New York Gossip Gal | by Roz

Herve Humler, president and chief operations officer, of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, was a participant in a gathering of senior private and public sector leaders invited to attend The White House Educational Roundtable hosted by President Barack Obama last Monday. As the only hospitality executive invited to join in the discussion about developing strong industry-led [...]

American Hotelier Vikram Chatwal takes his Dream hotel brand downtown into the hottest neighborhood, right next to the Maritime Hotel at 17th street.  End result? The Dream Downtown is stunning and a classy place for drinks and dining, not to mention the unbelievable rooftop for partying. The very interesting Chatwal was just profiled in the [...]

CNBC business and finance wiz Maria Bartiromo, Anchor of ‘Closing Bell’ and ‘Wall Street Journal Report’ definitely proved the other day why she used to be called ‘The Bullet.’ The Emmy Award winning journalist/host looking totally unrecognizable in ponytail and Yankee cap was spotted doing some weekend grocery shopping on the Upper East Side and [...]

Legendary TV executive Judith McGrath, one of the few women smart enough to work her way up the ranks to become Chairman and CEO of mega entertainment corporation MTV Networks, just resigned from her position. Ms. McGrath said, “The people of MTV Networks have always been singularly important to me. Together we have built world-class [...]

Businesswoman Hilary Rowland founder of ‘Project Migration,’ dedicated to bringing much needed water and medical supplies to single mothers and children in the slums of Africa through the sale of her unique fashion items and accessories, models the super chic faux-leather cuff bracelet at Global Fashion Brands Ethical Fashion Pop-Up store at Nexus Townhouse in [...]

Sumner M. Redstone announced last week a second grant of $500,000 – bringing his most recent gift to total $1 mil, to the Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF), a non-profit program that provides a wide range of critical health and educational services to impoverished and abused children in Cambodia’s capitol city of Phnom Penh. Redstone who [...]

I have to say it’s refreshing to hear that James Murdoch the youngest son of News Corp Chairman Rupert is lined up to be his successor. Many times we hear these horror stories of how the sons of the rich, powerful and successful always seem to have family fall outs, so it’s nice to hear [...]

It’s all in the family for Tyler Perry and Lionsgate. Perry, who acts, directs, writes and everything else, has made 10 films in the past six years with the studio and grossed over 500 million dollars at the North American box office, so it’s no surprise the studio just resigned him for another two with [...]

Best on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, HBO films takes a look at the epochal financial crises of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of weeks. It centers on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson who was previously head of Goldman Sachs, and [...]

On the heels of the FCC approving the multi-billion dollar Comcast NBC-Universal merger where Comcast will control 51% and General Electric will retain the remaining 49%, news is starting to trickle down of the changing of the guards in all sectors of the company. The first to go as had been expected Jeff Zucker who [...]