dis yah gossip is too sweet...fi real...if a laff a drap

[evanovitch]

Originally posted by www.newyorksocialdiary.com


Counts, countesses and no-accounting: Word comes from across the sea, <span style="font-weight: bold">that New York Housewives’ Luann deLesseps has flown off (desperately?) to Europe to see husband Alex in an attempt to save their crumbling marriage. Alex, the Count de Lesseps has, it is said on the streets of Geneva, taken up with a beautiful Ethiopian beauty</span> who is not only quite a bit younger than he but also quite a bit younger than his wife.

In the meantime, the sixty-something count has slimmed down, tanned up and looks years younger, according to friends, which once again raises the age-old question: Ain’t love grand? In photographs of times past, Alex De Lesseps bears a vague physical resemblance to Bernie Madoff.


Off-camera, he’s a jolly yet serious personality who has had an interest in a variety of international businesses including microfinancing and real estate (hotel) investment in Cuba. An earlier De Lesseps was given the title of Count by Napoleon. Another built the Suez Canal and also presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States.

The present Count De Lesseps and his Luann have long been a popular couple (as Alex and LuAnn) in the US and on the international social scene. Friends say that since returning to the US several years ago, the countess, who is an American with native American descendents, has focused on developing her acting career.

The success of New York Housewives,’ some believe, has been detrimental to her marriage. That may be, although it also may be the common affliction of many marriages of long duration: terminal ennui, also known as bored to death.

[mountaingal]

Re: dis yah gossip is too sweet...fi real...if a laff a drap

i'd love to see a pic of the ethiopian beauty. i went looking but no luck. it's funny how dem seh he left her for an &quot;ethiopian&quot; and not for a &quot;black woman&quot;.

[Gen]

Re: dis yah gossip is too sweet...fi real...if a laff a drap

den a wonder how young the girlfriend is as she and ramona did ketch up ovah the count age

yes dis sweet evan


but wait ? ascawding to the countess etiquette standards, don't she shouldan juss leff the count and mek him come back to har


by the way cant wait fi RH of New Jersey fi see some big hair ooman and dem joisey accent

[evanovitch]

Re: dis yah gossip is too sweet...fi real...if a laff a drap

the comments at this site where the story is also posted have for the most part, told har she can give up dat deh fight....i was amazed at the number who said dem also had Ethiopian women as dem rivals fi dem partners' affections, an dem could not compete wid di beauty , grace etc of di Ethiopian women....

if mi can memba wich site it was mi mite post di comments..almost did but den thought, why bodda...

[jah_yout]

Re: dis yah gossip is too sweet...fi real...if a laff a drap

a lot of men consider ethiopian women the epitome of beauty...
i can imagine white guys go crazy for the habeshas- they look kind of like east-indians and are usually very slim;
mi know white guys &amp; asians will love that, but black man mostly like woman with a little body &amp; booty

[Gen]

Re: dis yah gossip is too sweet...fi real...if a laff a drap

evan yuh see the new show pan E name candy girls ? bout the video vixen dem ?

[evanovitch]

The Countess is Count-less.


NEW YORK (AP) --

Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, one of the society ladies on Bravo's &quot;The Real Housewives of New York,&quot; has separated from Count de Lesseps after 16 years of marriage. Her husband is a Frenchman whose ancestor presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The reality star's publicist</span>, Elizabeth Rosenthal, <span style="font-weight: bold">issued a statement Tuesday </span>saying the couple &quot;plan to remain friends and their primary focus will be to do what is best for their two children.&quot;

Rosenthal declined to comment on reports the breakup came after the former model learned The Count, Alex de Lesseps, was having a relationship with another woman.

But the Countess will keep her title, says Rosenthal. Her etiquette book, &quot;Class With the Countess,&quot; arrives April 16.

[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: The Countess is Count-less.

Now that Countess LuAnn de Lesseps has split from her husband, will she retain the title that she holds so dear and thrusts upon pizza boys and friends? A nobility lesson, after the jump.

When LuAnn married Count Alexandre de Lesseps (the great-great-great grandson of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who built the Suez Canal and presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States) she gained the title Countess, and was &quot;legally entitled to the privileges of peerage,&quot; meaning that she had a &quot;life estate in her husband's dignity.&quot; She is not a peer in her own right, but simply &quot;style&quot; alone. Still, it's considered a legal title.

She loses her legal right to the &quot;peerage style&quot;— being Countess LuAnn de Lesseps — following divorce. However, with divorce having become more and more common in the last couple of centuries, a convention was developed that allows divorced wives to retain a &quot;courtesy title,&quot; which means that her first name will be placed before the title, followed by her last name, e.g. LuAnn Countess de Lesseps. This helps distinguish divorced wives from a peer's subsequent wives. She's not required to be addressed that way, and can instead go by her given name, or simply LuAnn de Lesseps. Knowing how much she's come to identify with her husband's aristocracy, I think it's safe to say that LuAnn will opt for the courtesy title.

LuAnn is actually Alex's fourth wife, and it's unknown if he has children from his previous marriages. On the show she mentioned that the family heirlooms and jewelry will get passed on to her son, who will inherit her husband's title. Does this mean that LuAnn's jewelry will be taken when the divorce is final, since it belongs to the title, and not necessarily to her?

In her most recent blog post, she said that her mantra is &quot;if you don't take care of yourself, nobody else will,&quot; which is why she's taking a few days off to go to a spa. Perhaps she'll take some time there to reflect on what she thought was the problem with women: that they're &quot;too equal&quot; with men.