It's not too early to start your summer calendar, but I'm not confirming anything until I get an invite to a Gin Lane block party. Now that I know
Tiger Woods and his lovely wife,
Elin, are moving to the Hamptons, after shelling out $65 million for a six-acre, gated estate, very chic ocean side home from Austrian-born businessman
Gerhard Andlinger, this girl is keeping her options open.
Golfing has been very, very good to Tiger and to Elin, who pretty much won the lottery when she caught Tiger's eye. The couple's new neighborhood already boasts its fair share of uber-rich folks, including real estate developer
Alfred Taubman, former
New York Times publisher
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, and designer
Vera Wang and hubby
Arthur Becker.
Their new estate, located on one of the East End's most exclusive and desirable drags, features a 13,200-square foot Colonial Revival style main house, a 7,500-square foot guest house, a four-car garage (only four?), staff quarters, and a lily pond. What, no driving range? I'm guessing there will be one there soon if there isn't already. But if not I'm sure I can talk to my Gin Lane pals,
Amy and
George Kane, who'll let him practice on their putting green.
The luxurious grounds of the 19th century manor house come with 420-feet of ocean frontage, an oceanfront tennis court, and an oceanfront swimming pool and spa. It is just the latest property buy for Woods, whose portfolio now includes a $40 million estate on Jupiter Island, FL, and a 16,500 square foot home at the golf course he has designed in Dubai. Welcome to the neighborhood!
Peter Brant, the polo playing newsprint tycoon, and husband to the gorgeous supermodel,
Stephanie Seymour, thought he had the last laugh when
Interview editor
Ingrid Sischy was finally given the boot from the magazine she and Peter's ex-wife,
Sandy Brant, have been editing and publishing for almost two decades. Peter might as well have told Ingrid, "and don't let the door hit you on your way out," after he bought out his ex-wife's half of the once trendy magazine. Sischy edited
Interview for 18 years, working closely with publisher, Sandy, her longtime girlfriend. Clearly, Peter was still wounded that his wife left him for a woman.
Now I've learned that Sandy and Ingrid have scored the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes. They have joined the magazine conglomerate Conde Nast and were given newly created titles as International Editors of the European editions of
Vanity Fair, a slightly mixed bag of various re-workings of the successful New York title. That, plus the $20 million of Adios money from Peter, is not so bad. Talk about a quick change of fortune!
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Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour. Photo by PatrickMcMullan.com |
I don't know why Peter, the self-proclaimed "McEnroe of polo," should even care. He's got one of the world's most beautiful women cheering him and his White Birch team, an art collection to kill for, and oodles of cash. His blue-chip holdings include artwork by
Andy Warhol,
Cy Twombly,
Jasper Johns,
Roy Lichtenstein,
Julian Schnabel,
Jean-Michel Basquiat, and six or seven other art world stars. Most of them are early pieces from the days when the artists were just starting out (and their work was cheap). An original backer of
Interview magazine, he even co-produced the movie "Basquiat" for pal Schnabel. I'd say that's enough to get over Miss Sandy.
Southampton producer
Patricia Watt is back from France where
Mark Mitchell's film "Liszt for President" or en francais, "Votre ou Mourir" (Vote or Die), won best English speaking film at The ECU Film Festival, aka, The European Independent Film Festival held in Paris this past weekend at The Bibliotheque Mitterand.
Luminaries such as
Marisa Berenson attended and liked the film so much they are adding a scene with her, says producer Watt. Berenson will play the mistress of the French president, portrayed by Bridgehampton's
Count Alexandre DeLesseps, whose wife, my BFF
LuAnn DeLesseps, is a star of the "The Real Housewives of New York" on Bravo. They will join
Eli Wallach, whom everyone knows in any country,
Cornelia Sharpe Bregman,
Larry Pine,
Paul Hecht,
Yancy Butler, and other Hamptonites. Then hopefully, it's on to Cannes!
As I told you some weeks ago,
Edward Albee celebrated his 80th birthday by working round the clock on revivals of his early one-acts, "The American Dream" and "The Sandbox," which open March 25 at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Now I hear that as soon as the curtain goes up on the one-acts, he goes into rehearsals for the world premiere of "Occupant" a new play about his late friend the brilliant sculptor
Louise Nevelson. It stars our favorite East Ender,
Mercedes Ruehl, and opens in June at the Signature Theatre. Then it's on to the Broadway transfer of his new play "Me, Myself and I," about identical twins, which opened to raves last month at Princeton's McCarter Theatre.
And just as soon as his schedule allows, he's returning to one of his favorite places on Earth - Easter Island - to spend three weeks writing a play set there called "Silence."
Yet another octogenarian Hamptonite is readying a revival for Broadway.
Joseph Stein, author of the timeless "Fiddler on the Roof," is involved with the new production of "Juno," a musical based on the 1924 play "Juno and the Paycock" by
Sean O'Casey. "Juno," for which Joe wrote the book, had a brief Broadway run nearly 50 years ago - only 16 performances - but now this rarely seen musical will be heard again.
Tony Award winner
Victoria Clark will star in this, the second offering, of the season at City Center's "Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert," running March 27 through March 30. The "Encores!" director of "Juno" is
Garry Hynes, best known for his work with the Druid Theatre Company of Ireland. The plot concerns the collapse of an Irish family during the 1920 troubles between the Irish Republican Army and the British.
Clark, who has appeared on Broadway in the revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and "Titanic," won a Tony Award for her performance in "The Light in the Piazza."
We may finally have heard the last of
Heather Mills –
Sir Paul McCartney's finally divorced ex-wife (but who knows for sure with Miss Heather). Last week, the London High Court ruled that Paul should fork over some $50 million to his ex – rather than the$100+ million she was demanding from his reputed $1.8 billion holdings. But if that's the last you'll think you will hear of ex-Beatles in the press, think again.
May Pang, who was
John Lennon's mistress between 1974 and 1975, has just published "Instamatic Karma," a book of her photos and reminiscences with the former Beatle. In it she claims that
Yoko Ono and John Lennon began divorce proceedings five years before he was murdered. The music superstar dated his former assistant May with Ono's consent and encouragement for 18 months - because the couple's own marriage was in turmoil. They spent time together in Los Angeles and New York - described later by Lennon as his "lost weekend" - before the star unexpectedly returned to Ono.
What reportedly has Yoko really steamed is that John's first wife,
Cynthia Lennon, not only wrote the forward to the book for her BFF May, but is actively helping to promote it, even traveling to the States in her support.
At the Cutting Room the other night, Pang was signing copies of her 140-page book. She arrived at
Chris Noth's hotspot with Cynthia and son
Julian Lennon. No wonder Pang sold out of books at the party.
'Til next week, cheers!
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