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Kate Kelly

Manhattan D.A.’s Big Task on Dorismond Case: Get Indictments

Since the March 16 shooting of Patrick Dorismond, the Haitian-born security guard who was killed in a Midtown scuffle with police officers, criticism has been heaped upon nearly anybody who has offered an opinion on the subject, from Mayor Giuliani to Police Commissioner Howard Safir to Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Read More

Lizzie Grubman and Peggy Siegal: P.R. Marriage of Year

Seated at a banquette at Balthazar on a snowy March afternoon, publicist Lizzie Grubman was remembering a previous joint effort with Peggy Siegal, her brand-new business partner.

“She did the majority of the work for Two Guys and a Girl at Moomba,” said Ms. Grubman, between sips of diet Coke. “I got her the location Read More

Four Gay Men Murdered; City Leaders Want Answers

Residents of Central Harlem have been shaken in recent months by a series of murders of gay men. Anxiety rose in late October after no suspect was named in the slaying of Nathaniel Tyrone Hayden, a 28-year-old man who was stabbed in his own apartment. But with the Jan. 11 stabbing of another gay man, Read More

The Casual Banker: In Fashion Shift, J. P. Morgan Dresses Down

J.P. Morgan & Company, bastion of the old way of doing things, has surrendered. One of the world’s most formal institutions has opted to jettison the business suit as a required form of dress. Henceforth, every day is casual day at the mighty Morgan.

At the beginning of February, departmental heads at the firm’s headquarters Read More

Christian Curry Comes Back: Wall Street Pariah Catches a Break

The job market must be really brisk, because Christian Curry is back on Wall Street.

Nearly two years after he was fired from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, then arrested by police for trying to hack into the firm’s computers, Mr. Curry, 26, has landed at Gardner Rich & Company, a small Chicago-based institutional Read More

Ben Brafman Comes to Save Puffy

Sean (Puffy) Combs, the 30-year-old rap mogul, has had his share of legal scuffles. Since 1991, when he was just wetting his feet in the music business, he’s been accused of overbooking a celebrity basketball game at which nine people were trampled to death, of menacing a photographer, and of beating a music executive with Read More

Meet the Smart New York Women Who Can’t Stand Hillary Clinton

Forty-nine-year-old writer Fran Lebowitz was perturbed about Hillary Clinton’s all-but-certain Senate run. She had already made up her mind to vote for Mrs. Clinton but, she said, she was still unhappy. “I feel it’s a personal plot,” she said. “I feel like she personally sat down and said, ‘How could I possibly get Fran Lebowitz Read More

Austrian Music Mogul Waltzes Into 620 Park; Dr. Marks Departs

One of Manhattan’s most sticklerish co-op boards is about to take on a new resident. On Dec. 7, the denizens of 620 Park Avenue, a 14-story brick building near East 65th Street, admitted music executive Michael Koch to their ranks, swapping him for longtime resident Dr. Paul Marks, the soon-to-retire chief executive of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Read More

Morgan Stanley’s Season in Hell

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, which might be the best investment bank on Wall Street, had a lousy summer.

If you didn’t know a thing about investment banking (which would put you on a par with a few top investment bankers), you could have scanned the summer’s headlines touting a series of scandals at Read More

Secret Neverland: Jackson in Manhattan Renting for $75,000

Michael Jackson is living on East 74th Street.

According to real estate brokers, the king of pop has kept an address on the Upper East Side since June when he signed a $75,000-per-month lease on a six-story town house on 74th Street near Fifth Avenue. Mr. Jackson’s publicist said he was in town to record Read More