Daily Style Phile: Sean Parker, Silicon Valley’s Socialite Navigates The City That Never Sleeps

Sean wasted no time finding suitable accommodations for his lavish house parties, Tom Ford-designed wardrobe, and mounds of techy gadgets, for sure. He purchased the $20 million Bacchus House, a townhouse in the West Village that he had previously rented for $45,000 a month. It’s been the site of many a house party (and tea party), including his 30th birthday bash, where he invited 800 guests.

“One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.” [NY Times]

"There's a certain pressure from the press and even from the people I meet to live up to that reputation that's been created by the film,” he told NY Mag. “Even if I set out to throw a really small party, there's expectations about what it's going to be like. People assume it's going to be a wild, crazy thing." [NY Post]

How wild do the parties get?

“I'm a believer in any method of mind expansion whether facilitated by meditation, religious experience or drug use. There is a value in using tools available to us, even if it is pharmacological in nature, if it expands the mind." [NY Times]