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Wicked, Wicked, Wicked

Dec 23, 2015
by Caroline Miller
family dispute over inheritance, James Reginate, Judy Tubman, Mayfair 1% of the 1% F, The Talk of Mayfair
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I subscribe to Vanity Fair because it gives me a glimpse of a world I cannot enter, the realm of the entitled and the pretenders.  Sometimes their antics amaze and amuse and sometimes, they confirm what I already know: that people everywhere are pretty much the same, except some make fools of themselves in some pretty fancy places.  The center of gossip gravity these days is Mayfair, London where, according to writer James Reginato, “that bastion of the 1 percent of the 1 percent has seen plenty of drama this season.” (“The Talk of Mayfair, by James Reginato, Vanity Fair, December 2015, pg. 130.)

Of interest this month is the lock out from her flat of “Sotheby Mayfair widow,” Judy Tubman. Returning from a holiday, she discovered her stepchildren, with whom she’s estranged, had claimed a couple of apartment paintings which Tubman’s friend described as almost worthless – a mere 300,000 each. (Ibid, pg132)  Tubman was not allowed to enter her property for 8 hours until the paintings were removed.  Incensed, she called the press who came out in time to find a well coiffed widow with 10 large pieces of luggage waiting to be admitted into her own home.  Not that the lady had nowhere to go.  Her husband, who served nine years in prison for art fraud, left her not only with the Mayfair property but with a palatial duplex on Fifth Avenue in New York, the lifetime use of a baronial manor in Southampton, a large, modern house in the Detroit suburbs, and a chalet in Gstaid.  She received a lump sum of between $200 to $400 million from the estate and an annual $10 million for sundry expenses, not to mention the jewels her husband purchased for her estimated to be worth $100 million.

One wonders why, if she didn’t want to stand in the street for 8 hours, Judy Tubman didn’t flag down a cab and ride to the nearest Motel 6.  She probably wanted to make a point to the world that she’d been victimized by her wicked stepchildren. She needn’t have bothered.  No one cares.   

Mayfair Maven

Courtesy of vanityfair.com

 

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  1. Neil Armstrong December 23, 2015 at 10:22 pm Reply
    If it wasn't for the fact that a lot of my life and world is theatrical - not to mention having to do voices for trolls, dragons and 4000 year old digital pensioners - I would probably conform to the "expectations" of the people and bear that usual worry as to whether or not what I did was judged detrimentally or otherwise by those I assumed meant something to my life and worlds..... But I wonder, here, regarding the above written, whether they feel trapped in the confines of what people expect of them rather than being able to be free and just "Do what ever the hell drives them."? Kind of like the Queen... Would she really like to whistle along on a skateboard..... or does the "law of expectation" control such heart-flight? If my bank was endless, I think I'd be cautiously private to the point of being reclusive. Too much swagger has a terminal price on freedoms I could not live without methinks.
    • Caroline Miller December 24, 2015 at 8:24 am Reply
      Much food for thought in your remarks. At the moment, I'm paused over the image of the Queen, whistling on a skateboard. Thank you for the smile.

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published four novels

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  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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