Who: Grammy-nominated record executive and Motown founder Berry Gordy, 91, and Grammy and Oscar-nominated singer and occasional actress Diana Ross, 77. How They Met: Ross and her singing trio, The Primettes, sought out Gordy and Motown around 1960, when the members were still in high school. Though Gordy was impressed by the group — as well as Ross, its "whiny" lead singer — he refused to sign them while they were still in school. Read More...
We said it before, and we’ll say it again: If you buy one thing this season, make it a pair of Mary Janes. Diane Keaton is clearly on the same wavelength, as the actress just took her own ultra-trendy pair out for a (double) spin, wearing it twice in one day. Keaton has been busy doing press rounds for her upcoming movie, Book Club: The Next Chapter — I already have my movie tickets secured because you can bet when my BFFs Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen travel to Italy together, I’ll be joining along. Read More...
Who Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg (née Halfin) and the late Prince Edouard Egon von und zu Fürstenberg, who died in 2004 at the age of 57. How They Met Diane and Egon met in 1965 when they were both 18 years old, at a birthday party in Lausanne, Switzerland while they both were attending the University of Geneva. They came from wildly different backgrounds — Diane the daughter of a Holocaust survivorwho gave birth to her just 18 months after escaping Auschwitz, and Egon, the son of a German prince and a member of the Fiat family. Read More...
