Susan Gutfreund’s free-spending ways got her a lot of stick in the press coverage of her husband John Gutfreund’s fall from grace at Salomon Brothers. But is it fair? MAUREEN…
While Margaret Thatcher is washed-up in England, the post–Gulf War American right has taken the warrior queen to its heart—and she’s determined to reinvent herself as an international power player. But, as our author reports, Thatcher’s plans to create a new world forum may be foundering thanks to the storm of controversy raging around her maladroit millionaire son. Has Mrs. T. missed her moment?
On the Richter scale of high divadom, this is a major quake. Melina Mercouri’s whole body is racked with sobs. “My life is sheeet!” she shrieks in Hellenic English. “I…
The security man at the U.S. Open was in a quandary. “Marla,” he asked with genuine wonder, “how do you want me to handle the photographers and the autograph kids?”…
Beverly Hills is a town that marries for richer—never, ever for poorer— and no one who’s anyone these days gets married without a prenuptial agreement. MAUREEN ORTH reports on the stars who have signed them (James Woods, Richard Pryor), those who haven’t (Jane Fonda, Roseanne Barr), and those who wish they had
Since the death this winter of her adored husband, Tito Arias, Dame Margot Fonteyn has lived on alone at their remote Panamanian finca. Offstage she had always merged her identity with…