I have seldom been as relieved to read an article as one that appeared last week by New York Times writer Andrew Das. It began: "In the moments after I felt the pop in my left shoulder, the sensation I felt was not pain. It was panic. How exactly does...

The Russian businessman I was having a drink with lived in London. "I prefer London to New York right now; in London not everyone talks about their depleted bank balance; in New York everyone does," he said. I agreed. But then a friend took me for a late dinner at...

Anyone who thinks Michelle Obama should use tea with the Queen as an experimental fashion platform is sadly deluded. I cannot believe some of the suggestions I am reading on this site.

Bare shoulders at Buckingham Palace during the day would be seen as a tremendous insult to our monarch.

Details magazine has dictated that the sexiest woman on the planet is not Scarlett Johansson, or Gisele Bundchen, but Jennifer Aniston -- who is 40.

Meanwhile, People magazine puts Italian actress Valerie Bertinelli, 48, in a bikini on its cover. Cindy Crawford, 43, is covered in soap suds in Allure.

My neighbor at dinner, a hedge-fund manager originally from Texas, was emphatic.

"If your only identity is in your job or your money then there is no point living in New York any more," he said. "Anyone who thinks like that will leave."

He had a point. This town seems...

These days it's not just financial journalists who follow the movements of financiers. So, too, do the entertainment channels and press. Who could have predicted the day would come when OK! magazine would care what mode of transport Ken Lewis, Bank of America's chief, uses? But according to the New...

Following inquiries with locals in North Salem, I am happy to report that the ponies formerly stabled with Paul Greenwood, the alleged fraudster, are safe.

They were quickly moved and dispersed among other stables up and down the East Coast as Greenwood realized the net was closing in on him,...

For all those worried about the hundred or so valuable show ponies stabled in North Salem by alleged fraudster Paul Greenwood and his wife Robin, here's an update -- with hopefully another to come.

After Greenwood, 61, and his partner Stephen Walsh were arrested last month for allegedly siphoning off...

My English friend was worried. "I guess the next step is getting American-accent lessons," she said over dinner the other night.

She is a peer of mine -- we were at Cambridge together -- and she has wound up in New York working in a senior position for an American...

Among the articles in Vanity Fair's April issue is a report I did on the Noels, the infamously good-looking, gregarious family of Walter Noel, founder of the investment group Fairfield Greenwich, which had $6.9 billion--almost half of its assets under management--invested with Bernie Madoff. Now that that money is...

New York's latest financial criminal mastermind -- and remember, we now have one a day being unveiled -- is Paul Greenwood, 61, the bow-tied town governor of North Salem, New York's horsey area. (Until recently it's where the American Olympic equestrian team trained.)

Greenwood spent the alleged $500 million he...

While New Yorkers suffered minor heart attacks on Friday, as banking stocks plunged to levels not seen since 1997 around 2pm - before turning around and climbing back up, LA, so friends told me, was basking in sunlight - and its own glory.

In fact even as he watched Bank...

New York Fashion Week is here - and, as Lela Rose, the Texan designer, says as she threads her needle and fits her models, "the show must go on." "We need a little pick-me-up," she emailed me, "and I actually think the upcoming week should be a way to move...

Today in a courtroom in South Carolina, Esther Elizabeth Reed's fantasies finally ended. The 30-year-old brunette, who has spent eight of the past ten years on the run, often entering Ivy League schools under adopted fake identities, and evading cops with an extraordinary web of deception, faces up to over...

Another day, another one bites the dust. Friends everywhere are losing their jobs.

They're bright. The New York Times described the growing ranks of the city's unemployed as the new chic club in town. In part, this is because the people who are losing their jobs are the best and...

"How much should a Wall Street CEO get paid?" The question got bandied around on Thursday night at dinner -- by a bunch of Wall Street CEOs.

The question was the topic of the day following coverage of the extravagant ways of John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch, who...

Every day turns up an astonishing new detail of the incredible story of Bernie Madoff and his $50-billion Ponzi scheme: aside from Obama's inauguration, New York can talk of little else. And some of the new angles are very odd.

It's just been reported that Bernie's late mother, Sylvia, herself...

Today, prosecutors will make their case that Bernard Madoff should be jailed for violation of bail conditions. On Christmas Eve he mailed out trinkets worth more than $1 million to family members. His defense lawyer says Madoff had no idea he was doing anything wrong and that these items were...

I wish I could say that this holiday season has felt as cheerful as usual. But the emptiness in New York's streets and stores both on December 24th and 26th merely amplified the depressing retail statistics. Eager sales assistants hawked their marked-down wares with an enthusiasm bordering on desperation. "I...

"What recession?" shouted the front page of the New York Post last week, beside a picture of a blonde Swedish countess, Marie Douglas-David. Douglas-David, a former banker at Lazard, is divorcing her husband of six years, George David, former CEO of United Technologies and worth hundreds of millions of dollars.