And what about the rich Romanian Princess Soutzo who lavishly hosted Proust at the Ritz, Ciro's and the Crillon and was still to be found, mouldering away with her Nazi collaborationist husband, in her grand mansion on Avenue Charles-Floquet right into the age of Chirac?
Paul was an exotic and popular sight in the French capital, and was lavishly hosted and entertained.
When Hillary Clinton ran for President, Burkle gave lavishly to her campaign, and hosted a fund-raiser that took in $2.6 million.
Dubai spent lavishly on its bid to host Expo 2020, emblazoning its snowflake-like logo on taxis, building facades and shopping bags and sending a national team to plant the UAE flag on the summit of Kilimanjaro.
The network receives funds from the Qatari government, which spent lavishly to win the bid to host the World Cup in 2022.
Iran may declare that its objective is to chase America from the Persian Gulf, but it is Iranian recalcitrance that prompts its neighbours to host American bases and spend lavishly on American arms.
The knowledge that "you could be a good person and host lavishly violent acts in your imagination" was, Danes said, a kind of liberation.
If diplomats, as well as corporate representatives and executives — whom the hotel hosted in a separate room Tuesday — want to spend lavishly at Trump properties, there appears to be no ethics rule to stop it, short of an act of Congress.
More than 300 guests - a mixture of press, animal campaigners and admirers, some clutching red roses and lavishly wrapped gifts, gave the woman known as BB a standing ovation as she hosted a party to mark the 20th anniversary of her animal foundation.
The couple hosted their artist friends on a regular basis in their home, which they decorated lavishly with their own art and with their art collection.
Dunn was pleasantly surprised by the enthusiastic feedback from the guest chefs — Robert Irvine, the notoriously cranky host of several Food Network shows, lavishly praised the dining staff's rendition of one of his dishes — but when it came time to pick a judge for the Battle of the Dining Halls, they knew it had to be Samuelsson.
