Word: duchessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trip to an auction house for the first time in their lives in the hopes of owning a piece of Camelot quickly saw their hopes outbid by the frenzied buyers. Bruce Wolmer, editor in chief of Art & Auction, predicts the Onassis sale will far exceed Sotheby's 1987 Duchess of Windsor jewelry sale, which brought in $50 million. Mrs. Onassis' jewelry goes on sale Wednesday night and includes a 40-carat diamond she received as an engagement gift from the Greek shipping magnate. Sales later in the week will include JFK's golf clubs and Mrs. Onassis...
...recent years, the auction business (led, in this regard, by Sotheby's) has shown wonderful ingenuity at such stratagems. There was, for instance, the sale in Switzerland in 1987 of the Duchess of Windsor's jewelry at which the rich of several nations paid five, 10, 20 times their value for baubles once owned by that calcified drone of a woman, merely because another drone had resigned the crown of England to marry her 50 years before. Then there was the Andy Warhol auction, also in 1987, at which bidders sent the price of the defunct celeb's $25 black...
...really ought to take lessons from Re, the superb Duchess of Berwick (Marjorie Burren), and the charmingly rakish Cecil (Colin Stokes '96) all of whom play wicked Wilde to the hilt. Each is a marvelous showcase for Wilde's keen observations of petty society cruelties, especially Cecil and his cronies who know how to draw the line only after they have crossed it. Unlike Amendola, they act idle, bored, and in need of distraction. And Burren cuts through her scenes with the impatient airs of someone conniving to fools' detriment. She, too, is flighty but with panache...
SARAH FERGUSON Duchess is $4.5 million in hock; Queen won't bail...
FERGIE, SKY, NO DIAMONDS Jewelry heists haven't the cachet they once had. When the Duchess of York, SARAH FERGUSON, lost a diamond necklace and bracelet somewhere between J.F.K. and Heathrow airports, the FBI and British Airways tracked them down to a shed belonging to Gilbert Terrero, a J.F.K. baggage handler who is possibly in need of a subscription to PEOPLE. The Terrero family claims Gilbert, who was arrested, found the gems and didn't know whose they were. Opined sister Wanda: "I wore nicer jewelry for my Sweet...