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| Issue #24, September 8, 2006 |
South O’ the Highway (and the North too)
Three-time Olympic veteran Anne Kursinski rode to victory in the $150,000 Prudential Financial Grand Prix to close the 31st Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show last Sunday. Carolyn Kelly of New York won the $25,000 Calvin Klein Show Jumping Derby; Chris Kappler won the $25,000 Sotheby’s International Realty Open Jumper Class. Christine McCrea finished first in the $50,000 Grey Goose Vodka World Cup and Grand Prix. Leslie Howard captured the Ciesse Open Jumper 1.40 meter class. Danielle Jacobs and Victoria Natale were Crowned Champions of the Inaugural Long Island Horse Show Series for Riders With Disabilities Finals, a new class at the Hampton Classic.
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Hamptonire Ellen Barkin, who divorced Revlon owner Ron Perelman earlier this year and is reportedly seeing actor George Clooney, is selling off her impressive collection of jewels. More than 100 pieces from her collection will be sold at auction by Christie’s on October 10 in New York.
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After bitter feuding over the last months, Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills reunited for a “crisis meeting” at their Hamptons home last week. The ex-Beatle invited Mills to his East Hampton mansion, where he has been staying with his three-year-old daughter, Beatrice, for the last week. They are trying to reach some kind of truce for the sake of their daughter, who has been very affected by the split.
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Amagansett’s sweetest couple is coping well with some discomfort and Sarah Jessica Parker is proving to be a doting nurse to hubby Matthew Broderick, 44, as he recovers from a horse riding accident in Ireland in which he broke his collar bone.
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Senator Kenneth P. LaValle recently honored Hamptonite Henry Hildreth, III, owner of Hildreth’s Department Store in Southampton, with the New York “WORKS” award for his efforts to enhance the local economy. The award was designed to honor growing local businesses that help bolster economic opportunities for families and the workforce and Hildreth is the first recipient.
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On Tuesday, September 19th, Tony Award winner Sarah Jones will present the New York premiere of A Right to Care at the landmark Hudson Theatre to benefit the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Limited English Proficiency Program. Charlynn Goins, a longtime resident of Sag Harbor, is Benefit Chairperson. Other Hamptonites involved in the event are Saundra Cornwell and Dr. Daniel D. Ricciardi. The performance piece was originally commissioned by the Kellogg Foundation to explore the way racial, economic and ethnic disparities can impact the healthcare system.
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Last week, at the Huggy Bear charity dinner in Southampton, billonaire Hamptonite Teddy Forstman announced that the annual tennis tournament he sponsors to aid children’s causes would continue for at least three more years. Eagles star Don Henley played to a crowd that included Gwen Stefani and Martina Navratilova.
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Last week, singer Patti LaBelle wowed a huge crowd at the Diabetes Research Institute gala at the home of Jill and Cliff Viner. As she prepared to leave the Quogue residence after her performance, she realized she had forgotten a change of clothes, so was driven back to her hotel in a bathrobe borrowed from her hostess. And of course, she kept her stiletto heels on.
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Forbes recently released a list of the top ten billionaire heiresses and among the ranks were a handful of Hamptonites. Among them were Paris (#2) and Nicky Hilton (#7), of course, who summer in Southampton, and Amanda Hearst and Lydia Hearst-Shaw, great-granddaughters of publishing legend William Randolph Hearst and heiresses to the Heart Publishing $5 billion a year Empire. Russian princess Anna Anisimova whose net worth is estimated above $350 million and who dropped $600,000 for a summer rental in Southampton this summer, came in at number four. Georgina Bloomberg, who just rode in the Hampton Classic, came in at number five. Aerin Lauder, daughter of billionaire Ronald Lauder, ranked ninth, followed by Ralph Lauren’s daughter, Dylan Lauren, who owns Dylan’s Candy Bar in New York.
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Bruce Springsteen put on a public loving show of solidarity with his wife Patti Scialfa on August 29, holding hands as they watched their daughter Jessica, who was showing in the Junior Jumpers.. The Boss denied all rumors of the couple’s splitting up, and proclaimed his love for his wife. North Run trainer Missy Clark and her husband, John Brennan, were seen preparing Lou Dobbs and wife Debbie’s twins, Heather and Hillary, as well as Paula Zahn’s daughter, Haley Cohen, for competition.
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In the comfort of the Grand Prix tent, where Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs were creating their own winning dishes including their signature Hampton Classic horse cookies, Grand Prix and Olympic veteran rider Joe Fargis found time before competing to stop to chat with Christopher Robbins. Both have participated in the Classic for nearly a quarter of a century.
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Seth Semilof and Kamal Hotchandani, publishers of Haute Living, are set to launch Haute New York in October. Published bi-monthly, the magazine will bring our readers the latest stories on New York and Hampton’s high-end luxury real estate and its most influential players. The initial circulation of 35,000 will be going to the most affluent homebuyers, distributed to more than 200 New York City newsstands, over 500 luxury buildings where the average price of an apartment is $4.2 million, over 300 New York and Hamptons real estate firms, and even in flight on private jets.
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Camilla McFarland, 16, who was busted recently on shoplifting charges at two Hamptons boutiques, found out her punishment yesterday. She’ll have to hit the campaign trail with her mom, Senate candidate Kathleen (KT) McFarland.
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In a $1 million lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Alex Mikhailov, a New York dentist, contends he got stung when he rented the four-bedroom vacation home in Water Mill. The Cobb Road West house, which belongs to hedge-fund manager Jeffrey Lignelli, had been rented to Sept. 15. But the dentist’s clan has had to sweat it out in the city after Lignelli’s broker allegedly threatened to cut into an $8,500 security deposit every time they complained.
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Jean-Luc Keefield will be expanding from his four Hamptons restaurants into Manhattan. He’ll open a branch of Mumbo Gumbo (Cajun/Creole) at the site of his former restaurant Jean-Luc on Columbus Ave, then another venue way downtown in November.
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Many media socialites and Hamptons regulars were seen (and heard) over the Labor Day weekend partying at the East Hampton home of “Court TV” news anchor Jami Floyd, who hosted a birthday bash for herself and her four- year old son, Jax (yes, they share a birthday). Among those who attended were the new Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire magazine, Joanna Coles; author Peter Godwin, whose memoir is being turned into a movie and his next book is due out this month; fellow “Court TV” anchor Ashleigh Banfield, Sag Harbor residents Bill Finnegan, of The New Yorker, and writer (and contributor to Dan’s Papers) Janet Flora.
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The Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs Oct. 18-22, just announced the opening-night film, the world premiere of Philip Haas’ The Situation. It is the first film dealing with the Iraq war and is the story of an American journalist learning about a war atrocity, a political assassination, her growing skepticism about an American intelligence official and her friendship with an Iraqi photographer. The film will not open in theaters until 2007.
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