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Poor supermarket mogul, Clinton pal and alleged Radar investor Ron Burkle can't go anywhere without getting extorted. Today's Page Six and Rush & Molloy both report that Chevyn McClintock, an antiques dealer or interior decorator depending on who you ask, is shopping a memoir about her two-year affair with Burkle. He is, by her account, a "sexually inept lover" and "If Academy Awards were given for faking sexual gratification, I would have many, because he had zero sensuality and did not know how to please a woman." Ouch. McClintock's website boasts of her "birth into a classic, traditional, elegant American family," and her "beautiful, gracious life," as a feng shui master, a "rare wine advisor" (now that'd be a pretty sweet gig) and a "lifestyle expert." We checked into Ms. McClintock's lifestyle expertise. It sure looks to us like Chevyn Grappi McClintock is one and the same as Chevyn Hurwitz Grappi, a 45-year-old Texan for whom records show a DWI conviction and some pretty serious financial issues.
That DWI conviction for Grappi was in Texas, way back in 1982.
If one consolidates all the reports, she is possibly named Chevyn Hurwitz Grappi McClintock Getty—although sometimes she takes a middle initial of N., and sometimes her first name is spelled as "Chevryn," and the "Getty" only arises from Page Six's claim that she married Christopher Getty.
The Daily News reports that Grappi met Burkle when she decorated his Beverly Hills residence. McClintock's website mentions the "historic Greenacres estate" among the "notable interior environments" she's been responsible for.
Grappi doesn't mention, however, that she filed for individual bankruptcy in Los Angeles in 1998 and then again in 2003 in San Antonio, TX. Grappi's website mentions her organization, "Corporate Wives," which she created "to address the very important home, lifestyle, and personal needs of affluent individuals...The objective is personal estate management to create an atmosphere impeccably designed and maintained."
Besides the fact that a more apt title would apparently be "Corporate Mistresses," Grappi wouldn't exactly be our first pick (were we affluent individuals) to manage our personal estates. In the late 90s, Grappi was taken to court over nearly $60,000 in debt owed to various creditors. Given that address records show Grappi has spent the last two years residing at various upscale hotels like The Carlton and Wall Street's The Regent, we wouldn't be surprised if cash was a little tight at the moment. Perhaps now would be a good time to take a supermarket mogul to the cleaners!
McClintock did not respond to a voicemail message and an email this morning.
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"[Born into] a classic, traditional, elegant American family": Chevyn Addams, Wednesday's douchey little sister.
I'm trying to posit how one would not be a "lifestyle expert."
methinks this woman wouldn't know what an orgasm felt like if it poked her in the catbag.
Best quote from the Post:
"He loved to kiss me but I tried to get through that portion quickly because he was not adept and it reminded me of when I was first kissed awkwardly by a boy in the fourth grade."
Kerri Strug grew her hair out!
Where can I get that jacket?
My hat is off to this amazing con artist. She convinces people to give her money on the basis of her TASTE? That woman's got ovaries of titanium.
@LolCait: oh my god. i hate you! i couldn't remember her name! someone photoshop this pitch being held by Bela.
Chevyn??!!!
Seriously, just... What?
@Cheap Shot: You'd find it awkward too if a fourth grade boy kissed you when you were 30.
pitch = bitch
Feng Shui master sounds way cooler than what it is.
@LOLCAIT
"Stick it, Kerrrrrri!"
Has she wrapped herself in the american flag for this photo?
So Page Six is still trying to get even with Radar over them outing him as a wannabe flasher and friend of a rapist?
Oh what a mysterious power do these woefully average looking but viciously ambitious blonds have!
Isn't this the same person that played "Star Wars" on her trumpet and did the interpretive dance in that 80's beauty contest video circulating a couple weeks ago?
Burning Ontological Question: Why is it that some Gawker stories have "Views" and "Comments" with their respective numbers, and others just have the "Comments?
@collegecallgirl:
Agreed--Feng Shui is feng-crap. One master will say put your bed over there, and another will say, no, put your bed over there. Most of them are making up the stuff as they go along.
I hate Texas and Texans. I have no further comment.
Why is this the best dirt on Burkle that can be found? What isn't Kate Hudson saying?
@VenusCloacina: Convincing, sure. But I bet it's her catbag that doing all the talking.
And a DWI in 1982 means she was all of 20. How many of us, I ask, have NOT been in a situation where there are some beers, a UT football game, some goalposts...
Hey, you can buy her handbag on eBay for $15!
And apparently the "McClintock" is from the ugly-prom-dress empire of mom Jessica and less-talented son Scott. LAWLZ!
Her jacket matches JFP's suspenders. Or vice versa. Either way, yay patriotism!
was the picture from her DUI arrest or did she attach it to her bankruptcy petition?
also I didn't think you were allowed to file bankruptcy within 8 (maybe 6) years of previously filing, maybe the law was different back then?
@DorothyMantooth: That's just the way it is.
I want to be a "rare wine advisor". I am thinking it involves pointing to a '62 Chateau Lafite (or something) and saying, "That is rare".
I used to drive a pretty grappi chevyn camaro back in the day her flag jacket and pageant hair were in style.
"Chevyn" is the oblique of "Chevy" in Finnish, apparently. Oh, Google, what don't you know?
Don't you get it? This lady is *classy*!
@CodePink: Who doesn't? (except, perhaps engineers)
"...fine wine connoisseur and collector (as acknowledged in the New York Times)..."
If you read the article it basically says that she went to a wine auction one day.
She should be selling "stretching the truth" lessons.
@VenusCloacina: Bullshitn
Maybe her first step to feeling good is taking off that horrendous jacket. I'd rather go jogging in a Hezbollah track suit in Israel on Yom Kippur than be in the same room with that thing.
Just wanted to note that one of her clients is Ms. Jacqueline Brandwynne who now runs [www.veryprivate.com]
"...we have created highly specialized body care products to eliminate or help resolve specific physical conditions. Safe, effective and medically tested and approved, they offer ultimate care for women to enjoy their bodies any age, and let them enjoy the pleasures of being a woman."
In other words, vaginal care. Just bringing it all back to Tionna!
Despite being stuck in a horrific zero-orgasm, fourth-grade kissing zone, Chevyn hung in there with the Burkle FOR TWO FULL YEARS. That's what a billion in the bank buys you, kiddies.
@sexbot:
Probably more dangerous to wear an "Israel Is For Lovers" T-shirt while jogging in Gaza during Ramadan.
Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and ChevynLay.
I like that she describes herself as the "unofficial mistress". Because those "official mistresses" are so stuffy and all!
@mathnet: Ah, but don't you believe it.
@Carol Gardens: the kegel master 2000! found my secret santa gift. thanks.
Where is Jared Paul Stern on all this?
@blogylonian:
Remember, the vagina is the center ... how soon we forget ...
Kitty Bartholomew: there's a ringing endorsement.
What a horse's ass. And if he was such a lousy lover, why'd she drag it out for two years? I wouldn't ask her to decorate my doghouse.
@DonLaFontaine: ahhh... the forest for the trees is it?
You're all confused. She had an affair with the Hamburglar, not Ron Burkle.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Well, then who's that make the Fry Guys?
It's Cathy Lee Crosby as Wonder Woman!
@mathnet: Seriously. Look at this guy's profile, for instance. His "unelmien auto" is a "Chevyn tai Dodgen mahdollisimman iso pick-up!"
Why am I pretty sure that she was not married to Christoper Getty? What about the Gunne Sax marriage? Why are her bags showing up on Ebay? And I kinda doubt she was born with the name Chevyn. Can't wait to learn more.
@Carol Gardens: She was married to Estelle Getty, silly goose.
is anyone else curious about the fact that page six ran a hit piece on burkle after he strong-armed them into dropping stern last year? and that gawker is doing a hit piece on the woman going after burkle? am i alone in thinking something is amiss here?
@supastah: "Hit piece"?
Honey, she hits herself. Nobody needs to do any "hitting".
No. No. And Yes.
@VenusCloacina: i'm not trying to hold her out as some of paragon of social graces, but obviously someone at gawker hq thought it was worth investing the time to do all this research or that having gotten this research from someone else that it was worth running it even though this didn't get a mention in today's gossip roundup despite being the top item for page six's online coverage. just a strange turn of events is all i'm sayin.
@supastah: someone at gawker hq thought it was worth investing the time to do all this research
I think that "someone" was probably Maggie. And "all this research" was probably a Nexis/Lexis search.
@supastah: Fair questions! We were intrigued and started researching because 1. There was nothing on Google about her, 2. There was nothing on Nexis about her, and 3. David Patrick Columbia, social chronicler, BlackBerried a response from Abu Dhabi that he'd never heard of her. A million red flags were raised—for a while this morning, I wasn't even sure she existed. (Also, we hold more important Page Six items from our Gossip Roundup for their own items almost every day.) What I think the real question is, to which I don't yet have an answer: Who's pimping this alleged manuscript, and doing the naughty act of giving it to both major gossip columns at the same time? That's the interesting bit of info not disclosed—by Page Six and R&M, not by us. Finally, the information presented here is Maggie's own research, not supplied by any other party. (Not that that would matter, I think.) As far as conspiracies, "someone" at Gawker HQ is always those of use who write Gawker. Now REALLY finally, it's more safe to assume Page Six ran this item not because of JPS, but because of Rad