Dropping in on New York Social Diary

Liz Lyman shows us what it would be like if Divine married well.

Poor Kate Hughes. Still storm-tossed.

Don't even think of wearing lemon sherbet to your next soiree, because that's Missy Taylor's color.

She looka like a man!

And don't whisper a word of this to a soul, but I think Michele Herbert may have chosen such a busy pattern to distract from the fact she's had a nip-and-tuck.

The young people call Larry and Klara Silverstein "Roman and Minnie" — don't ask me why.

Wendy Federman and Lucia Hwong Gordon — pretty as a picture and twice as lifelike!

Good lord those people look freakish.

Joanna Fisher just got back from vacation. Quite a tan!

Estelle Greer and Bebe Winkler — who wore it better?

And we'll close out today by saying goodbye to Julie Araskog and CeCe Black, as well as their delicious swains.

Ta-ta for now! See you on the town!

I love this thread.

Just have to love a party where half the room has a permanent look of surprise.

Those gathering are just proof that money can not buy looks. They all look like Halloween ghouls.

One of the best threads in ages.

I simply will NOT rest until I know why Somers Farkas wasn't there!!!

You know Missy Taylor got a lot of muff at the riding stables. And she loves stinky pussy.

THEYRE ALL MEN, BABY!!!~ (Except the men in the photos)

Darlings, this thread is SIMPLY scrumptious ...

LOVE this thread. Thank you, OP and everyone.

You can not make stuff like this up. They are all so unattractive. Hilarious!

All that money and not one of them could afford Jane Fonda's expert surgeon?

r21, you're not suggesting that Lady Jane has had work done, are you?

That is one ugly tranny.

These people make me feel better about my life. If I had to choose between having their money, but that meant I had to be one of those people or stay where I am. I'd gladly stay where I am.

I like to think that Liz Newman's one-sided bouffant wing is an homage to Tom Wolfe, whose hair was remarkably similar (and who would have felt right at home with this crowd).

Do the women on the left look at the women on the right and see their dead doppelgangers?

Barbara Ostrom and Linda Hoffman practicing their photobombing in tandem.

The only attractive people in New York are shipped in from other parts of the country.

Estelle Greer and Bebe Winkler will now be haunting my nightmares. Thanks OP!

“Society” sure has changed...

Turquoise turtleneck aficionado Dr. Sat Bhattacharya beams in the company of female impersonator impersonator Marilyn Neilson; dear, simple Shelby Wilcox; and a rather smug Janet Stevens.

Where is Tinsley Mortimer? I thought she was the socialite supreme.

Only the clever Irene Goodkind would think to accessorize her wine glass with a table runner from Tuesday Morning.

Marilyn Neilson brings the va-va- voom to all of fashionable society's parties!

r30 I thought you would have had more shriveled Dames before the days of the micro-peel skin regimens and botox.

A bit of a faux pas when a waiter (a WAITER!) approached Mary Ann Henry to tell her he enjoyed her performance in "Cry-Baby" (whatever that means).

Where is Muffie and her fivehead?

In R31 s photo the lady in the fuchsia coat looks like Dixie Whatley from the old TV show In Living Color.

Hysterical thread!

Missy Taylor looks like s/he's got a little Shanghai Surprise underneath that mustard yellow.

Why haven't any gays been featured?

I used to know quite a few people on the New York Social Diary pages. Mostly through my father who was sort of part of the Park Ave, Southampton, Palm Beach set - but he was English, so he was just a visitor. Maybe they're all too old or dead now.

Anyway, glad I haven't seen any familiar faces yet.

Not everyone's ugly.

Yep - it's now mostly the adult children of on there no and even they are getting on.

But I found people immediately.

Mostly WASPS.

All of these people look real crazy. Plus no more Anne Slater she's gone along with Lisa dean Mosley DuPont.

Debralee Nelson sits in for a quick photo robed in a karategi just prior to her karate lesson.

R37, yes where are Muffie, Sommers and that blonde Benedict guy?

Never fear, DL. Of COURSE Somers Farkas is there!

And Muffie Potter Aston, too!

The pic at R31 is amazing. You just look from one bizarroland refugee to the next in astonishment. They look like the worst of the gene pool (although Mr. Blue Turtleneck has impressive teeth - veneers, probably).

What happened to the gal w the Hatchet face at R36? I feel bad for her.😔

What? No Bunny Bixler or Muriel Puce?

[quote]All that money and not one of them could afford Jane Fonda's expert surgeon?

Some of them look like they went to Jane Fonda's expert TREE surgeon.

R43 I LOVED Anne Slater.

I met Anne Slater on two occasions and she was a great old broad. I was sorry to hear that she passed away not that long ago.

Well, they didn’t have Jane Fonda’s looks to begin with. Can you imagine what these ghouls looked like before the plastic surgery?

Marilyn Neilson looks awesome !!!! Like a modern Jane Mansfield

R46 that bitch needs some Estee Lauder Neck Cream stat !!!!!

r56 I don't think they make it in Industrial Strength.

Tell me all about Anne R53! What stood out the most to you about her? Just how fabulous was she? I just adored her when she would appear on Dominick Dunne’s show and always smile whenever her name makes an appearance in books about the Duchess of Windsor, etc.

And those glasses! ...Perfection!

r58 it was just idle chitchat, nothing really noteworthy or scandalous, but she was very attentive and genuinely seemed interested in everything everybody in my group (and me) had to say. She didn't know any of us, we were a group of young guys who just happened to get invitations to two events, this was in the 2000s. She had a very warm presence and she was quite tiny. Of course the trademark blue cat-eye glasses. Most NYC high-society types are just as you'd imagine them (vapid, etc.) but Anne Slater was lovely and vibrant.

Grandmama has passed but I still dress her up and take her out.

She would hate to miss a great party.

R60 aint no one gonna hit that gurl, even with fur and money

“female impersonator impersonator”

Sigh. So wrong. So so so funny.

Dina Merrill looks amazing for being dead!

You all would love the Palm Beach “Shiny Sheet” party pics - I either choke with laughter or I’m utterly horrified. Best of all you can nearly always count on a pic of DL fave Mr. Donald Burns each issue shamelessly with a new boy each time.

I see that the Bony Crone look is all the rage.

It's clear from these photos that NYC Society has fully accepted the MtF Transgender Movement.

Great thread, guys!

Yikes, r10! It's a scene from "Find the Gigolo and the Gold-Digger"!

r26, they're paying tribute to the Grady twins at a "Shining" themed party.

"Come, play with us, Danny... forever.... and ever... and ever..."

Cece Cord's eyebrows, flying off in different directions.

The beguiling Baroness von Langendorff (center) and friends.

OP has given up on his dream of being Mrs. Anderson Vanderbilt, and grown bitter.

The Baroness Von Lagendorff! I believe I have a new favorite.

R71, And Monique Van Vooren! She had the pleasure of sucking on Joe Dallesandro's armpit, the lucky bitch!

The Baroness Von Langendorff was a dominatrix and got her real money from Bill Klopman, of Klopman Mills which became Burlington Industries. She has an Edward Durell Stone house on the water in Long Island with an indoor pool that was the scene of her orgies. She married the guy who bought Evyan perfumes and had some fake title. Most of her jewels are fake but she has some real stuff too. She has a tiny voice and is weird beyond belief. She is surrounded by Marty Richards, widower of Johnson and Johnson heiress Mary Lea Johnson. They produced Chicago. He was cut out of her money after Mary Lea died and he died broke. The other tranny is Monique Van Vooren, a 900 year old vampiress.

The Baroness just loves a man in uniform

With that wig she doesn't need a ski cap.

Wow - a lot of shady articles about her came up in a google search. Taking some dead Nepalese man's fortune, a supposed jewelry theft in the early 70's, and she married Dr. Langer (the title is made up) not too long before he died.

She's a con artist - it's extraordinary that people in those circles don't banish her.

Somers Farkas sports the perfect summertime accessory, the leatherette neck and decolletage.

The Baroness is just bitter about missing the age cutoff for Drag Race.

Somers at the Trump one year anniversary dinner, ready to burst after consuming a leaf of lettuce.

Howling at the moon at the same dinner

The woman on the right in the picture at R71 has entered Jocelyn Wildenstein territory.

To think she once looked like this R83

Leave it to that fabulous cunt Lee Radziwill to shade the Baroness"

"Baroness Gabriele von Langendorff may have questionable hair and makeup, but her emeralds are exquisite."

Baroness Gabriele von Langendorff IS Baby Jane. Look at that blush. All she needs are the slippers falling off her feet.

This thread is so depressing. Imagine spending all your life acquiring money only to end up looking like that.

I find it heartening r87- I have more taste than they with my pauper's income.

My goodness, r46. That's the sauciest thing I've ever seen Somers wear!

"Have you eaten, Somers?"

"Not since 1973."

R4, That is no "nip and tuck". It's a tractor pull.

Laughing out loud!

R79 lol Felicia Taylor...it’s a MAN baby!!

Another winter in a Somers town.

Somers demonstrates this season's must-have accessory: hip bones.

Somers has terrible feet.

Baroness Gabriele von Langendorff is both frightening & fascinating, she resembles Mrs. Steve from Pee-wee's Playhouse.

Baroness Gabriele von Langendorff is every fetish you can imagine. I wouldn't be surprised if she had a penis or was a hermaphrodite.

They’re going to make a Birkin bag out of Farkas when she goes.

Somers Farkas needs to die in a grisly, crackling-fat grease fire.

She is the reason why the word "gash" was invented.

Somers is actually nice. Many of these woman are horrible though. And the men are ridiculous.

Nice, r101? Maybe she is. But attending a one-year anniversary of the Trump regime spells g-a-s-h to me. And her face and those outfits, no. Uh-uh.

In a grease fire, gristling.

R102 I think that was the one year anniversary of Donald and Melania's marriage. Back in 2006.

And we're really wondering where Trump came from,.. My God! This crowd and then anxious new rich actors living in the Hamptons etc. This country is in deep trouble!!! Don't any of these people have mirrors?... Wasn't it Channel who said' Before you leave take that last piece of jewelry off...or something like that!! Christ we're doomed!

R104, Channel did not say that, but Chanel did.

r103, if so, I stand corrected.

But seriously, what are the odds she didn't vote for Trump?

I maintain: in a grisly grease fire the cunt must die.

I agree, that whole crew voted for Trump.

Trash with money. Society is DEAD!!!

So many of you are obsessed with Somers Farkas. I'd love for you to spend just a little more time getting to know Muffie Potter Aston.

Re the above, Bracie sounds like a character in Newsies.

Bubbles Devere introduced me to the Baroness Von Langendorff at the Clinique La Prairie in Montreux. Mad cap hijinks when I discovered Bubbles was NOT a patient rather staying at an Airbnb down the road.

Vanessa Noel, smiling like a zaftig cat who ate the canary .... and more than a few canapes ....glimmers in a billowing black caftan.

That canary was drowned in hollandaise, r112.

I'm only interested in her, r109, in that she dies in a grease fire. Hideous looking twat.

{r105] thanks for the heads up on the typo.

I miss Nan Kempner.

R102 and R103, it was a celebration of Trump's first year in office that she attended in January 2018.

They all need to star in a remake of "The Women."

R112 she was on RHONY last week. Speaking of overly tanned freaks, I can’t post pics but someone should post one of Dori Cooperman aka Pooperman. Against all odds of nature, the coke head scarecrow is 7 mos pregnant.

What do we need to know about only known survivor of a double cremation, Joanna Fisher? (2nd on left)

R106 No, you were correct in your original post.

This is precisely why I tend to give a bit of the side eye when folks here claim that only the slack jawed hillbillies are fans of Trump.

Malarky. I live in PB and here as well as in NY, rich people support him as POTUS. They may think he is an uncultured buffoon as a man, but they totally support his presidency.

FFS take your Trump shit elsewhere. This is a fun thread about NY society freaks of nature.

I know we make fun of the Brits with their fascinators, but.....

R123, I wonder if the woman second from the left can pick up HBO with that contraption on her head?

r124 She doesn't have to. She OWNS HBO.

IS that from the Central Park Conservancy “hat party?” Where’s frozen face alien Gillian Miniter? She has all the makings of a DL icon.

What I find interesting is that they spend money on cosmetic procedures, but are poorly put together. Their hair doesn't look professionally done, neither does their makeup. The clothing doesn't look tailored. The clothing doesn't look especially high end. These pictures also support my theory that wealthy people aged better when they just got face lifts. All these injectables and implants look awful.

r127 or maybe they're getting more done at a younger age, so the maintenance fillers, etc. are what does them in.

I miss the days when there were "society matrons/dowagers" who had that Mrs. Drysdale look. Not young or beautiful, but rather that old rich bitch look. Now everyone looks totally fucked up and not rich at all. They look cheap in fact.

The look which came after the Mrs Drysdale, society dowager was the Nan Kempner Pat Buckley skinny rich bitch with a pulled face. That was far superior to what we have now,

Most people don't look good in hats and don't know how to wear them.

I partially disagree R130. Most people look good in hats. Hats frame the face. You do have to wear them correctly and since they aren't in fashion, most people don't know how to wear them. Fascinators often just look like a blob on the head. They don't frame the face.

I agree, r129. Most of these people don't look "high society." They're rather cheap-looking, as you said. Not stylish or chic at all.

Baroness von Langendorff??

Oh, I remember her! She's in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", right?

Give me a cocktail-swilling, chain-smoking, funny witty bitch like Nan Kempner or Pat Buckley over the current crop of boring nothings. I wish that type of "society" woman was still in vogue.

Before my time, r134, but I'd probably like the woman on the left. The one on the right looks...how shall I put it....female adjacent.

R135, R134's left photo is of Nan Kempner, while the right photo is of Pat Buckley.

I went to high school with the girl holding the pink channel bag in the Central Park party pic.

Yes! And while Pat Buckley was no great beauty, she had "it" on a senior level. You cannot deny that even she looks far more appealing than the puffy faced cheaply clothed swells pictured throughout this thread.

My idea of the perfect society dames are Lyn Wyatt and the lovely Babe Mortimer Paley.

An honorable mention for the classic CZ Guest(who was my mother's sort of society woman. A member of the horsey, gardening and squash playing set.)

Someone upthread was asking about Gillian Miniter, late of the Five Towns. Has anyone seen her husband Sylvester? He looks like he's been clubbed over the head and dragged to these events.

Isn't this the 5th avenue B list that no one on Park or Sutton would socialize with?

I generally agree with you, R129, except I want my society matrons to be more Marie Dresslerish.

Perfectly apt observation, r122. Calm down, twat.

I think everyone should be more Marie Dresslerish!

They all look like they are playing in Rosemary’s Baby . With all that money not many look well dressed .

Barbara Bush had that quintessential dowager look, and she could wear a hat well. The pic at r134 looks like two old drag queens

We're glad we're dead.

It cannot be said enough, Nan Kempner was a fantastic lady, funny, warm, and wicked to every person she took into her orbit, which was everyone. From the mightiest corporate king to the busboy, Nan shared her sly intimate charm with all. I liked her a lot.

Bald women and cotton candy hair?! These bitches are so wealthy, can't they invest in a few gorgeous wigs?!

OMG, Kemper wrote a book entitled, "Menus for Entertaining from People Who Really Know How ..."

I MUST read it.

R147, I agree. I used to go to 54 with her and her son Jamie. She also had a cool simple barn on the Kempner property in Purchase that was understated yet chic. I think Michael Taylor did the apartment at 895. She was very cool, friendly, and not snobby in the least.

Recently we briefly tipped our toe into social Palm Beach waters. There is something bad in pool down there, however.

Kim Jong-Un makes a surprise appearance at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s annual Hot Pink Party grasping greedily at the great Mary J. Blige.

LOL r152 I think that is in fact Lea Delaria.

Crone Kathie Lee Gifford (nee Epstein), mannish Savannah Guthrie, and small-breasted Jenna Hager (nee Bush) share broad smiles when caught discussing retired colleague Matthew Lauer.

Pity poor Kathy Mele (left) who tore her frock’s arm after falling in a rose bush, but still stylish in chunky heels.

Pity poor Kathy Mele (left) who tore her frock’s arm after falling in a rose bush, but still stylish in chunky heels.

Steven Aron snapped coming to the realization that his eyewear is not the sartorial whimsical fashion choice he originally imagined.

that is the least of kathy's problems, r156.

Not only have women forgotten how to wear a hat the milliners have forgotten how to design them.

There seems to be a competition going on here and at the recent royal wedding as to who could wear the most ridiculous looking hat.

It's too bad because they were once a beautiful fashion accessory for women.

Does anyone still wear a hat?

Longtime bachelor roommates Jordan Palmer and Yanni Burton scan the crowd for their future brides.

Looks like they found him.

These pictures are hilarious, but not entirely complete without the fawning descriptions by DL fave David Patrick Columbia....

Good for you, lady in the center! Age gracefully.

If you told me that some of these people were vampires or reanimated corpses, I might just believe you.

I'm reciting each post aloud as Tammy Grimes' character Helene from the movie Play It As It Lays.

Attention Ree Drummond: The woman in the center of R164 is your future!

I went to college with Joanna Fisher. Back then she was just "Joanne." Shocking, I know.

I agree, r165. Some of these gals look like they have their makeup done at a funeral parlor.

Where are the stylish homosexuals in their lives? Are there not any left? If not, I'm available but I don't use chemicals so no hair sprays or permanents. Everything must be environmentally-friendly. NO cigarette smoking! I also am highly allergic to animals so no living animals. (Fur coats are acceptable and encouraged.)

r168=Mary Wilson

David Patrick Columbia is a boring writer, especially when he tells stories of his lower middle class child, like any of his readers give a shit. He is an outsider with his drunk nose pressed firmly against the window. Suzy, Aileen Mehle was a great fun read who actually was from that world. Plus she fucked Sinatra which makes her forever cool.

Where is Mrs. Barker-Finch?

Dear Elizabeth Sahlman always has a new use for turkey broiler bags.

[quote]Not everyone's ugly.

They sure as hell are in these pics!

Oh my.

Was the Hon. Bonnie McElveen-Hunter designed by Tim Burton?

Marilyn Neilson IS Lypsinka!

Human tanning accident Joanna Fisher is back.

Wow, that Somers woman.. talk about a "social x-ray".

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter.

R176, you owe me a new keyboard.

(Coffee in mouth exploded when I read the Tim Burton comment.)

R180, In this photo, is that black guy stealing her ring?

R178, I heard Joanna Fisher is part racoon.

But what is that on the far left in R178?? It looks like an animatronic George Washington run amok.

The Honorable Bonnie McElveen-Hunter and Tweed McElveen Bogache, fresh off a morning stretch on the rack.

That picture actually hurts R71.

What do those ladies do with their long long long years of idleness if they can't eat?

R184, That's Olivia Flatto, who has a kind of Callista Gingrich look going on.

Sort of like the Dance of the Vampires.

Where are the Meigher’s???!?

Where is fatassed Marjorie Gubelmann?

Is that Mr. "Pull it" (WTC 7) at R5?

The most shocking thing of the entire thread is that I have no seen even one woman who could be called beautiful.

R19, Of course, the Meighers and their wall of teeth are here, along with special correspondent Jeanne Lawrence!

As well as Amy Fine Collins and her extraordinary ears!

Amy Fine Collins look like Mr. Spock in Drag. The Meighers are nobodies who publish a magazine that very few people read. They are notorious for not paying their writers.

R188 They let a white ethnic in? Is she an Italianess, a Jewess, a Poless or a Slavess? She looks like she has a flat face of sorts so the name fits.

R197 NYSD is full of Jews.

If you made a list of the richest people in New York, the list would be overwhelmingly Jewish. If you made a list of the most charitable people and families in New York, the list would be even more Jewish. If you went to every hospital, museum, and college, the list of the biggest donors from the last 50 years would again be filled with Jewish names. Anti Semitism, as are all forms of bigotry, are a waste of time and prevent society from moving forward in a positive way that enriches the life of everyone.

Who's being anti-semitic?

R199 is accusing R197 of being anti-Semitic because the only word he saw in that post was jewess. He only had 1 second off from trashing the widow Edwards and didn't have time to read the entire post.

To her credit, Amy Fine Collins doesn't do anything to minimize (not sure it's possible but whatever) or hide those ears, and she has a lovely face--and is apparently a lovely person.

The faces of chronic vaginal dryness.

The fairest of them all is a wannabe.

Amy Fine Collins wrote a great article on being Jewish. She grew up in Pennsylvania and Tennessee and had an interesting life in those places. Now she has ended up in fabulous New York and has an interesting take on NYC.

Amy Fine Collins looks like a skeleton here. She needs to grow out her hair to hide her ears. Twenty pounds gained would make her look quite divine. Otherwise she looks like a tranny who hasn't eaten for a month. Click on the link AFC talks about that fashion train wreck called Valley Of The Dolls.

Agree about the weight, but I admire her for leaving the ears alone.

Is she related to the Flushing Fines?

R188, Olivia Flatto's maiden name was Tournay: she grew up in the south of France. I don't know her specific ethnic origins. She has a PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics, and she's President of the Pershing Square Foundation.

I loved reading the article about being Jewish by AFC in the Vanity Fair link above. My husband is also a Jew from east Tennessee, so everything she described was quite familiar to me. The one great thing about being Jewish in the sixties in small town TN is that there was less restriction and prejudice in the area. My husband's family were members of the good local country club at a time when Jews were completely shut out of the "good" clubs in major cities.

Well she certainly owns those ears with those huge heavy weight earrings. Vreeland would have approved.

Kudos to r188 for giving the lie to the assumptions that if they're rich and social these women must be useless. There are women (and men) who appear in NYSD who run foundations, practice medicine or medical research, and do all manner of important and necessary work. The Lauders, Kopelmans, Grusses, "youngish" Rockefellers, and others who make a major contribution to the intellectual or cultural life of NY probably far outweigh the airheaded ladies who lunch.

Are there still ladies who lunch? And where do they do it? I thought all those famous restaurants had closed.

Doubles?

[quote] my father who was sort of part of the Park Ave, Southampton, Palm Beach set

I live in Southampton and they are tearing down the older mansions in the estate section and replacing them with Farrell crap. They're also tearing down all the specimen trees and gardens and putting in plain sod because they hate paying landscape groundskeepers. It's a shame

[quote]The second matter that comes to mind about this article was when Peggy Siegal referred to Mr. and Mrs. de Blasio not “mingling with the classes,” she obviously meant the wealthier ones whose company she cultivates solely and aggressively. She is very successful in film and film industry promotion. She has been at it for a long time, and has the personality to deal with many egos and temperaments especially those in the film and television industry.

[quote]As far as classes go, however, Peggy is famous for her pronounced lack of interest in anybody who is not to her “class” liking. The “classes” she aggressively likes to mingle with are the rich and the celebrated. Her behavior toward other “classes” is less alluring, to put it kindly, or respectfully. In fact, she’s often careless in her remarks about and behavior toward those she clearly has no interest in or use for.

R212, Thanks, I've actually subscribed to the NYSD for many years, although it's hard for me to keep up with it most of the time. But I do actually like knowing more about many of the persons being featured. And David Patrick Columbia gets plenty of criticism, but he can be surprisingly 'journalistic', for someone who's pretty much expected to flatter society types. The above quotes are from a piece that was an epic takedown of super-PR flack Peggy Siegal. And he and Peggy have had plenty of interaction over the years, so that article really was pretty brave of him (and spot-on).

Fine Collins looks like she is transitioning from FTM/MTF I can't tell! However she looks like a tranny Ruth Bader Ginsburg trying to sex it up. I can't stand her ears. I don't like people like Prince Charles who revel in their fugly and distracting anatomical deficiencies.

Peggy Siegal is a CUNT. A total fire-breathing CUNT. Ask anyone who has had the misfortune to make her acquaintance.

Peggy Siegel describes herself as "deliciously single." More like inevitably single.

Guys, I can never contribute to any of these threads (because I don't know any of these people), but I enjoy them so much.

Thanks, peeps.

R178 What a garish looking bunch of people. Classless. It is living proof that plastic surgery cannot enhance someone's already ugly looks but it can only make it look worse.

How is Jayne Wrightsman holding up? She's 98 years old. One of the very last of the classy philanthropic ladies - and the only one with supreme taste.

I believe the word cunt pales in comparison to Peggy Siegel. It meeds to be Cunt to the th 10th power, or Atomicunt. She is vile and decides where you fit in in her continuous attempt to use and climb. Her business is pretty much finished because she has offended too many people. Young Hollywood has no use for her.

R223, That's funny. DPC's article was widely quoted and shared at the time, and it seemed like people were holding their breath for the aftermath. Not surprisingly, there wasn't any, since Peggy had burned too many bridges. But it amazed me that DPC was willing to call her out so publicly in the first place: he's probably just one more person who had had enough of her antics.

I know David. He is a nice guy who genuinely is interested in people and their stories. I always tell him it's time to write a roman a clef. But he doesn't have a mean bone in his body. He is a devoted animal lover and rescuer so in my book that makes him special. The back story with Peggy and David is very simple. He is not rich enough for her to bother with, and he knows it.

r222/P de M, that pesky book "Rogues' Gallery," as you know, is quite a truthful hatchet job on, among others, that social climbing whore Jayne Wrightsman. Classy compared to the Kardashians, maybe.

R225, Thanks! I have developed a real appreciation for David over the years, and he's so tactful that, when he actually criticizes anyone in his column, it grabs my attention. And I know he's a dedicated animal lover. His primary column today is a celebation of his current dogs, and his past dogs. He posted an old photo from the 70s of himself with one of his dogs.

R227, beautiful dog there.

R228, Here's the actual article, if you'd like to read. It's very touching (I love animals).

R229, thanks, reading it now.

That doctor is huge.

R229, lovely story about the dog (and the father intuition).

Also, German Short Haired Pointers are a blast!

Bless them, they all look bored shitless. Years and decades of mingling with the same people must get very dull eventually.

Can't wait for Monday's NYSD to scan the photos.

Please don't let this thread die, it's a bright beacon of humor.

R205, Lovely article, Thanks!

Thank you OP for starting this thread. The NYSD threads are always a lot of fun, and we haven't had one in a while.

R225 agree with all of that. He’s a completely nice man, and from the outside I guess it looks like he’s social climbing...he could have been at one point, but he never was - he just has a genuine interest in these people from a sociological standpoint.

Peggy Siegal...she gives credence (unfortunately ) to the horribly misogynistic thinking that when someone is THAT unattractive they literally have to overcompensate in every way with massive, sociopathic social climbing and cunt-ing.

Sting and his dear Trudie make the social whirl.

"Americans say 'cunt,' the Brits just say 'Trudie Styler.'"

Trudie looks like shit, she's had some very bad plastic surgery and how many nose jobs so far?! I know Sting had two, but Trudie? I've lost count.

One good thing you can say about Peggy Siegal is that she never reproduced.

With all that money you’d think they could scrounge up one decent plastic surgeon among them, but clearly not.

DPC means we’ll- he’s mesmerized by wealth- long ago and current; and all the importance he thinks that it imparts. He’s really kind of stupid and an unbitchy version of Dominic Dunne- as is his column which is not very well written. He tries to be philosophical and light hearted about celebrity as if he knows what’s really important (he’s no Liz Smith) but always defaults to wealth as something to hold in awe. Really, just how interesting is Palm Beach and the Coconuts’ parties? Privately DPC may be a great friend and good company- I suspect he is- but his livelihood is silly as it gets. The fun of old society was that it was private and getting a view of it was like getting to peak inside the Kremlin. Now it’s all exhibitionism although most often on behalf of a charity. There is a huge gay male support and service world that helps drive and support the whole “circuit.” None of it is nearly as much fun and as decadent as it used to be when the swans, Nan and Mrs O ruled. Chic really was something to behold- if not of any more import than a perfect fettuccini carbonara or unique orchid.

Try not to stare at Mary McFadden's forehead or hairline. It will be an effort, because they're mesmerizing, but try to overcome the urge.

Looking at Mary McFadden reminded me that many of these people look as if they are extraterrestrials trying to disguise themselves as humans.

I once saw Mary McFadden near 8th Street in the Village, I just got out of the subway and she slowly walked past me.

What struck me was her eerie ivory skin, with the sun blaring, her skin looked even whiter, she actually did look like an alien. McFadden didn't seem to be walking with any sort of purpose, she didn't seem to know where she was going, she seemed to be floating, it was so bizarre. See slowly gazed around. I had stopped to watch her, that's how I absorbed how bizarre she was acting.

This was around the time she was dating that much younger man. The friend I was with turned and asked me, "What the fuck was THAT?" He had no idea who she was.

If you painted Trudie Styler a medium light green colour she could pinch-hit for the Grinch.

Most of these people should pose for ads showing bad plastic surgery, what not to have done.

And sometimes, they DON'T get nose jobs. Andrea John Catsimatidis and Christopher Nixon Cox/

The floating head of matriarch Terry Baird accompanies her three grandsons for their annual night out on the town.

A freshly embalmed Marife Hernandez is propped up by NY real estate maven Elizabeth Stribling, to the delight of Karen Hsu, and Joel Bell.

Lawsy, you Queens are hilarious!

Oh, I've met Peggy, but she was only irritating so I guess I was lucky!

Sharing a laugh with his friends, but what Mrs. Larry Milstein doesn’t know about her husband won’t hurt her, will it boys?

In fairness, I've scrolled through the events page and the younger, hipper charity galas and some of the 'horsey' set parties have much younger, more attractive people. I assume Mr. Columbia is getting up there himself, and the events he covers reflect that.

Mary McFadden has a great '40s retro look.

Jesus God these people are FUCKING FREAKS!

r249 good lord. She looks like the offspring of Nosferatu and Lucile Ball.

Anyone know details about sexy UES Interior Designer Ryan Nessing and his Gentleman Caller?

The Gentlemen caller looks a bit older and is probably a lot wealthier.

Ryan Nessing looks like a gay Robert Chambers, the preppie murderer who strangled the girl in Central Park.

Trudie Styler made the worst film of the 21st Century. That's some kind of talent.

Be sure to compliment Lynn Yaeger for her zany style! Seriously, she's begging to be noticed!

At least Lynn looks like she’s in on the joke. The rest of these cadavers, wraiths and zombies look clueless and straight out of the movie Brazil.....(I actually like Lynn’s look if she’d lose the bunny bag)

I love this thread. The caption on [R157] made me laugh till I cried.

Someone needs to do a "Real Housewives of the New York Social Diary" program.

That would be interesting r263! Somers and Muffie would definitely have to be on it.

Turtle Oiled and Turtle Waxed, Susan G. Komen Founder Nancy Brinker (second from left) steps out sans shapewear.

The events covered by NYSD are not the “in” social events anymore and they haven’t been probably for about a decade.

You have to go to Vogue.com and BFA.com to see the real A list events going on.

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[quote]Be sure to compliment Lynn Yaeger for her zany style!

Lynn Yaeger wrote for the Village Voice years ago (I don't know what she does now) and she's hilarious and wonderful. She IS in on the joke and she's certainly not high society.

R268, She's now a contributing editor at 'Vogue'.

Can you believe a grown woman goes by the name "Muffie?"

Little known facts:

Mary McFadden was the inspiration for the hair/makeup design for Fosca in Sondheim’s Passion. She was also another artist’s muse.

Is that an actual factual fact, r271?

Grace Hightower De Niro, Cornelia Guest, Karen LeFrak, Somers Farkas and Muffie Potter Aston performing with The Martha Graham Dance Company. Such elegance! Such grace!

These people are boring as shit. Someone just start a thread on the "Swans." Now they we're interesting.

Society has gone to shit! It's all over.

High society!

When will those awful shoulder cut-out shirts go away? They are horrible, especially on anyone over 20.

Ric Watts eschews a bolo tie and instead chose a sliced-in-two snake to wrap around his neck. Sssssimply ssstunning!!

Dear Sallie McKinney, still a zombie after Le Cirque closed abruptly.

Madcap Boo Grace wrapped up like “les morts qui marchent“ with jaundiced toothed dwarf, Frank Sanchis. Divine, n’est ce pas?

a “Only her hairdresser knows for sure” Sandys in a simple blue button up.

Those three Baird grandsons are hot.

Some Southern swells at the Swan Ball in Nashville ...

What is with the huge heads. They all have ginormous heads

She looks divoon, r279. And you can see Somersault Farkas’ ribs from the nosebleed seats, r273.

Macbeth's Three Weird Sisters?

No, just Dale Ellen, Leff Susan Wood, and Rosalie Arkell cutting up under a very low ceiling.

r285 Either that or Cinderella's stepmom and her two daughters.

A lot of them can't really close their eyes or move their face. They are frozen in tim and space. Money doesn't buy everything. There is a cost to vast wealth.

HOW DID I MISS THIS THREAD BEFORE TODAY? Thank you OP!!! I've been feeling pretty down the past month and this is making my night/week/year!!!

R282, someone ought to alert Maggie Smith that her clone has gotten out.

Owl-eyed Judith Hoffman offers her best sulty and smoldering stare to the camera .... Mon Dieu!

White people sho is ugly.

This thread cracks me up. Who are these people???!

R292, these people are NY and Palm Beach old money.

Darlings, we're off to the Hamptons for the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation's Ninth Annual Unconditional Love Gala!

The welcoming committee...

John Castimitidis ate one of the adoptables, unfortunately.

R294, was the middle one a rescue?

Whatever happened to Andrew Safir and Daniel Benedict? Benedict had ONE facial expression and pose. Haven't seem them in years.

R297 they’re still unfortunately as around and as into this bullshit scene as ever. Most people who started when they did are so over it. Not them. Pathetic.

No Countess Helen? Oh, she's going to jail for not collecting sales tax?

Boo Grace is an author you know

R278, LEAVE SALLY McKINNEY ALONE. She's a sweetheart..... At least to me?

Time is a cruel mistress...

Brendan Clarke, Andrew Califano, Spencer Gervasoni, and David Kelleher-Flight demonstrate four different ways not to wear black tie.

Darlings Margery Arent Safir, Lucinda Childs, and Sharon Delano seem to be auditioning for Ryan Murphy's "Macbeth."

When Cheri Kaufman says "I didn't have time to put on my face," she means it, notes Jerry Hall.

Kyle Wool and Charlie Jia demonstrate two different approaches to camouflaging a few pesky pounds.

One of the things that makes this thread funny and delightful to read outloud are the captions. They're never vulgar, but try to be witty (very often succeeding) and clever. Bravo to whoever is adding photos with the witheringly devastating descriptions.

[quote]Don't even think of wearing lemon sherbet to your next soiree, because that's Missy Taylor's color.

She's quite a....handsome woman.

Sluts and whores clawed their way into the NYSD.

Tyra Banks credits Cheri Kaufman with helping her perfect the art of the Smize.

The captions are vintage SPY.

All that money, and this is the best these people can manage to look. Astounding.

I saw Amy Fine Collins at New York City Center tonight! Balanchine tribute, you know. The first thing I noticed was her ears like giant pointed leprechaun ears; and she wasn't well dressed. Who is she anyway? She was with a queen in an opera cape.

Miss Cherie-her face looks like she’s in a vertical wind tunnel. Horrible.

Carol Richards elbows her way into the photo, uninvited, so she “can be the thinnest one.”

Perfect description, r314.

Poor girl with that nose in r305 / r310 - hasn't breathed in years. Demure little lady in public - snores like a moose with apnea in the bedroom.