Pilar crespi robert biography
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Stephen Robert
American financial business executive
Stephen Robert (born June 13, )[1] is an American financial business executive, academic administrator, and philanthropist. He was Chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer & Co. from to , and Chancellor of Brown University from to As a philanthropist, he heads the Source of Hope Foundation, which provides basic services to communities in great need around the world. As a journalist, he has published articles on Israeli–Palestinian relations and on the U.S. economy in major national and international publications.
Early life and education
[edit]Robert was born in in Haverhill, Massachusetts.[1][2] He has stated, "I grew up in a typically Jewish family in New England [] My father was president of the local synagogue; my mother was president of the local Hadassah."[3]
He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he graduated in [4] He received a BA in political science from Brown
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‘I was very angry when Consuelo died. We were so close for 82 years. That’s longer than any marriage.” Over dinner at the Colony Club, New York’s oldest and most exclusive private club for women, Gloria Schiff was talking about her identical-twin sister, Countess Consuelo Crespi, who had passed away three months earlier, on October 18, The daughters of upwardly mobile Irish immigrants, Consuelo and Gloria O’Connor—they were said to have been named after Consuelo and Gloria Vanderbilt—were famous models in their teens, in the s, and went on to become international fashion trendsetters and high-society insiders, protégées of Diana Vreeland in her heyday at Vogue, confidantes of Jackie Kennedy’s in her White House years and beyond, connected to everyone who was anyone from the Via Veneto to Locust Valley. Both girls made what in those days were called brilliant marriages: Consuelo to Count Rodolfo Crespi, a handsome Italian P.R. man whose grandfather had made a fortune in cotton in B
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Gigi Rizzi and the Riviera playboys of ’68
An aficionado of the good life – clothes, cars, drinks, and beautiful women – Gigi Rizzi was never going to follow into his family’s brick business. Instead, he left Piacenza and gravitated towards Saint-Tropez where, in the mids, Negroni in hand, he made history as part of a nightlife loving group known as ‘Les Italiens.’
The charming Rizzi seemed to have an orbit all of his own, drawing dock and women alike into all night parties resplendent with caviar and champagne. With his linen shirts unbuttoned, necklaces and vintage watches on display, Rizzi would lead from the front. “I was dancing barefoot on tables, always out to win, never worrying about tomorrow,” he once wrote.
“They were the most good-looking, suntanned Italian playboys,” socialite Pilar Crespi Robert told Vanity Fair of Rizzi, and his crew which included: Beppe Piroddi; Franco Rapetti, known as The Prince; and Rodolfo Parisi. “They ruled the scen on Capri,” Robert co