In her 2010 novel, The Recessionistas, this esteemed Jewish mother of three chronicled the consequences of economic collapse for a wealthy New York investment banker and his socialite wife. Alexandra Lebenthal describes herself as a “finance expert” to her 2,300 followers on Twitter and is president and CEO of Lebenthal & Co. and its multi-family office, Alexandra & James. A graduate of Princeton University, Lebenthal claims to have come from “a storied Wall Street family” and has variously done philanthropic work for The School of American Ballet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of the City of New York. In 2012, this “natural networker” told Fortune that she “revelled in femininity” and added: “Accessories are my armor [sic]”.
Two stories to keep beside you
Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)
“The greatest miser” and “richest woman in America” during the Gilded Age, Hetty Green lived by the rule of “buy cheap and sell dear.” Known for her appalling personal hygiene and ragged dresses, Green inherited £4.5 million or the equivalent of £555 million today ($729 million, €651 million or درهم2.6 billion today) in 1865 from […]
Chrissie Rucker MBE
In 1994, with £6,000 in savings, Chrissie Rucker ended her career as a beauty journalist to launch The White Company from her boyfriend’s spare bedroom
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She also writes for the New York Social Diary. How on earth does she find the time?
A fine choice. She is a good woman who does good with her wealth.
When Americans are pretentiously boring they do it with no aplomb. My idea of hell woud be having to sit next to this ‘esteemed’ woman at a dinner party.
Please tell us about someone you DO actually like.
mmmm…my sons; my wives…current and ex…and about a dozen close friends…
and another thing….why do Americans go on and on about their charitable activities….such showing off!
Dear Mr Wayde, You are a monumental bore of the first degree.
Do you think so? And, if you do, do you really think I give a damn?
You are a silly old thing…and probably terribly ugly.
Ha! Actually I’m really quite young,slim and very attractive. My husband adores me and everything in my life is wonderful. I love people like you,so grumpy and negative,always with a nasty comment to hand. Why so horrid Mr W? Lighten up and smell the air! It’s wonderful to be alive is it not?