In May 1979, Lee Radziwill married Newton Cope, a San Francisco hotel and real-estate millionaire. The couple met when Mrs. Radziwill, an interior designer, went to supervise the refurbishing of the Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill, which Mr. Cope owns.
One of the Swans said they should venture across the West Side to have lunch at the Café des Artistes. The original Café des Artistes was a restaurant located at 1 West 67th Street in Manhattan's Hotel des Artistes tower, which opened in 1917. The restaurant was designed for the residents of the hotel, who didn't have kitchens in their apartments. Artists like Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, Isadora Duncan, and Rudolph Valentino were patrons. The original Café des Artistes closed in 2009, and Gianfranco and Paula Sorrentino reopened it as The Leopard at des Artistes in 2011. Moreover, the grand ballroom of the Hotel, would serve as the studio of the The Stanley Siegel Show (1975).
The son of William Paley, William Cushing "Billy" Paley Junior, did not necessarily follow in his father's footsteps. He had a troubled upbringing: sent to a psychiatrist when he was 10, got kicked out of schools, started smoking dope when he was 16 and didn't have many friends. He was also a college drop-out, who joined the Army and became a combat photographer. After his time in service, he took on a lot of odd-jobs like yacht-broker, production assistant, dolphin trainer, construction worker, photographer, sailboat restorer and even sold camping lots door-to-door. He eventually settled down and developed a penchant for privacy and a knack for business by investing and overseeing several restaurants in the Washington D.C. National Capital Region.
Lutèce was a French restaurant in Manhattan that operated for more than 40 years before closing in early 2004. It once had a satellite restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. The restaurant name is a French form of the Latin place name, Lutetia, the Roman city where Paris now stands. In 1972, W magazine referred to it as one of "Les Six, the last bastions of grand luxe dining in New York." The other five were La Grenouille, La Caravelle, La Côte Basque, Lafayette, and Quo Vadis; of these, only La Grenouille remained open as of 2012. It was famous for its Alsatian onion tart and a sauteed foie gras with dark chocolate sauce and bitter orange marmalade.