Rapid Response, Meet Rapid Response

Howard Wolfson responded quickly this morning to a Maureen Dowd column in which Barack Obama’s finance chair David Geffen ripped Hillary Clinton as over-ambitious and dishonest.

From Wolfson:

“While Senator Obama was denouncing slash and burn politics yesterday, his campaign’s finance chair was viciously and personally attacking Senator Clinton and her husband. Read More

Wolfson’s Rage

Howard Wolfson got up early this morning and fired off as shot at Barack Obama over comments made by Obama supporter David Geffen.

“While Senator Obama was denouncing slash and burn politics yesterday, his campaign’s finance chair was viciously and personally attacking Senator Clinton and her husband.

“If Senator Obama is indeed sincere about Read More

David Geffen Conspiracy Theory

Last month, The Real Estate followed up on a couple reports in the New York Post about who was moving into an 11th floor apartment at 158 Mercer Street. (That’s just one floor above Andre Balazs).

Music mogul David Geffen was listed as one of the trustees buying the place, according Read More

Is David Geffen Moving to Mercer Street?


158 Mercer Street.

David Geffen has just dropped $10 million on a loft at 158 Mercer St, according to the New York Post. Indeed, city records reveal that Mr. Geffen is one of three trustees listed on the deed-transfer record.

But today’s issue of The Post doesn’t report who will Read More

Luxury Roundup: Geffen, Pinault, and Burkle

  • Billionaire Ron Burkle is preparing to spend “up to $50 million” on a new Manhattan residence. And Jonathan Leitersdorf’s Broadway penthouse (and Sex and the City party pad) is finally taking a breather from the luxury market.(New York Post)
  • David Geffen may be selling off millions of dollars in art (not Read More

  • At 28, Mini-Mogul Dreams of Geffen

    “I knew I didn’t want to work for anyone else,” said Adam Epstein as he bit into a forkful of a 10-ounce butterflied filet mignon at the Palm on a recent afternoon. With rounded cheeks and flashes of prematurely gray hair, Mr. Epstein spoke in fast, truncated sentences as he described why he became a Read More

    Wisdom of Phil: Make Your Bed, Learn To Merge

    As we lurch incongruously toward both war and the holidays, the words-or rather, the word-of a great philosopher keeps playing over and over in my head. The word is merge , and it was uttered not by some Eastern mystic referring to becoming one with the universe, but by Phil Singer, perhaps Manhattan’s most talented Read More

    The New Bachelor Pad

    Meet the Upper East Side’s most eligible bachelor pad: Billionaire entertainment mogul David Geffen has listed his Fifth Avenue, one-bedroom co-op for $20 million.

    “It’s a dream apartment for a single guy,” said a broker who recently toured the property at 785 Fifth Avenue, off 60th Street. “And as far as price is concerned, Read More

    The Oscars Enter the New Century!

    LOS ANGELES–On March 26 of the year 2000, Alan Ball, a screenwriter who came out of nowhere from sitcomland, clutched his Oscar on the stage of Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium and gave thanks to a plastic bag that he had once seen caught up in the cross currents of air that whirl in the artificial Read More