Since the March 16 shooting of Patrick Dorismond, the Haitian-born security guard who was killed in a Midtown scuffle with police officers, criticism has been heaped upon nearly anybody who has offered an opinion on the subject, from Mayor Giuliani to Police Commissioner Howard Safir to Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Read More
Seated at a banquette at Balthazar on a snowy March afternoon, publicist Lizzie Grubman was remembering a previous joint effort with Peggy Siegal, her brand-new business partner.
"She did the majority of the work for Two Guys and a Girl at Moomba," said Ms. Grubman, between sips of diet Coke. "I got her the location and Read MoreWhen a three-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into alleged price fixing by Sotheby's International Holdings and Christie's International P.L.C. precipitated the resignations of Sotheby's chairman and chief executive on Feb. 21, the act was seen as a fall-on-one's-sword gesture to buy good faith with the Feds and stockholders.
But in an interview with Read MoreAfter decades of pristine respectability, Christie's and Sotheby's are as disgraced as dowagers in a paddy
wagon. Investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for a commission-fixing conspiracy, Christie's has turned state's evidence, The top management at Sotheby's has resigned. And the owner of Phillips, the third-largest house, is sniffing around Sotheby's. Is there no reserve on Read MoreResidents of Central Harlem have been shaken in recent months by a series of murders of gay men. Anxiety rose in late October after no suspect was named in the slaying of Nathaniel Tyrone Hayden, a 28-year-old man who was stabbed in his own apartment. But with the Jan. 11 stabbing of another gay man, Read More
J.P. Morgan & Company, bastion of the old way of doing things, has surrendered. One of the world's most formal institutions has opted to jettison the business suit as a required form of dress. Henceforth, every day is casual day at the mighty Morgan.
At the beginning of February, departmental heads at the firm's headquarters at Read MoreThe job market must be really brisk, because Christian Curry is back on Wall Street.
Nearly two years after he was fired from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, then arrested by police for trying to hack into the firm's computers, Mr. Curry, 26, has landed at Gardner Rich & Company, a small Chicago-based institutional brokerage Read MoreSean (Puffy) Combs, the 30-year-old rap mogul, has had his share of legal scuffles. Since 1991, when he was just wetting his feet in the music business, he's been accused of overbooking a celebrity basketball game at which nine people were trampled to death, of menacing a photographer, and of beating a music executive with Read More
If telecommunications innovator Gary Winnick is looking for someone to blame for the rebuff he received on Jan. 4 from the board of 810 Fifth Avenue, maybe he should hold a grudge against The New York Times .
Two months ago, Mr. Winnick, the chairman of a Beverly Hills-based cable conglomerate known as Global Crossing Read MoreForty-nine-year-old writer Fran Lebowitz was perturbed about Hillary Clinton's all-but-certain Senate run. She had already made up her mind to vote for Mrs. Clinton but, she said, she was still unhappy. "I feel it's a personal plot," she said. "I feel like she personally sat down and said, 'How could I possibly get Fran Lebowitz Read More
Jerry Seinfeld's Christmas Day union with publicist Jessica Sklar may have officially ended the comic's bachelorhood, but it didn't get him out of his bachelor pad. According to real estate sources, Mr. Seinfeld is only now planning to move into the 19th-and-20th-floor duplex apartment at the celebrity-packed Beresford, which he purchased a few months before Read More
A week after a judge threw out her demand that her ex-husband buy her a Manhattan town house or co-op, Patricia Duff signed a contract to purchase the maisonette apartment at 830 Park Avenue for $3.25 million, according to real estate sources. In fact, Ms. Duff's price was accepted on Dec. 6, two days before Read More
One of Manhattan's most sticklerish co-op boards is about to take on a new resident. On Dec. 7, the denizens of 620 Park Avenue, a 14-story brick building near East 65th Street, admitted music executive Michael Koch to their ranks, swapping him for longtime resident Dr. Paul Marks, the soon-to-retire chief executive of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Read More
When Andrea Jung took over as chief executive of Avon Products Inc. on Nov. 4, she became the fourth female chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. At 41, she is the makeup giant's youngest chief executive ever. Several weeks later, Ms. Jung became the new owner of a 2,600-square-foot co-op apartment at 7 Gracie Read More
In an industry where salespeople have been known to comb the obituaries for business leads, the torrent of speculation over what would become of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s TriBeCa apartment after his death on July 16 was no big surprise. The magazine publisher's 2,600-square-foot apartment, a penthouse co-op in a modest loft building at 20-26 Read More
