We'd laugh about her bitchy socialite friends or whatever husband she was divorcing at the time because I thought I was in on the joke, but that whole time, I was the joke.
Now because I'd been a football star, a war hero and a national celebrity and a shrimping boat captain and a college graduate, these city folks of Greensboro Alabama decided to get together and offered me a fine job.
Now, despite her patronage, Coco's success was a product of her own skill: her hats and dresses brought with them a unique and alluring style that attracted socialites from across Europe.
They would pay socialites and aristocratic ladies to talk about how fantastic Ponds cold cream was in magazines like Tatler. So it's kind of a new, old form of influencer marketing.
Yet a suspect armed with a shotgun and other weapons managed to get a floor above the ballroom where an extraordinary concentration of cabinet members, high-ranking lawmakers and celebrities were dining.
Meanwhile, increased global travel has made pretty much any bed in the world just a short flight away, both for human jet setters and their bedbug stowaways.
And they were very strongly criticized for organizing a flashy party for Vatican VIPs and European jetsetters during last year's canonization ceremony of John Paul II and John XXIII.
Unlike Davos, the conference in Switzerland that draws a roster of the world's wealthy and prominent, the Saudi event has struggled to attract heads of state.
The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged.