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The 400 Issue

118 THE QUEST 400 Caroline Astor created the original list of Society’s top 400 names more than a century ago. We carry on the tradition today with our list of the current era’s most prominent players introduction by Cholly van Vliet, Art by Lydia Marie Elizabeth

138 HISTORY OF SOCIETY IN NEW YORK Looking back at the origins of American society, which began to take shape in the 1860s. by David Patrick Columbia

144 THE ORIGINAL 400 As it debuted in Quest back in 1995. by David Patrick Columbia

148 QUEST BEST PARTIES The greatest parties of all time Introduction by David Patrick Columbia

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WITH SUMMER on the wane, (up in the Adirondacks, it’s felt like fall ... all summer!), we slide seamlessly into August, which at Quest heralds our annual 400 Issue. The “List” was first born a century-plus ago during the Gilded Age, emanating from the snotty mindset of Ward McAllister, the stratifying publicity flack for Mrs. Caroline Astor - the very “original” Mrs. Astor. Quest’s 30-year-old version is less contrived, and more rooted in philanthropy than in celebrity. As you will read in the Social Diary pages ahead, its genesis was a space-filling, eureka! moment for our esteemed Editor-in-Chief, David Patrick Columbia (“DPC” to his legion of followers) who was in desperate need of last minute copy to fill his nascent column. Progressive tongues may wag in today’s still too woke world about exclusive lists being “outdated and offensive”, but at Quest we believe there remains a need to recognize and celebrate the tradition of courteous behavior and proper manners - especially in our shared communities, and indeed with one another.

So once you’ve weaned your noses out of this year’s well curated list of deserving swells ... don’t miss the album of legendary parties (pages 148 - 153) assembled by Editorial Director Elizabeth Meigher. From Truman Capote’s renowned Black & White Ball to Mike Todd’s epic bash at Madison Square Garden (replete with a functioning yacht, flying bi-plane, hot air balloon and two full orchestras!!), plus Elsa Maxwell’s fabled April in Paris dinner dance, staged in the Waldorf’s Grand Ballroom where JFK put a well photographed peck on Jackie’s blushing cheek.

Throughout this issue, our touted and talented contributors are in full complement, commencing with Sir Harry Benson, my treasured TIME & LIFE colleague whose incomparable lens captured the latest (perhaps the last?) Mrs. Astor, pronely perched and posing on her boudoir’s tufted divan; only our Harry could have caught her “Let them eat cake” smirk! Slightly ahead is Jamie MacGuire’s (aka: Audax) knowledgeable review of Golden Clan, a reissued history of the Murray and McDonnell families and their fabled Southampton compound, complete with a private lake! Much of the property has sadly been developed, but the family’s resiliency remains graciously preserved, as Audax pens: “the most prominent Golden Clan descendant in today’s Southampton is Quest’s very own Society Editor, Hilary Geary Ross, a Murray, who continues to preside over the summer

season as a kind friend to all.” Her proud of our “Sweet Scribe” Hilary, a longtime and cherished pal of this grateful publisher. A few pages beyond is an illustrated volume about another stunning lady from a celebrated American family, Jorie Butler Kent, whose lively pictorial biography is adeptly chronicled by Quest’s style-minded contributor, Robert Janjigian. Written by her devoted daughter Reute, this well designed opus depicts Jorie’s extraordinary vision and authenticity, which reeks from every page - a bona fide Annie Oakley in a debutante’s gown!

I leave you, dear readers, to ponder the endless and opining rant that so-called “Society” is dead. Does that tirade also suggest that we forgo our need (our right!) for at least a modicum of decency and manners? Have we mindlessly accepted this decline in our collective comportment - an unchecked race to the bottom? Quest says not, which is reason enough to publish The List, paying homage to those swellegant ladies and gents who make the social punch bowl a genuine mix of charitable largesse, cultural commitment and acknowledged good will - all accomplished while embracing the duty and respect we owe to our towns, cities, and Country, the crucial underpinnings of any enduring Society. ◆

Clockwise from bottom left: The cover of Jorie: The Extraordinary Life of Jorie Kent; Contributor Robert Janjigian; Mrs. Brooke Astor featured on the cover of Quest’s November 2012 Issue, photographed by Harry Benson; the reservation book from Swifty’s on the Upper East Side in December 2001; Michael and Wendy Landes, Tessa and Tucker Tooley, and Gigi and Harry Benson at Contessa Gallery in Southampton; David Patrick Columbia with his Mini in New York; Hilary Geary Ross (center) with her sons Jack and Ted Geary.

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THE LISTS AND NUMBERS for the annual event – the Quest Four Hundred list of “prominent” and/or popular figures who in one way or another are of interest in defining an important aspect of active social life in New York.

The 400 List first appeared in Quest all the way back in 1994. It was fostered one month back then when I needed the fee but

had no fresh material for the next issue. So I suggested to Heather Cohane, the magazine’s founder, that we create a new “400 List.”

Mrs. Astor’s 400 list more than 150 years ago was a powerful document for a time and

place in the growth and development of the United States and New York’s place in the world. It didn’t change the world but reflected its fresh existence and the oncoming of what would later be called Women’s Liberation.

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Immediately fishing for a selection for our brand new, out of nowhere 400 List, Heather had a couple shoeboxes packed full with black and white party picture photos she’d taken at various social events and parties that she’d cover for the early days of the magazine.

So in the beginning Heather and I went through the photos and unsurpris -

The New York Times announces the official list of The Four Hundred, 1892

ingly in her frequent event coverage we were collecting numerous photos of individuals. We went from there down to the celebrity lists of the New York newspapers, and chose people who appeared in at least four or five different social events.

Then someone suggested John F. Kennedy Jr. who was very sociable in New York at that time in his short life. He was definitely the most publicized individual for this kind of a list. So we put him on the List. And the page designer put him right at the top, which gave the List a special class.

And I wrote a little history of Mrs. Astor’s original 400 list from 1892. Naturally there was no comparing the social life of Mrs. Astor

to the cocktail parties and dances in the late 20th century New York.

But John F. Kennedy Jr.’s presence was enough to give the list public interest. And that, it did. Lists today are FUN. And even interesting at times. Because, after all, they are always all about “people.”

Yes, there are some serious participants operating in New York, and even all over the world. They are often very important. It could be argued that lists which socially exclude are still popular. But the Quest list is an authentic list of those actively en -

gaged socially around and about New York.

A few years later Heather Cohane retired and sold Quest to an authentic magazine publisher Chris Meigher who acquired his skills early as a publisher at TIME and LIFE magazines . The annual Quest 400 list is now more than a quarter century old.

The original “400 List” first came to its historical fame in the last quarter of the 19th century in New York. Its purpose was private as it was originally the official guest list of Mrs. William Backhouse Astor-Lina to her family and friends-for

a ball that she hosted annually right after the turn of the New Year. Ultimately because of her social position at the end of the 19th century, scores of books and articles have been written about her.

Mrs. Astor – as she represented herself on her calling card – this was back in the days when there were no phones, and even afterwards, it continued as tradition. She lived with her husband, William Backhouse Astor, and their four daughters and son, John Jacob Astor IV.

William didn’t have a job. He’d wanted to work in the family real estate firm, but when the previous generation passed on, William’s elder brother JJ III was the heir. William had nothing

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to do except whatever he did on his own as an investor businesswise. So he had a magnificent yacht and sailed the world over; and was particularly attracted to what is northern Florida on both the Atlantic coast and on the bay.

That left Lina Astor-who didn’t like yachts-to her own devices. Lina’s birth family was Dutch, the first European settlers of the island. They named their new creation New Amsterdam in the 18th century, before it eventually became New York.

In fact they were ahead of the native British by almost a century. Colonized life in the New Continent, the United States gave the Dutch a certain promi -

nence in the New World.

So William Astor actually “married up” when he married Lina. The Astors were newer but they were very rich from the original fortune amassed by the original John Jacob Astor. He was a German who in his 20s got involved with commerce in China. Back then England was the Emperor’s China “associate”. The young German Mr. Astor became famous for selling the fur hats with the tail. He was also appreciably involved with what today we would call the internation -

al drug trade. The British were the power then and in China that turned millions of Chinese into addicts. With his now substantial fortune/ income, the young Mr. Astor settled in New York. And with his fortune he brilliantly bought vast acreage – basically uninhabited because for centuries it was an island. And he had bought enormous pieces of property on both sides of the ancient well-worn and wide path that (for centuries of the natives) ran the length of

Manhattan island-from lowest tip to the highest where it meets the Hudson. It later was named Broadway and is clearly the oldest thoroughfare on the North American continent today.

Astor bought to hold the land, and rented it out by lease where those renting could do what they wanted with it: building shelters. A century later the Astor real estate was worth hundreds of millions. Everything constructed, however, belonged to the landowner, Mr. Astor.

Meanwhile, back in ole Manhattan, Lina had nothing to do. In those days, a woman who was a mother was expected to stay at home and run the household. And behave herself

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naturally. Unless she was invited to go to another home for a luncheon or a dinner. Otherwise the hubby, often away at sea – or up at the Astor estate on the Hudson – pretty much left her on her own as the children were growing up.

The Astor mansion where she held the Ball in the house’s ballroom was a brownstone on the southwest corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue – that same plot today holds the Empire State Building. In Mrs. Astor’s day, it was part of the family holdings on the 33rd to 34th Streetswith an expanse of garden between her, and the mansion of her brother-in-law who ran the family fortune. It was an enormous real estate holding.

It was a time when New York was just becoming the mega-state of national and even international activity-100 years after the American Revolution when it became the Land of the Free. This new government was more remarkable in that day and age when the world was otherwise run by kings, queens, czars, and emperors. And you did what you were told. America changed that; and it was still fresh.

traditions and royal leadership. As much as we loved our Independence, we still looked upon the Old Ways as “charmingly” awesome.

To Americans of that time, the Euros were the ones with the experience of

While William Astor loved exploring the lands in the tropics, Lina took to Paris. Every late January, after holding her annual New Year’s Ball (dinner dance), she departed for Paris where she annually remained taking in its splendors until the sunshine in Manhattan began to warm the place again.

By the late 1880s, with the Civil War debacle far

enough behind, people were focusing on the coming new century. Mrs. Astor was that era’s “hostess with the mostest” although of course it would be described with awe, if not gossiped about. With hubby off riding another wave, she made the scene Hers, greeting her guests from a slightly raised platform, bedecked (and not kidding) in diamonds by sparkling dozens, presiding like the empress of Manhattan, over her grateful and respecting guests.

That sounds like a bit of an exaggeration except it was a time – late 19th century – when the part of the world now called America was changing and growing, raising a whole new world of various technologies, all

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of which came out of this country and the domains of the established financial leadership. And Mrs. Astor’s Ball had become local legend.

Her life was modern in the social sense. Somewhere along the way in planning her hostess evenings, she connected with a man whom she hired to assist her in planning her balls, Ward McAllister. He was, in modern terms, a public relations executive; and somewhat of a “modern” man because of it.

Among his accomplishment with his “client” Madam Astor was to work on the public image of her. Modernize it maybe. Most memorable and even immortal was his renumbering the list of individuals guests. The Astor ballroom in the mansion had a capacity of 368 individuals. In his announcements to

the invited he changed that capacity to the number 400 reminding that was an easier and more impressive number for the memory.

And so that little public relations touch brought the immortality of Mrs.Astor’s guest list: i.e., the term the Four Hundred. The fascinating thing about history is, when I was a kid, growing up in New England in the middle of the last century, I’d heard the term, The Four Hundred, and Mrs. Astor in ordinary conversation of ordinary working adults. It meant nothing to me except I liked the sound of both. They were not in any way social or socially minded individuals but Mrs. Astor established what became a social position in

New York.

Which brings me to thoughts of my late friend Jane Hitchcock. I’ve already written about our loss/her passing. She’d been living in Washington for a number of years, but New York was her home at 10 Gracie Square and right across 83rd Street from her home building was her prep school. I don’t know much about prep schools – girls or boys – but Brearley wasn’t Jane’s favorite although she attended as directed.

Ours was an occasional, brief relationship when we were in a situation where both had time to talk about subjects that just came up in our work. Jane was a natural writer and playwright.

She was curious and she was knowledgeable and made friends wherever she went. Having a conversation with her over lunch or dinner at Sette Mezzo was always a pleasure. It was where she often lunched with Jackie Onassis – it was Jackie’s favorite restaurant according to Jane.

Jane was a girl who had always been smart but was always curious-which was always in the conversation with her. She was learning. It was always a pleasure and even a learning for me.

At the end, she’d been taken by a terrible cancer. She didn’t wear it, however, but lived each day quite actively, until the last. She left a beautiful memory for this one.

As we move toward the end of August which we mainly tend to think of as the End of the Summer Season, we are amazed at

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how quickly things change in this changing world of ours.

Books and snooks. I’ve heard a number of recommendations of the newish Pamela Churchill biography. I only knew about her peripherally all my adult life. There was a manliness in her desirability but possessed in charm. I’d never met her – although I’d been in the same room with her when she was Pamela Harriman. But I knew several individuals who knew Pamela all her life, from youth onwards. Their responses to her varied widely.

She was obviously an ambitious woman. It came naturally to her, and for those

not charmed by her, there was a contrary attitude. She came from a titled family and I recall once reading about a great-grandmother or aunt of hers who in another generation before Pamela, lived an adventurous life in the Middle East and their deserts.

But truth is Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman was a fascinating woman, not an innocent by any means, but a highly competitive, ambitious

woman of a certain background with which she probably could have come up with a prosperous husband. And in those times that she couldn’t, some of the American boys she met when she was Prime Minister Winston

Churchill’s favorite daughter-in-law, and mother of third generation Winston, the boys who charmed her took care of their Pamela financially, and she supervised their generosity toward her.

Over the years her name has come up in conversation by people who knew her long and well. I’m sure this new biography provides the info. I met her, quite accidentally once. Or rather, I was present at her presence, for it was most definitely a presence – brief and thorough.

I remember the date, January 1990, because I was still living in California and had come to New York to interview some people about another book I was contracted to write (about the Cushing Sisters). It was a cold New York Saturday morning, freezing,  brrrr , and I had an 11 o’clock appointment to interview Kit -

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ty Carlisle about the Sisters.

Kitty lived in a big apartment on the corner of Madison Avenue and 68th Street. It was one of those “famous people” buildings, where the maid answered the door and led me into the library, or something resembling such.

We were about to sit down on a wide sofa when a woman came into the room. As she approached Kitty, I’d never actually seen her in the flesh before. She was dressed neatly but casually in a brown wool blazer, dark green wool skirt; ladyship casual but looking high-end perfect. I soon recognized Pamela Harriman coming up to Kitty (and me standing there). And I was impressed. It was not a powerful physical

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presence but she looked every inch of it.

She’d come up from Washington the day before to attend the opera at the Met, and like a penny-wise aristo, she preferred staying as a guest of Kitty Carlisle. Old pals always pleased to see each other.

I was introduced to her. She was not petite but small compared to the sense of size she is on film. It’s the presence. Very warm and right. I was charmed and fascinated.

And she crossed to the other side of the room where there was a phone. Kitty and I stood there, sort of not paying attention to her phone call but with nothing to say to each other.

She explained to Kitty –besides thanking her for her hospitality – that she needed to make a quick phone call.

I did notice that when I glanced in her direction, holding the phone to her ear, she was looking at me while talking. I only noticed that because I was flattered and she was an ace with a glance. A thousand words and then some. She finished, put the phone down on the hook and came back over to thank Kitty again … and to shake my hand with

a brief but warm smile. And then she picked up her coat, carrying it over her arm, and walked to the exit on the other side of the room. And as she was about to turn out of sight, she threw her head back with the slightest energy and gave me a big private smile.

Of course I was in awe. She  smiled  at me. I know it sounds corny but she left me a personal message. It was a very nice warm smile, and I was very flattered.

When she was out of sight, Kitty couldn’t resist talking about how amazing and wonderful Pamela is/was. It was a natural respect, two ambitious girls who made the best of the best for their lives. That is a separate talent and together they were like two very

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well-mannered but warm ladies.

The fact is, as I came to learn over the years, Mrs. Harriman had two very different sides to herself, and they were expressed accordingly to how she ranked in the equation. For example, a number of years ago, I got into a brief conversation at a cocktail reception with another guest, young man, well-suited, a sophisticated note about him.

When I asked him what he did professionally, he told me that he’d worked at the White House, under Clinton, and then was sent to work in the embassy in Paris. Mrs. Harriman was the Ambassador at the

time, and so I asked him if he worked with her. He curtly said that he did.

I then asked him without any expression what it was like working for Mrs. Harriman. His whole mood changed instantly, like changing character, when without looking at me, he said “she was  a vicious, evil woman” whom he obviously hated.

I didn’t continue to question him since he obviously had a personal experience with her and it left him thusly. I could see the kind

of person whose characteristics of a tough woman that could show an entirely, un-charming side to her.   She lived on another planet, compared to most of us. She made it her business — and business after all, is what it is —and she traveled down a different road, on her own with partners acquired. It was A Life, however, that belonged to Her. She had to work for it, but she had the priceless charm that produced results for her.

I’d heard from other wom-

en of her set that she was a warm and wonderful hostess at her ladies luncheons that she occasionally hosted when she was in New York.

I also had heard from a witnessed incident where she helped herself to a rare pearl necklace that belonged to a member of a family she married into and when confronted, denied it. She was a very complicated woman with an alluring personality, good looks, with wit and charm to impress and a powerful sexual allure. Nevertheless, that brief, millisecond moment when she threw the slightest, bright glance and smile to me, remains in view in my consciousness. ◆

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IN A CATEGORY LONG dominated by monochromatic tones and understated elegance, a new wave of brightly colored watch dials is reinvigorating the luxury timepiece market. From vibrant greens to playful pinks, watchmakers are leaning into bold hues that speak to personality, individuality, and modern luxury.

Leading the charge is Parmigiani Fleurier, whose Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante was unveiled this year in a striking Verzasca Green—a lush, forested hue inspired by the Swiss valley. The color brings new energy to an already technically impressive watch, marrying innovation with aesthetic boldness. Major players are also embracing the chromatic shift. Rolex introduced a fresh suite of pastel dial options for its Oyster Perpetual line, including a matte lavender and warm beige. Patek Philippe unveiled a radiant salmon dial in its Calatrava collection, adding a touch of warmth to its classic lineup. Nomos Glashütte, known for its clean Bauhaus design, added pastel mint and sky blue options to its Club Campus series, appealing to a younger, style conscious clientele.

Wempe’s even getting in on the trend with our own Iron Walker line, available in an array of punchy new shades, including pink, purple, and apricot, offering a colorful yet refined alternative to the traditional steel sports watch.

This move toward color reflects a broader cultural shift, where consumers seek personal expression and joy through their accessories. Whether it’s the subtle elegance of Verzasca Green or the playful charm of apricot, today’s watch buyer isn’t just telling time, they’re telling a story.

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A Toast to the Quest 400

Quest Magazine honors the past while celebrating the present and anticipating what’s next. At Gil Walsh Interiors, this philosophy is woven into every project. For more than thirty years, Gil Walsh has built a legacy of design that artfully balances refined sophistication with comfort and livability. Her interiors are rooted in classical tradition yet elevated by a fresh, contemporary sensibility—resulting in spaces that feel timeless, expressive, and deeply personal.

Each project is a celebration of the client’s lifestyle, layered with elegance, history, and soul. Gil and her team craft richly textured interiors that reflect both regional charm and global sophistication. Her masterful use of color, pattern, and proportion—anchored by a deep understanding of classical design principles—has distinguished her as a visionary and tastemaker across generations.

A home should reflect the past, present, and future. The most compelling interiors are layered with meaningful details—art collections, family heirlooms, custom finishes—that tell the story of a life well lived. “The most coveted designs are unapologetically personal,” Gil notes. “A home’s design is an extension of the homeowner’s lifestyle—a piece of their soul in tangible form.”

Gil Walsh once again earns a place in Quest Magazine’s esteemed Quest 400—an annual distinction honoring the most influential tastemakers, creatives, philanthropists, and leaders shaping culture along the Eastern Seaboard. Her inclusion recognizes not only her enduring impact on the world of interior design but also her commitment to beauty, craftsmanship, and the transformative power of elegant living. At Gil Walsh Interiors, every project is a narrative worth sharing. It’s a place Where Style Lives.

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IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY

THE 400 ISSUE... Mrs. William Vincent Astor seems the perfect choice. After all, the 400 began when Caroline Schermerhorn Astor—the Mrs. Astor at the time—made her list of who was acceptable in Society and who was not, consisting of nobs (old money) and, reluctantly, swells (nouveau riche). The list was actually published on February 16, 1892, in The New York Times… Can you resist taking a look to see if your ancestors are on the list?

Cut to 1991… Brooke Astor—the last to publicly hold the title of “Mrs. Astor”—is shown here in one of her favorite purple outfits. Charming and a bit flirty, she was in fine form as I photographed her at the Madison Avenue Bookstore for a story on New Yorkers in their favorite places. When I casually asked how she started her day, Mrs. Astor replied that she kept up with everything by reading the morning newspapers. She flipped both hands up as if to shoo away a fly and remarked, “That’s all I need to know.” As I had begun my career as a Fleet Street newspaper photographer, I was proud to hear her say, “I have read the papers all my life.”

The photography went well, as I had photographed Mrs. Astor several times before—afterward always receiving a lovely hand-signed thank-you note on her blue Dempsey and Carroll stationery, signaling

that she knew the correct place to shop (nothing nouveau for her). Her notes were engraved with her street address only—city and zip code not needed.

Now in its third season, the HBO series The Gilded Age is chock-full of every nuanced level of New York Society with a capital S. The popular drama presents, with great flair, the do’s and don’ts surrounding New York’s firmly established vs. the nouveau society, circa 1870–1890. And of course, the driving force in the television series is Mrs. John Jacob Astor III, who, with the snap of her fingers, could make or break a family’s hopes for a place in the social order.

An amusing aside in the series is that East 61st Street is referred to as “so far uptown only upstart social climbers dared to live that far north.” Especially amusing, since Brooke Astor’s fabulous 14-room Park Avenue apartment was between 73rd and 74th Street—and my first New York apartment, when I arrived with the Beatles in 1964, was on the corner of 63rd and Third.

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OKAY, YOU SPORT FANS out there,  The Gilded Age  is back on our idiot boxes, and it’s a welcome respite from the garbage that untalented directors and writers of today have been shoving down our throats. At least garbage had its uses before it turned to waste, but this recent stuff… words fail me. Back in the good old

days, screenwriters were terribly good writers with names such as Tennessee Williams, Irwin Shaw, Scott Fitzgerald, Gore Vidal, Tom Stoppard, and Billy Wilder among many other exceptional scribes, and they produced such classics as  The Best Years of Our Lives ,  All About Eve , and  Gone With the Wind , the latter with a little help

from one Margaret Mitchell. But I don’t want to dwell on the lack of talent among moviemakers today. (An exception is my friend Michael Mailer’s  Hearts of Champions and  Cutman, the latter an outstanding film.) It’s obvious that

Clockwise from left: Mrs. Astor greets guests at one of her balls; portrait of Henry James, 1913; the Almanach de Gotha.

talent and Hollywood have parted ways, hence when a costume drama like  The Gilded Age comes along, it’s welcome. Mind you, like Henry James and Edith Wharton before him,  The Gilded Age auteur Julian Fellowes—a pretty good social climber himself— does overcook things. In other words, yes, one had to conform back then in order to be invited to Mrs. Astor’s balls, but definitely not as much as the abovementioned writers would have us assume. The Astor family began as German butchers, after all, so her snobbery was predictable. Here in America, social standing was based on only one

the real-life Buckingham having earned his title by being King James’ bum boy back in the 1600s. (He had a grisly end.) Everyone seems to be on the make on the series, a gross exaggeration, I am sure, but nevertheless with some truth to it. The difference with European society is amazing. And I’ll tell you why: In the old continent, the Bible aside, the most important book that decreed who was who was the  Almanach de Gotha—if you were in it, you were in; if you were not, you were out. Mind you, there were poets and writers and musi cians and actors who would never be in the  Gotha book but were ever present

thing—money—yet tradition played almost as big a role. If your ancestors had come over early, and especially if they had fought for the creation of what is now known as the US of A, you were special in the social ladder.

No longer. The WASP hierarchy has gone the way of the  Titanic, while the Jewish ascendancy is at present in full bloom and rising. The WASPs had a good run, but unlike their aristocratic European counterparts, they blew it by drinking too much, spending too much on polo ponies, and paying too much alimony and tax. In other words, they didn’t make sure of their strong position both in society and in government.

But back to The Gilded Age. The actor playing the Duke of Buckingham portrays him on the straight and narrow,

So, while in the good old USA money got Mister Moneybags a good seat at the table, in Parisian, London, Roman, Madrid, and other European drawing rooms it was titles that came first. Landed gentry managed to keep their assets for hundreds of years because land is more stable than hard cash. And the nobility partook in politics and protected itself from the demands of the great unwashed. The latter are now scrubbed clean but still screaming their heads off when someone like

in the great salons of the aristocracy. The  Gotha listed all titles, and  Le Petit Gotha listed royal, princely, and ducal titles. (If you’re confused, don’t worry.)

Titles were handed out by ruling kings, and the highest were princely ones. I once tried to explain them to a sweet Texas lady, but I was unsuccessful. “If you’re a princess, why aren’t you royal?” she asked. “Because you’re a Serene Highness, not a Royal Highness,” said I. No go. Ironically, yours truly is in the  Gotha book, but I came in through the back door. My wife was born a Serene Highness, so her hubby and children and their descendants are in for good. (The Schoenburgs have been nobles since the 11th century—a pretty good run, I’d say.)

Bezos makes a Venetian splash. I went to two grand Venetian balls when very young, back when Italians were really struggling, and I remember the crowds cheering as we disembarked from our gondolas into the palaces. Now they boo. Envy is the 21st century’s disease.

What watching  The Gilded Age brought to mind was the following: What would those uptight Edith Wharton characters have thought of such “society” figures of today as the Kardashians, the Kushners, and the Dillers, all attendees to the Bezos nuptials? American high society died some thirty years ago—Winston and C.Z. Guest were the last—and was replaced by celebrities like those just mentioned. God help us.u

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Clockwise from left: Scene from The Gilded Age, Season Three; Mr. Monopoly; Julian Fellowes.

GOLDEN CLAN IN SOUTHAMPTON

EVER ENTERPRISING publisher Jed Lyons has reissued longtime New York Times journalist John Corry’s 1977 book, Golden Clan, with a fine introduction by the late Jim Coakley-the perfect summer beach read.

The Clan in question are the Murrays and McDonnells, children and grandchildren of Thomas E. Murray, ingenious engineer and inventor, an associate of Thomas Edison. Murray secured over 1,100 patents in electricity, gas distribution, transit, and many other industries. In 1927, he bought a spacious “cottage” in Southampton as it emerged from the sleepy, pleasant village it had been to an early summer resort. “The precise moment when Irish Catholics passed truly into Society is unclear,” Corry writes, “but it is almost certain that the place

where it happened was Southampton.”

Early Irish-American residents of Southampton included Judge Morgan O’Brien, who put up a house that looked like a yellow pagoda on the shores of Laka Agawam, and Finley Peter Dunne, the creator of the hilarious and widely read Mr. Dooley.

After Thomas E. Murray bought a great shingled house in Southampton, his sons, Tom and Joseph, and daughter, Julia Cuddihy, soon followed. Due to their wealth, good looks, and sheer size (e.g. the James McDonnells had 14 children and the Thomas Murray, Jr.’s 11!) the Murrays and McDonnells were frequently written about in such outlets as Cholly Knickerbocker’s Hearst columns as leaders in “Café Society.” This coverage only increased over the years when Anne McDonnell married auto-

From left: Patriarch Thomas E. Murray; cover of Golden Clan by John Corry.

Counterclockwise from above: Members of the third generation with their grandmother, Mrs. Thomas E. Murray, at her home in Brooklyn, circa 1925; Anna and James McDonnell outside the Southampton Riding and Hunting Club in 1940; Henry Ford dancing with his grandson’s new bride, the former Anne McDonnell, at her Southampton

Clockwise from top left: Charlotte Ford and Stavros Niarchos in St. Moritz after their marriage in December, 1965; the former Jeanne Murray and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt just after their marriage in 1945; the receiving line at Charlotte Ford’s coming-out party at Grosse Pointe Country Club in 1959. Charlotte Ford is on the left, next to her mother, while her father, Henry Ford II, kisses a guest’s hand.

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Patricia Murray Ney, Willy Morton, and Jack Geary in Southampton; T. Murray McDonnell and his frequent guest, Jackie Onassis, hunting in Peapack, New Jersey, in 1968; the beach outside the Southampton Bathing Corporation (or, as it is usually called, the Beach Club) in 1936.

mobile magnate Henry Ford II in 1940, and, several years later her cousin Jeanne Murray married established society figure and titan of the turf, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Jr.

On their first Fourth of July in Southampton paterfamilias Thomas Murray proudly lit the first Roman Candle on a fireworks display that went sideways rather than out to sea, and thus ignited the other Roman Candles, St. Catherine’s Wheels, and Greek Fire pyrotechnics, setting fire to the dune grass in a blaze that spread so quickly that several acres were blackened before the Southampton Fire Department arrived to extinguish the flames.

Eventually the Murray/McDonnell compound comprised several houses on over 100 acres and its own lake, leading WASP commentator Newell Tilton to suggest the place be called “Murray Bay.” Anna McDonnell’s household included a staff of 13—butler, chauffeur, two nurses, two cooks, two kitchen maids, four house maids, and a gardener.

There were dances on soft summer nights at the Southampton Club, the Meadow Club, the Devon Yacht Club and, of course, at “The Beach,” the Southampton Bathing Corporation. There was lawn tennis at the Meadow Club or at Devon, golf at Shinnecock, and riding at the Southampton Hunt Club, where Murray McDonnell and a young Jackie Onassis became life-long friends.

In one significant difference, however, for the Murrays and McDonnells Saturday night-time frolicking did not end on Sunday mornings at St. Andrew’s Dune Church, but at the 5

a.m. Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary on Hill Street, where attendance was required however worse for wear the attendees.

Today much of that world is gone. The Murray/McDonnell compound of shingled houses has been replaced by large McMansions along what is now called Murray Lane. The Golden Clan has experienced tragedies, divorces, bankruptcies and the inevitable deaths.

But a resilient remnant remains. Hollywood-handsome screenwriter David Murray still golfs at Sebonack and his brother Tommy produced a poignant documentary about his star-crossed family called Dad’s in Heaven with Nixon. Undoubtedly the most prominent Golden Clan descendant in today’s Southampton is Quest’s very own Society Editor, Hilary Geary Ross, a Murray, who continues to graciously preside over the summer season as a friend to all.

“Families have been drawn to this town for generations. When my great-grandparents arrived, they bought acres of oceanfront land and built a fairytale compound complete with a chapel, ponies, a community pool with lifeguards, and more. I spent countless sun-drenched summers there, making memories I’ll never forget,” said Geary Ross. “Southampton is a place where time slows down and moments linger. Families come here to reconnect—on the beach, the tennis court, around the dinner table. They swim, bike, dine al fresco, and create sweet, unforgettable memories that last forever and a day.” ◆

Clockwise

left: Coaching

Southampton Riding and Hunting Club in

1930s (from left: Jeanne Murray,

Marcia Murray, Catherine McDonnell, Rosamund Murray, and Marie Murray); Nick Morton,

Geary,

QUEST Fresh Finds

BY BROOKE KELLY MURRAY & ELIZABETH MEIGHER

FROM SUN-DRENCHED days to crisp early evenings, this month’s edit blends effortless style with a hint of fall. Think relaxed silhouettes, airy accessories, and pops of color to carry you through the season in style—wherever summer’s end finds you.

Bijoux Num’s Carved Pink Quartzite Earrings. $468 at thestore. madmuseum.org.

The perfect travel companion for your jewels, Asprey’s Leigh Jewellery Roll in lilac

leather is lightweight and slim perfect for summer travel. $1,110 at asprey.com.

Wempe’s Charm bracelet Helioro BY KIM, 18k rose gold, 1 brilliant-cut diamond. $10,775 at wempe.com.

Oscar de la Renta’s Cherry Blossom Chiffon Caftan. $7,290 at oscardelarenta.com.

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Amy Rosoff Davis, celebrity trainer + health & wellness coach, is bringing her five-star, LA-based method to Casa de Campo for a RESET to remember. Amidst the serene backdrop of the Dominican Republic, she will guide you through exercises, protocols, and practices to renew your mind, body, and spirit. Four full days of: Daily Yoga and Meditation, Healthy cooking class, Healing Massage and Hydrotherapy, Mindful YIN Yoga/Stretch Class, Workshop and Talks, personal attention, camaraderie, and inspiration. August 14th – 18th. For more information, visit casadecampo.com.do.

J.McLaughlin’s Gramercy Classic Fit Shirt ($168), Lisbon Sport Coat ($498), Rafe Espadrilles ($228), Ray Belt ($98), Linen Pocket Square ($48), and Stanley Weekender Bag ($348). Visit jmclaughlin.com.

Expertly blended and barrel-aged for a minimum of 10 years under the Caribbean sun, BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Diez is filtered through charcoal for a smooth finish. $40 at select liquor stores.

Rolex’s new Land-Dweller 40. Oyster, 40 mm, Oystersteel, and white gold. $15,350 at rolex.com.

Fun to play and perfect to gift. The Colony Hotel’s pickleball paddles feature an abstracted take on the hotel’s iconic seagrape pattern. JB playfully graces the cover and the reverse. One paddle and one cover included. $125 at thecolonyedit.com.

Fill up on Fresh Air with the 2025 MINI Convertible. Featuring iconic go-kart handling and loaded with features, updated styling, revised powertrain options, and better tech. Test drive one today at Braman MINI Palm Beach. Visit BramanMINI.com.

Victoria Beckham’s Drape Sleeve Midi Dress In Antique Pink. $1,350 at us.victoriabeckham.com.

Verdura Estate 18k Yellow Gold Icon Charm Bracelet. $32,500 at greenleafycrosby.com.

Pair of vintage coiled pencil reed barrel chairs. The unique designs on the back of the chairs feature a striking circular pattern. This organic look was taken from the work of Italian designer, Gabriella Crespi, whose work was popular in the 1970s. Custom upholstered in striking coral suede fabric. $6,450 at LindaHorn.com.

Verdura’s Diamond, Gold, and Platinum “Sun” Cuff. $87,500 at Verdura, 745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1205, New York, New York, verdura.com, or call 212.758.3388.

Ralph Lauren Collection’s Ralph Calf-Suede Small Bucket Bag. $3,300 at ralphlauren.com.

Barton & Gray Mariners Club offers an assortment of membership options. Members enjoy a lifetime of yachting with the ability to adjust their membership and take advantage of the ever-expanding harbors and new yachts being added to the club. Members can look forward to the upcoming Opera House Cup on Nantucket on August 15th - 17th. Visit bartonandgray.com.

Via Coquina’s Chantecler Enchanté Turquoise Drop Earrings with Diamonds set in 18kt rose gold. $10,990 at viacoquina.com.

J.Crew’s Gemma bandeau onepiece in Classic Sculpt. $138 at jcrew.com.

Available at Shreve, Crump & Low, this extraordinary necklace features 38 prong-set octagonal emeralds totaling 27.11 carats, masterfully set in 18 karat yellow gold to highlight their rich green hue. Complementing the emeralds are 77 emerald-cut diamonds totaling 16.86 carats, set in 18 karat white gold, offering a striking contrast and unparalleled brilliance. $160,000 at shrevecrumpandlow.com.

Charlotte Kellogg’s Chantilly Dress is an exquisite full-length caftan, handcrafted from 100% breathable cotton and adorned with intricate hand embroidery. $250 at charlottekellogg.com.

Perfectly Palm Beach’s Signature Collection Candle captures the true essence of Palm Beach. With fresh notes of lemons, oranges, and salty ocean air, the signature fragrance evokes the breezy, sunlit charm that defines the town. $60 at perfectlypb.com.

RETURN TO THE SKY

BY TONY HALL

THERE WAS nothing inevitable about the return of the North American bald eagle to New York State. It began, inauspiciously enough, in 1975 with a note in the official publication of the state’s conservation department informing readers that New York hoped to re-establish the raptor, which had been all but exterminated from the state and its last known nesting grounds—the Adirondacks—as a consequence of pesticides, loss of habitat, and hunting.

No one was more committed to restoring the bald eagle to New York than its gentlemanly conservation commissioner, Ogden Reid, who found $5,000 for the project in his agency’s budget. And without Tina Milburn Morris, an unassuming anthropology major from Oberlin who became—almost by accident—the first person in the U.S. to foster bald eagle chicks, raise them to adolescence, and release them into the wild, the bald eagle might still be a rarity in New York State.

Morris herself is fully aware of how unlikely her part was in one of the great conservation success stories of our time; she frankly admits as much in her engaging memoir, Return to the Sky: The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets Helped Restore the Bald Eagle

Morris had found herself in the right place at the right time—at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1976—as a graduate student in need of a research topic. Tasked by Dr. Tom Cade of the ornithology lab with the eaglets’ hacking—that is, raising them to become independent flyers, predators, and breeders without the benefit of adult birds as instructors—Morris spent a summer alone with two birds that were captured in Wisconsin and brought to the Finger Lakes. There, she fed them carp and

roadkill and watched them eat, preen, and flap their wings, all while recording her detailed observations.

By the end of her second summer in the Finger Lakes, Morris had successfully hacked seven birds, two of which went on to breed and produce two chicks in the wild. In 1977, she also released M3, a rehabbed young eagle from Michigan, who nested for 35 years with two different mates and produced as many as 70 eaglets in his lifetime. At 38, he was the oldest wild bald eagle in history. By 1989,

when the restoration program was declared a success and disbanded, ten pairs were breeding and fledging young birds. Today, New York is home to hundreds of pairs of breeding bald eagles.

For Morris, that should be a satisfying accomplishment not only professionally, but personally. Far from interfering with her ability to pursue science objectively and dispassionately, her innate love for animals catalyzed an experiment that is now being replicated wherever endangered birds are found. ◆

Above: W1 (left) and W2 (right) with streamer tags around their wings and a fish dinner awaiting them in the nest. The larger eaglet (W1) was believed to be the female and the smaller (W2) the male. Below: Using a stepladder to reach the tower's metal footholds, Tina Morris climbs the pole up to the platform to build a nest before the eagles arrive. Opposite page, from above: Jim Weaver and Tina Morris use a bluejean sleeve to restrain a 1976 eaglet while they put color tags on its wing and attach its radio transmitter; the cover of Chelsea Green Publishing's Return to the Sky by Tina Morris.

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY

BY JAYNE CHASE

MUCH HAS been written, of late, about the changes afoot in Palm Beach. And why not? The town continues to capture national attention as one of the most sought-after places to live and work. Over the season, conversations at al fresco luncheons and candlelit dinners along Billionaire’s Row often turned to the town’s noticeable growth-more residents, activity, and numerous ongoing real estate developments. And, while the pace of these changes

has some residents scratching their heads, it also signals a vibrant new chapter. From the restoration of historic homes to exciting new cultural revivals, there is every reason to feel hopeful and excited!

One such reason is Glazer Hall, the much anticipated cultural centerpiece set to make its debut in 2026 at The Royal Poinciana Plaza. Beautifully situated along the Intracoastal Waterway, this architectural gem will bring new life to a neglected space—one that we’re confident the original architect, John L. Volk, would proudly applaud.

The visionaries behind the project are longtime Palm Beach residents and philanthropic leaders Jill and Avie Glazer, who saw the potential to transform this historic site into a vibrant, modern-day gathering place. “Glazer Hall will be Palm Beach’s first nonprofit arts organization in more than 60 years,” says Jill. “We raised our girls here, so we’re thrilled to support something that will bring people of all ages together through performances, cultural events, inspiring programs, and meaningful conversations.” Nodding his head in agreement with his wife, Avie,

From above: Rendering of Glazer Hall; vintage photo of Glazer Hall, then known as the Playhouse. Opposite page: A recent look at Glazer Hall under construction; Jill and Avie Glazer.

Rendering of Glazer Hall, formerly known at the Playhouse (above); recent sneak peaks of the construction site.

the owner of both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United F. C., adds with a smile, “we felt it was time to put the lights back on and bring this jewel box back to life. Glazer Hall will serve as a dynamic cultural hub—fostering creativity, building community, and offering the transformative power of the arts as a force for social good.”

Slated to open in the 2025–2026 season, Glazer Hall will span approximately 24,000 square feet and feature an intimate 400-seat theater with state-of-the-art retractable seating, designed to accommodate a wide variety of performances and immersive experiences. The venue also includes 2,200 square feet of private waterfront entertaining space with sweeping views of West Palm Beach. “This project for me,” adds Keith Williams of Nievera Williams Design, “began in 2017 when we reimagined the outdoor

spaces for The Royal Poinciana Plaza. This project is a continuation of that living legacy which is about history and preservation.”

“We have worked very hard to preserve the “essence” of John Volk’s space while bringing it into the modern era,” says Avie. “We have preserved the original box office, moldings, and stair details, and I think people will love the spirit of the old combined with the excitement of the new.” ◆

For more information, visit glazerhall.org.

WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE

BY ROBERT JANJIGIAN

her in historical context. She is from a prominent family whose contributions to the American and international experience are notable, as are her own career and interests.

“She was a woman of consummate style, an equestrian champion, an intrepid traveler, a savvy businesswoman, and a groundbreaking philanthropist,” states Suzanne Slesin, publisher at Pointed Leaf Press, which produced Jorie: The Extraordinary Life of Jorie Butler Kent, a unique illustrated volume about Kent and her many experiences and accomplishments.

Clockwise from top left: Jorie Butler Kent posing with her daughter, Reute, for a photo taken via a time-release cable; Jorie’s brother, Michael, had come down from New York to fox hunt when Whartie took this photograph of them at “Kismet,” Jorie and Whartie’s house in Devon, Pennsylvania; the polo action, captured by Reute, was firece in the United States Open tournament of 1981 that took place at the now-defunct Retama Polo Club, with Antonio Herrera, A&K’s nine-goal player; the cover of Pointed Leaf Press’s Jorie: The Extraordinary Life of Jorie Butler Kent; one of the most fabulous trips Jorie produced in the 1970s was called, “The Iron Snake Safari.” Clients were transported in railcars that had been originally built by the British to entertain VIPs. Jorie and Geoff sat on the steam engine’s cow-catcher for a photograph. Opposite page: Jorie Butler Kent.

Kent’s family has a long history as successful paper producers in the early 20th century, as champions of polo in the United States, and as the founders of Butler Aviation. Her brother Michael shaped the culture as the producer of the groundbreaking musical Hair in the 1960s.

With her husband Geoffrey Kent, she made Abercrombie & Kent one of the premier luxury travel companies in the world, notably in Africa, the Middle East, and Antarctica. Kent has also been active in the preservation of wildlife and is a skilled photographer.

Kent’s life is inspirational, admirable, and unparalleled.

Jorie is available for $95 at pointedleafpress.com. u

Jorie, always known for dressing in off-white, and her beloved Miss Pogo, a Cavapoo, sit by the window in her bedroom in Palm Beach in 2021; a collage of Jorie’s passports (insest). Opposite page, clockwise from above: Jorie photographed the ranch hands, and Sherry, second from left, and Cecil Smith, Paul’s 10-goal pro, who is on the far right, as they conferred before the fall roundup of the White-Faced Hereford cattle that were raised on Jorie’s Indian Creek Ranch; at Butler Aviation at the Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, a wonderful vintage Ford station wagon was used to travel on the interior airport roads and runways. A friend of Jorie’s had written on it “Don’t Follow Me” as a joke, and soon, “Do Not Follow” was found on many inter-ariport vehicles around the country; around 1954, Jorie was with Michael aboard his yacht, the Coradina , when they were motoring through New York harbor to avoid Cape Hatteras, where they had been caught in an almost-fatal storm; Jorie loved her “babies,” as she called her horses, and she had a great way with them. Even though they were quite wild and had little experience with people, they let her approach and get close to them without fear.

FROM THE RESERVATION BOOK AT SWIFTY’S DECEMBER 2001

Taki and Alexandra Theodoracopulos

Brooke Astor

Carroll Petrie

Mario Buatta

Bill Blass

Peter Duchin

Prince Pavlos and Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece

Eleanor Lambert

Liz Smith

Iris Love

Kathleen Hearst

Amanda Burden and Charlie Rose

Herb and Ann Siegel

Barbara Walters

Gayfryd Steinberg

Robert and Blaine Trump

Aerin and Eric Zinterhofer

Dominick Dunne

Lee Radziwill

Kenny Lane

Deeda Blair

Mark Gilbertson

Betty Sherrill

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger

Bianca Jagger

Anjelica Huston

Reinaldo and Carolina Herrera

Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia

Leonard and Evelyn Lauder

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benton

Pat Buckley

Ahmet and Mica Ertegun

Robin Chandler Duke

Mr. and Mrs. Billy Salomon

George Trescher

Kip Forbers

Aileen Mehle

Pat Patterson

Liz Fondaras

C. Z. Guest

Cornelia Guest

Duane Hampton

Fred Krimendahl and Emilia Saint Amand

Boaz Mazor

Barry Humphries

Marc Rosen and Arlene Dahl

Carole McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. Matt Lauer

Barbara Cook

Joe Eula

Nan and Tommy Kempner

Gabrielle Forte

Dr. William and Gale Hayman-Haseltine

Carl Bernstein and Cheri Kaufman

Peter Bacanovic

Brooke Hayward Duchin

Shirley Lord and Abe Rosenthal

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sulzberger

Mary McFadden

Chris and Grace Meigher

Princess Michael of Kent

Serena Boardman

Joan Rivers

Toula Livanos

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tower

Siri and Tony Mortimer

Avi and Gigi Mortimer

Jeffrey Bilhuber

Dolores Smithies

Nina Zinterhofer

Tom Quick and Pauline Pitt

Jill Roosevelt

Marlene Hess

David and Helen Gurley Brown

Alexa Hampton

Peter Rogers

Mary and Mike Wallace

Joan Collins

Calvin and Kelly Klein

REAL ESTATE’S POWER PLAYERS

DANA KOCH

Corcoran / 561.379.7718 / dana.koch@corcoran.com

IN THE EVER-EVOLVING world of Palm Beach real estate, Dana Koch stands out as a trusted advisor known for his honesty, integrity, and deep local knowledge. Koch has closed more than $2.5 billion in residential sales since 2020, consistently earning Corcoran’s highest honors and ranking among the top 1% of agents nationwide.

With an MBA from George Washington University and a background in finance, Koch brings analytical precision to every transaction—but it’s his personal touch that truly resonates with clients. Koch’s business is largely referral-based, a reflection of the trust he’s earned from clients over two decades in the market.

Koch has witnessed firsthand the transformation of Palm Beach over the last two decades. “The most striking change has been the influx of younger families,” he explains. “It has evolved over the last 20+ years and has infused new energy. Palm Beach gets younger and younger every year. Some people may think that this happened when COVID occurred, but it’s been a process that was expedited during the pan-

demic.” With that demographic shift has come a new wave of restaurants, galleries, and luxury retail.

Still, Koch believes Palm Beach hasn’t lost its character. “Even though the cat’s out of the bag, there’s always a place for ‘old’ Palm Beach,” he says. “You can be as involved or as anonymous as you want. That’s the beauty of the area.”

As buyers continue to flock to Florida for tax advantages, Koch says the real draw is something less tangible. “People come for the lifestyle—the weather, the community, the outdoor living—and once they experience it, they can’t believe they didn’t move sooner.”

With a reputation built on service, discretion, and results, Dana Koch remains one of Palm Beach’s most respected real estate professionals.

Clockwise from bottom left: Dana Koch; 231 Via Las Brisas, Palm Beach, Florida, listed for $21,500,000; 125 Via Vizcaya, Palm Beach, listed for $14,995,000. Opposite page: 2100 S Ocean Boulevard, 408N & Cabana 9N, Palm Beach, $8,950,000.

AMANDA GOLDWORM, MEGAN SCOTT, & MERRILL CURTIS

Q: How would you characterize the Manhattan market?

A: Busy! Is how we would describe the Manhattan market this summer. We have continued to see sustained buyer demand into the summer months, specifically for renovated apartments and townhouses. Additionally, we have been actively advising several clients on how best to prepare their properties to list in the fall or the first quarter of 2026.

Q: What types of properties have been most active this season?

A: Throughout the spring and into the summer, our buyer clients, across all price points, have been particularly drawn to well-located, competitively priced, and largely renovated properties. During the past several months, we have seen many examples of attractively priced three-, four-, and five-bedroom apartments receive multiple offers with some entering contract above the asking price. Simultaneously, buyers do remain extremely price-sensitive, especially for properties that will likely require a full-scale renovation.

Q: Have there been any surprises this summer?

A: Our team has been impressed by how robust buyer activity

has remained this summer. Typically, the summer months can be quieter when many residents spend more time outside of the city. This summer, however, we have seen continued interest from our clients, particularly to view largely turnkey properties.

Q: What do you anticipate as we head into the fall?

A: Historically, new inventory typically emerges on the market following Labor Day weekend. However, it remains to be seen how the upcoming New York mayoral election will impact buyers and sellers. Likely, we will see some hesitancy in the market.

Q: Any advice for buyers or sellers before year-end?

A: For current buyers, we suggest paying close attention to the “Days on Market” count. As the days on market increase, sellers may be more amenable to negotiate on price, especially as the fall nears and uncertainty grows surrounding the mayoral election. For potential sellers, the summer months are a great time to prepare your property to list by early 2026.

From above: 115 East 67th Street, #4B, New York, New York; Megan Scott, Amanda Goldworm, and Merrill Curtis.

LIZA PULITZER & WHITNEY MCGURK

Brown Harris Stevens / 561.373.0666 or 561.310.7919 / lpulitzer@bhsusa.com or wmcgurk@bhsusa.com

Q: How has the Palm Beach market performed this summer?

A: The Palm Beach market has returned to the historical seasonal market of years past. The activity has dropped off while everyone is traveling for the summer but we have a busy fall ahead of us.

Q: What kinds of properties are generating the most buzz?

A: The very top of the market has been active. Most notably, a couple of oceanfront parcels have traded for a reported $250,000,000 to a buyer who has not been identified. These purchases have been reported in the news and all over social media .

Q: Have you noticed any shifts in the buyer pool this year?

A: Our buyer pool remains consistent with years past. Although, we are finding more and more buyers from California looking and purchasing in Palm Beach.

Q: What’s new around town that buyers are asking about?

A: All of the new development in the West Palm Beach condo market has been top of mind for buyers. There are quite a few new buildings coming to the market in various price points which buyers are inquiring about.

Q: Any advice for those considering entering the market?

A: We are confident that the Fall is going to be very active. We have been advising clients to try and get ahead of the seasonal push while we are in the summer doldrums before the market kicks back into high gear.

Q: Tell us about a listing.

A: A tremendous 1+ acre land opportunity is situated high up on Chapel Hill at 3 S Lake Trail. It has never been on the market before. The elevation (16.6 feet!) is incredible, and the dimensions are ~300 x ~150, totaling 45,490 square feet. Currently the property is platted for two buildable lots with the ability to possibly subdivide into three lots. Also, views could be amazing from a second-floor build. The location is superb as there are only five houses on this lovely cul-de-sac street. The property has many mature trees throughout, and the sense of privacy is exceptional. There is no other property on the island with this size, location, elevation, and the ability to subdivide.

From above: 3 S Lake Trail, Palm Beach, Florida, listed for $36,500,000; Liza Pulitzer and Whitney McGurk.

ASHLEY WHITTAKER SPENCE

Q: How would you describe the Millbrook market this summer?

A: The Millbrook market has been vibrant this summer, with strong interest from buyers looking for turnkey properties and timeless country charm. Demand remains steady for beautifully maintained homes, especially those with privacy, pastoral views, and pool or guest house potential. Inventory has been tight, so well-presented listings are commanding attention and strong offers.

Q: Have you noticed any shifting priorities among buyers this season?

A: Absolutely. Buyers are craving comfort and ease. They want stylish but low-maintenance homes where they can entertain effortlessly and escape from city life. Outdoor spaces have become even more of a priority: tennis courts, orchards, wildflower meadows, and screened porches are back in the spotlight. There’s also a growing appetite for properties that balance historic character with modern updates, authenticity paired with high-functioning kitchens, mudrooms, and renovated baths.

Q: What’s the general mood heading into fall?

A: Optimistic. Millbrook shines in the fall, and we’re seeing a mix of serious buyers still eager to secure something before winter and others waiting for fresh listings to hit the market. Clients are planning with intention, looking for homes that will serve their families well for years to come.

Q: What advice would you give to someone considering listing their home in early fall?

A: Early fall is a golden. The light is gorgeous, gardens are still lush, and Millbrook is at its most cinematic. I always advise clients to lean into that by having their homes professionally styled and photographed in late August. A touch of polish goes a long way. And with so many buyers focused on lifestyle, showcasing the rhythm of your property, from a cozy fire pit to sunset cocktails on the terrace, can make all the difference. From above: 895 County Road 83, Amenia, New York; sold by Ashley Whittaker and Candy Anderson for $6,180,000; Ashley

Whittaker Spence.

SHELLY TRETTER LYNCH

Compass / 203.550.8508 / shelly.tretterlynch@compass.com

Q: How would you describe the Greenwich market?

A: During the summer, Greenwich sees a mix of high-end buyers, many of whom are looking for second homes or luxurious properties close to the water. Over the last couple of months, there’s been a peak in demand. People who are thinking about a property purchase for the following year (or to have it ready for next summer) tend to be out shopping during the warmer months. Many homes today are being sold through the Compass program of ‘private exclusives’ before the property actually hits the official market. The town has a reputation for its gorgeous estates, private beaches, top schools, strong local economy, and proximity to New York City, making it a desirable spot for affluent buyers.

Q: Have you noticed any shifting priorities among buyers this season?

A: Privacy is the biggest request.  Even if the house is on a small lot, the outdoor personal space is important to all buyers.  Greenwich has also seen an increase in luxury new construction and property renovations, as builders and homeowners seek to meet demand for modern amenities and larger spaces. This includes more sustainable and eco-friendly homes, which are becom-

ing increasingly popular among high-net-worth individuals. Greenwich has one of the highest concentrations of multi-million dollar homes in the U.S. The luxury market remains strong, even with fluctuating interest rates. Homes with a view, access to water, or in prime neighborhoods like the “Backcountry” or “Old Greenwich” are highly coveted, especially by high-net-worth individuals looking for privacy and a more tranquil lifestyle.

Q: What’s the general mood heading into fall?

A: There is confidence in the Greenwich real estate market. The ‘mood’ is good and buyers are concentrating in Greenwich and all of it’s hamlets as a lifestyle.

Q: Anything else you’d like to share?

A: I have been in the Greenwich market as a Real Estate Advisor for over 28 years. My clients are high-net-worth individuals looking for strategic planning and investment opportunities as many are family offices with generational wealth being distributed.

From above: 7 John Street, Greenwich, Connecticut, price upon request; Shelly Tretter Lynch.

ALEXIS MCANDREW

Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty / 917.750.8939 / alexismcandrew@danielgale.com

Q: How would you describe the Locust Valley market this summer?

A: I would describe the Locust Valley market as distinct from both the city and Palm Beach markets. During the summer months, our market really heats up, especially as we see an influx of buyers coming in from New York City. Open houses and showing requests are significantly higher during this time of year.

One notable trend is that inventory in the $2,000,000 and under range is quite limited, which is driving buyers to compete for lower-priced homes. With so few options available, many are willing to bid above asking price to secure a property. For example, I just listed 6 Meadow Place in Lattingtown, a beautifully renovated home that garnered 15 offers. This isn’t surprising, given that the home checked all the boxes—newly renovated, close to town, and sitting on just under an acre of land.

I’ve also noticed that the next generation of homebuyers seems to be less interested in doing extensive work on a property. They’re increasingly attracted to homes that offer low maintenance and are more in line with their life -

style—much smaller and more manageable compared to the larger estates their parents owned.

Q: What advice can you offer buyers and sellers?

A: The market dynamics right now are more competitive than ever, and buyers need every advantage they can get. Working with a buyer’s broker, especially in high-demand areas like Locust Valley and Cold Spring Harbor, is crucial. Those “quiet” or “coming soon” listings can often be the game-changer, and they aren’t always accessible through Zillow or other public platforms.

Having a real estate advisor who’s plugged into the local market—someone who knows the nuances of a particular neighborhood or even specific listings before they hit the public market—can make all the difference. Plus, they can guide clients on crafting competitive offers, especially when bidding wars are involved. In this kind of market, you need to have a strategy in place.

From above: 6 Meadow Place, Lattingtown, New York, sold for $1,695,000; Alexis McAndrew.

JOHN CREGAN

Sotheby’s International Realty / 847.651.7210 / john.cregan@sothebys.realty

Q: How has the Palm Beach market performed this summer?

A: We’re busy. The old joke among real estate agents is if you want to sell something, plan a vacation. This summer there’s been way too much truth in that for us. Every time we try to schedule a long weekend away we get a client coming into town to look or worse (ok, better) make an offer. There’s no consistent theme either. This July, we’ve put a Palm Beach house and a West Palm townhouse under contract, and we’re showing our condo and rental listings really steadily.

Q: What kinds of properties are generating the most buzz?

A: The super high-end is crazy active. Every billionaire who isn’t already in Palm Beach has apparently decided to rectify that situation. Two side-by-side oceanfront lots just sold to an unnamed buyer who then proceeded to make offers for his four adjacent neighbors’ homes. If he gets them all, his little assemblage will cost well over $200,000,000.

Q: Have you noticed any shifts in the buyer pool this year?

A: Lisa and I have always had a nice geographic mix to our client base, but we’d note that neither of our two July buyers were from

New York. There’s a misconception that Palm Beach’s COVID-era new residents are all Manhattanites. The buyer base is so much broader than that– anywhere taxes go high and temperatures go low– those are our people.

Q: What’s new around town that buyers are asking about?

A: We have a few long-time holes in the social fabric knitting up. The reimagined Royal Poinciana Playhouse looks set to reopen this Fall as Glazer Hall after sitting vacant for 25+ years. Work is really coming along on the former Chesterfield Hotel- to be reborn as the Oekter Collection’s “Vineta.” And the long empty storefront at 353 Peruvian is about to launch as a Bilboquet coffee shop!

Q: Any advice for those considering entering the market?

A: Start now. Right now. We have attractive inventory, especially nice condos in really good buildings, and sellers are being reasonable in negotiation. If we get a post-summer surge (maybe all those New Yorkers people keep talking about), you’ll regret waiting. ◆

From above: 748 Island Drive, Palm Beach, Florida, listed for $32,000,000; John Cregan.

SALES FORCE

BY ROBERT JANJIGIAN

AS ONE OF the top-producing real estate agents at Douglas Elliman’s Palm Beach brokerage, Chris Leavitt has made a name for himself as a specialist in the luxury sector. He has worked on the top condominium projects situated along West Palm Beach’s Flagler Drive, positioning himself as a standout among agents in a thriving and highly competitive market.

Originally from Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, Leavitt grew up in a family that wintered in Palm Beach. He attended USC to study cinema and television but decided to

pursue a career in the real estate business instead, inspired by his father, a real estate investor. “I witnessed him interacting with the agents and loved the whole process and the excitement of getting the deal done,” he says.

“I have been coming to Palm Beach all my life, but it wasn’t until 2016 that I moved here full time and started in the local real estate game.”

Leavitt’s timing was right, as the growth and development of West Palm Beach have made it a hot real estate market,

becoming increasingly desirable. “This is just the beginning of a renaissance of luxury living in West Palm Beach,” he says. He strives to provide the best customer service possible, with honesty and straightforwardness key to his sales philosophy.

“My clients expect me to be available 24/7, and I am—easy to reach and the quickest to respond,” he says.

Alongside his thriving business of selling some of the most profilic homes in Palm Beach, he adds The Ritz-Carlton

Renderings of The Ritz-Carlton Residences in West Palm Beach and Douglas Elliman’s Chris Leavitt. For more information, visit theresidenceswestpalmbeach.com or contact Chris Leavitt at 917.664.0720 or cleavitt@elliman.com.

Residences, a Related Group condominium project featuring an Arquitectonica-designed tower along North Flagler Drive, to his roster of listings. “It is one of the few condominiums being built in which every apartment has incredible direct Intracoastal, Palm Beach Island, and Atlantic Ocean views,” Leavitt says.

Add in five-star finishes, services, and amenities, and the picture gets clearer. Prices start at about $3 million. u

AUGUST

On August 21st, the International Tennis Hall of Fame will host its Induction Celebration in Newport over three days. For more information, visit tennisfame.com.

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ASPEN ARTCRUSH

Aspen Art Museum will host its annual ArtCrush gala to celebrate artist Glenn Ligon, recipient of the 2025 Lewis Family Art Award. In tandem with this award, the Aspen Art Museum will present a solo exhibition of his work in Winter 2025–2026, offering visitors the opportunity to delve into his oeuvre. For more information, visit aspenartmuseum.org.

GUILD HALL GALA

Guild Hall will hold its annual Summer Gala at 6 p.m. in East Hampton. This special event will bring together patrons and artists to celebrate the opening of Mary Heilmann: Water Way and Joel Mesler: Miles of Smiles , and to enjoy live entertainment and a festive atmosphere in the museum and gardens. For more information, visit guildhall.org or contact Kendra Korczak at 631.324.0806 x116 or events@guildhall.org.

GET WILD!

Meet some of the feathered and furry friends being cared for at the 25th Anniversary Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center GetWild! Gala at the

Southampton Arts Center. For more information, visit wildliferescuecenter.org.

MUSEUM BALL

The National Museum of Racing and

On August 16th, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold its Bow Wow Meow Ball in Wainscott at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit arfhamptons.org.

Hall of Fame will host its black-tie Museum Ball to celebrate its 75th anniversary at 7 p.m. For more information, visit racingmuseum.org or call 518.584.0400 ext. 109.

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SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL

Southampton Hospital Foundation will present its 67th Annual Summer Party, “A Night in Marrakesh,” at 6 p.m. For more information, email Margaret.Grioli@ stonybrookmedicine.edu or call 631.726.8700 x 5.

3

RACE OF HOPE

Hope for Depression Research Foundation will hold its annual Race of Hope in Southampton at 8:30 a.m. For more information, visit southampton.raceofhopeseries.com.

8

SECOND CHANCE GALA

NYC Second Chance Rescue will host its 4th Annual Hamptons

On August 24th, the Hampton Classic Horse Show will take place through August 31st in Bridgehampton. For more information, visit hamptonclassic.com.

Benefit in Water Mill. This year’s benefit will pay tribute to acclaimed actress and animal advocate Alexandra Daddario, alongside her beloved rescue dog Eunice. For more information, visit nycsecondchancerescue.org.

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WOMEN’S HEALTH

Northwell Health’s Katz Institute for Women’s Health will hold its Summer Hamptons Evening in Water Mill. For more information, visit northwell.edu.

DIABETES RESEARCH

The Silverstein Dream Foundation will host its Hamptons Garden Gala to benefit the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation on at the home of Co-Hosts Patricia and Roger Silverstein in Water Mill. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit silversteindreamfoundation. com.

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KIDS CANCEL CANCER

Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation will hold its 4th Annual Kids Cancel Cancer event. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit waxmancancer.org.

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COACHING WEEKEND

The Preservation Society of Newport County will host its Coaching Weekend Dinner Dance at The Breakers. For more information, visit newportmansions.org.

BOW

WOW MEOW BALL

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold its Bow Wow Meow Ball in the William P. Rayner Training Center in Wainscott at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit arfhamptons.org.

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TENNIS CELEBRATION

Over three days, Newport’s International Tennis Hall of Fame will host its Induction Celebration. The weekend will be packed with exciting activities, including the Fan Fest, Celebrity Pro Classic, Induction Ceremony, and Concert. For more information, visit tennisfame.com.

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PROSTATE CANCER

Michael Milken’s Prostate Cancer Foundation will be host its annual Hamptons Gala following its PCF Pro-Am Tennis Tournament, which is being held over the weekend. For more information, visit pcf.org.

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HAMPTON CLASSIC

Through August 31st, the Hampton Classic Horse Show will take place. Expect FEI 5* and 2* Show Jumping Competition, World Class Hunters, and a week-long social event. For more information, visit hamptonclassic.com.

SEPTEMBER

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MUSEUM AT FIT LUNCHEON

The Museum at FIT will hold its Couture Council Luncheon honoring Olivier Rousteing at Lincoln Center in New York. For more information, visit fitnyc.edu.

On August 1st, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga will

to celebrate its 75th anniversary. For more information, visit racingmuseum.org or call

THE QUEST

400

AS THE MORE SEASONED and perspicacious Quest reader will note, this annual issue marks another year when we pause to salute Society’s stalwart individuals who continue to make a difference in the communities and institutions they inhabit and command.

Although some wags have bellowed about town that such lists—indeed “society as we once knew it”—are as dead as Ward McAllister’s prized walnuts, Quest prefers the more enlightened view of our editor-in-chief, David Patrick Columbia, who three-plus decades ago quipped: “Whereas Mrs. Astor’s subjects were distinctly old-family members of old New York, the Quest 400 is distinctly the jet-age family members who can find themselves here, there, and everywhere on any given day.”

As Quest ’s list has always been more rooted in philanthropy than celebrity, we are provided with an annual opportunity to recognize a handful of these eleemosynary organizations that continue to excel in their remarkably high

standards of caring, giving and building onto their heritage. Mirroring the tidal ebb and flow of the aformentioned social standings, a few of the once revered “old-line” philanthropies have sadly lost their way, allowing their original missions to be compromised, if not corrupted by their quest (apologies, dear reader!) to post ever bigger numbers and dollar amounts in the endless calcutta of charitable fund-raising. Ahh... one can almost hear Society’s founding forebearers groaning from their graves (including my dear Dutch aunt)!

Fortunately, there are a number of new altrustic endeavors poised to supercede those once venerable, but now atropic institutions. A few years back, Quest recognized “The Next Generation of Giving,” tipping our hats to a half dozen freshfaced charities. The article’s author, pointed out that, with so many charitable causes to choose from, there was absolutely “no excuse for apathy.” We endorse this conclusion and will continue to report on its charitable progress.

INTRODUCTION BY CHOLLY VAN VLIET

ART BY LYDIA MARIE ELIZABETH

Grand Central Terminal

New York, New York

Castle Hill Inn

Newport, Rhode Island

AAcquavella, Bill and Donna

Acquavella, Alex

Acquavella, Nick and Travis

Adams, Cindy

Addison, Bruce and Michael Foster

Adler, Catherine

Adler, Jonathan and Simon Doonan

Aga Khan, Princess Yasmin

Ainslie, Michael and Suzanne

Albers, Ruediger and Maggie

Allen, Chris and Kate

Allen, Joe and Annette

Ames, Anthony and Cetie

Amling, Jeffrey and Katie

Amory, Julia and Minot IV

Anderson, Brenda and Kelley

Anthony, Silas and Anne

Anthony, Silas Jr

Antonini, Mrs Marion (Penny)

Araskog, Mrs Rand (Jessie)

Armstrong, Joe

Arnot, Courtney

Arrouet, Paul and Dylan Lauren

Asen, Scott

Astley, Amy

Aston, Sherrell and Muffie Potter

Aston, Brad and Valerie

Aston, Jay and Allison

Atkins, Charles and Lisa

Auletta, Ken and Amanda “Binky” Urban

Ayres, Charlie and Sara Azqueta, Lian Fanjul Azqueta, Norberto Jr

BBacanovic, Peter Bacon, Louis and Gabrielle

Bacon, Zack and Amanda Ross

Bahrenburg, Genevieve

Baier, Bret and Amy Baker, George IV and Anne

Baker, Marianna Baker, Kane and Mary Balkin, Norman

Ballard, Mrs Bob (Lucinda)

Bancroft, Mrs Thomas (Barbie)

Bancroft, Cryder and Elsie Swank

Bancroft, William and Debbie

Bancroft, Townsend and Brooke

Bardenheier, Joe and Camilla Bradley

Barish, Keith and Ann Bass, Sid

Basso, Dennis and Michael Cominotto

Beach, Charlie and Cece

Beard, Anson and Deborah

Beard, Anson Jr and Veronica Miele

Beard, Jamie and Veronica Swanson

Beinecke, Frances

Beinecke, Rick and Candace

Beirne, Paul

Bell, Joel and Marife Hernandez

Benedict, Daniel and Andrew Saffir

Benoit, Mrs Peter (Nellie)

Benson, Dan and Dory

Benson, Harry and Gigi

Berg, Lori

Berkowitz, Tim and Amy

Bernbach, John and Violaine

Bernhard, Bill

Berry, Bruce and Alexandra

Betteridge, Win and Natalie

Bewkes, Jeff and Lisa Carco

Biddle, Christine

Biggs, Mrs . Jeremy H . (Friederike)

Bilhuber, Jeffrey

Bishop, Brooks and Olympia Shields

Black, Andrew

Black, Lee and Cece

Blair, Mrs William (Deeda)

Blinken, Alan

Blinken, Mrs Donald (Vera)

Bloch, Godfrey and Marge

Block, John and Hilary

Bloomberg, Michael and Diana Taylor

Blum, Mrs Andy (Flis)

Boardman, Mrs . T Dennie (Cynthia)

Boardman, Dixon and Arriana

Boardman, Serena and John Theodoracopulos

Bodini, Francesca and Jack Sherman

Bofferding, Louis

Bohannon, James and Katherine

Bohannon, Benton

Bohannon, Tony and Lia Reed

Bolander, Lars and Nadine

Kalachnikoff

Bolen, Alex and Eliza Reed

Bontecou, Gail

Bontecou, Tim and Felicity

Boren, Reid

Borynack, Jimmy and Adolfo

Bostwick, Tommy and Emily Hottensen

Bowles, Hamish

Boykin, Mary

Bradfield, Geoffrey

Braddock, Mrs Rick (Susan)

Brady, Mark

Braff, Doug and Meg

Breck, Henry and Wendy

Breck, Christopher

Breck, Owen and Rhea

Bregman, Mrs Martin (Cornelia)

Briggs, Jason

Brinker, Ambassador Nancy

Brodsky, Dan and Esty

Brodsky, Alexander and Tom

Brodsky, Jim and Philip McCarthy II

Brodsky, Katy and Simone Falco

Brokaw, George and Alison

Brokaw, Tom and Meredith

Bronfman, Edgar Jr and Clarissa

Brooks, Michael and Dede

Brown, Cabell

Brown, Chris

Brown, Matt and Marisa

Brownlow, Girard and Jane Baird .

Brumder, Will and Chris

Bryan, Billy and Christina

Bryan, Katherine

Buckley, Chris and Katy Close

Buffett, Mrs Jimmy (Jane)

Buhl, Henry

Bull, Bartle

Bull, Bartle Breese and Claudia

Bunn, George and Jane

Burch, Bob and Dale

Burch, Tory and Pierre-Yves Roussel

Burden, Amanda

Burden, Belle

Burden, Mrs Carter (Susan)

Burger, John

Burke, Susan and Ned Dukehart

Burke, Robert and George Sotelo

Burke, Mrs Edwin (Virginia)

Burnap, Mrs Bartlett (Candy)

Burnham, Patricia and Bill Brock

Burns, Mrs . Brian (Eileen)

Burns, Richard and Cricket

Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea Palm Beach, Florida

Burns, Don

Burris, David and Susan

Bush, Hugh

Bush, Mrs . Jonathan (Jody)

Bush, Sharon and Bob Murray

Butcher, Billy and Natalie

Bylin, Eric and Whitney

CCalder, Donald and Ann

Caldwell, Jeffrey

Calhoun, Robert and Liza Pulitzer

Calhoun, Benn and Molly

Califano, Joseph Jr

Callaway, Mrs . David (Brenda)

Canet, Alejandro and Charlotte Ross

Cantor, Iris

Caravaggi, Robert and Blaine

Carduner, Wendy

Carney, Mike and Lisa

Carpenter, Mrs Ed (Mary)

Carson, Bill and Laurie

Carter, Graydon and Anna Scott

Cartter, Jill Warburg

Carver, Michael and Byrdie Bell

Cashin, Dick and Lisa

Castle, John K and Marianne

Castle, John S

and Rosanna

Cave, Edward Lee

Chantecaille, Alexandra and Olivia

Chapman, Duncan and Barbara

Chase, Chris and Jayne

Chisholm, Hugh and Daisy

Chopin, Frank

Churchill, Lady Henrietta

Churchill, Lady Jane

Churchill, Mrs . Winston (Luce)

Cicognani, Alejandra

Clark, Alfred and Querube

Clark, Stephanie and Fred

Clark, Stephen

Cohen, James and Lisa

Cohn, Charles Stephen

Colacello, Bob

Coleman, Chase and Stephanie

Coleman, Denis and Annabelle

Coleman, Denis III and Meredith

Coleman, Nicholas and Briggs

Coleman, Oliver “Oli”

Coleman, Payson and Kim

Coleman, Reed and Lindsey

Coleman, Timothy and Libby

Colhoun, Nancy

Colley, Bryan and Sarah Colley, Bruce and Teresa Collier, Sam

Collins, Brad and Amy Fine

Collins, Nancy

Columbia, David Patrick

Colwell, Bryan

Condon, Cristina

Condon, Kevin and Katherine Lande

Connolly, John

Connor, Marina Rust

Connor, Sassy Johnson

Conover, Gery and Paula

Cook, Mark

Cook, Everett and Helen Blodgett

Cooke, Richard and Wendy

Cooney, Ted

Cooper, Anderson

Cooper, Maria

Corcoran, Barbara

Cord, Cece

Cordish, Reed and Maggie Katz

Corl, James and Krista Cormier, Judy

Couturier, Robert

Cox, Howard and Wendy Bingham

Creel, Jamie

Creel, Jennifer

Creel, Larry and Dana Fentress

Cregan, John and Lisa

Crespi, Pilar and Steve Robert

Cullen, Matthew and Maura

Cullman, Edgar and Ellie

Curtin, Jack and Beth Nowers

Curtis, Curt and Mimi

Curtis, Ashton and Merrill Hanley Curtis, Remington

Cushing, Mrs Howard (Nora) Cushing, Howard Jr and Lucia

DDamgard, Britty and John Dana, Charlie and Posy

Dance, Andrew and Jennifer Lloyd

Dauman, Philippe and Deborah

David-Weill, Mrs Michel (Hélène)

Davidson, Mary

Davis, Christina and Richard Davis, Peter and Ted Hildner

Dawkins, Pete and Mary .

de Borchgrave, Mrs Arnaud (Alexandra) de Bourbon-Parma, Princesse Maria Pia de Cabrol, Milly de Caraman, Countess Cristina

de Guardiola, Roberto and Joanne de Koning, Daria and Theo Avgerinos de Koning, Joep and Dixie

de Kwiatkowski, Lulu de la Renta, Mrs Oscar (Annette) de Montebello, Philippe and Edith de Neufville, Thomas and Carolina de Neufville, Peter and Joanna de Neufville, John de Peyster, Ashton and Anna Mann . .

de Portago, Barbara de Roulet, Lorinda de Sayve, Countess Mona

de Vogel, Willem and Marion Dean, Thomas and Caroline Deane, Walter L

Desiderio, Arlene Devine, Mrs Tom (Alix) deWoody, Beth Rudin

Dewey, Thomas

Dexter-Jones, Ann di Bonaventura, Peter and Bridgett .

Diamond, Jay and Alexandra Dick, Hilary Limbocker Dillard, Rodney

Diller, Barry and Diane von Furstenberg

Dodge, Mrs John (Lore)

Donahue, J Barry

Donahue, Nevan and Sarah Berner

Donahue, Clay

Donnell, Maureen

Donnell, Michael

Donnelly, Shannon

Donner, Alex

Douglas, Camille

Douglass, Robert Jr

Douglass, Whitney Miller

Dowling, Peter and Deb Willis

Drake, Mrs Rod (Jacqueline)

Drexel, Nicky and Jacqueline Astor

Druckenmiller, Stanley and Fiona

A Private Residence

Charleston, South Carolina

du Pont, Lauren and Richard

Duchin, Peter and Virginia Coleman

Duckworth-Schachter, Elijah and Katy

Duenas, Miguel and Vivian

Duff, Ted and Lauren

Duff, Patricia

Duffy, Jim and Susan

Duke, Mrs Anthony (Luly) Duke, Randolph

Durkes, Richard W

Durkin, Charles P

Dwyer, D R and Priscilla

Dyson, John and Kathe

EEastman, Mrs John (Jodie)

Ecclestone, Llwyd and Diana

Edwards, Philip and Ali

Egerton, Webb

Elliott, Mrs Osborne (Inger)

Ellison, Mrs Nancy

Elwell, David and Christie

Elson, Ambassador Ed and Susie Embry, Tally and Maggie Emmanuel, Nicholas

Ercklentz, Cornelia

Espy, Peter and Amanda

Evans, Mrs

Harold (Tina)

Eyre, Bill Jr and Katharine

FFales-Hill, Susan and Aaron Hill Fallon, Tom

The Fanjuls

Farias, George

Farkas, Andrew and Sandi

Farkas, Jonathan and Somers Farrell, Billy

Fekkai, Frédéric and Shirin von Wulffen

Feldman, Mrs Richard (Diana) Fennebresque, Kim

Fernandez, Luis and Lillian

Ferrare, Cristina

Ferrer, Jeanne

Ferrer, Molly

Field, Mrs Dick (Sky)

Field, Nikki and Stephen

Fine, Lisa

Finkelstein, Jimmy and Pamela

Firth, Edmée and Nicholas

Firyal, Princess of Jordan

Fischer, David and Jennifer

Fisher, Neil and Debbie

Fisk, Averell and Kirsten

Fitzgerald, Terry and Libby

Flatto, Olivia

Florence, Anthony and Claire

Floyd, Raymond and Jennifer

Flusser, Alan

Foley, Tom and Lesley

Fomon, Bobby and Jill Fairchild

The Forbeses

Ford, Anne

Ford, Charlotte

Forsberg, Lars and Kelly

Forsythe, Sabrina Pray

Foster, Jane

Foster, Ridgely and Letsy

Frank, James and Claiborne

Frantz, Scott and Icy

Freedman, Bess

Frelinghuysen, Anson and Emma

Frelinghuysen, George and Nonnie

Frelinghuysen, Mrs . Peter (Barrett)

Freund, Hugh

Frist, Tommy and Julie

Frost, Dora

Fuchs, Michael J

Fuller, Gillian Spreckels

GGalesi, Francesco and Marina

Gammill, Lee and Jane Gandhi, Meera

Gardiner, Mrs Robert (Liz)

Gardiner, Susan

Garrett, Mrs Rob (Jacquie)

Garrigues, Jennifer

Gauntt, Jonathan and Samantha

Gay, Marion and John

Gaynor, Vere and Susie

Geary, Jack and Dolly

Geary, Ted and Olivia Tiernan

Geddes, Robin and Anne

Geddes, Max and Missy

Georgescu, Peter and Barbara

Georgiopoulos, Peter and Kara

Gerry, Ebby and Kitty

Gerschel, Patrick and Elizabeth

Giard, George and Wendell .

Gilbane, Billy

Gilbert, Mrs Parker (Gail)

Gilbertson, Mark F.

Gilligan, Fernanda and Adrian Jess

Gilman, Kay

Gilmour, Mrs . David (Jill) .

Ginnel, Ben and Jaclene

Ginnel, Daniel and Kathleen

Giordano, Mark and Sallie

Givner, Colt and Pamela Fiori

Glantz, Alexander and Kirsten

Glascock, Steve and Barbara van Beuren

Glass, John and Martha

The Goelets

Goldworm, Sam and Amanda

Goodale, Jim and Toni

Goodman, Chris and Julia

Goodrich, Mrs Jock (Buttons)

Goss, Jared duPont

Gotbaum, Mrs Victor (Betsy)

Gould, Mrs . George (Darcy)

Grace, Jack and Sherri

Graev, Larry and Lorna

Graham, Mrs Ian (Ellen)

Graham, Cathy

Grassi, Mrs Temple (Ellie)

Grauer, Peter and Laurie

Gregory, Peter and Jamee

Griscom, Lloyd Jr and Hope

Grunwald, Mrs . Henry (Louise)

Gruss, Martin and Audrey

Gruss, Shoshanna

Guare, John and Adele

Chatfield-Taylor

Gubelmann, Billy and Shelley

Gubelmann, Jimmy and Kate

Gubelmann, Marjorie

Gubelmann, Mrs Susan

Gubelmann, Bingo, Phoebe and Tantivy

Guernsey, Tony and Eve

Guerrand-Hermès, Valesca

Guerrini-Maraldi, Antoinette and Hans Kurtiss

Guest, Alexander

Guest, Cornelia

Guest, Mrs Freddie (Carole)

Guest, Lisa Frederick

Evening Soirée Palm Beach, Florida

Gugelmann, Zani

Gumprecht, Christopher

Gumprecht, Ian and Aileen

Gund, Agnes

Gunther, Jack D Jr

Gurley, George and Hilary Heard

Gustin, Andrew and Bracken

Gutfreund, Mrs John (Susan)

Guthrie, Randolph and Bea

Gutierrez, Lourdes

Gwathmey, Bette Ann

HHackett, Mrs . Monte (Mayme)

Hackley, Maria and Sherlock

Haden-Guest, Anthony

Hager, Henry and Jenna Bush

Halberstam, Julia and Ryan Harvey

Hall, Betsy and Chip

Hall, Penelope

Hamilton, Matt and Anne

Hamilton, Christy and Ted McGraw

Hamilton, George

Hamm, Mrs William (Candy)

Hampton, Mrs Mark (Duane)

Hampton, Kate and David Breithbarth

Hanley, Dan and Denise

Hanley, Allie and Charlie Crocker

Hardwick, Mrs Bob (Beth)

Harpel, James W and Judy Howard

Harris, Mrs Ira (Nicki)

Harris, Patti and Mark

Harrison, Bill and Anne Harrison, Mai

Harrison, Walter and Ann Howard

Hassen, Tom and Melinda

Hathaway, Philips “Pete”

Hawks, Kitty and Larry Lederman

Hay, R Couri

Hayman, Gale

Hayward, Brooke

Hayward, Frances

Hearst, Amanda and Joachim Rønning

Hearst, Anne and Jay McInerney

Hearst, Patricia and Jamie Figg

Hearst-Shaw, Gillian

Hearst-Shaw, Lydia and Chris Hardwick

Heinz, Chris and Sasha Lewis

Held, Jim and Kenn Karakul

Henckels, Kirk and Fernanda Kellogg . . .

Herrera, Mrs Reinaldo (Carolina)

Hess, Marlene and James Zirin

Heyman, Marshall

Hickox, Chat and Linda

Hicks, Kim

Hidalgo, David and Mary Ann Tighe

Hill, Tom and Janine

Hilliard, Landon and Kiwi

Hilliard, Mary

Hilson, Gail

Hinman, George and Emilie

Hirsch, Caroline and Andrew Fox

Hirsch, Jeffrey and Danielle

Hitz, Alex

Hoadley, Amy

Hobbs, Fritz and Linda

Hobbs, Nick and Lauren

Hogan, Michael and Margot

Hoge, Jim and Casey

Hoge, Sharon King

Holt, Matt and Callie Baker

Holzer, Mrs

Jane

Hormats, Robert

Horn, Linda and Steve

Horn, Stoddard and Leslie

Horvitz, Michael and Jane

The Houghtons

Hovnanian, Ara and Rachel

Howard, Pamela and Wynn Laffey

Howard, Philip and Alexandra

Howard-Potter, Jake and Erica

Howe, David and Ritchey

Hoyt, Tony and Mark Daniels

Hubbard, Bill and Robin

Hufty, Page Lee

Husain, Fazle and Blair

Hussein, Her Majesty Queen Noor

Husted, Bill

Hutchins, Winston and Diane

Hutton, Punch and John Hodges

IIngham, Joy Hirshon

Irwin, Arthur and Kathy

Isham, Chris and Jennifer

Isham, Ralph and Ala

Isles, Philip

Ittleson, Tony and Chan

Ives, Mrs Philip (Caroline)

Ives, Alexander C .

JJagger, Bianca

James, Mrs Bob (Anne)

James, Tony and Aimee

Janjigian, Robert

Janklow, Mrs Mort (Linda)

Janney, Stuart III

Javits, Eric Sr

Javits, Eric Jr

Jennings, Mitch

Johnson, Charles and Ann

Johnson, Ellie and Jay

Johnson, Jamie

Johnson, Richard and Sessa von Richthofen

Johnson, Ambassador Woody and Suzanne .

Jordan, Jerry and Darlene

Joseph, Ken and Robyn

Joseph, Wendy and Jeffrey Ravetch

Jurdem, Ann and Arnold

KKanavos, Paul and Dayssi

Kaplan, Ed and Nathalie Gerschel

Kargman, Harry and Jill

Kassimir, Joel

Kaufman, Mrs . George (Mariana)

Kean, Roy

Keating, Ann

Keeler, Alexander and Gail

Keith, Jayne Teagle

Keller, David and Avery

Kellogg, Charlotte

Kellogg, Chris and Vicki

Kelly, Ray and Veronica

Kemble, Celerie

Kemble, Phoebe

Kempner, Tom and Kitty

Kennedy, Mrs . Michael (Eleanora)

Kent, Mrs Jorie

Kessler, Howard and Michele

Ocean House Watch Hill, Rhode Island

Brant Point Lighthouse Nantucket, Massachusetts

Khosrovani, Hashem and Kate

Kiernan, Peter and Eaddo

Kirkpatrick, Mrs Stuart (Meg)

Kissinger, Mrs . Henry (Nancy)

Kivlan, Elizabeth Ann Stribling and Rebecca Cleary

Klopp, Adam and Meghan

Klopp, John and Karen

Knechtel, Tom and Kerith Davies

Kneisel, Bill and Anne

Koch, Dana and Jessica Koch, Mrs David (Julia) Koch, Paulette

Koch, Bill and Bridget

Kopelman, Mrs Arie (Coco)

Kosner, Ed and Julie Baumgold

Kotur, Alexandra

Kovner, Michael and Jean Doyen de Montaillou

Kravis, Henry and Marie-Josée

Krieger, Brian Stewart

Krusen, Will and Elizabeth Krusen, Charlie and Kristen

LLaffont, Philippe and Ana Diez Lamphere, Lucy

Landrigan, Nico and Kim

Landrigan, Ward and Judith Langenberg, Margo Langham, Keith

Lansing, Mrs Gerrit (Sydie)

Lansing, Sims

Lansing, Gerrit and Patricia

Lapham, Andrew and Caroline Lapham, Winston P and Jennifer Larner, Lionel

Latham, Aaron and Lesley Stahl

Lauder, Jane and Kevin Warsh

Lauder, Mrs . Leonard (Judith)

Lauder, Ronald and Jo Carole

Lauren, Ralph and Ricky Lauren, David and Lauren Bush

Lauren, Andrew

Lawrence, Jeanne

Leach, Chris

Leach, Howard and Gretchen Leatherman, Bill and Elizabeth Leavitt, Chris

LeConey, Ann

Leeds, Thomas and Heather

LeFrak, Denise and John Colicchio

LeFrak, Richard and Karen

LeFrak, Francine and Richard Friedberg

LeFrak, Jamie and Caroline Bierbaum

LeFrak, Harrison

Leidy, Bobby and Ivey Day

Leidy, Page and Courtney

Leidy, Christopher and Cayla Jean

Leidy, Frances and Mac Weymouth

Leone, Christian

Lesesne, Cap and Briana

L’Esperance, Ros and Fran

Leventhal, Natalie Leeds

Leviant, Sasha and Jeanne

Lewis, Memrie

Liberman, Bobby and Barbara

Lickle, Mrs Bill (Renee)

Liebman, Pamela

Limbocker, Derek and Nicole

Lindemann, Mrs George (Frayda)

Lindemann, Elizabeth

Lindstrom, Pia and John Carley

Lloyd, Susan

Loeb, Sharon and John

Long, Gregory

Long, William Ivey

Loomis, Alfred “Chip”

Lorber, Howard

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Swifty’s at The Colony Hotel

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Prince, Mrs. Frederick (Diana)

Prounis, Kathy and Othon .............

Purcell, Andrew and Melissa Grassi

Purcell, Tom and Marina

Putnam, Bambi ......................

Pyne, John and Ann

Pyne, John and Melinda Mettler

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Quasha, Diana

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Quick, Tom

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Quinn, Thomas Sr.

RRadziwill, John and Eugenie

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Rafferty, John and Emily

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Regan, John and Terry

Reginato, James ......................

Reeves, Nina

Remez, Jim and Theresa

Reynolds, Mrs. Paul (Vicky) ...........

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Richter, John and Nina Rigas, John and Darcy ................

Robertson, Alex and Alexandra

Robertson, Jay and Clare

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Robinson, Guy and Libba Stribling .....

The Rockefellers

Roehm, Carolyne

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow .............. Roosevelt, Andrew

Roosevelt, Jill

Roosevelt, Tobie ......................

Roosevelt, Teddy and Serena

Rose, Alexandra Lind and Louis

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Rosen, Aby and Samantha Boardman

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Scherer, Allan

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Spalding, Charles .....................

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Spencer, Steve

Stark, Andrea and John

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Steinberg, Jonathan and Maria Bartiromo ......................

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Steinberg, Michael and Joan

Steinbrech, Doug and Jeff Sharp ........

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Stenbeck, Hugo and Sophie

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London, United Kingdom

HISTORY OF SOCIETY IN NEW YORK

BY DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA

SOCIETY IN AMERICA really was born and began to take shape in New York in the 1860s. The country was still very new although it was growing in population and space. Fortunes were growing from the natural riches of the continent.

In the late 1770s, after the war for independence from Great Britain, a German born man named John Jacob Astor had immigrated to the new world. Very enterprising, he made a first fortune in the fur business which expanded into other businesses with China that included the sale of opium.

With natural foresight and an eye on the future, Astor could see New York was growing in importance in the world because of its harbor. By 1820 he sold of much of his businesses with China and began buying real estate in Manhattan, all the way up and across the island of Manhattan, along a “path” created by natives centuries before, now long known as Broadway.

JJ Astor died in 1848 at the age of 84, already the richest American, leaving his massive wealth intact and mainly to his eldest son William Backhouse Astor William had three sons, John Jacob Astor

III, the eldest; and William, Jr., and Henry. William, Jr. and Henry were entirely excluded from the family business. And therein lay the opening of what became Society in New York and thereafter right up to today.

In 1853, when William, Jr. was 24, he married a young woman from a very prosperous New York family named Caroline Schermerhorn, who was 23. In their first 10 years of marriage Caroline gave birth to four daughters and a son, John Jacob Astor IV, who famously later lost his life on the Titanic. It was a marriage of “social” importance to both Schmerhorns and Astors. As the wealth increased, the motivation to show it, and establish it, became primary.

By the 1860s after the Civil War, America was growing dynamically in population and space, and in industry, with large personal fortunes growing along with it. William and Caroline Astor became part of the wealthier inhabitants of Manhattan.

William was heir to a healthy percentage of his great-grandfather’s fortune – but excluded from running the business.

He pursued business ventures and other interests but in time he gave greater atten-

tion to his yacht, The Ambassadress, at the time the biggest private yacht in the world. By the late 1860s, William was spending winters without his wife aboard his yacht in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was acquiring and developing real estate including 80,000 acres along the St. Johns River north of Orlando.

Meanwhile New York was growing by leaps and bounds. Divorce was not a solution. It could end up a black mark on the woman’s reputation. In those days, even a woman of wealth and leisure didn’t have many choices. “A woman’s place was in the home” was the rule. They never lunched or dined in a public restaurant – unless with their husbands.

Caroline became a hostess, but with the strictness of an empress. William would occasionally make an appearance at her dinners, although rarely at her fancy dress balls.

By the 1880s her “400” list became the authority of Society’s rise to power. This “prominence” infuriated a nephew, Waldorf Astor, son of her husband’s older brother, who also lived next door on the 34th Street property. The two mansions were separated by a garden.

From left: Caroline “Lina” Schermerhorn Astor, circa 1853; launch of William Astor, Jr.’s The Ambassadress in 1877. Opposite page: John Jacob Astor, circa 1825.

Waldorf Astor believed that since his side of the family held the largest share on the family fortune, he and his wife should be the social leaders of the Astor family, not Aunt Lina. His resentment of her prominence became an issue. She responded by changing her calling card which in those days was as important as a cell phone today from “Mrs. William B. Astor” to “Mrs. Astor,” as if the one and only.

Waldorf Astor was so angry by that he decided to move to London. His mansion was torn down and he replaced it with a 12-story hotel (which he called the Waldorf) on the site over-shadowing Lina’s six-story brownstone.

After Waldorf’s move, Lina’s son persuaded her to move uptown where he built a double mansion on 65th Street and Fifth Avenue. Her brownstone was then torn down and he built a hotel on the plot right next to the Waldorf, which he named The Astoria. The hotels eventually merged and when the Waldorf Astoria was built on Park Avenue, the Empire State Building was constructed on the original entire plot.

Lina Astor died in October 2008, a month after her 78th birthday. With the arrival of the 20th century, a new generation brought liberating changes to women. The world had changed dramatically and drastically.

The new century changed everything including the role of women and society.

Cole Porter in the lyrics to a song in the 1936 Broadway musical Red, Hot and Blue, as first introduced by Ethel Merman:

“What do I care, if Mrs. Harrison Williams

Is the best-dressed woman in town.

What do I care if Countess Barbara Hutton

Has a Rolls-Royce built for each gown.

Why should I get the vapors

When I read in the papers

That Mrs. Simpson dined behind the throne?

I’ve got a cute king of my own.”

The ladies in his lyrics were prominent Socialites of their day. They were the original “socialites,” in a word coined by Briton Hadden, a partner of Henry Luce in launching their new weekly magazine TIME. Hadden was a journalist (which Henry Luce was not) who invented the TIME style. His term “socialite” was

breezy and smart-alecky, reflecting the “who cares” economic euphoria America was swimming in the late 1920s.

Although he was the creative brains behind the new magazine TIME, he died suddenly of a bacterial infection a week after his 31st birthday in 1929. His name was then dropped from the masthead by partner Luce, and he was forgotten as if he’d never existed.

Back in Mrs. Astor’s day, those girls would have been considered “nouveau,” or vixens manipulating the lives of vulnerable rich men. The notion of “Society” had changed. It now was highly competitive, requiring a large personal fortune or a husband possessing the same.

Mrs. Williams, Mona, later Mona, Countess Bismarck, the daughter of a professional horse trainer in Kentucky, was then married (her second) to a utility magnate with a fortune before the 1929 Stock Market Crash estimated at $700 million (or more than $10 billion in today’s currency).

Barbara Hutton, The Woolworth five and dime heiress known in the press as the

From left: Cole Porter and Ethel Merman, 1939; TIME co-founders Briton Hadden (left) and Henry Luce (center) with politician and Cleveland city manager William R. Hopkins in Cleveland, 1925. Opposite page: Barbara Woolworth Hutton, 1940.

“Poor Little Rich Girl” inherited about a half billion (in today’s currency) when she was a child after her mother committed suicide. She eventually had several husbands (including Cary Grant) and houses all over the world – including Winfield House in London which she later gifted to the US government, as the official American Ambassador’s residence. Her extravagance and multitude of husbands made her an object of fascination and resentment by the public.

Hutton and Mona Williams were only two of the social newcomers who populated the expanding scene of the 1920s and the Depression of the 1930s. That was the beginning of the “Café Society,” a term coined by Maury Paul writing under the nom de plume Cholly Knickerbocker for the Hearst papers.

The brand new automotive age was in full swing; and the country or those who had the time and the money was getting out and about drinking bootleg liquor and bathtub gin, or for those who could afford it, the real stuff hustled in by boat from Europe and Canada.

It was called Prohibition but Americans were boozing everywhere and flaunting it and even killing themselves with it (the beginning of drunk driving). In Manhattan, the flappers and the jazz babies written about by F. Scott Fitzgerald were out on the town, hitting the “speakeasy” of which there were more than 3,000 all over the boroughs of the city, dancing and drinking up a storm.

The “coolest” socialites were those who had the time and money. They frequented first the speakeasies and then after the Repeal of Prohibition in 1933, nightclubs like the Stork Club and El Morocco. At Elmo’s as it was called by customers dressed for the occasion women wore evening gowns and jewels; with men in black tie or white tie and tails. They mingled with Wall Street bankers, Broadway theatre people, and movie stars who aped their style, adding dash and glamour.

A handsome young man, another Yale graduate (like Cole Porter), Jerome Zerbe, from a prosperous family in Ohio, came to New York after college to make his way in life. Already an aficionado of the still-new photographer’s camera, he was a devotee of budding socialite life.

Dressed in black tie or white, he went

out every night with his camera to El Morocco. Befriending the club’s owner John Perona, he devoted his hours taking photos of the partying, and selling them to the tabloids. The photos were a sensation, something ordinary working Americans had never seen before. They made El Morocco famous to the public and created a lifelong career for Zerbe. His camera work was the beginning of what is now the habit of creating publicity for social activities.

A good many of the new “socialites” were rich but not listed in the Social Register, the established social bible of the first half of the 20th century. A socialite was an American – or South American. Europe still had its nobility and active monarchies. They lived fashionably up on Park Avenue or on Fifth, or on the North Shore of Long Island, or both. Which would explain why Elmo’s (popular name for El Morocco)

was on East 54 Street and the Stork on East 53rd.

The Stock Market Crash of 1929, followed by the Great Depression and the lifting of Prohibition did not affect their nightlife. Many of the most successful speakeasies became the watering holes of the elite and “Café Society” all of which was reported by the new journalists covering their social lives. The most famous was a former vaudevillian Walter Winchell. In his prime, from the 1930s up until the mid-1950s, Winchell was syndicated in the daily newspapers across the country, and had more than 30 million readers a day, five days a week. No newspaperman ever attracted those numbers except Winchell.

Very young women still in their teens like Brenda Frazier and Gloria Vanderbilt came into the spotlight with that na-

tional publicity that made them famous across the world. By the 1930s, there were also those girls from Boston, the Cushing sisters, Minnie, Betsey and Barbara – always known as Babe (the youngest).

Their father Dr. Harvey Cushing was a “household name” revered and esteemed by the public as America’s first brain surgeon. His daughters achieved real status, however, pursued and promoted by their mother Kate Cushing by marrying rich men, putting them at the very top of the social world. All three married twice to famous and rich Americans.

Betsey, the middle sister, married in 1930 to James Roosevelt, son of Franklin D., who became President two years later. That marriage produced two daughters, and then a divorce and a second marriage to John Hay (“Jock”) Whitney, one of America’s wealthiest men. The eldest daughter Minnie was first the mistress and then the second wife of Vincent Astor. And the youngest – Barbara – always known as Babe – married the blueblood Stanley Mortimer whom she later divorced, and married William Paley, the broadcasting tycoon (CBS).

Then the Second World War changed everything, creating a more dynamic and broader “society” here in New York, and attracting the war-torn European royals and aristos. The country had finally come out of the Depression by the post-war 1940s when the boom in American industry more widely distributed the wealth. The debut and new mass popularity of radio had brought Americans coast-to-coast together. The airplane shortened travel time and the “socialite” began to associate with the upperclasses of Europe and South America who were often amused and charmed by the rich Americans.

Women like Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton spread their wealth among men they married from distant shores, with their alliances lighting up headlines in the same way movie stars’ romances did. Hutton and Duke even married the same man – Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican “diplomat” who was famous for his astounding priapic prowess, said to be beyond compare. Neither heiress remained married for very long to the Dominican playboy, who in an earlier age of society would have been referred to as a gigolo. Always appreciated for his “prowess”, both

women sent him farewells with buckets of cash, cars, and airplanes as an homage to his personal asset.

By the 1950s, many who had once been known as socialites (as opposed to “real” society) had become “real” society also. And when the scion of a wealthy families like William Woodward or Winthrop

Rockefeller married blonde showgirls/ actresses, their wives were immediately embraced by their social peers.

The world was beginning to become a more democratic place. “Socialites” had become the new society and even scandalous and deathly. William Woodward, Jr., son of the founder of the Hanover Bank (later absorbed after several mergers into what is now called Citicorp) was shot to death one night after a dinner party by his former-showgirl wife (as he was taking a shower). It was reported to be an “accident.”

Decades later it was revealed (through Truman Capote) to be cold-blooded murder. Woodward’s social dowager mother Elsie Woodward, took her murderous daughter-in-law under wing (“for the sake of the children”) as if to let-bygones be bygones. Almost 25 years after the murder, the widow Woodward committed suicide to be followed eventually by both sons (deaths by leap) whose grandmother had tried to create a “normal” life for them. By the 1960s with the rise of the Kennedys to national prominence and power, the term “socialite” became a relic. Heirs and heiresses, members of fine old families, tycoons and scoundrels all drank and danced together (the “Twist” and the “Frug”), and occasionally drugged under the same rooftops on the High Road or the

Low. President John F. Kennedy, while in office for what turned out to be brief, was rumored to have had an affair with the sex symbol of her age, Marilyn Monroe while fathering children with his legal wife, the beautiful New York socialite Jacqueline Bouvier Although it was passed over even by the well-informed members of the press, it was well known amongst Kennedys’ “social” peers. We had entered the Age of Excessive Behavior where mores fell by the wayside and manners were about to make a swift exit.

By the end of the 60s, with the advent of Women’s Liberation and the ubiquitous television screen witnessing the very public murders of both John Kennedy and his brother Bobby, as well as a real American hero Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the turbulence of Vietnam in everyday American life slammed into and obliterated “society” and Mrs. Astor’s 400 of the late 19th century New York. From it emerged the proletarianization of society in America.

It was the dawn of the artist/bohemian/hedonist as social arbiter in the person of an unprepossessing-looking former shoe illustrator, Andy Warhol The artist, who was born the son of poor Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh in 1928, about the same time Brit Hadden coined the term “socialite,” was becoming one of its most influential leaders.

Warhol, imbued with the American working class fascination with all things rich and powerful, created a mock society with a cast of characters delivered up from the psycho-bowels of American life, including a young woman from an authentic Old Society New England family, Edie Sedgwick Sedgwick briefly symbolized the shedding of all things prim and proper that once defined the image of polite society as well as its socialite antecedents. She died young of a drug overdose, symbolizing tragic darkness on the notion of “socialite.”

Finally, during that era, Vietnam fostered an American national scandal now known in history as “Watergate.” President Richard Nixon resigned from office for the first time in American history, and Andy Warhol became a magazine publisher and contemporary artist of enormous wealth and unquestioned social position.

By the time of Warhol’s death by medi-

cal accident at age 59 in 1987, society and “socialite” had morphed into one conception – the ones with the money (or friends of the ones with the money). Tycoons and their beautiful wives (now known as “trophy wives”). They became the arbiters of society, women and men re-creating the sensibilities of 40 and 50 years hence. The new generation of “liberated women,” often encouraged by their husbands, raced each other toward publicity and social prominence, now competing in the corridors of fund-raising and fancy private entertainment. They were the rocket age version of the New York women of a century before – the Alva Vanderbilts and Lina Astors

By the 1990s, however, positions insecure, marriages coming undone, children growing up and leaving gilded nests, it seemed as if the activist wife, women

of independent means, philanthropic, art-collecting individuals had forever shed the title “socialite.” And who cares, for it was irrelevant to most of us. Except for the unique exception of Brooke Astor, granddaughter-in-law of the Mrs. Astor of the 400, the late 19th century definition of society in New York.

A woman of advancing age, she married Vincent Astor, Lina Astor’s grandson. It was the third marriage for both. Six years later he died, leaving his immense American Astor family fortune, the majority of which he had assigned to philanthropy, to his wife’s direction (and personal wealth). She became the prima philanthropist of the city.

A child of the late Edwardian age, Brooke Astor was herself a modern woman, adapted to the age of Liberations, adding to her presentation the style of society that preceded the age of the Socialite. With her philanthropy, she

set an example of public conduct – the actions of a “lady” – that briefly resurrected the defunct notion of society.

Her philanthropic activities inspired many men and women who now make up the world of philanthropy in New York today raising hundreds of millions annually for all kinds of causes – cultural, educational, medical, civic.

Never referred to or even known by only a certain few men, Brooke was quite active in the department even during her marriage to her previous and most adored husband. During those same years she also kept up what became a 23 year affair with a married movie actor. He never divorced his wife and at a certain latter point, he decided to devote himself entirely to his wife. Or so she was told.

Ironically, at the end of the “reign” of the last Mrs. Astor (who died in her 105th year in 2007, also came the emergence of a young teenager from a wealthy hotel-owning family, Paris Hilton. Hilton, a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton who started the hotel chain that bore his name, achieved world celebrity from the direct and exclusive result of her tirelessly posing before camera lenses beginning with a much publicized video of sexual activity (that brought her instant fame rather than the public no-

toriety that would have come to her in a previous generation). That subsequent celebrity earned her millions in fees from entertainment and sales projects over the past two decades in the 21st century.

Ms. Hilton’s footsteps in posing for the camera (video and still) spawned an army of young men and women by the SUVload who have redefined the term Briton Hadden coined eight decades before in his telegraphic-styled reference to the rich and leisure class.

Many young men and women today mainly women have become omnipresent models for the camera lens, supplying the reams of social edit/copy/photo images dominating the consumer fashion scene. One family of sisters by the name of Kardashian have completely eliminated the “social” aspect of their image. It has made all of them centi-millionairesses selling their wares and fashion attitudes via tech media with their endless in-yourface self-images modeling all of their garments from top to (big) bottom.

The Kardashians are now regarded in the popular parlance of the media as “socialites” if they are even aware of the term people who seek public attention in clubs and stores which cater to 21st century contemporary life. Unlike those generations who came before, they seek

not good times or fun times, but rather seemingly endless media attention that congratulates and “rewards” them with an endless stream of promoting stuff –clothing, shoes, accessories.

More than a century after Lina Astor conducted Society with her social baton, by the second decade of the 21st century, the Kardashians’ technique (or industry which is what it is financially) have encouraged mass competition by a new phenomenon called Social Media.

“Social” is now a concept for an ever-changing space in the consciousness of a benumbed public. Media fame is for a public audience which has been hijacked by a polymorphous concept of the life on the planet Earth. Lina Astor in 19th century America had an ambition for power with her party lists. Lina went beyond that with her husband’s wealth and her own sense of power with her exclusive social lists of the rich bowing to her presence.

Today that same intellect and personality would prefer seeking real financial and political power running a major corporation or sitting behind the President’s desk in the White House. Or leisurely cavorting with “kings” and tooling around in private jets, Rolls-Royces and Lamborghinis. Where’s that camera? ◆

From left: Paris and Nicky Hilton, 2001; Kris Jenner and young Kardashian sisters. Opposite page, from left: President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, 1963; Ann Woodward with mother-in-law Elsie, 1958.

SOCIETY’S NEW 400

BY DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA FEBRUARY 1995

OLD GUARD FAMILIES

Mr. Nelson Aldrich

Mr. Cleveland Amory

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Auchincloss

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Auchincloss III

Mrs. Lily Auchincloss

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bancroft

Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Boardman

Mr. Clifford Brokaw

Mrs. Amanda Burden

Mr. and Mrs. Carter Burden

Mr. Harry C. Cushing IV

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana

Mr. And Mrs. Nicholas Drexel

Ambassador and Mrs. A. Biddle Duke

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony B. Duke

Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Eberstadt

Mrs. Fernanda Kellogg Gilligan

Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Hearst

Mr. and Mrs. Amory Houghton

Ambassador Francis Kellogg

Mr. John Knott

Mrs. Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman

Mrs. Topsy Taylor McFadden

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Middleton

Mr. and Mrs. Minot Milliken

Marchese and Marchesa

Alessandro di Montezemolo

Mr. and Mrs. David Mortimer

Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Mortimer

Mr. and Mrs. Tony Mortimer

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Peabody

Mr. Harry Platt

Mr. and Mrs. George Plimpton

Mr. Eben Pyne

Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Rockefeller

Mr. and Mrs. David Schiff

Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Sherrill

DIAMONDS AS BIG AS THE RITZ

Mrs. Anne Bass

Mrs. Joy Hirshon Briggs

Ms. Elizabeth Strong Cuevas

Mrs. Beth Rudin DeWoody

Mrs. Charlotte Ford

Ms. Anne Hearst

Mrs. Bianca Jagger

Mr. and Mrs. William Buckley

Mr. Henry Buhl

Mrs. Anne Eisenhower and Mr. W. Flottl

Mr. and Mrs. Anastassios Fondaras

Mr. and Mrs. John Gutfreund

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kempner

Mr. David Koch

Ms. Alice Mason

Mr. and Mrs. Rober Miller

Mr. and Mrs. William Rayner

Mr. Khalil Rizk

Mr. and Mrs. Ian Schrager

Sharon, Lady Sondes and Mr. G Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Trump

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney

Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson Kennan

Ms. Samantha Kluge

Ms. Francine LeFrak

Ms. Bokara Legendre

Mrs. Anne Ford Scarborough

Ms. Ivana Trump

Ms. Nancy Whitney

Ms. Mollie Wilmot

MOSTEST HOSTS AND HOSTESSES

Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass

Mr. Bill Bernhard and Mrs. C. Cahill

Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman

Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Zilkha

THE TASTEMAKERS

Mr. Ludovic Autet

Mr. Glenn Bernbaum

Mr. Bill Blass

Ms. Diana Brooks

Mr. Mario Buatta

Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari

Ms. Naomi Campbell

Mr. and Mrs. William Chaney

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cole

Mr. Madison Cox

Miss Kitty D’Alessio

Mr. Robert Denning

Mr. Ralph Destino

Mr. Sean Driscoll

Mr. and Mrs. Ahmet Ertegun

Princess Diane von Furstenberg

Mr. Albert Hadley

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hampton

SOCIETY’S NEW 400

FEBRUARY 1995

Mr. and Mrs. Reinaldo Herrera

Mr. Gene David

Mr. Eric Javits

Mr. Jed Johnson and Mr. Alan Wanzenberg

Mr. and Mrs. Barry Kieselstein-Cord

Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Klein

Mr. and Mrs. Arie Kopelman

Mr. Kenneth Jay Lane

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lauren

Mr. John Loring

Mr. Boaz Mazor

Ms. Mary McFadden

Mr. and Mrs. Brian McNally

Mr. Isaac Mizrahi

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nye

Mr. Alex Papachristidis

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pennoyer

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Forstmann

Mr. Ted Forstmann

Mr. David Geffen

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kravis

Mr. and Mrs. Henryk de Kwiatkowski

Mr. Campion Platt

Mrs. Chesbrough Rayner

Mr. Mingo del Ren

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta

Ms. Carolyne Roehm

Mr. Arnold Scaasi and Mr. Parker Ladd

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tilberis

Mr. George Trescher

Miss Gloria Vanderbilt

Mr. Stephen Weiss and Ms. Donna Karan

Ms. Bunny Williams

Mr. Robert Woolley

Mr. Jerry Zipkin

THE LAST TYCOONS

M. and Mme. Michel David-Weill

Mr. Barry Diller

Mr. and Mrs. Pepe Fanjul

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mosbacher

Mr. Ronald Perelman and Mrs. Patricia Duff

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rudin

Mr. and Mrs. Julio Mario Santo Domingo

Mr. and Mrs. Herb Siegel

Mr. and Mrs. Saul Steinberg

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Stern

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Taubman

Mr. and Mrs. John Veronis

Ms. Linda Wachner

Mr. Mortimer Zuckerman

LES DAMES

Mrs. Jan Cushing Amory

Mrs. Anne Barish

Mrs. Sisi Cahan

Mrs. Barbara Cates

Mrs. Sybilla Clark

Mrs. Virginia Regan Coleman

Ms. Adrienne Colgate

Mrs. Janne Cummings

Ms. Anne Downey

Ms. Louise Duncan

Ms Charlene Engelhard

Ms. Nina Ford

Ms. Sarah Giles

Ms. Pamela Gross

Mrs. Mai Hallingby

Mrs. Brucie Hennessy

Ms. Baby Jane Holzer

Ms. Elizabeth C. Houghton

Mrs. Joan Howard

Ms. Julie Kammerer

Mrs. Patricia Kennedy Lawford

Mrs. Ann Nitze

Mrs. Patricia Patterson

Ms. Alison Spear

Ms. Olivia Watson and Ms. Leighton Candler

Mrs. Jean Harvey Vanderbilt

STERLING GENTS

Mr. Peter Bacanovic

Mr. Peter Beard

Mr. Paul Beirne

Mr. Nicholas Berggruen

Mr. Marc Biron

Mr. Michael Bloomberg

Mr. Hamish Bowles

Mr. Robbie Brown

Mr. Edward Lee Cave

Mr. Bob Colacello

Mr. Christopher Cuomo

Mr. Peter Davis

Mr. Robert de Rothschild

Mr. Peter Dunham

Mr. Jamie Figg

Mr. Averell H. Fisk

Mr. John Galliher

Mr. Mark Gilbertson

Prince Nikolas of Greece

Mr. Sam Green

Mr. Pete Hathaway

Mr. Rusty Holzer

Mr. Chandler Hovey

Mr. Philip Isles

Mr. Howard Johnson IV

Mr. John F. Kennedy Jr.

Mr. Anthony Kiser

Mr. Clifford Klenk

Mr. Christopher Lawford

Mr. Orin Lehman

Ambassador John loed

Mr. John Loring

Mr. Richard Mack

Messrs. William, Charles, and Stewart Manger

Mr. Cristoph von MeyernHohenberg

Mr. Seth Miliken

Mr. Chappy Morris

Mr. Chuck Pfeiffer

SOCIETY’S NEW 400

Mr. Brendan Gill

Prince and Princess Michael of Greece

Mrs. Judy Green

Mr. John Punnett

FEBRUARY 1995

Mr. Alexis Gregory

Mr. John Guare and Adele

Chatfield-Taylor

Mr. Ashton Hawkins

Mrs. Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Mr. and Mrs. Byron Janis

Mr. and Mrs. Mort Janklow

Ms. Fran Leibowitz

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mailer

Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Mehta

Ms. Christophe de Menil

Ms. Jessye Norman

Ms. John Richardson

Mr. Harry Tower

Mr. Charles Urstadt

Mr. Diego del Vayo

Mr. Charles Washburne

Mr. Paul Wilmot

CORONETS AND COUNTESSES

Count and Countess Nuno Brandolini

Baroness Milly de Carbrol

Marchese and Marchesa

Alessandro Crosini Laiatico

Count Roffredo Gaetony-Lovatelli

Count and Countess Demetrio GuerriniMaraldi

Princess Firyal of Jordan

Ali Reza Pahlavi

Baron and Baroness Gottfried von MeyernHohenberg

Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia

ARTS AND LETTERS

Mr. and Mrs. William Acquavella

Mr. Leo Castelli

Mr. Charles Cowles

Mr. Dominick Dunne

Mr. Richard Feigen

Aline, Countess de Romanones

Mr. John Russel and Mrs. Rosamund

Bernier

Mr. John Sargent

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger

Mrs. Jean Stein

Mr. and Mrs. Gay Talese

Mr. Michael Thomas

Mr. Alberto Vitale

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wolfe

LES GRANDES DAMES

Mrs. Vincent Astor

Ambassador Anna Cox

Chambers

Mrs. Jan Cowles

Countess Consuelo Crespi

Mrs. C.Z. Guest

Mrs. Kitty Carlisle Hart

Mrs. Enid Haupt

Mrs. Aimee de Heeran

Mrs. Henry J. Heinz

Mrs. Dorothy Hirshon

Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock

Mrs. Alyne Massey

Mrs. Joseph Meehan

Mrs. Milton Petrie

Mrs. John Barry Ryan

Mrs. Anne Slater

Mrs. Lawrence Copley Thaw

Mrs. Joseph Thomas

Mrs. John Hay Whitney

LES BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS

Serena Boardman

Mr. & Mrs. Louis Dubin

Lucie de la Falaise

Alexa and Kate Hampton

Carolina & Patricia

Herrera

Astrid Kohl

Stefan de Kwaitkowski

Erin Lauder

Alexandra Lind

Alexandra and MarieChantal Miller

Steven Perelman

Andrea Pomerantz

Eliza Reed

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Rockefeller

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rockefeller

Tracee Ross

Dr. Andrew Schiff

Alexis Stewart

Jill Swid

Alexander von Furstenberg

Tatiana von Furstenberg

Ilyse Wilpon

THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS

Ms. Lauren Bacall

Mr. and Mrs. Martin

Bregman

Mr. David and Ms. Helen

Gurley Brown

Miss Barabara Carroll

Mr. Michael Fuchs

Ms. Brooke Hayward

and Mr. Peter Duchin

Mr. and Mrs. Mick Hones

Mr. Lionel Larner

Madonna

Mr. Christopher Mason

Ms. Dina Merrill and Mr. Ted Hartley

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew

Modine

Ms. Tina Nederlander

Mrs. Josephine Premice

Ms. Joan Rivers

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ross

Mr. Bobby Short

Ms. Marti Stevens

THE GOLDEN COUPLES

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ainslie

Mr. and Mrs. O. Kelley Anderson

Mr. and Mrs. Rand Araskog

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Avis

FEBRUARY 1995

Mr. and Mrs. Marquette de Bary

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Blanchard

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bruckman

Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Burke

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Byron

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Califano

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Connor

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Creel

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cullman

Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Curley

Ambassador and Mrs. Thomas Enders

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fomon

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Fowlkes

Ambassador and Mrs. Evan Galbraith

Mr. and Mrs. Francesco Galesi

Mr. and Mrs. John Gates

Mr. and Mrs. John Geary

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet

Mr. and Mrs. Alan (Ace) Greenberg

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gregory

Mr. and Mrs. Stephanie Groueff

Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Grunwald

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Gruss

Mr. and Mrs. Roberto de Guardiola

Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Guthrie

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallingby

Dr. William and Mrs. Gale Hayman

Heseltine

SOCIETY’S NEW 400

Mr. and Mrs. Ara Hovnanian

Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Isham

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Isham

Mr. and Mrs. Deane Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood Johnson III

Mr. Richard Kaplan and Ms. Edwina Sandys

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kennedy

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lauder

Mr. and Mrs. Richard LeFrak

Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb

Mr. and Mrs. Earle Mack

Mr. and Mrs. David Mahoney

Mr. Alexandrer Marchessini and Mme.

Genevieve Faure

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maynard Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. William McDonough

Mr. and Mrs. Damon Mezzacappa

Mr. and Mrs. Minot Miliken

Dean and Mrs. Robert Morton

Mr. and Mrs. James Niven

Mr. Michael Rena and Mrs. Kalliope Karella

Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Rockefeller

Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Saint-Amand

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spielvogel

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Tisch

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trump

MEDIA AND OPINION MAKERS

Mr. Joe Armstrong

Dr. Daniel Baker and Mrs. Nine Griscom

Mr. Andre Balcz and Ms. Katie Ford

Mrs. Eleanor Lambert Berkson

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Beutel

Ms. Tina Brown and Mr. Harry Evans

Dr. and Mrs. William Cahan

Mr. and Mrs. Graydon Carter

Ms. Jennet Conant and Mr. Steve Kroft

Mr. Carl and Mrs. Barbaralee DiamonsteinSpielvogel

Mr. Malcom Jr., Christopher, and Robert Forbes

Mr. Geordie Greig

Mr. Anthony Haden-Guest

Mr. and Mrs. James Hoge

Mr. Warren Hoge

Mr. Peter Jennings

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kissinger

Mr. Jesse Kornbluth and Ms. A. Tapert

Mr. Ed Kosner and Ms. Julie Baumgold

Mr. David Lauren

Dr. Richard and Mrs. Ellen Levine

Mr. Patrick McMullen

Mrs. Aileen Mehle

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Meigher III

Mr. Michael Musto

Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Newhouse Jr.

Mr. Khoi Nguyen

Miss Polly Onet

Ms. Alexandra Penney

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pittman

Mr. and Mrs. Abe Ribicoff

Ms. Liz Robbins

Mr. Charlie Rose

Mr. and Mrs. Felix Rohayton

Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Scarborough

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schlossberg

Ms. Peggy Siegel

Grace, Lady Dudley, and Mr. R. Silvers

Mr. Howard Stringer and Dr. Jennifer Patterson

Mr. and Mrs. John Stubbs

Mr. and Mrs. Taki Theodoracopulos

Mr. James Truman

Ms. Barbara Walters

Mr. Karl Wellner and Ms. Deborah Norville

Mr. and Mrs. Jann Wenner

Quest BEST PARTIES

WRITTEN BY DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA

PARTIES ARE CELEBRATIONS of one sort or another. They mark time, talent, and lives—the past and the future. They also give form to an aspect of community that we call society.

Parties serve as important moments in the history of any society, be that of an individual, family, country, or a group of people—the wedding, baptism, anniversary, birthday, the going away, the coming together; the opening of sundry splashes of glitter or the closing.

The most famous party of the past half century in America was

Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, which was held in 1966 in the grand ballroom of the Plaza Hotel. The guest of honor was media heiress and publisher Kay Graham, a modern grande dame. It was a masterstroke of ballyhoo for the author and host.

The great parties, such as those displayed here in our Quest 400 Issue, are the sea from which all dramas, all laughter, and all sorrow are drawn. They were all of the things mentioned above, and they were fun. Their concepts of the community, and its culture at the time, were about celebrating this life, and all the ships upon it. ◆

Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball at The Plaza Hotel

1 . Writer Truman Capote and guest of honor Katharine Graham, president of The Washington

, attend the Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel, November, 28 1966. 2. Newlyweds Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra. 3. One of Capote’s most beloved swans, Lee Radziwill, dons her mask for the occasion. 4. Radziwill on Capote’s arm, enjoying the party. 5. Andy Warhol was said to be overwhelmed by the amount of celebrities in attendance.

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Mike Todd’s Party at Madison Square Garden

1 . Mike Todd rented out all of Madison Square Garden in 1957 to throw a lavish, celebrity-studded party on the first anniversary of his film, Around the World in 80 Days. 2. Approximately 18,000 guests attended the extravagant affair. 3. Elizabeth Taylor, Todd’s wife, cut the first piece of the impressive, 14-foot-high cake. 4. Mike Todd (left) whistled to cue the Boston Pops Orchestra, led by conductor Arthur Fiedler. 5. Feathered Marchers, a 45-piece band from Philadelphia’s Mummers club, was one of 24 bands and two orchestras that performed.

Nan and Tommy Kempner’s 50th Wedding Anniversary at New York Botanical Garden

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Grunwald 4. “Grateful Pub” and Taki Theodoracopulos

Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera 6. Arianna Boardman, Pepe Fanjul, Dixon Boardman, and Samantha Boardman. 7. Nan Kempner in deep discussion with Mark Birley.

Mark Gilbertson’s Cocktail Party in New York

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Vienna Opera Ball

1. The Vienna Opera Ball enjoys a rich history of glamour and old-world charm, as politicians, celebrities and business leaders alike gather to enjoy the fairytale-ilke setting. Held annually at Austria’s Vienna State Opera, the evening begins with a Waltz, as 150 debutantes in floor-length, white evening gowns are led by partners dressed in requisite white tie. 2. Candice Swanepoel, Leni Klum and Ed Westwick attend the 2025 Vienna Opera Ball. 3. Elle Macpherson and Richard Lugner in 2019. 4. Sophia Loren joins Richard and Christina Lugner’s box in 1995. 5. Priscilla Presley in 2024. 6. An overhead view of the ball in 2025.

Mark Gilbertson smiles for a photo with Hilary Geary Ross and Wilbur Ross. 2. Richard Johnson and Sessa von Richthofen 3. Bill Manger and Elisabeth Saint Amand 4. Jamie Tisch with Matthew and Marisa Brown 5. Fred Bancroft and Mary Darling.

Royal Ascot in England

1 Charles III and Queen Camilla, offering a royal wave.

2. Prince William with a jockey dressed in colorful silks.

3. An enthusiastic Jerry Hall. 4. The Duchess of Gloucester 5. Lord Frederick Windsor 6. King Charles offers niece Princess Eugenie a sweet kiss. 7. Harriet Sperling, girlfriend of Queen Elizabeth II’s oldest grandchild, Peter Phillips. 8. Ashton Gohil tips his hat. 9. Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi enjoy a day at the races.

1. The Four Arts Contemporaries’ lively dance floor at the 2024 Cleopatra-themed gala. 2. Katherine Gage Boulud and Mary Willis attend “Cleopatra 1963: A Legendary Night in Luxor,” 2024. 3. A glimpse inside the Four Arts Contemporaries’ “Disco in The Desert,” 2023. 4. Casey Waldin and Mary Willis pose in the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden at the Four Arts Contemporaries’ “Disco in the Desert,” 2023. 5. Cocktail hour during Cleopatra 1963: A Legendary Night in Luxor, 2024.

The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach’s Dinner Dance

Fitch’s Corner in Millbrook

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1. Chan Mashek and Donald Trump at the 1986 dinner dance. 2. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough 3. Percy Steinhart and C. Z. Guest 4. Pauline Pitt 5. Nan Kempner, Jerry Zipkin, and Estée Lauder 6. Lesly Smith, Bill Pitt, and Emilia Fanjul enjoying the evening.

Boyd Martin, rider extraordinaire, waving his prize check in 2013

Bill Cunningham in 2007. 3. Alice and Simon Roosevelt in 2017. 4. On the grounds of Fitch’s Corner in 2015. 5. Donald and Barbara Tober with Lorna and Larry Graev in 2016.

6. Mario Rinaldi, Fernanda Kellogg, Everett Cook, Parker Gentry, and David Hathaway in 2015

April in Paris Ball in New York

1. Frank Sinatra, Jeannine Levitt and Tony Bennett attend the April in Paris Ball, launched in 1951 at New York’s Waldorf Astoria as a charitable endeavor marking the 2,000th birthday of Paris. 2. Twenty-seven-year-old year Jackie Kennedy seated in The Waldorf’s Grand Ballroom looking lovely in signature pearls and long white gloves.

3. Tables at the benefit always included a list of notable attendees, as seen in Slim Aarons’ shot featuring young Senator John F. Kennedy greeting guests in 1959. 4. Mrs. Winston F.C. Guest (“C.Z.”) joins Mrs. Cobina Wright, Enrique Godoy Jr., and Mario Braggiotti at the ball in 1961. 5. Newlyweds Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller in 1957.

BLACK | BRYAN | BROWN | TRAVERS

THE YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST

It’s not quite as old as Quest , but this column has always managed to capture the energy of the younger generation partying around the globe. So let’s raise a glass to the four columnists Jack Bryan, Andrew Black, Lizzie Brown, and Alex Travers who expertly navigated the nightlife map over the years.

Olivia Palermo, Andrew Saffir, and Jackie Astier at the Museum of Natural History’s Winter Gala in 2007.

Gillian Hearst, Alvin Valley, and Ivanka Trump at a Calvin Klein Cosmetics launch party in 2004.

Paris Hilton, Sidney Toledano, Nicky Hilton, and Lauren Bush Lauren at the Frick Collection in 2003.

Wass Stevens and Rich Thomas at a party for STRIDE in 2006.

Heather Sargent, Mark Gilbertson, and Tatiana Papanicolaou at Doubles in 2004.

Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler and Melanie Charlton the Grand Opening of Tibi in 2006.

Amanda Hearst and Tinsley Mortimer at a fashion show in 2004.

Annelise Peterson at a Cinema Society party in 2005.

Jack Bryan and Edward Barsamian at a store launch in 2008.

Lady Bunny, Billy Farrell, Genevieve Bahrenburg, and Lauriston Roach in 2008.

Matthew Raynes and Byrdie Bell at a store opening in 2007.

THE YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST

BY BROOKE KELLY MURRAY

Alejandra Alonso Rojas, Dria Murphy, Joey Wölffer, Elizabeth Kurpis, and Samantha Angelo.

COCKTAIL PARTY AT WÖLFFER ESTATE VINEYARD IN SAGAPONACK

ON JUNE 28TH, Joey WÖlffer and NARS hosted a sunset soirée to toast the launch of their limited-edition Summer in a Bottle Long Island Rosé. The bottle’s new design, inspired by the NARS Hot Escape Collection, set the tone for the evening. The event took place at The Wine Stand and featured a tuna tartare cart, garden grazing table, mini ice cream cones, endless pours of Rosé, and tunes by DJ Pamela Tick

Clockwise from top left: Emily Onkey and Rebecca Minkoff; Georgina Bloomberg; Maryam Adebisi and Eni Popoola; DJ Pamela Tick; Kelly Kempner, Malcolm Carfrae, and Julia Amory.

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FERRAGAMO’S DINNER IN BRIDGEHAMPTON

IN MID-JULY, Ferragamo hosted an intimate evening at The Barn at Topping Rose House, where a stylish Hamptons crowd gathered for cocktails al fresco and a festive dinner curated by renowned chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. The occasion marked the brand’s exclusive three-day pop-up at the property and drew a mix of fashion insiders and friends of the house, including Ferragamo’s CEO of the Americas, Daniella Vitale.

Turid Hunblen and Lise Evans

Steven Plofker and Bobbi Brown

Christie Brinkley and Sailor Brinkley-Cook

Reed Krakoff and Daniella Vitale

Jennifer Esposito and Jesper Vesterstrøm

KINDERBROOK HOME’S PARTY IN NEWPORT

LAST MONTH, Kinderbrook Home celebrated the launch of the Garden Basket—the perfect summer staple—with a cocktail party at Newport Lamp & Shade Company. The evening was hosted by brand founder Brooke Kennan , along with Meghan Klopp , Louisa Ryan , Maura Smith , and Mary Van Pelt . ◆

Ellen Sanchez, Nathalie Agresta, and Marni Parker

Brooke Kennan with Jamie and Mimi Cushing

Dory Benson, Sam Hamilton, and Allison Marschalk

Patrick Dolat and Maura Smith

Anna McLaughlin and Elizabeth Tuke

TARA MORRIS

AN ACE UP HER SLEEVE

QUEST ARCHIVE: JULY/AUGUST 1999

“See how impressed the Rake is by his guests. The Lovelies are present, all wearing the expression peculiar to their tribe: eyebrows raised as if they were indignantly outfacing some adversary inferior to themselves.”

—Rebecca West

WHEN JOURNALIST Rebecca West penned and Sir David Low illustrated (above) The Modern “Rake’s Progress”—an update of Hogarth’s 1735 cautionary tale of a young man’s rise and fall in society—West’s unconventional lifestyle had already set her on a precarious progression of her own. The prolific writer set the literary world’s tongues wagging at the early age of 19 when she began a torrid affair with 46-yearold H.G. Wells; the ten-year tryst produced a son, New Yorker critic Anthony Panther West. Rebecca went on to have famous affairs with Charlie Chaplin, Francis Biddle, and Lord Max Beaverbrook, while still finding time to write social and political commentary The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, and a

slew of British newspapers. She authored an analysis of the Nuremberg trials entitled The Meaning of Treason, several novels, and her most renowned book, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, a 1941 study of Yugoslavia’s age-old ethnic tensions. Today’s pundits view that thoughtful analysis of the human condition as the seminal volume on the subject, and they have been recently invoking the book and its author on political talk shows and op-ed pages in connection to the region’s current strife. West said she wrote the book for future historians and “to explain to the world why what happens in Central Europe affects the core of Western identity.” It sems that Hogarth wasn’t the only prophetic scribe with a cautionary tale to tell. u