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socialite

[soh-shuh-lahyt] / ˈsoʊ ʃəˌlaɪt /


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De Niro and Hightower called it quits in 2018, and the socialite then offloaded the home in March 2025 for $18 million.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

As Oprah Winfrey gushed to Burden, a Harvard-educated lawyer and the granddaughter of socialite Babe Paley: “You are every woman. You have written the manual for every woman.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

“The Gilded Age” pulls inspiration from New York City’s 19th century elite, with Gladys Russell’s reluctant betrothal to an English duke nodding to socialite Consuelo Vanderbilt’s lavish nuptials a decade later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Others argued that the shirt is too cheap-looking to be something Chao, who is every inch the wealthy socialite, would wear.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

Kaitlyn just happened to be an extremely sophisticated twenty- five-year-old British socialite stuck inside a sixteen-year-old body in Indianapolis.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

He called himself the Fashion Whisperer of Boston and for years outfitted socialites and the wives of Red Sox players as a stylist at the city’s Saks Fifth Avenue store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Lawyers for Epstein's estate also handed over copies of his address book, which contained contact details from 1990 to 2019 for a host of celebrities, royals, fashion designers, business figures, socialites and politicians.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

Guest, Lee Radziwill, Slim Keith — these women were described as socialites, they were influential in their own way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

When her character, Aurora Fane, joins a throng of socialites surveying the nearly completed Met, the camera lingers on her face, upraised in awe.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

There were only patrons, journalists, critics, and socialites.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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