Visits: 24 She was the queen of Manhattan real estate when power brokers jockeyed for places in stately co-op buildings. Her dinners for them made the gossip columns. Alice Mason, a real estate broker and hostess whose talent at social …
Townhouses Took Off in December, and Neighbors Filed a Rare Joint Listing
Visits: 31 Two townhouses in the West Village, one owned by the producer Scott Rudin, are listed together at $37.5 million. They could be combined into a 40-foot-wide mansion. Manhattan townhouses took center stage in December, with several big sales …
What Is It About Montecito?
Visits: 38 Are there Americans who don’t have fantasies about a better life in California? About gold in the rivers, giant fruit in the yards and a hardcore, neon sunset every single night? The collective westward yearn is endlessly evolving …
What’s the Status of Flaunting Your Status?
Visits: 37 In what now seems the quaint era of Truman Capote’s baroque social diagrams, what distinguished the truly wealthy from the merely rich was the better vegetables they served: “tiny ones.” Were Capote alive today to freeload off his …
Do You Have What It Takes to Be Kendall Roy’s Assistant?
Visits: 32 In “Succession,” Jess quits, and Kerry was in tears. What is it actually like to be an assistant to the ultra wealthy? Jess Jordan, Kendall Roy’s assistant in the HBO drama “Succession,” is finished with the permanent headache …
Polo and Ponies: ‘My Money Pit of Choice’
Visits: 24 The very wealthy recently gathered in South Florida for a weekend dedicated to the sport of kings. MIAMI — Tito Gauenzi waved his arm across a party tent tricked out like an oceanfront nightclub. “Miami and polo don’t …
In China, It’s Time to Splurge Again, and the Luxury Industry Is Relieved
Visits: 32 The end of pandemic-era restrictions has unleashed a luxury spending rebound in China. Which Western brands are coming out on top? This time last year, Shanghai — China’s capital of fashion and luxury — was in the throes …
It’s a Toddler’s Party. How About a $75,000 Budget?
Visits: 19 In Los Angeles, children’s birthday celebrations have spiraled into mini-weddings. One hundred people RSVP’d for William’s sixth birthday party, which was held at a Los Angeles park on a March afternoon. By 12:30 p.m., the fire station-themed event …
Elon Musk Has the World’s Strangest Social Calendar
Visits: 38 When a snapshot of Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell surfaced on social media in 2020, the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive took to Twitter — as he so often does — to explain why he had been photographed …
In Montauk, Big Money Moves In On a Surfers’ Paradise
Visits: 29 MONTAUK, N.Y. — Ditch Plains Beach is the heart of the surf scene in Montauk, a two-mile stretch of dunes and sea at the tip of Long Island’s East End with views of sand cliffs to the east …