Gayfryd steinberg biography definition

Whoever sat Gayfryd Steinberg next to Michael Shnayerson at a dinner party had a strange sense of humor. He was a writer, a year veteran of Vanity Fair.

She was one of the magazine’s best subjects: a famous, gorgeous socialite who, along with her ­husband, the swashbuckling corporate raider Saul Steinberg, bedazzled New York throughout the ’80s. Vanity Fair had chronicled the entire arc, from Gayfryd’s humble Canadian beginnings to the surreptitious rearranging of place cards that seated her next to Steinberg, one of the city’s first billionaires, to the gaudy, over-the-top parties that cemented their status as “the king and queen of nouvelle society.” And when the party inevitably came to an end, the magazine didn’t hold back, publishing an article titled “Vanished Opulence” that ­reveled in the humbling of the couple once likened to ­modern-day Medicis: the auction they were forced to hold of every gilded obje