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Outside
of La Goulue. 1:00 PM.
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Yesterday
was another beautiful sunny day in New York. Henri
Barguirdjian, the President of Graff Jewelers hosted
a luncheon yesterday at La Goulue in honor of Jamee
Gregory and Leslie Jones and The
Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's 15th Anniversary
Preview Party Committee of The International Fine Art and Antique
Dealers Show on October 16th at the 7th Regiment Armory at
67th Street and Park Avenue.
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Leslie
Jones, Henri Barguirdjian, and Jamee Gregory
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Jones and Gregory
are co-chairing this year’s Preview Party, the 15th annual
for the SMSKCC, and they brought out about supporters to the popular
bistro on Madison Avenue. Ivana Trump was there,
fresh back from St. Tropez where she put the finishing touches
on her new villa so that now she can spend her summers on her yacht
(which she keeps in Monte Carlo) and at her villa.
The models from Graff were there, drenched in diamonds, enticing
the enticeable. Susan Burke was there wearing a
rainbow-colored floral brooch which did not come from Graff but was
something she’d had her eye on for sometime (at Bergdorf’s).
Four weeks ago she was robbed of all her jewelry at London Heathrow,
and that clinched it for her: a few days ago went over to Bergdorf’s
and treated herself.
In the crowd: Tom Guinzburg, Daisy Soros, Joanne de Guardiola,
Jackie Weld, Allison Stern, Nicole Limbocker, Barbie Bancroft, Karen
LeFrak, Grace Meigher, Jessie Araskog, Giney Burke, Bettina Zilkha,
Tara Milne, Susan Bodner, Felicia Taylor, Maria Bockman, Shoshanna
Lowenstein Gruss, Muffie Potter Aston, Anne Eisenhower, Jamie Niven,
Pamela Fiori, Helen Schifter, Courtney Arnot, Debbie Bancroft, Jan
Calloway, Mary Carpenter, Hilary Dick, Andi Davis, Webb Egerton-Warburton,
Hilary Geary, Sallie Giordano, Karen May, Ashley McDermott, Leslie
Perkin, Alex Rose, Alexia Hamm Ryan, Lavinia Snyder, and Jeanne
Sorensen-Leff.
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Susan
Burke's brooch
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I was seated
between Leslie Jones and Coco Kopelman who became
a grandmother for the first time, to Sadie Kargman,
on July 29th. Out came the pictures, of Sadie’s first day
in New York – just twenty minutes after she entered the world – in
the arms of her grampa, Chanel’s Arie Kopelman,
and then with her gram and her ma, Jill Kopelman Kargman wheeling
the child from the hospital.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is the oldest and largest
private institution dedicated to the prevention, detection, control
and cure of cancer. Coco is the new president of the Society for
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The new president serves
a two-year term and comes to the position only after serving on the
Center’s board.
This philanthropy, one of the most prestigious in New York, is very
successful, if not the most successful of hospital philanthropies,
raising between $8 and $9 million annually for the hospital, as well
as for research and hospital related projects (including the flowers,
the art classes). Board members are expected to engage actively in
the fund raising as well as volunteer work. By the time one gets
to the presidency of the organization they are well-versed in all
aspects of the Society and Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
On my way out of the restaurant I stopped to say hello with Terry
Allen Kramer and Nick Simunek, also recently back from St.
Tropez, who were lunching with Averell Fisk, and
to Darcie Leeds, lunching with a friend. Madison
Avenue was bustling on this bright sunny day and no doubt many were
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The
loving hands of Graff
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Ivana
Trump
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Drenched
in Graff diamonds
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Jamie
Niven, Allison Stern, and Tom Guinzberg
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Peter
Kairis and Tara Milne
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Susan
Burke and Virginia Burke
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Barbara
Tober and Daisy Soros
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Courtney
Arnot and Lavinia Snyder
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Felicia
Taylor and Somers Farkas
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Hilary
Geary and Joanne de Guardiola
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Hilary
Dick and Helen Schifter
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Bettina
Zilkha and Ashley McDermott
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Jan
Calloway
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Bettina
Zilkha and Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
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Jamee
Gregory, Henri Barguirdjian, and Daisy Soros
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Coco
Kopelman and friend
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Alexia
Hamm Ryan, Jessie Araskog, and Karen LeFrak
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Barbara
Bancroft and Karen LeFrak
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More
Graff goodies
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Muffie
Potter Aston, Walter Fischer, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, and Donna
Dixon Ayckroyd
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night there was a reception in anticipation of “The Magic
of Mardi Gras,” the Alzheimer’s Association
2003 Rita Hayworth Gala, which is being underwritten by Rolex
Watch USA at the Rolex Building on 53rd and Fifth. The Gala’s
chairs – Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, General
Chair, Muffie Potter Aston, Gala Chair, and Walter
Fischer, Corporate Chair, are honoring Donna
Dixon Aykroyd at this year’s ball which takes
place on Tuesday, October 7th at the Waldorf. Entertainment
will be provided by Dan Aykroyd as Elwood
Blues with the All-Star Blues Brothers Movie Band. More pictures
from last night’s reception on Friday’s Diary. |
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Director’s Council, with Summer Chairmen, Hamish
Bowles, Marisa Noel Brown, Karen Groos, Celerie Kemble, Tara
Rockefeller and Kristina Stewart hosted “New
York After Dark in Black and White at the Museum of City of
New York last night, “generously” sponsored by
Celine, with additional support from Tiffany & Company
and Tanqueray No. TEN. A great late summer party and a great
photo op for JH and the Digital. More pictures on tomorrow’s
Diary. |
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Hamish
Bowles, Rachel Hovnanian, Allison Rockefeller, and Mark Gilbertson
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In
Memory of All Those Who Lost Their Lives 9/11/01
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