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 Birthdays, Best Buddies, and book parties
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Martha Stewart and Harry Slatkin's joint birthday in Montauk at Navy Beach. |
| Martha Stewart, America's queen of hearth and home and Harry Slatkin, America's king of home fragrances (read: candles) had a joint birthday last Friday night, in Montauk at Navy Beach, a new restaurant opened in an old restaurant and owned by Leyla Marchetto, the daughter of Silvano who owns the famous restaurant named for himself in the Village. The guestlist was made up of style gurus, their worshippers and devotees. |
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Martha Stewart with her birthday cake |
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Mario Grauso, Reed Krakoff, David Maupin, Stefano Tonchi, Serkan Sariar, and James Anderson |
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Stafford Broumand, Laura Broumand, Harry Slatkin, Ophelia Rudin, and Bill Rudin |
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| Both Stewart and Slatkin have dwellings farther west in stylish East Hampton but when you're in their business, their always another issue or product needing to be created and then introduced. This time it was Navy Beach. For want of a better description, this is society today and the birthday girl and boy are two of its leading luminaries. |
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Alina Cho and Patrick Clayton |
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Andrea Ciaraldi and Marjorie Gubelmann |
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Ali Slatkin and Frances Trousdale |
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Frank and Kristina Davis |
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Anne Hearst McInerney, Jay McInerney, and Susan Magrino Dunning |
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Alison Mazzola and John Demsey |
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Samantha Rudin and Paul Hileto |
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Ali Slatkin, Harry Slatkin, Laura Slatkin, and Martha Stewart |
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Pamela Gross and Peggy Siegal |
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Cornelia Guest, Bruce Weber, and Martha Stewart |
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Ellie Tahari, Marjorie Gubelmann, and Harry Slatkin |
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Charles Koppelman and Jeffrey Rosen |
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Cornelia Guest, David Maupin, and Stefano Tonchi |
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Sabrina Leichter and Michael Rudin |
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Diana Picasso and Delfina Blaquier |
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Delfina Blaquier, Martha Stewart, and Nacho Figueras |
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James Anderson and Steven Gambrel |
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Eddie Barbis, Harry Slatkin, and Ophelia Rudin |
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Linda and Ben Lambert |
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Michael Cominotto and Lisa Jackson |
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Mario Grauso, Marjorie Gubelmann, and Dennis Basso |
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Jill Dienst and Alex Papachristidis |
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Klaus Biesenbach, Diana Picasso, and Martha Stewart |
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Nan Bush and Elie Tahari |
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Mickey Drexler, Peggy Drexler, and Jeff Pfeifle |
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Martha Stewart, Alan Grubmen, and Deborah Grubman |
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Laura Broumand and Alex Papachristidis |
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Thomas Meier, Samantha Rudin, Jill Dienst, and Andrew Brustin |
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Ingrid and Sandy Brant |
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Peter Edge and Dennis Freedman |
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Scott Nelson and Alex Papachristidis |
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More than 300 attended the 3rd Annual Best Buddies Hamptons Gala Saturday night at the Water Mill home of Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney, raising $325,000 in total donations for Best Buddies International, the organization founded in 1989 by Tony Shriver to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one to one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
There was a lively cocktail hour, a gourmet dinner catered by Robbins and Wolfe, featuring Les Compagnons wines courtesy of Jacques Azoulay, a lively auction led by Benjamin Doller of Sotheby’s, which featured fabulous items such as getaways to the Turks and Caicos and Las Vegas, a Judith Ripka necklace, a Hunt Slonem painting, Heys Romero Britto Collection luggage, an evening with Miss Universe 2010, tickets to New York Fashion Week events. |
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| Richard Ziegelasch, Anthony Shriver, and Ricky Tam |
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| Molly, Natasha, Carolina, and Anthony Shriver |
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The evening’s entertainment included a dance performance by Jeanine Mason, Season Five Winner of “So You Think You Can Dance” and Buddy Ambassador Brett Banford. Their poignant performance inspired Countess LuAnn DeLesseps to sing her new recording of “Money Can’t Buy You Class” while dancing. The countess is an enthusiastic vocalist despite her lack of awareness of her inability to carry a tune, which makes her performance especially memorable.
Chairs of the evening were Haley and Jason Binn, Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney, Johan de Nysschen, Tatiana and Campion Platt, Alina and Anthony Shriver and Lydia and Rudy Touzet. |
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| Marisa Kurliwitz and friend |
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| Beata Bowman |
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| Among those attending: Richard Ash, Debbie Bancroft, Cornelia Bregman, Beata Bohman, Michael Bruno, John Cochran, Nancy Corzine, Frank Cilione, Benjamin Doller, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Florence D’Urso, Lisa D’Urso, Bonnie Evans, Mia Fahler, Somers and Jonathan Farkas, Sara Herbert Galloway, Holidae Hayes and Matt Gavin, Joanna Goldenstein, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Debra Halpert, Stewart Lane, Robin and Robert Leacock, Margaret Luce, Alison Mazzola, Sonja Morgan, James Nederlander, Marty Richards, Nic Roldan, Lee Schrager, Susan Shin, Laura and Harry Slatkin, Hunt Slonem, Emma Snowdon Jones, Tracy Stern, Peter Tumney, Geoffroy van Raemdonck, Eli Wilner, Samantha Marcus Yanks and Richard Ziegelasch |
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| Rudy Touzet, Lydia Touzet, Brian O'Hara, and Keisha Thomas |
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| Marcy and Michael Warren |
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| Sara Herbert Galloway and Barry Klarberg |
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| Michael and Alina Plaia, Dawn Strain, and Rudy Holesek |
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| Robin Baker and Robert Leacock |
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| Jean and Martin Shafiroff |
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| Tracy Stern, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Emma Snowdon-Jones, and James Goldman |
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| Jonathan and Somers Farkas |
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| Wayne Diamond and Brett Banford |
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| Alison Mazzola, Jean Shafiroff, and Sara Herbert Galloway |
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| Sonja Morgan and Countess LuAnn de Lesseps |
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| Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, Lucia Hwong-Gordon, Lisa Yom, and Tatiana and Fox Platt |
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| Jeanine Mason |
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| Ariel Moses and Brita Lofgren |
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| Debbie Bancroft |
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| Corolina and Anthony Shriver, and Anne Hearst McInerney |
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| Hunt Slonem and Jeffrey Slonim |
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| Anne Hearst McInerney, and Marina and Francesco Galesi |
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| Marlyne Sexton and Chele Chiavacci |
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| Campion and Tatiana Platt |
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| Sessa von Richthofen, Richard Johnson, Emma Snowdon-Jones, and Lacary Sharpe |
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| Countess LuAnn de Lesseps and Jacques Azoulay |
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| Chele Chiavacci and Nancy Corzine |
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| Anthony Shriver, Jason Binn, Emma Snowdon-Jones, and Nic Roldan |
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| Mia Fahler, Countess Stephanie D'Orglandes, and Eva Fahler |
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| Bonnie Comley, Stewart F. Lane, and Robin Cofer |
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| Cornelia Bregman and Marty Richards |
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| Joan Jedell |
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| Lee Fryd, Patrice Farameh, and Robin Cofer |
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| Dr. Richard Ash and Maud Chussart |
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| Nick Leighton |
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| And not far from Best Buddies, as the crow flies, over in Bridgehampton at the home of Steven Klein, HEAT honored Donna Karan, Mr. Klein and Hope Klein Langer. |
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| Fern Mallis |
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| Ann Dexter Jones |
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| Danielle Gingerich |
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| Sonja Nuttal |
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| Vanessa Muro and Natalia Saavedra |
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| Rachel Mindick, Meryl Gassman, and Robin Katz Boyarski |
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| Alexandra Engler and Melanie Sackheim |
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| Lisa Schifter Greenberg, Christie Brinkley, Hope Klein Langer, and Donna Karan |
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| Britta Losgren, Ariel Moses, and Emma Rathe |
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| Rachel Heller and Nicholas Lamirata |
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| Paula Farlow, Sol Morsch, and Shawnee Yani Cuefta |
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| Linda Shapiro |
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| Kirk Bernstein, Oscar Mendes, and Bob Chaloner |
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| Kristina Lewin, Bruce Lewin, Iveta Vogdane, and Lewis Black |
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| John and Maria Elena Scotto |
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| Stan Baumblatt, Stan Herman, and Fern Mallis |
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| Larry and Christina Sands |
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| John Roca and Elisa DiStefano |
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| Deb Huberman and Alissa Grad |
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| David Chines and Jennifer Collins |
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| John Moore and Giannie Couji |
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| Christie Brinkley and Russell Simmons |
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| Dr Gerry Curatola, Linda Shapiro, Hope Klein Langer, Donna Karan, and Julie Ratner |
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| Sara Scott and Kristen Corso |
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| Meanwhile a few miles to the west in Bellport there was a dinner hosted by Claudia Lebenthal honoring her sister Alexandra and her new novel, The Recessionistas. |
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Claudia and Alexandra Lebenthal |
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Katia Read, Howard Read, and Mimi Read |
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Amanda Burden and Charlie Rose |
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Matthew Moneypenny and Lucy Meredith |
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Stacy Fischer, Claudia Lebenthal, and Carrie Hunt |
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Bobby and Sarah McCain |
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Amanda Burden and Matthew Moneypenny |
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Alexander Czarniecki, Johnny Knapp, and Claudia Lebenthal |
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Alexandra Lebenthal and Jay Diamond |
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David Schernberger and Alexandra Beitel |
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Gary Wolkowitz and David Schernberger |
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Alexandra Lebenthal and Bruce Pask |
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Milicent Souris and Tamara Reynolds |
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Gretchen Young and John Baxter |
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Charlotte Diamond, Alexandra Lebenthal, Ellie Diamond, Jay Diamond, and Ben Diamond |
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James and Lucy Danziger |
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Peter Schulte and Lori Barnhill |
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Patrick McMullan, Matthew Moneypenny, and Gaspar Tringale |
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Suzanne Donaldson and Susan White |
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