' Shes sitting in an armchair in her Napa Valley homethe place where she is most happyher 10-year old Maltese at her feet. Dede Wilsey Is Co-Hosting a Trump Fundraiser In San Francisco - SFist Or that rich people have cliques, just like everyone else, but because so few people are so very rich, the pool of friends and prospective spouses is small, making for lots of interconnected relationships. What I Buy and Why: Collector Dede Wilsey on Why She Prefers to Hang I bought a Koons egg. Paul Pelosi's DUI arrest over Memorial Day Weekend in Napa has become major fodder for right-wing loons who have been misinformed that he's skirting any charges, but society doyenne Dede Wilsey . Trevor's father, the late John Traina, was a winegrower and vintner in the Napa Valley for many years. Despondent about her divorce from Al Wilsey, she urged her 11-year-old son to jump with her to their deaths from their penthouse at 999 Green St. "That'd show your dad," Wilsey recalled her saying, in the book. To find out if you are eligible for an Artnet News Pro group subscription, // Show signup failure error and hide other errors Inside where the staircase isI looked over there and I sort of expected my parents to come down the stairs. At Nimbus Arts, Neil teaches a myriad of dynamic and very popular blade smithing classes. Share. Now living in Los Angeles, she's writing her own memoir. }); submit: function($form, onSuccess) { //if there are cookies indicating that we shouldn't show the signup bar, then the modal won't have been added to the page h = Math.max(document.documentElement.clientHeight, window.innerHeight || 0), He is heir to a name that has long been synonymous with Napa. A renowned artist, entertainer, and major league raconteur, Ira Yaeger also happens to be my mothers best friend. // ------------------------------------------------------------------- The drive from San Francisco to the Napa Valley takes only a little more than an hour, . } init: function (formElement, onSuccess) { "Oh the Glory of It All," the coming-of-age story of troubled rich kid Sean Wilsey, won't arrive in bookstores until mid-May, but it's already the talk of the party circuit -- and is likely to become the juiciest gossip in years when the book is excerpted in the New Yorker in its April 11 issue, hitting newsstands this week. "All of our good times were up here," Trevor, son of the late shipping mogul John Traina and the philanthropist Dede Wilsey, says of the six-acre property. But this could have happened to a kid anywhere. "At times we are revolted by what he did, and other times we're in his corner cheering for him. return numDays * 24 * 60; setNewsletterCookie('recentlyShown', 1); Giovanni Antonio Canal, Il Canaletto, Entrance to the Grand Canal looking East, with Santa Maria della Salute at right. e.preventDefault(); if (o[this.name]) { However, Montandon, reached by telephone at her home in Beverly Hills, said that she had read it and that her son was brave to write it. function appendNewsletterSignup() { A screen grab from Wednesday, August 21, shows the award for Dede Wilsey still includes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's name on Shanti's website. On March 22, local booksellers gathered at the Presidio for a private meet-and-greet with Wilsey, an editor at large at McSweeney's Quarterly -- a hip, nationally distributed literary magazine co-founded by San Francisco author Dave Eggers. I was at boarding school when my parents (pictured here) called to say, We just bought a vineyard in Napa Valley! Caillebotte. function addCss(fileName) { + '