Remember when Lloyd Grove published that juicy article about little "socialite" who couldn't really hack it Melissa Berkelhammer? Basically, it revealed that she paid a ton of money to R. Couri Hay so that he could try to get her to parties nobody wanted her at and set up dinners with people who obviously didn't care to talk to her. He probably had to beg the kids at the Observer to follow her around, with the promise that she would act like a fucking idiot and give them something to write about.

Well, New York Social Diary is defending her. They say, "everyone needs PR to move up in social status," and "whose life and whose business is it anyway?"

Good point. (Or, at least it was a better point than the part where they compare modern day tramps to the Rockefellers.) Why should we be paying attention to any of these socialites anyways. It's not like their coughing up thousands of dollars a month to be on the scene or at parties or with people that are being talked about or anything pathetically crazy like that.

Society's darlings … [New York Social Diary]
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