D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A Or pipsqueaks. You can imagine what it must be like for all those boys with the biggest egos. Mr. Abramovich is also famous for his New Year’s Eve party. This year Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas performed and the party cost a reportedly cool $8 million. But what’s money when you own the trees it grows on? The name of the game is celebrity, and although there’s no doubt a lot of fun to be had,(or at least the possibility), the elbows they’re rubbing are never strictly for the fun of it. Networking has many levels, and St. Barth’s over the New Year’s holiday weekend is just that, at the highest level in
the media and entertainment business. Now that may just sound like a lotta nonsense, but so’s a lotta networking anywhere anytime, and without the climate. They were everywhere you look. For example: Puff Daddy/P.Diddy, Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum, Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, Eddie Murphy, Jon Bon Jovi, Will Arnett, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rupert and Wendi Murdoch, Ron Perelman, Steve Wynn, Jimmy Buffett, Brett Ratner; the aforementioned Mr. Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova, Guy Oseary, Michelle Alves, Kings of Leon,
Brian Grazer, Calvin Klein, Russell Simmons, Kimora Lee Simmons, Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour, Rachel Zoe, L.A. Reid, Rick Rubin, Jack Dorsey, Sandy Gallin, Lorraine Bracco, Patrick Demarchelier, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Jeff Gordon and Ingrid Vandebosche, Richard Meier, Vito Schnabel, Lola Schnabel, Karlie Kloss, Lily Cole, Brian Atwood, Tamara Mellon, Michael Ovitz, Larry Gagosian, Andre Harrell, Aby Rosen and Samantha Boardman, Andrew Saffir, Daniel Benedict, Lawrence Bender, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean Pigozzi, Olivia Palermo, Johannes Huebl, Nicholas Berggruen, Demi Moore
and Ashton Kutcher, and thousands more just like ’em. Well, sort of… And St. Barth’s is a great place to go, no matter who you are, especially when it’s cold up north. A lot of New Yorkers take places down there as soon as the glitterati vacate, and stay all through January and February and March. Yachts and media razzle dazzle aside, down among the sheltering palms, in little old Palm Beach, if any of the inhabitants even had a thought about St. Barth’s, it was to thank God “they didn’t come here.” It certainly wasn’t a ghost town, by any stretch. The hotels and oceanside mansions
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