How far around the globe does a girl have to go to find willing brunch partners, exactly?
Earlier this week reported that Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild has been “run out of London” after a battle with her late husband’s children.
Now we hear she can’t expect a soft landing when she returns to New York, either.
We hear that the social set is furious over rumors that Lady Lynn is booting her elderly widow pal, Susan Gufreund, out of the luxury apartment she loaned her so that she can move back in.
But Gutfreund tells that the chagrined chatter is wrong — she’s actually moving out quite willingly and cheerfully.
A source tells us Gutfreund, the queen of the Upper East Side in the 1980s known for her lavish spending, was staying at Rothschild’s luxe pad at River House on 53rd Street.
“Susan is an older woman who lost her husband. It’s sad Lynn threw her out of the apartment,” says our source.
But Gutfreund — widow of disgraced “King of Wall Street,” John Gutfreud, the one-time CEO of Salomon Brothers — tells us, “I had a marvelous time staying in [Lady Lynn’s] fabulous home and I am incredibly grateful to her for letting me stay there while I moved into my new apartment.”
We asked when she moved into Lady Lynn’s pad and when she moved out, but we didn’t hear back.
After her husband’s death in 2016, Susan sold off their $53 million 12,000-square-foot duplex at the Rosario Candela-designed 834 Fifth Ave in 2019.
The pair had lived at the stunning River House many years earlier, and after Lady Lynn skipped town to live with husband Sir Evelyn de Rothschild in the UK, Susan moved into Lynn’s River House apartment.
In 2021 Susan sold off their finery in an auction at Christies, listing items like jewelry designed by late friend, Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and a table by Swiss sculptor Diego Giacometti.
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