We're oddly, endlessly and perhaps dangerously obsessed with Christine Hearst Schwarzman. Her first marriage was to an heir to Hearst money, and now she’s hitched to Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group and head of the Kennedy Center. But she’s not just a trophy wife—even though she’s pretty easy on the eyes—she’s an intellectual property lawyer in her own right.
Pretty, accomplished, smart, rich and an expert man-catcher. That skill set should be enough for one woman. Not C.H.S. though. She’s also got some, uhm, more specialized, recreational skills. We almost missed this Page Six item until WallStFolly pointed it out. A party for Denise Rich on St. Tropez, where the Schwarzman's own a home, things got so out of hand it had to be shut down early. Admist the chaos, C.H.S. got a little freaky.
“Pole-dancing under the flashing lights was Christine Schwarzman to the amusement of her husband Stephen, the Blackstone Group and Kennedy Center boss.”
Denise's Bash Too Merry [Page Six]
Posted by Michael Gross, Aug 04, 2006 1:20PM
FYI, Christine Hearst Schwarzman has had more names--and husbands--than you know. I hate to be self-referential, but here's the relevant excerpt from my book 740 Park: The Story of The World's Richest Apartment Building (Broadway Books):
After a few years on the dating circuit, Schwarzman began seeing a
blond lawyer named Christine Hearst. Five years Schwarzman’s junior,
she was the daughter of Peter Mularchuk, a retired lieutenant in the
New York City Fire Department, and was twice divorced. Her second
husband and the father of her two children, Austin Chilton Hearst, was
a grandson of the late William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher.
When she married Hearst in 1984, she worked as a salesperson for
a Teletype company and a director of the Videotape Producers Association.
Although she’d sued Hearst for divorce, Christine continued using Hearst’s name, a fact that some catty
types say helped attract the status-conscious Schwarzman. But in the
meantime, she’d also enhanced her lot in life, graduating from New York
University Law School and becoming an associate in a New York law
firm, specializing in intellectual property law. In their November 1995
marriage announcement, in which she was called simply Christine
Hearst, her father’s fire department career went unmentioned.
Besides a husband, Christine Hearst Schwarzman, as she now calls
herself, got a new career after her marriage. Several months before the
purchase of Steinberg’s apartment, she founded and named herself
chairman of a new business, IPnetwork.com, which described itself as
“the premier licensing and event sponsorship Website” and “the online
leader in transaction, management and information services for the licensing,
event sponsorship and intellectual property communities.” Just
as the Internet bubble was poised to pop, she raised $20 million in fi-
nancing for the venture, which she promised would, among other things,
help Web site owners avoid copyright-infringement litigation.
“All of Schwarzman’s friends invested, but it went pfft in the bubble,”
says an observer of the financial world. The Web site is not currently operational.
But Schwarzman and his wife began operating furiously once
they were able to occupy their new apartment