• It looks like Heidi and Spencer Pratt and NBC concocted yet another clever PR stunt over the weekend. Heidi was rushed from the set of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! to a hospital in Costa Rica for a stomach ulcer and later blamed NBC for "torturing" her. For its part, NBC is reminding the public they can…
You know what people do not want to be photographed doing right now? Taking in a polo match while they sip on expensive champagne. Veuve Cliquot is sponsoring the second annual Manhattan Polo Classic this Saturday on Governors Island. The problem?
Peter Brant is in the middle of a messy divorce with his wife Stephanie Seymour. But that didn't keep him from the opening party for his new private museum this past weekend. A long list of art world A-listers headed over to his 53-acre estate in Greenwich on Saturday to have a look around The Brant Foundation Art…
• Stephanie Seymour and Peter Brant will meet in Greenwich divorce court for the first time today. Expect some fireworks: Brant has already filed a motion demanding Seymour "undergo drug and alcohol testing"; for her part, Seymour is accusing Brant of "hostile, threatening and intimidating behavior." [NYP]
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Peter Brant seems to be going through the billionaire's version of mid-life crisis. It's been brutal on his second, and soon to be ex-, wife.
• After 16 years of marriage, Stephanie Seymour has filed for divorce from her polo-playing, art-obsessed husband, Peter Brant. And it doesn't sound like he's taking it well: The mogul reportedly changed the locks on the couple's Greenwich mansion, and is now forcing Stephanie to sleep in the maid's quarters and…
• Jon Stewart's showdown with Jim Cramer is getting mixed reviews, mainly because both deviated from their typical personas: the normally brash Cramer was a wimp and Stewart wasn't funny. It "felt like a Senate subcommittee hearing," writes Alessandra Stanley. [NYT, Salon, Atlantic, ABC]
• TMZ and Extra have extended…
Andy Warhol famously said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes; if Peter Brant has his way, everyone will work for Warhol's old magazine Interview for 15 hours. For free.
Newsprint billionaire Peter Brant has reportedly been firing Interview staff left and right, to cut costs. But he still had $50 million for a new 15-passenger private jet, we're told.
Think it's easy being a rich art collector and the husband of a supermodel? Think again. Just consider the upkeep required of Peter Brant to keep Jeff Koons's famous 40-foot-tall Westie, which is made out of flowers and greenery, in tip-top shape: "Every spring, the reinstallation of "Puppy" requires 10 men to labor…
Ann Dexter-Jones eating with her daughters, Sam and Charlotte, at Bar Pitti ... Sam Ronson walking through the East Village just a few hours later ... Madonna sitting in the back seat of an SUV en route to a recording studio ... Lindsay Price showing up on the set of Lipstick Jungle ... Peter Brant and Stephanie…
A very tanned and very inarticulate Marc Jacobs talks about Interview and Andy Warhol with the magazine's owner Peter Brant, Brant's wife Stephanie Seymour, and co-editorial director Glenn O'Brien, on the Charlie Rose Show. A botoxy-looking Seymour, who sounds like she's taken a handful of benzos, opines that Warhol…
Ingrid Sischy, the former editor-in-chief of Interview, is still alive, in case you were concerned. She may have been ousted by the mag's owner, Peter Brant, back in January, after he acquired (ex-wife) Sandy's shares in the company. But just in case you might have thought she'd descended into a pit of depression or…
Peter Brant
