By Drew Grant and Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 3/15 5:41pm

25th Anniversary

Jared Kushner, Katie Holmes and Mike Bloomberg (PMc)

Scenes From a (New York Observer) Party

- The intimidatingly assiduous Peggy Siegal greets people at the door; thanks us for coming to celebrate party with The New York Observer. “We are The New York Observer!” We cry. She doesn’t even pause. “Well, it’s great to see you anyway.”

-Terry McDonell: I’ve always loved the Observer, I have great respect for Peter Kaplan. The coverage of everything I was interested in New York in the past 25 years was reflected in The Observer at the highest level.

- Ray Kelly recalls the last time he was at the Four Seasons. “[We] feel like you never leave,” we tell the Police Commissioner. His reply: “A lot of people feel that way.” Read More

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

The Shindigger

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 Chloe Malle 4/09/10 4:06pm

Hors D’Oeuvres in the Devil’s Den

On an unseasonably warm April evening at the Four Seasons restaurant—not to be confused with the hotel five blocks north—a bastion of old media congregated to celebrate the release of Vicky Ward‘s debut novel, The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers. In her revealing roman à clef, the Read More

By Shan Li 3/04/10 6:16pm

The Observer 100 Index: Mind the Gap!

One easy way to take New York’s temperature as its health gets sorted out is to follow the stocks that define it: We assembled the Observer 100 Index to watch the city wheeze and sing. These are the stocks that gained and lost the most last week, when when sensible blue jeans beat Ron Perelman’s Read More

By David Foxley 11/30/07 4:39pm

Ellen Barkin Responds to Ron Perelman's Suit

Actress Ellen Barkin responded to the lawsuit filed by ex-husband, Ronald Perelman, against her and her brother, calling it “a cynical abuse of the legal system.” Mr. Perelman, 63, filed the claims yesterday in a New York court. He argues that Ms. Barkin and her brother, George, used the money from a company she Read More

By Staff 8/07/06 11:40am

Luxury Lap: Divorceé Ellen Barkin Cleans House For Dollars

On October 10, Christie’s will host an auction of jewelry from the collection of actress—and recent divorcer of billionaire Ron Perelman—Ellen Barkin.

Among the more than 100 objects from her collection, a 22.76 carat diamond ring is expected to fetch $800,000 to $1,200,000. A ruby and emerald Art Deco evening bag formerly belonging to Read More

By Gabriel Sherman 11/29/04 12:00am

Jay-Z Closes $6.85 M. Tribeca Deal in Hip-Hop Hustle; Ron Perelman Buys Opposition; Anna Sui Loves Brother!

The latest front in the Hip-Hop Wars may lack the drama of a downtown studio shoot-out, but for the real-estate-obsessed, the recent tortured sale of advertising executive Peter Arnell’s Tribeca penthouse to hip-hop mogul Shawn Carter (alias Jay-Z) has been the biggest story since the fracas over the sale of murdered millionaire Ted Ammon’s assets Read More