Anyone who thinks Michelle Obama should use tea with the Queen as an experimental fashion platform is sadly deluded. I cannot believe some of the suggestions I am reading on this site.
Bare shoulders at Buckingham Palace during the day would be seen as a tremendous insult to our monarch.
Do Americans not realize that in Britain, […]

Details magazine has dictated that the sexiest woman on the planet is not Scarlett Johansson, or Gisele Bundchen, but Jennifer Aniston — who is 40.
Meanwhile, People magazine puts Italian actress Valerie Bertinelli, 48, in a bikini on its cover. Cindy Crawford, 43, is covered in soap suds in Allure.
There’s a celebration going on among all […]

My neighbor at dinner, a hedge-fund manager originally from Texas, was emphatic.
“If your only identity is in your job or your money then there is no point living in New York any more,” he said. “Anyone who thinks like that will leave.”
He had a point. This town seems to have become unhinged by the populist […]

These days it’s not just financial journalists who follow the movements of financiers. So, too, do the entertainment channels and press. Who could have predicted the day would come when OK! magazine would care what mode of transport Ken Lewis, Bank of America’s chief, uses? But according to the New York Times, these topics are […]

Following inquiries with locals in North Salem, I am happy to report that the ponies formerly stabled with Paul Greenwood, the alleged fraudster, are safe.
They were quickly moved and dispersed among other stables up and down the East Coast as Greenwood realized the net was closing in on him, according to local sources.
What no one […]

For all those worried about the hundred or so valuable show ponies stabled in North Salem by alleged fraudster Paul Greenwood and his wife Robin, let me give them an update - with hopefully another to come.
After Greenwood, 61, and his partner Stephen Walsh were arrested last month for allegedly siphoning off $500 million from […]

My English friend was worried. “I guess the next step is getting American-accent lessons,” she said over dinner the other night.
She is a peer of mine — we were at Cambridge together — and she has wound up in New York working in a senior position for an American bank on Wall Street. We frequently […]

Among the articles in Vanity Fair’s April issue is a report I did on the Noels, the infamously good-looking, gregarious family of Walter Noel, founder of the investment group Fairfield Greenwich, which had $6.9 billion—almost half of its assets under management—invested with Bernie Madoff. Now that that money is all gone, Fairfield Greenwich is being […]

New York’s latest financial criminal mastermind — and remember, we now have one a day being unveiled — is Paul Greenwood, 61, the bow-tied town governor of North Salem, New York’s horsey area. (Until recently it’s where the American Olympic equestrian team trained.)
Greenwood spent the alleged $500 million he is accused of siphoning off from […]

New York’s latest financial criminal mastermind — and remember, we now have one a day being unveiled — is Paul Greenwood, 61, the bow-tied town governor of North Salem, New York’s horsey area. (Until recently it’s where the American Olympic equestrian team trained.)
Greenwood spent the alleged $500 million he is accused of siphoning off from […]