The surprise star of U.S.A. v. Alfred Taubman may turn out to be not Diana (Dede) Brooks, Sotheby’s former chief executive, whom the defense spent the better part of the trial’s final week attempting to portray as a sort of dominatrix in pearls and pumps, but Jade Burns. You need not feel inadequate if you’ve Read More
It seemed, at first, to happen as an afterthought. Trouble with contractors–and lawyers–kept developer Alfred Taubman from delivering apartments in the converted office building at 838 Fifth Avenue on schedule. And those who had bought the apartments–including Charles Bronfman, the chief executive at Seagram’s, who’d plunked down $18 million for a 5,500-square-foot duplex in October Read More
Recently, I finally got the last of the books out of cartons and onto the shelves in my Brooklyn loft: well over 200 boxes of books, some 700 running feet of shelves. I really don’t want to move again for quite a while.
Among the books I unpacked, sorted and shelved was a slender volume Read More
