<![CDATA[ - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[ - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[]]> NYC loses another landmark.

God bless you, Mrs. Astor.

Sue Duhnim

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I thought this was the daily Julia Allison blog. Oops!

CheekyBreastfeedingMonkey

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I'd tap that.

CheekyBreastfeedingMonkey

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Gravy Train:
The Times and Post coverage cited legal and financial documents; Court-appointed trustees' eyewitness accounts and testimony of people in Mrs. Astor's employ. What you got ?

Curse_of_NursePornstein

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Exhale.

HowDareThey

]]> <![CDATA[]]> WOW. i had no idea she was still alive.

just goes to show you that longevity has nothing to do with productivity.

but god bless her, she was a fine dame.

ellagood

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Bergman, Antonioni, Mrs. Astor. In regard to the last, yes, the Four Hundred and the Social Register and New York Society Noblesse Oblige (Let them wear couture) and the Ladies Who Lunch and the Social X-rays (stupid epithet, I don't care who coined it) were all enormous jokes, but, as a New Yorker, they were my standing jokes and part of my birthright.

And now it's over.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Now who will wear those fabulous hats? Who gets custody of them? Surely not the puddin-faced daughter-in-law?

raincoaster

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Gravy Train: Maybe repeating what was written in VOGUE a while back?

h-g

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ Gravy Train: I think you're late for the Bancrofts'.

meerkat

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Do you KNOW he's despicable or do you just repeat what you read in the papers???

Gravy Train

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Does this mean her despicable son gets all the money?

IHateWhatYouHaveOn

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Does this mean she's off James Kurisunkal's top ten "must meet" list?

the-cubicle-dweller

]]> <![CDATA[]]> This deserves WAY more lineage.

rod townsend

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