It’s going to be busy June 9.
Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is coming back to town to press the flesh with well-heeled supporters at Kiki and Peggy Vandeweghe’s manse. Giuliani was here for the same gathering on April 16, the day of the Virginia Tech massacre. So the meet-and-greet was postponed.
“It was just not the thing to do that day,” says organizer Mary Smith, chairwoman of the Denver County GOP.
It costs $1,000 to attend the party; $4,600 if you want to come to an early “roundtable” session with Giuliani; $2,300 if you want your picture taken with the former Gotham mayor. A few hundred are expected for Rudy Duty, including John Elway.
That’s one reason he won’t be at former wife Janet Elway’s Janet’s Camp party the same night. The jamboree for 300 comes down at Janet’s Cherry Hills Village compound to raise money to send 250 kids to YMCA Summer Day Camp.
Back at the ranch
Forget about Red Mountain or Starwood. The best address in Aspen is Wildcat, the 6,500-acre spread in Snowmass that Michael Douglas divided into 14 private, secluded ranches. I’ve been there, and there’s nothing like it in Colorado.
And that’s what Tommy Mottola and his musical superstar wife, Thalia, think. A four-page spread in June’s Architectural Digest profiles the couple and their house.
Mottola is chairman of Casablanca Records and the former CEO and chairman of Sony Music Entertainment. He also is the ex-husband of Mariah Carey. Now he spends his time in Miami; Greenwich, Conn.; Bedford, N.Y.; and Aspen with Thalia – all of it good.
The Aspen log house is 15,000 square feet with five bedrooms on 700 acres. Add in two guest cabins.
“By the time we sat down in the backyard and had a sandwich, it was over – finished,” Mottola tells AD of buying the spread.
The master suite is ruled by a Ralph Lauren red-velvet-upholstered sleigh bed.
“Yes, it’s red velvet, but with the tartans for bedding, it doesn’t feel like a bordello. It looks like Ralph,” he says. “It works.”
People are talking about …
The big bridal shower the girls are throwing Wendy Aiello on Sunday. She and Channel 4 boss Walt DeHaven marry at Elway’s on June 16. … The Vegas wedding of Capital Grille’s Rebekah Haman and the guy next door, Tamayo’s Michael Mongelluzzo, on Aug. 25. … Plush, a new restaurant/late-night lounge opening Saturday in Cherry Creek. … Thursday’s opening of The Corner Office Restaurant and Martini Bar in The Curtis. … A Denverite’s birthday party that’ll draw 100 people to Las Vegas in August.
City spirit
Emmy-winning anchor Asha Blake is leaving Channel 2; her last day is June 30. “It’s all good and all fine,” she says. “I am returning to L.A. for family reasons.” … Crowded House’s big reunion hits the Fillmore on Aug. 22. … Kyle’s Saloon has shut after 6½ years in Stapleton. … Suzanne Vega at the Boulder Theater on Nov. 21. … Free day at Denver Museum of Nature & Science on Wednesday. … Add Leftover Salmon to the Jazz Aspen Snowmass fest on Labor Day weekend. … Sez who: “It doesn’t matter what temperature a room is. It’s always room temperature, right?” Steven Wright
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