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But the ladies of Brooke Astor’s era are not without heiresses. This is the era of handbag lines and jewelry brands, when being a socialite can get you a reality-television show but can’t necessarily earn you any respect. Over the year’s the event has drawn Virgil Abloh, Lady Gaga, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Sharon Stone.Being a socialite isn’t what it used to be: Gone are the days of dignified reserve and vast charitable donations (representing tiny slivers of even vaster personal wealth). Other guests at the highfalutin affair, which otherwise went smoothly and featured works like a man speaking Spanish in a giant egg and a topless woman moving fake rocks, included artist Carrie Mae Weems, Jean Shafiroff, Fern Mallis, and lawyer Lieba Nesis. Reps for the Watermill Center told us, “the team cannot comment as they are not aware of the incident you mention.” Listings of her work on OpenSea have no bids. That work is listed on Artsy along with other pieces such as a pair of sunglasses adorned with diamonds. (As if it makes any difference, it is actually listed for $450 million online).

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I really hope I never see her again.”Įngman says her NFT of a “BMW Art Car,” which was displayed earlier that day at a polo match in Bridgehampton, is going for $4.7 million and a “Masterworks and Magnificent Gems” series NFT is going for $4.5 million. Patrick McMullan via Getty ImageĬurator Engman would not give more details about who the woman is or what exactly went down, saying, “my bodyguard said I can’t talk about it.”īut she did tell us, “Someone said she was targeting me since I’m a billionaire and since my NFTs are worth so much. “There was no physical contact, thank God, because my private security kept her away from me,” Engman tells us, claiming, “She has been stalking me for weeks.” Engman mingled with guests like Jean Shafiroff and Rebecca Smeyne before the incident. While she claims she was “attacked,” she says it didn’t come to actual blows. I have a stalker who was waiting for me when I exited the party and tried to attack me on the street in front. There was a dust-up outside the swanky Watermill Center’s summer benefit, “Crossroads,” in the Hamptons this weekend, with colorful socialite Stacy Engman claiming she was “attacked” by a “stalker” because her “NFTs are so valuable.”Ī source tells Page Six that there was hubbub at the high-end bash, which features unique performance pieces, between the art-world scenester and another woman.Ī witness says they spotted Engman - dressed in ostrich feathers, bedazzled sunglasses, a tiara and a glittery sash that read “Art Royalty” - being walked out of the event by security and they told us there was talk around the posh event of a “fight” between the pair.Įngman, who was ordered to attend anger management classes in 2016 after she bit a lady on a Turkish Airlines flight, tells us, “I wasn’t escorted out. It wasn’t part of the performance art, it seems.

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