An Inclusive Litany

8/17/92

In the February 2, 1989, New York Post, Cindy Adams described a typical party that takes place in the rent-stabilized apartment of Alice Mason, New York's premier real estate broker:
Alice Mason... gave one of those dinner parties of hers that snap, crackle, and pop because so do the guests. Jean Claude Nedelec of Glorious Food always comes in to prepare a fine, hot meal for the more than 50 stars and satellites scattered throughout the living room, dining room and library of her apartment...

Who was there? To name a few—Malcolm Forbes, who arrived on his motorcycle... Countess (Aline) of Romanones, whose navy blue windbreaker over a long, bare, black dress was as chic as any mink or sable, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Carl Spielvogel, Helen Gurley Brown, and David Brown; [Elie and] Mrs. Elie (Marion) Wiesel... Frances Lear of the Lear's magazine Lears...

In addition to the rooms mentioned in the article, the apartment also includes accommodations for maids and butlers. Her landlord, Eugene Martin, said that Jean Claude Nedelec and Glorious Food once overloaded the elevator with so much food that they overrode the brakes, costing him $5,000 in repairs.