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mary shaffer glass sculptures in handmade in america: conversations with 14 craftmasters - barbaralee diamonstein (1983)

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Jonathan talks at 1.00.30 in this video honouring Stephen Sondheim on February 14 2024 after a matinee. Jonathan discusses when he visited Stephen Sondheim’s townhouse, meeting Lonny Price, what he said to Patti LuPone recently, an early connection with Sondheim at a school science fair, and his views on the character of Franklin Shepard.

From the YouTube description: The program was led by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Chair of Historic Landmarks Preservation Center and NYC Landmarks60 Alliance.

Participants in the program include: James Lapine, Librettist and director Patti LuPone, actress and singer John McWhorter, Columbia University Professor of Linguistics and author, Jonathan Groff, actor and singer, John Weidman, Librettist Liz Callaway, Grammy-nominated singer.

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BARBARALEE REAL

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Barbaralee Davis, 18 (USA 1977)

Barbaralee Davis was the first mother (that we know about) to be killed by the National Abortion Federation. An abortion facility that was a member of the newly-formed NAF killed the 18-year-old girl and her unborn baby on June 14, 1977.

The facility was ironically called Hope Clinic for Women. It was located in Granite City, Illinois. Barbaralee was estimated to be 11 weeks pregnant. Hector Zavallos was the abortionist.

After the abortion, the teenager was pale and in obvious pain. She was kept for two hours(allegedly for observation) but the last time anyone bothered to record her vital signs was 45 minutes after the abortion.

Barbaralee wanted to go home, so the facility sent her on her way without a post-op examination even though CDC investigators discovered that she was showing the warning signs of internal bleeding.

Her sister Rita drove her home and helped her out of the car. Barbaralee was pale and bleeding when she went to sleep. A few hours later, Rita found her sister unresponsive.

The dying teenager was taken to the hospital. Unfortunately, Barbaralee was too severely injured to be saved and she was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital just 12 hours after the abortion. Her 3-year-old son Shane was left an only child without a mother.

The autopsy revealed how mutilated Barbaralee had been. A hole was ripped in her uterus and 2 quarts of blood were in her abdominal cavity. Even more horrifying, her baby’s face and spine were embedded in a hole in her uterus.

It was also discovered that Barbaralee was not 11 weeks pregnant as she had been told. She was actually between 16 weeks and 16 1/2 weeks.

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Barbaralee Diamonstein

Harry Callahan (Vision and Images: American Photographers on Photography, 1981)

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

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Grab a coffee at the Golden Pear in Southampton, New York, drive due south almost a mile straight down Main Street, take a left onto Gin Lane. It’s just a five-minute drive. As your GPS will tell you, you’ve arrived. The storied street, one of the most exclusive in the Hamptons, runs parallel to the ocean. It’s filled with grand old shingled homes, some built in the late 1880s, hidden from view behind hedgerows of privet, a hardy shrub first brought to the Hamptons by English settlers in the 1600s.

From your turn onto Gin Lane, it’s another 0.7 miles to number 376. Here sits a cedar-shingled house—which you can’t see from the street—built in 1888 on the Rosa rugosa dunes for railroad tycoon Robert Olyphant, the great-great-grandfather of actor Timothy Olyphant. The house is rumored—but never proven—to have been designed by Stanford White, the Gilded Age starchitect and accused sexual predator. White was 47 when he allegedly raped 16-year-old Evelyn Nesbit and 52 when Nesbit’s then husband, multimillionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, shot him dead. The house, first known as Eden Cottage, has direct access to the beach. Film buffs may recognize it from Woody Allen’s 1978 movie, Interiors. Its own feature coffered ceilings, nine fireplaces, and French doors galore.

In 1990, Carl Spielvogel, the late ad mogul, and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, the landmarks expert, bought the 12-bedroom house. The Spielvogels hired White’s great-grandson, architect Sam White, to restore the home, which they called Bonnie Dune—the home’s name since the turn of the century. Then they decided they needed a bigger place.

Enter Louise Blouin and John MacBain. The couple bought the estate for a reported $13.5 million in late 1997 and renamed it La Dune. The house had just been through a storm—perhaps it was an omen—but a steel bulkhead had been installed, and the sale went through. There was no bulkhead, however, to protect the MacBains’ marriage from the elements, which in the Hamptons includes a certain type of striving that can be as destructive as it is all-consuming.

As the MacBain family settled in, they built a second house on the Hamptons property, with interiors by the late Francois Catroux, a decorator to aristocrats, Russian oligarchs, and rich Americans. The guesthouse features nine bedrooms, eight baths, two powder rooms, a home theater, and a billiard room. Both homes boast gyms, saunas, and staff quarters. The compound sits on 4.2 prime oceanfront acres, with 19 bedrooms between them, two pools, and a sunken all-weather tennis court.

Blond, beautiful, and wildly ambitious, Blouin had made a fortune with MacBain, creating an international classified ad empire. La Dune was the perfect place to show off their success. But the couple, who brought their own strengths to the business, were growing apart. By 2000, they had divorced. Blouin began to travel the jet-setting art world circuit with auctioneer Simon de Pury, chairman of Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, who had become her boyfriend following the breakup of her marriage; de Pury hired her to be CEO. By 2003, her relationship with de Pury, and his company, had come to an end, and she moved into art publishing.

As she moved into the art world, Blouin launched a foundation, held “art Davos”–style “global creative leadership summits,” and handed out awards to world leaders (Bill Clinton), billionaires (Carlos Slim), Nobel Prize winners (Elie Wiesel; some neuroscientists), and famous artists (Jeff Koons). She threw parties for her foundation at places like the Venice Biennale with her then boyfriend Prince Andrew in tow. Her big ideas explored creativity and the brain, and using culture to promote world peace. Only her ego was bigger. She put her name in front of all her publications and websites. Blouin had an eye for talent but a manic nature, bombarding her staff with nonsensical staccato emails.

“She was fun. She was creative. But no one on her team took her seriously,” says a former publicist. And while Blouin would generously fly some staff on private jets for ski trips and invite others to work retreats at La Dune, allegations swirled that she cut people’s pay, fired them, or stiffed them altogether. In interviews with VF, ex-staff call her a “liar,” a “sociopath,” and “vindictive.” “A kinder word would be ‘delusions of grandeur,’ ” said one former executive. Blouin’s companies have also been sued by a landlord, a printer, and many others—according to reports and staffers interviewed by VF. The New York Post dubbed her the Red Queen for her penchant for wearing the color and for her Alice in Wonderland “off with their heads” management style. “She thought she was a genius, but she just wasn’t,” says one former senior staffer. “She presented herself as this brilliant businesswoman, a thinker, and a kind of tech visionary—like some kind of global figure in a Steve Jobs way.”

And now Blouin has finally lost La Dune. The estate was sold in a bankruptcy sale this winter. What has happened since then is not totally dissimilar from other stumbles and scandals in Blouin’s long public history: She is crying foul and unfair play, mulling her options to sue everyone from her brokers to the auction house that sold La Dune—even The New York Times, for an interview she gave after the sale. “Ms. Blouin contacted us to raise what she believed to be inaccuracies,” says a spokesperson for The New York Times. “We carefully reviewed those concerns and concluded the story was accurate as published. We stand by the reporting.”

The first time I spoke to Blouin, it was by phone, on her final night at La Dune. It had been more than a quarter of a century since she had first bought the Gin Lane estate. Her voice was calm, even, unemotional, and slightly regal, like Judi Dench’s fictional spy chief, M, in the James Bond films. That was the first of two long interviews. What followed was a flurry of emails, texts, and phone calls—I stopped counting after 50. At one point she sent me a digitally constructed “evidence” board, like the kind you see in the movies, featuring pictures of and red arrows around the people whom she claims have conspired against her. It would be incomprehensible to even try to detail it here. To sum it up, she has a lot to say.

For one thing, she insists, she does have empathy, and that’s why she went into the arts, and took care of her mother when she had Alzheimer’s disease, and her husband following a ski accident in 2015. She also says she is only just now unraveling a massive fraud orchestrated by key members of her publishing team, to the tune of millions. When she found out, she says, she shut down and transferred the New York office overseas.

The last time Blouin spoke with Vanity Fair for this story, she wanted to underscore points she’d emailed, texted, and called about. “I don’t pay things. When you are a chairman and CEO of a global company, you don’t pay things,” she said via Zoom. And then, a few breaths later, “I paid everyone, they stole the money on the other side.”

Some ex-staff interviewed by VF also believe there were some irregularities, but not on the scale that Blouin alleges. Others say their work practices were standard. Blouin claims the Manhattan district attorney opened an investigation; the DA declined to comment.

As for the house, “she has seller’s remorse,” said John Allerding, a lawyer for Bay Point Advisors, Blouin’s last lender. If there had been a minimum reserve bid, “we would have had no bidders and we would be in the same position as we were when we got involved in September 2022: two properties that nobody wanted, generating expenses.”

The Department of Justice has an ongoing investigation involving federal withholdings from Blouin’s employees’ paychecks that were never sent to the government. Blouin has lodged her own complaint against the government. When reached by VF, an IRS investigator and the IRS spokesperson declined to comment. From Europe, Blouin tells VF the company allocated money to pay the withholding but that it never made it to the federal government. She says she had nothing to do with any “fraud” because she didn’t run her company, and that she welcomes the IRS investigation. “The truth will finally come out,” she says.

“The Big Apple ate me,” Blouin says in another call, with a laugh. “I wasn’t lucky in New York.”

The house on Gin Lane is far from Dorval, the Montreal suburb where Blouin grew up in comfort, one of six children. Her parents ran an insurance brokerage. She went to private schools and sailed competitively. According to the Toronto Star, she traces her heritage on her mother’s side to Jacques Viger, the first mayor of Montreal, elected in 1833. Blouin attended McGill University but never graduated. She annulled her first marriage, to David Stewart, an RJR-Macdonald tobacco heir. In 1987, Blouin married MacBain. A Rhodes scholar and son of a Liberal member of parliament, MacBain was a rising star at Power Corporation, which was owned by the family of Blouin’s brother-in-law, Paul Desmarais Jr., who came from one of Canada’s wealthiest families. As the MacBains’ business grew, the couple moved to Europe and summered at La Dune, where they enjoyed family life with their three children and threw lavish parties. But MacBain did not share Blouin’s social ambitions, some say, and the couple grew apart.

Two years after buying La Dune, in 2000, the marriage was over but the parties continued. Calvin Klein, Ross Bleckner, and Bianca Jagger were among the many guests. Blouin sold her share of the business to her ex-husband for a reported $200 million. The men she dated during this new chapter—including Simon de Pury, the “Mick Jagger of auctioneers,” and Prince Andrew—were also drawn to La Dune.

For many years, La Dune was Blouin’s calling card, luring stars and their hangers-on through the oceanfront doors. But over time, it became an albatross. By 2018, a $26 million mortgage required additional lenders. In 2023, the compound was both in bankruptcy protection and on the market for an astonishing $150 million. It was also for rent for millions of dollars. “If she could have gotten a renter at $2 million or $3 million for the summer, which was possible, she would have been able to service the loan,” a broker who once worked with Blouin told VF.

Those who walked through the compound during its final months on the market told VF that it had great bones, but there was something tragic about it. One banker, who attended a lunch prepared by Blouin’s private chef on a terrace overlooking the ocean last summer, ultimately turned down her refinancing request.

“When people live above their means against assets they have or inherited in order to tread water, it typically doesn’t end well. Nobody thought it was worth $150 million. It felt like Grey Gardens, with faded Hiroshi Sugimoto seascape photographs on the wall,” he says. Such grand old houses, he notes, “get really beaten down by the ocean.”

Ultimately, on a cold winter night in January this year, Blouin lost La Dune in a live foreclosure auction that lasted a little longer than five hours, at Sotheby’s New York offices on the Upper East Side. The sale was the first time Sotheby’s auctioned real estate live alongside art, in a collection titled “Visions of America.”

“This should be a series on Netflix,” a would-be buyer whispered, referring to all the drama.

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mary shaffer glass sculptures in handmade in america: conversations with 14 craftmasters - barbaralee diamonstein (1983)

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Rep. Barbara Lee: The Lessons of 9/11 | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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