Original Article on New York Social Diary

Runway finale of Oscarde la Renta's 2009 Fall Collection yesterday afternoon at 583 Park Avenue. February 19, 2009. A grey day, yesterday in New York, with that glum, steady but not heavy rain that arrived about noon and stayed through the night. Warmer. No place like home. News comes from across the Atlantic that Mikhail Prokhorov, aged 41 (or 48 depending on whos reporting), the Russian billionaire who paid 500 million, either dollars, euros or pounds, (again depending on whos reporting) last summer for La Leopolda, the Lily Safra-owned villa on the French Riviera in Villefranche. Mikhail Prokhorov Leopold II, King of the Belgians Now Mr. Prokhorov has decided that that was too much, 500 million schlomolos. I cudda told him that and Id ne...(read more)