It Takes Money, Honey: An Audience with the Feisty Georgette Mosbacher
Before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Washington and New York doyenne shares a few thoughts about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the topsy turvy 2016 election.
Georgette Mosbacher will be the first to admit she’s never been one to hold her tongue. “My friends say, ‘Your shortcoming, Georgette, is you just can’t help but tell the truth,’” she said.
Mosbacher, resplendent in red, was in the sitting room of her sprawling Fifth Avenue apartment overlooking the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a recent afternoon. She was surrounded by a few creature comforts – crystal chandeliers, gold-tasseled silk settees, a portrait over the fireplace of herself in Chanel couture, and a mild-mannered Cavalier King Charles named Geneviere that responded on command to her husky, playful voice.
Since the Nixon administration, Mosbacher has been one of the grande dames of Republican circles in Washington and New York, a feisty redhead and enthusiastic hostess of politicians and heads of state whose checkbook and dinner parties have bought her continued influence within the GOP, even after her divorce from Robert Mosbacher, the former Secretary of Commerce under George H.W. Bush. To this day, all Republican heavy-hitters come through these doors to break bread and kiss her baroque canary diamond ring.
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