
Married to Bill Diamond, lawyer and former deputy of Mayor
Rudy
Guiliani.
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Louise
Sunshine
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Louise
Sunshine – Formidable real estate executive,
marketer of high end business and luxury Manhattan real
estate.
A former political operative, Mrs. Sunshine brooks no
obstacles and suffers fools not gladly in getting the
job done. Considered the best in the business, two of
her biggest most recent clients were the newly
erected Time-Warner building residences and the Beacon
Court
residences in the new Bloomberg building on Lexington
Avenue.
Dr. Patrick Stubgen – New York
Hospital neurologist, South African-born, married to
Annenberg heiress Dana
Hammond.
Robert Stilin – East Hampton interior
designer.
Robert A.M. Stern – One of the
greatest architects of the American post-modern movement;
Dean of the School
of Architecture at Yale University. Urban planner, interior
and residential designer, preservationist and opinion
maker.
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Nathalie
Gerschel Kaplan
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Jonathan Steinberg – Financial
publisher, son of Saul Steinberg, married to television
business anchor
Maria
Bartiromo.
Francesca Stanfill – Magazine
writer novelist, married to investment manager Richard
Nye.
Theodore Sorenson – Adviser and
speechwriter of John F. Kennedy, often believed to be
the man who coined the
phrase, “ask not what your country can do for you,” but
what you can do for your country.
Daisy Soros – Hungarian-born prominent
New Yorker, married to Paul Soros, brother of the famous
financial
tycoon, George; the effervescent and shrewdly ebullient
Mrs. Soros is very active philanthropic and social life
in Manhattan. The couple maintain active lives also in
New Canaan where they have a weekend house, and at another
house on Nantucket.
Lesly Smith – The Honorable Lesly
Smith, mayor of Palm Beach, that toddling town.
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Patrick
Thomas and Natalie Leventhal
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Bruce Snyder – The favorite of
executives everywhere who wanted a good table at “21,” Mr.
Snyder recently retired as manager of the famed watering
hole
after 35 years on the job, and is building a house in
Virginia.
Nick Simunek – English-born, bon
vivant, writer, theatrical and film producer, married
to Wall Street
heiress Terry Allen Kramer (first cousin of the aforementioned
Herb Allen).
Ronnie Heyman – Born and bred
New Yorker, actively involved in community affairs, especially
those supporting education and the
arts; trustee
of Barnard, Yeshiva University and Cardozo School of Law, the Ramaz School, the
Israel
Museum in Jerusalem. Appointed to the National Council on the Arts under President
Clinton. Married to Samuel Heyman, chairman of the GAF Corp. Attorney and principal
of Heyman Properties, a real estate development firm in Connecticut; Mother of
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L.
to r.: Connie and Hugh Hildesley; James
Marcus, Daisy Soros, and Paul Soros;
John Mashek and Pauline Pitt.
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L.
to r.: Peter Pennoyer; Ira Rennert, Ronnie
Heyman,
and Abe Rosenthal; William Weld.
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Marlene
Hess and Jim Zirin
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The
Wathne Sisters
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Aerin
Lauder Zinterhofer
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George
and Eleanora Kennedy |
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Reed
Krakoff and Giles Bensimon
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Bruce
Snyder and Nancy Holmes |
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L.
to r.: Caroline Kennedy and
Ed Schlossberg; William Ivey Long; Jim
Mitchell.
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Audra McDonald and Wyton Marsalis |
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Kathy
Hilton and Allison
Stern
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Besides
the new additions to The List, we've also added an "In
Memoriam" list featuring memorial profiles of
individuals prominent on these pages or in our lives
who have passed on.
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Estee
Lauder |
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John
Galliher |
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Joe
and Joan Cullman |
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Khalil
Rizk |
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Jack
Paar |
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Judy
Green |
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Gene
Hovis |
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Sarah
Churchill |
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Alexis
de Rede |
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Neal
Travis |
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Princess
Margaret |
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Arthur
Gilbert |
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Abbott,
George
Adler, Frances Beatty
Aga Khan, Prince Amyn
Agisim, Judith
Aitken, Irene
Albemarle, Rufus
Albemarle, Sally
Allen, Herb
Allen, Joe
Amory, Victoria
Anderson, Harry Loy
Annan, Nane
Antebi, Donna Estes
Assael, Salvador
Aston, Muffie Potter
Baker, Dr. Daniel
Barguirdjian, Henri
Basso, Dennis
Beard, Peter
Benedict, Daniel
Capehart, Jonathan
Caperton, Gov.
Gaston
Churchill II, Winston
Cominotto, Michael
Cushing, Laura and Harry
Curry, Boykin
Dahl, Tessa
d'Arenberg,
Princess Sylvie
DeWoody, Beth Rudin
Drexel, Jackie and Nick
Duchin, Peter and Brooke
Duff, Patricia
Eaton, Phoebe
Fales-HIll, Susan
Fekkai, Frederic
Gilbertson, Mark
Griscom, Nina
Gross, Michael
Gutfreund, Susan
Hamilton, Catharine and David
Hammond, Dana
Harrison, Elizabeth
Hearst, Patty
Herbert, Michele
Heyman, Ronnie
Hilton Family
Janis, Maria Cooper
Jon, Anand
Kan, Yue-Sai
King,
Gayle
Kemble, Celerie
Lakshmi, Padma
Langerdorff, Baroness von
Lauder, Evelyn
Lazar, Irving
LeFrak, Karen
LeFrak, Francine
Levy, Joanie
Schnitzer
Liberman, Bobby
Long, William Ivey
Lufkin, Cynthia and Dan
Maccioni, Marco
Mason, Christopher
McCarthy, Patrick
McDonald, Patrick
McKnight, Bill and Kitty
McMullan, Patrick
Mehle, Aileen
Mellon, Bunny
Milliken, Armene
Milstein, Connie
Mitchell, Jim
Morgan, Sonja and John
Morris, Chappy
Murdoch, Sarah
Pantz, Baron
Hubert von
Peebler, Toni
Pennoyer, Peter
Perelman, Ruth
Pfeifler, Emilia Fanjul
Pileggi, Nick
Pincus, Lionel
Pitt,
Pauline
Ponti, Anna Lu
Ponton, Dan
Pyne, Anne
Pyne, Eben
Rellie, Euan
Rich, Denise
Rockefeller, Steven and Kimberly
Rogers, Peter
Rosenthal, Sarah and Mitch
Saffir, Andrew
Schiff, Ashley
Shriftman, Lara
Siegal, Peggy
Saltzman, Ellin
Sherrill, Betty
Shuman, Sydney Roberts
Siegal, Peggy
Silverman, Nancy
Sondes, Sharon
Stack, Rosemarie
Stern, Allison
Stewart, Serena
Rhinelander
Stokes, Stephanie
Stubgen, Dr. Patrick
Sykes, Lucy
Taylor, Topsy
Thomas, Geoffrey
Walker, Darren
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