We don’t want to say we told you so, but we did.
Back in June 2007 Gotham Journal reported that Donald and Ivana Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, had been getting cozy with Jared Kushner, publisher of the New York Observer. Well kids, today came official word that Ivanka, 27, married Jared, 28, in a ceremony held at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., on Sunday.
Among the 500 guests were: Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman, Barbara Walters, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Regis Philbin, who sang for the new couple.
Ivanka, who got engaged on July 15, wore a Vera Wang gown inspired by Grace Kelly and is said to have converted to Judaism in order to marry Jared, who is Orthodox Jewish.
The newlyweds are planning to honeymoon in Africa.
Source: People
Grey Gardens is getting some new tenants -and no, unlike many of the Beale’s acquaintances, the cats and raccoons are not making their way out of the woodwork to get a piece of all the recent Grey Gardens action.
WWD reports Grey’s current owners, Sally Quinn and her husband Ben Bradlee, have signed a five-year lease with popular Manhattan socials Boykin Curry and Celerie Kemble, who along with their clan will be residing at the iconic East Hampton estate come September.
“Ever since the couple bought Grey Gardens from Little Edie Beale in 1979, they have rented it out, save for the month of August when they use the home. The last inhabitants, Quinn said, lived there for 12 years. Curry and Kemble’s five-year contract is the lengthiest that’s been issued. Neither party disclosed the rental price, but in May it was rumored Quinn and Bradlee were asking $30,000 for Aug. 28 through Sept. 7 alone.”
Read the rest of the article at WWD.
From The New York Daily News comes this blind item:
“Which allegedly bisexual hotel heir is getting it on with an N.Y.-based male reality TV star?”
It doesn’t take a genius to figure this one out, all one needs to do is head over to the bowels of Page Six and dig up this little tidbit:
“BIillionaire Pete Peterson is said to be ‘mortified’ over the sneering performance of his grandson PC on Bravo’s ‘NYC Prep.’ ‘Pete is really upset,’ a friend said. PC — whose official bio says, ‘Money, women and life’s spoils are all he’s ever known’ — is seen bragging and picking on younger kids. The insider added, ‘He was kicked out of several schools and the family cut him off at one point. He’s doing this show to get an acting career.’ Good Luck! Last week, PC was spotted getting ‘super touchy-feely’ with Barron Hilton at the Gramercy Park Hotel. A Bravo rep had no comment.
Mystery solved! Those Hilton kids sure do have a taste for Greek…and who can blame them.
Life magazine online has a collection of photographs of “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Beale at their infamous home, Grey Gardens. The images are from an article originally published by Life in 1975. Enter Grey Gardens right here.
The New York Times online has an excellent slideshow of the condition Grey Gardens was in when “Little” Edie Beale sold it to Sally Quinn and Benjamin C. Bradlee in 1979, as well as a slideshow showing the home’s revitalized gardens today. Here and here.
Above is Grey Gardens as it looks today while on the bottom are ariel views of the Beale’s former estate on Google Maps.
Truman Capote’s former Hamptons saltbox home, which he purchased for $800,000 in 1993 from the Nature Conservancy, has been put on the market for $14.6 million by it’s current owner, Artist Ross Bleckner.
“The artist restored and enlarged the home, which is in Southampton’s hamlet of Sagaponack and sits on four acres near the beach, adjacent to a nature preserve. The main house, now 2,000 square feet, has a view of the ocean. There’s also a 1,900-square-foot studio, a two-bedroom guest house, a detached garage and a pool.
Continue reading Capote's Hamptons Home Goes Up For Sale
The Mail Online has a feature on the true-life circumstances and events that led to the murder of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland at the hands of her son Antony Baekeland in 1972.
Continue reading The Barbara Daly Baekeland Case
The house on Lily Pond Lane as seen in the documentary “Grey Gardens”
A historic house on Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton was destroyed by fire at midday on Saturday, February 9th.
Built in 1905 for Edward T. Cockcroft, the hose was designed by Harrie T. Lindberg and garnered much attention, appearing on the cover of House and Garden. “According to “Hampton’s Heritage: An Illustrated Architectural Record,” Lindberg designed four houses on Lily Pond Lane using a roof technique that became his trademark.
Continue reading Fire Destroys Home On Lily Pond Lane
The New York Times has an article on Christopher Rocancourt, a con man who used his Continental charms to trick the well-to-do in East Hampton, Beverly Hills, Miami, San Francisco and Hong Kong, into believing he was a member of the Rockefeller family, prying nearly $900,000 from the hands of wealthy Hamptonites over the course of a single season alone.
Tongues are wagging about the nature of Ivanka Trump’s friendship with New York Observer owner, Jared Kushner. There’s speculation the attractive twosome may actually be a hot item –or maybe not.
Though either party have yet to officially confirm any of the rumors, Radar reports the couple was once again seen “acting like a pair” at a recent Observer-sponsored kickoff party for Location, in Soho.
Asked by the publication to comment on the nature their relationship, Kushner told Radar, “Our status is still the same, just friends.”
