Word: roehm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of sending its calaboose-bound client, Michael Milken, to Shea Stadium, chaperoning hundreds of poor black children, an incident that is still remembered as one of the most cynical, albeit futile, stunts in the sorry history of public relations.) Rita Wilson as Kravis' wife, the fashion designer Carolyne Roehm, is quite believable in the role of a woman whose single indulgence was a daily Oreo. Even the smaller parts work quite well, notably Leilani Ferrer as Johnson's thirtysomething wife Laurie, originally known to her critics as "Cupcake," and then, after Ross finagled her an honorary doctorate from some...
...roaring '80s, Carolyn Roehm became the archetype of what Tom Wolfe called the social X ray: a super-thin, high-profile fashion designer who consorted with the ultra-rich and married multimillionaire leveraged-buyout- king Henry Kravis. With Kravis' backing, she launched her own couture in 1985 and specialized in luxe items like ball gowns that cost as much as $6,000 each...
...Carolyn Roehm, Inc., suffered from management shuffles and poor sales. Last week Roehm, 40, suddenly announced that she was shutting down. The Wall Street Journal reported that Kravis had invested more than $20 million in his wife's anemic business since 1985 and had grown weary of the financial drain. While that may be true in part, Roehm says the real catalyst for her decision was the tragic death of Kravis' 19-year-old son Harrison in a July automobile accident...