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LOTTERY POWERBALL: Wednesday’s drawing was for $564 million. Wednesday’s numbers: 11-1325-39-54, Powerball 19. The next drawing is Saturday for $40 million. MEGA MILLIONS: Friday’s drawing was for $74 million. Friday’s numbers: 4-20-44-65-74, Megaball 14. The next drawing is Tuesday. LOTTO: Wednesday’s drawing was for $4.4 million. Wednesday’s numbers: 8-27-30-4144-49. The next drawing is Saturday for $4.5 million. HIT 5: Wednesday’s drawing was for $150,000. Wednesday’s numbers: 2-15-19-3238. The next drawing is Saturday for $190,000. MATCH 4: Friday’s numbers: 3-15-19-20. DAILY GAME: Friday’s numbers: 0-8-9. KENO: Friday’s numbers: 5-7-14-16-21-25-3234-35-37-40-45-50-5660-63-68-71-77-80.
CORRECTION The Friday weather package, provided by the national AccuWeather service, erroneously contained a list of Great Lake cities in place of tidal information for Everett and Port Townsend.
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Matchmaker serves Wall Street’s singles By Tom Moroney Bloomberg News
Lory Kelsey’s eyes grow wide like a child with a secret. She can feel it. She’s on the verge of a love match. “Let’s say I introduced you to this lady and it was like a fireball, all-consuming like a rocket,” she tells Thomé Nicocelli, 44, who’s on the other side of her desk. “Are you ready to move into the house and have a family?” Nicocelli equivocates. Kelsey pushes back. Finally Nicocelli says, “Yes, I’m ready.” The divorced dad of a 10-year-old daughter is Italian-born, handsome, well-educated, oozing charm and sophistication. He has it all. Earlier in the day, Kelsey met a
Greenwich, Connecticut, where she lives; the towns of Lower Fairfield County such as Darien and New Canaan that make up the so-called Gold Coast, and sometimes Manhattan. This is where hedge-fund and private-equity managers, Wall Street success stories of various stripes, live, work and sometimes shell out a pittance of their net worth to find romantic companionship. They demand results. “It is cutthroat,” says Kelsey, 59, who started her matchmaking business three years ago. She has amassed a registry of more than 1,000 women she has started to charge $250 to be included. She had to reduce the maximum age to 48 after getting too many applicants older than that. The minimum is
It is cutthroat. — Lory Kelsey, matchmaker
38-year-old woman, smart, sophisticated and, like magic, the two popped into her head as a pair. Next steps — coffee, a Valentine’s Day dinner? — are up to them. Kelsey calls her mental couplings a gift, one backed up by the hard work of getting to know her charges. Matchmaking these days might conjure computer algorithms and faceless online chats, but Kelsey’s business is handson and homespun. Her territory is as unforgiving as they come:
21. Men must be 25. There is no maximum for them. Male clients pay a standard $30,000 for up to 15 introductions a year, or can now choose a special introductory deal of five for $6,100. She also gets a $15,000 bonus if the man gets engaged, $25,000 if he marries. For many men, the priority is age, often sending off Kelsey to find dates 20 or more years younger. For many women, it’s the bank account and the security it brings. Height can be a deal-breaker for both sexes; religion, not so much. If the business model sounds sexist, Kelsey says, it’s only because both sexes want it this way. Some men can be picky, bizarrely so. One client Kelsey described as a “jetsetter” wanted only
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photos to men overseas at war, and that’s often still the case. Boudoir is about every woman being beautiful, to “open their eyes to really see they’re pretty how they are,” Jones said. French pop music played throughout a Jan. 22 photoshoot. Jones helped client Alyssa Wooldridge, 24, of Everett, select jewelry and heels from the studio’s collection. Jones keeps lingerie on site in women’s sizes small through 3X — peaches, blacks, reds, sapphires. Wooldridge and Jones became friends after an earlier boudoir session, also a gift for Wooldridge’s boyfriend. “He’s going to be so excited to see these,” Jones said. “He always is,”
Wooldridge said and smiled. Korsborn teased out the crown of Wooldridge’s caramel-colored highlights, mussing the curls. Fighting laughter, Wooldridge tried not to blink while Jones applied feathery false eyelashes. Later, Jones stretched on the hardwood floor, demonstrating the details of each pose: crossed ankles, fingers lightly touching the face, the chin lifted just so. Gentle instructions, like “boudoir yoga,” she joked. “You can definitely be sexy without showing all you’ve got,” she said. As Wooldridge reclined on the chaise lounge, Jones told her to think of the funniest thing her boyfriend has ever said. “Close your eyes and laugh,” she said. She showed Wooldridge a preview from the back of
the camera. “I love it,” Wooldridge said. “This light is so flattering.” Most of Jones’ clients are in their 30s to 60s. That includes new mothers, brides-to-be, divorcees, a cancer patient and a cancer survivor. The survivor, who was in her early 60s, had a new boyfriend, Jones said. She had undergone surgery and wanted to feel comfortable again in her own skin. Clients come in groups sometimes, and not just bridal parties. They bring mothers, aunts and grandmothers. Jones does about 250 sessions a year. Some women bring their own outfits and accessories. One client brought a “Star Wars” lightsaber — red for the dark side. Another posed among antique books. Jones started as a Disneyland photographer at
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Photographs of Michelle Jones’ grandmother, Doris McIntosh, who is an inspiration to Jones, are framed in her studio, including a boudoir photo from the 1940s.
19. She took head shots for an actress friend. Requests came from other aspiring actresses. “Then they wanted some for their boyfriends that weren’t head shots,” she said. She and husband Chris moved back from California after son Hudson was born in 2011. It took about a year for business to take off again in Washington. At first, she did heavy airbrushing if clients asked. It made extra money, but it didn’t feel right, so
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women between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-9. Candidates who were an inch shorter or taller he rejected sight unseen. Another told Kelsey to get him Gwyneth Paltrow. Kelsey doesn’t know Gwyneth Paltrow. While Kelsey finds women are more flexible, they can be specific in their preferences too. She tries to accommodate both. “I work very hard,” she said. “I got into this to make people happy.” Divorced with two grown daughters, Kelsey is 5-foot-7 with blond-brown hair, freckled skin and a chin that juts just enough to be aristocratic. A licensed pilot for small-engine planes, she began her business in January 2012. She made $60,000 last year and she’s confident she’ll surpass that number and expand her one-woman operation.
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she stopped. About a year ago, Jones began offering clients their albums in the form of a password-protected mobile application. Sometimes women cry tears of joy when they look through the images, and sometimes boyfriends and husbands cry, too. “I always tell my clients, ‘It’s about embracing who you are and where you are. It doesn’t matter your size or your age,’” Jones said. Rikki King: 425-339-3449; rking@heraldnet.com.
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