Our jaw dropped to the floor Roger Rabbit-style when we read David Patrick Columbia's broad hint that socialist Tinsley Mortimer, 31 and her financier husband — whose conspicuous absence from her side is mentioned in every article about her — might have hit a bit of a rough patch. What is new, though (at least to us) is his observation that "rumors are focusing on one individual outside the marriage, and an affair (for want of a better word) that has been going on for more than ... a couple of months." And later: "This of course is ultimately the stuff of novels. "

This assertion, of course, comes on the heels of DPC's quote in the Post yesterday: "Tinsley has a look that's sort of literary in intent. She looks like she could be a character in a Scott Fitzgerald novel. She doesn't look slutty. She doesn't look, pardon my language, like she's gonna get laid. Is she happy? Is she sad? Does she have a good marriage or not? She looks like she has a story there."

Okay, okay, OKAY, we're mildly curious: who on earth could be the Retard Gatsby to Tinsley's Retard Daisy Buchanan? And, perhaps more pressingly, is there a more pretentious person on earth than David Patrick Columbia? Discuss — with us.

Fame and Fortune [NY Social Diary]
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