The $75 M. Stoop Sale

Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. this week put his double-wide East 64th Street townhouse on the market for a near-record high of $40 million-just as neighbor and billionaire art dealer Alec Wildenstein put his own mansion on the market for $35 million right next-door.

Mr. Bronfman’s 31-foot-wide mansion, at 15 East 64th Street, sports a Read More

The Crime Blotter

Cat Got Her Clothes? Jocelyne Wildenstein Burgled

Some of us lead lives without great peaks and valleys, while for others, fate has picked out more dramatic terrain to navigate. Jocelyne Wildenstein would seem to fall firmly into the latter category. As if her life didn’t already include more rugged turf than the landscape of Afghanistan, Read More

What Should Plastic Surgeons Do When Crazy Patients Demand Work?

A New York State Appellate Division court handed down a decision on June 27 that has New York’s plastic surgeons ready to drop their scalpels and run. The decision, signed by Justice Ernst H. Rosenberger, ruled that a patient had the right to sue her plastic surgeon for malpractice because the doctor failed to take Read More

Bernie Clair Targets Wildenstein Fortune for Estranged Wife

The most garish divorce case of the 90′s–playboy art dealer Alec Wildenstein versus his surgically enhanced wife Jocelyne Wildenstein–begins in earnest on July 23, when lawyer Bernard Clair will try to give Mr. Wildenstein a good going-over during a sworn deposition.

Mr. Wildenstein, represented by the publicity-friendly Raoul Felder, is expected to defend himself by Read More