Being Mr. Big
Newsweek, August, 2008 by Johnnie L. Roberts
Financier and Democratic moneyman Steve Rattner seems to have it all. Looks can be deceiving.
People to the manner born once deemed Manhattan apartment-living déclassé. A century ago, only ostentatious mansions—of Astors and other aristocrats—occupied “Millionaires’ Row,” the most gilded stretch of that blue-blooded artery, Fifth Avenue. But that all changed in 1912 when a luxurious new 12-story Italian Renaissance building rose near the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And it is here, in the marbled grandeur of a sprawling palazzo, that Wall Street veteran and onetime New York Times reporter Steve Rattner today hosts the beau monde of Manhattan.
The gatherings are like “a grand salon, a throwback to New York of old,” says indie-film mogul Harvey Weinstein, who along...
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