Celebs Fill Hampton Classic Grand Prix VIP Tent

By South O’ the Highway

3 minute 08/31/2015

Matt Lauer at the Hampton Classic Horse Show. Photo credit: Barbara Lassen

The Hampton Classic Horse Show came to a close with the event often considered the end of the summer in the Hamptons, Grand Prix Sunday.

In addition to watching the action in the Grand Prix Ring, guests were people watching under the VIP tent.

Numerous celebrities joined the festivities Sunday.

Among those in attendance were author Tom Wolfe—who will speak Thursday at Guild Hall for the Dan’s Literary Prize awards ceremony–Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton and wife Kedakai Lipton, Today lead anchor Matt Lauer and wife Annette Roque Lauer, East Hampton’s Katie Couric and John Molner, Sag Harbor’s B Smith and Dan Gasby, Southampton’s Brooke Shields and Sag Harbor’s LuAnn de Lesseps, of the Real Housewives of New York City.

Politicos in attendance included former NYS Mayor Rudy Giuliani and wife Judith of Water Mill, former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg of Tuckahoe and daughter Georgina, Southampton Village Mayor Mark Epley, and Southampton Town Supervisor and 2016 congressional candidate Anna Throne-Holst.