The Real Housewives of Goldman Sachs
Laura Blankfein and her friend Susan Friedman, wife of another Goldman honcho, Richard Friedman, caused a huge scene at Super Saturday in the Hamptons last weekend when they arrived at the event before the noon start time and balked at waiting in line with the other ticket-holders.
“Their behavior was obnoxious. They were screaming,” said one witness. Blankfein said she wouldn’t wait with “people who spend less money than me.”
via GOLDMAN SACHS WIVES LAURA BLANKFEIN AND SUSAN FRIEDMAN MAKE SCENE ON LINE IN HAMPTONS- New York Post.
I can’t believe I didn’t see this before. Laura Blankfein going mental over having to wait on line at a charity dinner… this is like the most awesome thing ever.I can just imagine her the next morning, complaining to Lloyd while shining his head with Turtle Wax before he goes off to work.
Meanwhile this is more recent news, apparently:
Police in East Hampton, N.Y., arrested the wife of longtime Goldman Sachs hedge fund guru Ray Iwanowski for drunk driving, according to The New York Post.
Jane Iwanowski, 48, crashed her BMW into a tree in July. A police report stated an intoxicated Iwanowski “was unable to walk or stand,” when questioned while at a hospital.
Fun times in the fast lane!
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From the Post story – “Another observer said the women were so impatient, it was as if they were waiting on line for a kidney transplant instead of a charitable designer clothing sale.”
Somehow I don’t think either of these women would ever wait for a kidney. They’d just pay to have one forcibly removed from “the help”!
Matt,
I don’t remember seeing Nomi Prins name in your Goldman pieces, but I think her work is very informative and worthwhile. You might take a look if you haven’t and perhaps interview her for your blog.
Sounds like a scene from Arrested Development.
Even exiledonline has a snippet on it. How did you miss it?
Huh. I liked that scene better in “Goodfellas” where Robert DeNiro warns his fellow mob heisters not to go out and buy anything flashy.
Same damn thing, only this time we’re talking $850 charity event tables instead of tacky fur coats.
Out of all of the wonderful pieces that you have done on Goldman Sachs, this short piece may be the most telling. These people really do think that they are special. What a bunch of fucking assholes!!
How soon before one of these wives writes a whiny self-pitying letter to the editor of the New York Times?
Yeah, saw this come out last week. How dare anyone expect our royals wait in line with ordinary peasants. The best this story got was a few lines on blogs. No mainstream media would dare denigrate Lord Blankfein or his family. I am really afraid with the short attention span of the media and public at large, and the many subtle lines of GS PR defense, that Blankfein and the criminals at Goldman Sachs have gotten away with it and will continue to exercise their weapons of mass extortion. They will continue to skim off of our 401K investments with insider and high frequency trading and there is not a damn thing we can do about it. The only thing I have thought of is to subtly recommend to sell GS stock in comment areas of financial websites and blogs. Goldman Sachs are nearly out of the spotlight now.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/TimothyCarney/Goldman_Sach_Will_Be_Sitting_Pretty_With_Emanuel_in_the_Obama_White_House_112108.html
Matt you must have perused this article while compiling your Goldman piece?
It’s old, only a couple months after the bailout, but it documents some of Goldman’s monetary relationship with the current WH Chief of Staff.
It’s just kind of a chilling read; I mean, within the scope of things we now understand.
Whenever I read things like this, I wonder why such people aren’t immediately swallowed up by a mob that strips them naked and steals their jewelry.
David Fry wrote today,8/20, on seekingalpha.com about how CFTC just took away the ability of the little guy to get in on the action enjoyed by GS. He points out the CFTC did not even mention how GS can manipulate the market for their own profit, but then again they have a seat at the table and a direct phone line to the Treasury.