Gayfryd steinberg biography samples
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In October , Norman Johnson pleaded guilty to having defrauded the I.R.S. of $7 million in a scheme that had lasted throughout much of his marriage to Gayfryd. Eventually the I.R.S. seized many of the Johnsons’ possessions, including their house, their art, and Gayfryd’s jewels. Martzell remembers the day, shortly before Halloween, when he was with Johnson, talking to him about the prison term he might be facing. Gayfryd had decided that the two of them would go to a Halloween party dressed as Friar Tuck and Maid Marian, “and there we were,” Martzell recalls, “talking about awful things, and there was Gayfryd, on her knees, hemming his monk’s outfit.
Gayfryd met Saul Steinberg about three weeks later, at a dinner party thrown by Richard Feigen in New York. Steinberg was said to have been immediately smitten with her. But they didn’t meet again until January Gayfryd was on her way back from London, where she had gone to speak with Norman Johnson, who, awaiting sentencing, had fled
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SAUL&#;S SISTER SELLS $ MILLION HOME FOR A MUCH SMALLER LIFESTYLE In March, Kathy and Gayfryd Steinberg, former sisters-in-law, got trapped in the elevator of a $20 million townhouse for sale on East 62nd Street with Gayfryd&#;s step-daughter, Laura Tisch. The three ladies escaped the incident only to decide that the townhouse was too pricey.
This fryst vatten not your 90&#;s variety Steinberg clan.
In late May, as Manhattan emptied into the Hamptons and Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg held a fire sale of gilded furnishings at Sotheby&#;s, the Steinberg family sold its share of Reliance Group Holdings, the company that had made them billionaires. With poor earnings utsträckning back a year or so, the extended clan has been downshifting since the beginning of the year into a new life as millionaires.
&#;The family&#;s pot of gold is greatly diminished,&#; said a source familiar with the clan.
Saul Steinberg, the former chairman of Reliance Holdings Group, and his wife, Gayfryd, hawked their pr
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GAYFRYD AND SAUL TAKE STOCK OF LIFE &#; SOCIAL LIONS STARTING OVER AFTER COLLAPSE OF STEINBERG BIZ EMPIRE
A COUPLE walks on a Hamptons beach, heads bowed, eyes narrowed and hair flying in a bracing Atlantic wind.
The short stocky man, his face a jovial oval and his step halting, wears a powder-blue sweater around his neck in the style of a &#;70s preppie.
The woman, tall and stunning, a feline face atop a model&#;s frame, her long legs wrapped tightly in pink pants, slips her hand under his arm and leans inward, as if for protection.
This is Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg, once one of the richest, most extravagant, most glittering couples in America &#; but now strapped for cash after the collapse of his business empire.
Just a few days earlier, they had sold virtually everything they had &#; from Old Masters to napkin holders &#; to raise money they never believed they would need so desperately.
Now, as they begin to salvage their lives, friends say the immediate task