In her memoirs, Duchamp gets full credit for introducing the socialite to modern art.
Its eggs-act (sorry) origin is unclear, but one theory suggests that Lemuel Benedict – socialite, stockbroker, raffish-man-about-town – "invented" eggs Benedict in 1894, when, in an emergency attempt to stave off a hangover, he ordered a combination of toast, bacon, eggs and hollandaise at New York's Waldorf Hotel.
She is now a hot favourite to win her second Oscar at the Academy Awards in March for her performance as a New York socialite who falls on hard times and is forced to live with her sister in San Francisco.
She's a socialite who used to write a column "inspired by her pursuits" for the Daily Telegraph.
The affair was discovered after Jill Kelley, a Florida socialite, was sent threatening messages from an anonymous email account in May.
David Goldman, head of global markets at Banc of America Securities, likens it to Groucho Marx's horse doctor in "A Day at the Races", who tells a socialite that she has "double blood pressure": low blood pressure on the right side of her body and high pressure on the left.
BACK in the late 1990s a New York-based magazine ran a hilarious quote from a gorgeous Russian-born socialite who had been overheard expressing dissatisfaction with the monetary terms of her marriage to a wealthy businessman: "Why should he just get to sleep with me?
The "Dream about Russia" show, produced by Konstantin Ernst, the head of Russia's Channel One, with the help of American technicians, conjured up a modern, sophisticated European country proud of its culture and its history: "the country I want to live in," tweeted Ksenia Sobchak, a socialite and journalist.But there was a glitch: one of the five snowflakes did not unfold into an Olympic ring.
SHAHRYAR, a fashion-conscious young socialite from Tehran, was immensely proud of his Jackson-5-style Afro.
Last year a Florida socialite, Jill Kelley, was dismissed as South Korea's woman in Tampa after just four months.
After Britten died, Mr Rostropovich would hug his tomb when visiting Aldeburgh.Hearing his own voiceOff-duty, he was an assiduous socialite.
