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Henry Kissinger Recalls Long Walks With ‘Close Friend’ Brooke Astor, Kisses...
“Who is the black fellow who is sitting next me?” Brooke Astor had asked former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at a dinner at her apartment in January 2002. “He is Kofi Annan,” Mr. Kissinger...
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It Ain’t The View! Astor Pal Barbara Walters Sits Down for Different Kind of...
“I like it better the other way,” legendary interviewer Barbara Walters said after spending two hours answering questions on Thursday afternoon, May 21—mostly about her close friend, the late Brooke...
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How Does It End? Meryl Gordon Wrote the Book on Brooke Astor
Wherever Meryl Gordon sets her Baltimore Orioles seat cushion in Judge A. Kirke Bartley Jr.’s courtroom often becomes the center of an orbiting cast of reporters. Ms. Gordon, 58, author of the 2008...
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Brooke Astor’s Former Lawyer Goes On and On About Late Doyenne’s Fickle...
“I do have enough money to buy new frocks, don’t I, Terry?” Brooke Astor had once asked her longtime attorney, Henry “Terry” Christensen. He thought she was joking. Mr. Christensen, formerly a partner...
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No More Dancing Dogs: Prosecution Finally Lets Brooke Astor’s Laywer Resume...
And on the seventh day, Henry Christensen rested. The late socialite Brooke Astor‘s former attorney sat for his sixth (and mercifully final) consecutive day on the witness stand as the trial of Ms....
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Julianne Moore Lists $12 M. West 11th Street Townhouse, Master Spa Included
Julianne Moore, whose late ’90s turns in godly Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski and Magnolia earned her a permanent place in the fickle hearts of film buffs, has lofty real estate aspirations. Her...
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The Bellwether Listings
If Schnabel, Sting, Astor and friends sell apartments, look out! Luxury might be back.
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Crime Waves: Astor Avenged, Monserrate Absent
This morning, heirs on heirs: A.G. Sulzberger wrote one of the Times‘ articles on yesterday’s guilty verdict in the Astor trial (“Despite Verdict, Fate of Astor Fortune is Uncertain“). Another Times...
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The Long, Emotional Summer of the Astor Press Corps
“What’s odd is that a trial is a certain amount like a movie set, it becomes your real life. And I think it’s going to be really odd for all of us that it’s over,” Astor chronicler Meryl Gordon said...
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Mrs. Marshall Regrets Nothing
“I’m not even angry at those who have done all of this to us. I just feel sorry for them, because they’re so unenlightened. They just don’t know, you know?” 64-year-old Charlene Marshall sighs in her...
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Observer Home: My Life With the Power Brokers
Last November, after three years of writing about magnificently overpriced New York residential real estate, I moved to the Wall Street beat. It is sober and civilized by comparison. What I feel...
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Mum and Pup’s 778 Park Maisonette Takes a Cut–Again!
“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive,” saged conservative society scribe William F. Buckley Jr once said. True as that may be, something about the allure and...
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Battle of the Blue Bloods: Mrs. Astor’s Park Ave Duplex Goes for More Than...
It’s difficult to imagine Brooke Astor rifling through the discount bin in white satin gloves. What then would the refined socialite and philanthropist think now that her Park Avenue prize just sold...
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Thank You Brooke Astor! $100 Million Of Philanthropist’s Estate Freed for...
After years of red tape and family feuds, the late Brooke Astor will finally have her money going to its correct beneficiaries…New York cultural institutions and charities. According to a press release...
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Old Money Meets Ultra Moxey: Dance Music Label Founder Buys $5.7 M. Helen...
Your œil just got tromped. The late Helen “Peggy” Scholz’s old Upper East Side co-op is about as old world as it gets (during the 1910 census, five of the 13 families in the building listed their...
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Viking Global Honcho Daniel Sundheim Scoops Up Roone Arledge’s Old Pad For...
Daniel Sundheim has nabbed an apartment that belonged to late TV exec Roone Arledge just under his current place at 778 Park Avenue for $28.5 Million.
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