His youthful face illuminated by the glow of red lights and scented candles, Raymond Dowd crouched on the floor of his Lower East Side apartment as some 40 members of New York’s nascent Green Party milled about in his living room to raise money for the party’s presidential candidate, Ralph Nader. Presidential fund-raisers usually are Read More
Model Behavior?
Some New Yorkers still have not forgiven Dieter Esch, owner of the Wilhelmina modeling agency, for Pomp, Duck and Circumstance , that 1995-96 show he produced in DeWitt Clinton Park that somehow was meant to combine a culinary experience with buffoonish, slapstick theater. Indeed, Prince Rainier ended up slapping one of the wiseacre Read More
As the Byzantine probate battle over Doris Duke’s $1.2 billion estate reaches a denouement, with numerous law firms submitting legal fees of more than $15 million to the estate, a rift has developed among the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s trustees. The rift involves a young attorney named Raymond Dowd, and whether he should be paid Read More
