- June 9, 2008 | Features
- The YouTube Divorcée
It was the age-old story: a woman spurned by her mogul husband, in danger of losing everything. Call her crazy, call her desperate, but this time, the woman had a new weapon—the Web.
- March 3, 2008 | Features
- The Art and the Deal
With friends like Jeff Koons, properties like Lever House and 40 Bond, and a giant collection of Warhols and others, Aby Rosen has done more than anyone else to broker the marriage between art and real estate. Does he have taste? Maybe, at this level, it doesn’t matter.
- April 2, 2007 | Features
- The Continuing Education of Mrs. Ross
Ross Global, Courtney Ross’s new charter school, is holistic, organic, Ayurvedic, artistic, and evolutionary. But when you’re building an educational Utopia, there are going to be some casualties.
- July 10, 2006 |
- Grand Old Class War
In one of the stranger races in recent memory, a helmet-haired East Side matron and a former Yonkers mayor are in a mud fight for the soul of the New York GOP.
- February 6, 2006 | Features
- Revenge of the Weinsteins
Now that they’re free of Disney, with a $1 billion war chest, you’d think Harvey and Bob Weinstein would be happy. Beneath a smiley veneer, they’re still the angry, paranoid, gifted filmmakers they’ve always been. What do they want? Sweet vengeance, followed by a staggeringly profitable IPO.
- May 16, 2005 | Feature
- The Sixtysomething Upstart
Why is Leslie Crocker Snyder saying all those things about Robert Morgenthau, the 85-year-old Manhattan D.A.? Blame it on her dad.
- November 15, 2004 | Courtside
- Mouth and Mouthpiece
Attorney Gerald Shargel is finding a number of problems in defending Danny Pelosi. Chief among them? He talks too much.
- September 20, 2004 | Profile
- How Much Is That In Rubles?
A $550,000 summer rental. A $10 million Time Warner aerie. Diane Von Furstenberg’s $23 million Village townhouse. Her tycoon daddy has been very nice to New York’s first Russian-American princess.
- June 21, 2004 | Feature
- Kimora Lee Simmons, the New Queen of Conspicuous Consumption
Happiness is a Franck Muller diamond-platinum watch, the late Gianni Versace’s personal china, the biggest mansion in all of New Jersey.
- April 26, 2004 | Feature
- The Madame Defarge of the New York Post
Andrea Peyser, tabloid scold.