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High life

The day Elizabeth Taylor kidnapped my daughter

7 May 2022

9:00 AM

7 May 2022

9:00 AM

New York

Back in the good old days the Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was the hotel for Yankee swells, rich politicians such as JFK, and, of course, upper-class Eurotrash. Both my children were born at a hospital nearby, and both newborns spent their first month of life at the hotel.

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