Mica’s life was transformed after she took a trip to New York in theįall of 1958 to meet with the Turkish ambassador to the United Nations In spite of having had to take care ofĥ,000 chickens whose eggs she had to collect, wash, and box, Mica looksīack fondly on the nearly 10 years she spent there, rising every morningĪt five to collect eggs but dressing at night for candelabra-litĭinners. Them, later lent them funds to move to a town on the shore of Lake Some “very rich Canadians,” as Mica describes Family friends shepherded them to Paris, where Mica got modeling Kind fellow guests they befriended helped get the young couple on theirįeet. Hotel, though none of them had a dime to pay. Greenfield published in 2011, they boarded at the elegant Dolder Grand Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun, a biography by Robert Of Nations-the party ended up in Zurich, where, according to The Last Traveling on Nansen passports-issued to stateless people by the League II) was forced to abdicate by Romania’s new Communist government, MicaĪnd her husband boarded one of the two trains on which members of the On January 10, 1948, 11 days after King Michael (who had succeeded Carol “I think speaks for itself,” Wachner told me.
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MAC II and Bette Midler, who sang “Happy Birthday.” The guest list included the Reverend Father Alexander Karloutsos,Įrtegun’s Greek Orthodox pastor several of her doctors the staff of In addition to the abovementionedįriends and others such as Mercedes Bass and Princess Firyal of Jordan, October 21, when Wachner invited 37 of them to La Grenouille toĬelebrate Mica’s 90th birthday. Murdoch in c.c.) was not being kept from her old friends the night of Story “completely false” in a letter she wrote to Johnson, with Rupert “Nobody who knows Mica is going to allow what happened to BrookeĪstor to happen to her.” Certainly, Ertegun (who called the Post’s
“There is no elder abuse here, nor is there going to be,” GrunwaldĪdds. “Mica is a total original who has never copied anyone,” says Boaz “Linda is devoted to her, but she’s not getting anything out of itįinancially. Louise Grunwald, a leader of society and philanthropy in New York. She is still in charge of herself,” vouches “Maybe the people saying these things are people “very jolly” dinner with the two ladies recently. Meanwhile, Boaz Mazor, a longtime Oscar de la Renta executive, had a House in Sag Harbor a month ago, and both were in great spirits.” “The idea that Linda is keeping Mica away from her old friends isĪbsurd,” says music-industry mogul Lyor Cohen. To call the allegations “baseless and without credibility.” Says close friend and Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner, who went on and happen to think Linda is a blessing for Mica,” “I had lunch with both of them a few months ago. Near-constant companion-but all debunked any sinister accusations Published agreed that Mica is now “frail” and that Wachner, 71, is her Several close friends of Ertegun’s whom I contacted after the story was Had Ertegun’s life turned into some nightmare reminiscent of What Ever
(They liked the ring of it because “it sounded like a trucking firm,” In 1967, she and her best friend, Chessy Rayner,įounded a decorating firm, which they named with their initials, MAC II. (She was named to the Internationalīest-Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1971.) It infused not only her housesīut also many others’. Mica’s unique personal style-her blend of the austere and theĮxotic-made her a fashion icon. Standard for fine living at their homes in New York City, Southampton, Was the virtual definition of sophistication, and they set a new gold Industry for five decades as he shaped the careers of artists rangingįrom Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones. She was married to Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish-born co-founder ofĪtlantic Records, who reigned as the most influential titan of the music Kissinger and Annette de la Renta as she is with Kid Rock and theīut, then, Ioana Maria Banu, “Mica” Ertegun, who turned 90 on OctoberĢ1, is one of the most intriguing senior citizens around. There can’t be another nonagenarian today who is as tight with Henry
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