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 Reid Pillifant 3/10/10 11:14pm

Cuomo Keeps Rattner in Limbo

On a conference call this afternoon, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo dispelled the notion that he’s closed the investigation into Steve Rattner and the alleged kickbacks paid by his former firm, the Quadrangle Group.

“Those were false reports. That’s an ongoing matter — we have no updates at this time,” Mr. Cuomo said, according Read More

By Max Abelson 3/03/10 1:54am

Rattner in Limbo

Last Friday, while Manhattan suffered through another desperately slushy storm, the 57-year-old financier Steven Rattner was holed up inside his family’s Westchester horse farm. There were no taxis to splash through icy curbside puddles. The snow fell from the pretty white sky.

It was bad. There are only two things that can happen after a Read More

By John Koblin 11/26/08 1:10am

The Web Guru

If you wanted to wipe out the American media establishment in one blow, you might have targeted the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the Plaza hotel at around 9 a.m. on Nov. 12.

The Foursquare Conference was organized by media mogul Steve Rattner’s Quadrangle Partners, and had the kind of exclusive list Read More

By Jessica Bruder 10/10/05 12:00am

The Plutocrats Of Democrats Go Bloomberg

Last month, Steven Rattner, the multimillionaire financier, former New York Times reporter and Democratic fund-raiser, turned heads—and raised more than a few hackles—when he took charge of Democrats for Bloomberg, the incumbent Mayor’s aisle-crossing outreach committee. Mr. Rattner’s role was unveiled less than 14 hours after the polls closed on a lackluster Democratic primary, and Read More