By Drew Grant 8/16/12 9:00am

socialites

Peter Brant Jr., Harry Brant (Patrick McMullan)

Why We Love to Hate the Brant Brothers

If you haven’t heard of Peter and Harry Brant yet, you should be calling the Postal Service and Time Warner to find out why they’ve discontinued service to that rock you’re living under. The teenage sons of paper mogul Peter M. Brant have been everywhere lately: gracing the Style Section of The New York Times, tweeting from a shared Twitter account and being profiled in this week’s lugubrious three-page spread in the latest issue of  Vanity Fair (to make matters worse,  the piece was titled “Little Lord Flauntleroys”).

Now the blood is in the water, and its officially hunting season as the collective new media aims to take a shot at these young male socialites. Read More

By Foster Kamer 6/20/12 5:57pm

Wow

The Brant Brothers

The Ten Best Lines from the Thursday Styles Profile of the Brant Brothers, ‘The New Princes of the City’

Peter Brant is the owner of Brant Publications, which makes him the publisher of Interview Magazine, which was started by Andy Warhol. He also makes lots of money doing other things, like collecting art. His wife—who he almost got a divorce with, and then, reconciled with—is supermodel Stephanie Seymour, who was in the “November Rain” video. He had three children with her. Two of them were profiled by the New York Times for tomorrow’s Thursday Styles section.

Without further ado, here are the ten best lines, removed from their context, without commentary*: Read More

By Daniel Geiger 1/03/12 3:00pm

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Richard Baxter Dishes on the Drama Behind the Deals at Casa Lever

It was lunchtime at Casa Lever, the high-end restaurant in the iconic Lever House, and Richard Baxter was on his BlackBerry negotiating.

It was a busy year for Mr. Baxter and his colleagues at Jones Lang LaSalle. His four-man team comprised some of the city’s most prominent brokers of large-scale commercial office buildings, and as the Manhattan sales market’s post-recessionary thaw continues, Mr. Baxter estimated that the group had tallied an impressive $1.3 billion in deals this year.

Three days before Christmas, however, it wasn’t one particular skyscraper Mr. Baxter was bargaining over from his plum seat at Casa Lever. In a year-end rush, his group had loose ends to tie up, deals to close and transactions still in the works. And so, on this particular Thursday amid a bustling lunch crowd, Mr. Baxter was not negotiating with a buyer or a building owner, but rather one of his own assistants, whom he was asking to stay late to receive critical documents and to help get the team through the rest of the day. Read More

By Chloe Malle 8/25/10 12:08am

Shindigger

It’s Money That Matters in the Hamptons

“Of course I do!” said Rudolph Giuliani jovially when the Transom asked if he remembered the 1987 release of the original Wall Street. “I was the U.S. attorney when that movie was done the first time. It was about my cases! Boeski, Milken, Levine. Sure. I remember it in great detail–the accurate parts Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/05/10 4:21pm

Court Dates

A Lawsuit Over Interview

Greg Montana and Michelle Decker, former sales executives at Interview magazine, are suing Peter Brant for $1.1 million worth of sales commisions that were never paid, according to Page Six. A rep for billionaire newsprint magnate Peter Brant, who owns the magazine, said that the Mr. Montana and Ms. Decker are only trying Read More