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Ladies Who Brunch

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Photo: On Foodie Trail

Photo: On Foodie Trail

Aubree, Scarlett, & Laila

Aubree met Scarlett during the second semester of her freshman year at Yale while rushing their sorority Alpha Phi Tau. Aubree pledged because she had been having trouble making friends her first semester. Scarlett pledged because she wanted to be one of the girls wearing  letters around campus. The sorority parties were an incentive for both of them.

At the start of pledging, Scarlett and Aubree bonded instantly. Well to be accurate, Scarlett took a liking to Aubree right away and eventually Aubree caught up so that the feeling was mutual. By the end of pledging, while they were close to the other ten girls in their pledge class, the two of them had the strongest relationship. It was an obvious choice for them to be roommates their sophomore year and for the two years following that.

Laila was Mrs. Woodhouse’s personal assistant when she met Scarlett. Not too long after, Scarlett started inviting Laila out with her friends.  Mrs. Woodhouse was not overjoyed by this friendship, but did see Laila as a positive influence on Scarlett. She had reduced her partying from seven days a week to four or five. Mrs. Woodhouse considered this to be a vast improvement. Laila has since moved on from Mrs. Woodhouse’s employment, but the friendship between she and Scarlett stuck.

As was the case with most new people she encountered, it took Aubree a bit of time to warm to Laila. She is the type of person who makes judgments quickly and waits for people to prove her wrong or right. Aubree assumed that Laila was a social climber who was using Scarlett for her kindness (and money). It took a few months, but she eventually thawed and saw that Laila was coming from the right place.  A friendship between the two blossomed shortly after. Continue reading →

The Millionaire 

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Photo: Sofia Capital Ventures

Photo: Sofia Capital Ventures

Laila

Laila Thorpe did not know if the millionaire was actually a millionaire. She just tends to not refer to men by their actual names unless she really likes them. Laila also did not know that she would be hanging out with the millionaire for the past month. She is the type to go where the wind takes her though.

So far, it had just been spontaneous outings once or twice a week. He would text Laila asking if she’s free and she would meet up with him to do things she could never afford to do on her own. Exclusive five-star restaurants and endless bottle service at the hottest clubs were now a regular thing for Laila. She got to run around town on the arm of a good-looking man with no strings attached. A lot of girls say it, but Laila meant it when she said she did not want a boyfriend.

Laila was a personal assistant to a record company executive who promised if she paid her dues as his assistant for two years, he would set her up in the A&R department. Little did she know that it would basically be two years of hazing rituals until she got there. She was a year into the process and a serious relationship was out of the question. The millionaire was the perfect situation.

His start-up company developed apps for Fortune 500 companies who did not have the time or resources to do it themselves. Laila was clueless about the millionaire’s success when she first met him. He was just a handsome stranger she bumped into at a club called Bank. 

The club, located in Soho, started out as an actual bank in the 1920’s. During the baby boomer era, it was turned into a restaurant. Sometime in the 1980’s, it became an event venue for exclusive weddings and galas. Now it was a club (with one of the highest turn down rates in the city). Continue reading →

The Englishman

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Photo: Wikipedia

Scarlett

Scarlett Woodhouse is what most would describe as old money.  She has crystal blue eyes that look grey in certain lights, raven hair that you cannot get out of a bottle, and the frame of a supermodel. Scarlett went to the finest schools in Manhattan, was formally presented to society at Cotillion, and has a B.F.A. in art history from Yale. Overall, she is breathtakingly beautiful and everything a high society girl should be.

So, it comes as a shock to many that at age 26 Scarlett is an art gallery assistant, making $31K per year, and living in an Upper East Side apartment that her father still completely pays for—along with all of the other “amenities” he supports. She is unmarried with no prospects and the rumor is that her mother had to coerce the gallery owner into hiring her. He has come close to firing Scarlett too many times to count, but always backs down when he remembers her mother’s position and how Mrs. Woodhouse essentially put his gallery on the map.

The truth of matter is that Scarlett barely graduated high school and her parents bought a wing to get her into Yale. The turn around did not come in college. She spent the entire four years partying with her sorority and graduated with the minimum GPA requirement. It goes without saying that her return to the big apple was less than triumphant.

Unfortunately for Scarlett, art history was a popular major her graduating year and the other New York socialites hit the books a little harder at their Ivy League institutions of choice. After two months post graduation of sunbathing at the Soho House pool with what appeared to be no intentions of looking for a job, Mrs. Woodhouse dragged her into Sergio Moretti’s gallery in Soho. She inquired about open positions while gently reminding Sergio of how many pieces from his gallery hangs on the walls of her home as well as her friends’ (at her suggestion). Continue reading →