sert—just the right fuel to tango the night away! Among the other guests were Jane’s sister, Cynthia Boardman, Peter Gregory, Zach Taylor, Dailey and Gordon Pattee, Wilbur Ross, Isabelle and Richard Feigen, Coco and Arie Kopelman, Christy Ferer, Pierre Durand, Aggie Gund, Mark Gilbertson, Duane Hampton, Meg and Stuart Kirkpatrick, Jo Carole Lauder, Helena and Roman Martinez, Lynn Nesbit, Polly and David Ober, Lisa and David Schiff, Percy Steinhart, and more! Ooh my, my! That darling cupid has been very frisky this spring and romances are blossoming all over the place! In early June, Julian Robertson’s son Alex Robertson tied the knot in Nassau to Alex Leonard. (Earlier, in May, Julian had fêted them at a big party at the Museum of Natural
she greeted all in a champagne-colored charmeuse evening “pyjamas” with embroidery by The Row from Barneys. The bride-to-be grew up in New York City and attended the Hewitt School, the American University of Paris, and Columbia University. She is now living in L.A. as the West Coast Editor of SELF magazine. Her handsome fiancé, Tucker, is the president of Relativity Media and produced the Academy Award-winning film The Fighter, in addition to Act of Valor, The Immortals, and Mirror Mirror. He attended Colby College in Maine and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Tucker’s father, William Tooley, is the president of Tooley Investment Company and his mother, Reva Tooley, founded the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference and is the former
and Tony Woods, Liz Cohen and Jimmy Hausman, Charlotte Ronson, Alex Kramer and Dan Baker, Jr., Town & Country’s Georgina Schaeffer, Tara Peterson, Fernanda Niven, Katie Zorn Hand, Jamie and Richie Birkenhead, Ashley McAdams, Jordan Blumberg, Laurie Prince Costantino, Steve Clark, and Stacey Bendet Eisner, plus cousins from London: Anouchka Benson Houser and Arabella Benson! Plus such “grown-ups” as famed columnist Liz Smith, Iris Love, Maria Cooper Janis, Susan Lloyd, Sharon Hoge, Mario Buatta, Ann Dexter Jones, Michelle Mazzola, Ultra Violet, John Loring, Linda Buckley, Lucy and James Danziger, Lynn Crystal, Suzy Finesilver, Kathy and Billy Rayner, Heather Cohane, Quest’s Grace and Chris Meigher, Vanity Fair’s David
From left: Michael Horvitz, Lizzie Horvitz, Jane Horvitz, and Kate Horvitz hosted their friends at Doubles at the Sherry-Netherland;
CUTT Y MCGILL (LEFT) ; JONATHAN DEL ANO (RIGHT)
Tessa Benson celebrated her engagement to Tucker Tooley at a party put on in their honor by Harry and Gigi Benson.
History.) In East Hampton, Virginia Coleman married Peter Duchin at the Rayners’ waterfront house, and in New York City everybody from all over the place turned up to toast Tessa Benson, daughter of famed photographer Harry Benson and his wife, Gigi Benson, as her family was celebrating her engagement to Tucker Tooley at a chic private club. Tessa looked absolutely radiant as
president of the Los Angeles Police Department Commission Board. Pretty terrific, no? Among the beautiful young things applauding this attractive couple were Tessa’s sister, Wendy Landes, and her husband, Michael Landes, Nina and James Tooley (Tucker’s brother), Rachel Thomas (née Peters) and Patrick Thomas, Lulu de Kwiatkouski, Shoshanna and Josh Gruss, Cornelia
Friend, New York Social Diary’s David Patrick Columbia, Lee Daniels (director of Precious), Wilbur Ross, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Karen and Richard LeFrak, Harold Reed, Alisa and Clay Mitchell, and more. Speaking of the Bensons, Harry has just come out with a new ravishing book, Harry Benson: The Beatles (Taschen), which you must rush out to buy before it is sold out! u J U LY 2 0 1 2 1 0 7