[lbo-talk] the Mortimers

[Doug Henwood]

If you're at all interested in life at the top in NYC, the USA, and  
the world today, this piece on Tinsley and Topper Mortimer is quite a  
study. Read this and you might conclude our society suffers serious  
morbidity.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/fashion/21topper.html? 
pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=fashion>

Topper, old money with a pedigree going back to John Jay, sounds  
appalled by his wife, the socialite handbag designer who is the  
daughter of a Virginia carpet maker. I don't know how their marriage  
could survive this but there's been talk for a year or more.