By Drew Grant 3/09/12 6:51pm

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Patricia Duff Talks Elevator Snafu at Obama Fundraiser

New York needs to amp up it’s elevator inspection. It hasn’t even been a month since Suzanne Hart died when mechanics forgot to reinstate the safety features in her company’s elevators, so you’d think people would be getting their machines checked, but apparently not. Earlier this week, head honcho of the political forum The Common Good was forced into a similarly scary incident when she found herself stuck in an elevator with a bunch of secret servicemen…during an Obama fundraiser. Read More

By Chloe Malle 4/14/10 2:29pm

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Lehman Alone: Vanity Fair’s Vicky Wards Off Well-Wishers With Formidable Frock

Old media overtook the Four Seasons restaurant on Wednesday, April 6, celebrating the release of Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward’s book The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, wherein the Cambridge-bred beauty, who recently split from her husband, Matthew Doull, chronicles the demise of the ill-fated investment Read More

By Katharine Jose 1/07/08 10:43pm

Duff: See Obama While You Still Can

A reader forwards this ebullient email from local Obama fund-raiser Patricia Duff: Dear Friend,

We are witnessing a pivotal and exciting moment in the history of our country. I urge you to support the candidacy of Barack Obama, a man with an honest and important message of hope and unity for the future of America. Read More

By Rebecca Dana, Noelle Hancock and George Gurley 3/14/05 12:00am

Artful Dodgers

When the Armory Show officially opens on Thursday, March 10, with a benefit for the Museum of Modern Art, hundreds of art collectors who have lined up in the cold clutching $1,000 tickets will find that a lot of work by the hottest artists has already been sold. How? Other collectors got there earlier-in some Read More

By Anna Jane Grossman and Alexandra Wolfe 6/02/03 12:00am

Hot Flash! Trophy Wife Models Are Passé: Rudy to Jack Welch, Remarrying Geezers Get Middle-Aged Babes With Power Dowries

Sure, Judith Nathan started out as a lowly interloper, an East Side Camilla Parker-Bowles, making the usual entry on the front page of the New York Post , an attractive divorcee looking a little bewildered in the lobby of her high-rise. But with her wedding last Saturday, she took what may be the real second-toughest Read More