The Steeple Times

Category: SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES

  • Ivan Pun

    Ivan Pun

    Ivan PunOxford educated Ivan Pun is plainly someone the party crasher David Pun would love to be. He features on Town & Country’s ‘Most Eligible Bachelors’ list, is described as liking “the international party circuit” and works in his father’s property development business, Serge Pun Associates (SPA), as head of corporate development. Yangon based and a lover of history and architecture, Pun is a “young man in a hurry to get things done”. When asked what he does to relax, he replied: “Relax? I don’t really relax”.

     

  • Fernande Grudet (AKA ‘Madame Claude’)

    Fernande Grudet (AKA ‘Madame Claude’)

    Fernande GrudetQuite possibly the most famous madam ever (more…)

  • Christie Brinkley

    Christie Brinkley

    Christie BrinkleyThe world’s third richest model, Christie Brinkley was born in Monroe, Michigan and has been married four times. A mother of three and a supporter of the Democratic Party, Brinkley is a vegetarian and owns vasts swathes of real estate in the Hamptons. Of her marriage to property developer Richard Taubman, she commented: “I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, because everyone seemed to realize what a mistake I was making except me. My girlfriends and my mother knew, but I wouldn’t listen to them. I must’ve got whacked on the head, but he presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with”.

     

  • Scott Harvey-Nicholls

    Scott Harvey-Nicholls

    Scott Harvey NichollsHe shares a similar sounding name with a department store but Scott Harvey-Nicholls is instead co-founding partner of Romelle Swire, a London and New York based firm that “develops enduring partnerships between talent and brands”. A former marketing director of Elizabeth Arden in both the UK and Australia, Harvey-Nicholls grew up in Manchester and studied at the University of South Australia. He is regularly spotted with his “friend and business partner” Tamara Ecclestone.

     

  • Sally Farmiloe-Neville (1954 – 2014)

    Sally Farmiloe-Neville (1954 – 2014)

    Sally FarmiloeThis Hampshire born actress, model and author embodied the spirit of a true trooper. Having starred in the 1980s drama series Howards’ Way, Farmiloe-Neville made her name organising fundraisers for both the Conservatives and charities and did so with a panache second to none. She did not allow an affair with Jeffrey Archer to shape her and as a caring mother to daughter Jade, stepson Alistair and adopted daughter Kat, lived happily with her husband Jeremy Neville, a chartered surveyor, in Baron’s Court. Having sadly lost her long battle with breast cancer, Sally Farmiloe-Neville’s arrival will now mean heaven will forever be a none stop party.

     

  • Nicky Rothschild (née Nicky Hilton)

    Nicky Rothschild (née Nicky Hilton)

    Nicky HiltonThe sister of Paris Hilton met James Rothschild at the 2012 wedding of Petra Ecclestone and married the banking heir in July 2015. (more…)

  • Mr Frizzy

    Mr Frizzy

    Mr FrizzyA regular on the art gallery circuit, this frizzy haired character appears on the list of suspected gatecrashers circulated by London art galleries. He does not number on a list of the greatest of conversationalists.

     

  • The art loving duo

    The art loving duo

    The art loving duoThis pair never miss an art gallery opening night. Prosecco surely flows through their veins.

  • Lady Joan Oliphant Fraser

    Lady Joan Oliphant Fraser

    Lady Joan Oliphant FraserShe wrote a book called The Champagne Diet and is often spotted in Pimlico. A partying sort, Oliphant Fraser is regularly found at London events and is never without a glass of her favourite tipple. Cheers not beers are the order of her life.

  • Ruth Madoff (née Ruth Alpern)

    Ruth Madoff (née Ruth Alpern)

    Ruth MadoffThe wife of the biggest Ponzi schemer in history claims she had no knowledge of what her husband – whom she’s since disowned but not divorced – did as chairman of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (more…)