Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Award-winning New York Times journalist Julie Satow pulls back the curtain on one of the most iconic New York City hotels that has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today’s Billionaires’ Row. Satow sits down with Elizabeth Sorensen to recount the Grande Dame’s storied history of boom and bust, glamour and greed and the denizens that graced its ballroom and corridors.
Award-winning New York Times journalist Julie Satow pulls back the curtain on one of the most iconic New York City hotels that has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today’s Billionaires’ Row. Satow sits down with Elizabeth Sorensen to recount the Grande Dame’s storied history of boom and bust, glamour and greed and the denizens that graced its ballroom and corridors.










