Julie Macklowe, The NEW Tinsley Mortimer
[Photo via Patrick McMullan]
On posting the above photo from the New Yorkers for Children Gala of a woman entering the party at Cipriani's, we have gotten more than a couple of emails wondering "Who is the woman in the dress?" Well the woman is none other than Julie Macklowe, Vogue's "it" girl this July. But how did she get there?
Julie Lerner graduated from UVA in '99, virtually unnoticed by any of her peers and leaving barely a trace. Her yearbook photo is a generic shot and she had no activities, organizations, or extracurriculars to speak of. She received her finance degree from the Comm school. But if you ask around those who went to UVA at the time, you won't have much luck finding anyone that has ever taken a class with her, shared a dorm, or even saw her at a party during her collegiate days. And its important to note that UVA is in many ways a small and cliquey community. After hiding out in Charlottesville, Julie Macklowe moved to the big city and has been busy!
First, she married one of the more influential real estate developers in the city, William (Billy) Macklowe who found himself taking over a very hard position at Macklowe properties, after the forced sale of the GM Building. The GM building is the most expensive slab of real estate in the world, and was owned by his father Harry Macklowe's company "Macklowe Properties". As current CEO of the company, Billy told Men's Vogue this August that he is working on bringing the world "Macklowe 2.0". Second, Julie is no dummy trophy wife. She's has a enviable career as well as a portfolio manager for Sigma Capital Management.
With her a leading man, a beautiful baby daughter, high-profile job, and smoking body, Julie's life has all the fixings for the next "it" socialite. Add in her coveted dress collection that has even the "notoriously high standard" Julia Allison drooling, and we have an amplified Tinsley Mortimer on our hands.
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soooshocking
September 29, 2008
5:04pm
JA latches on to anyone who gets a litle attention. It's a mix of desperate, sad, and even a bit gross. Her feigning not knowing who she was = laughable.
Lola
September 29, 2008
5:33pm
I am happy to finally see a real role model. A woman who is smart for a change....with a real career, not some frivolous socialite who is fake, useless and borrows everything. Finally here's a real WOMAN, one who you want your kids to grow up and be like. Its a nice change, GO JULIE!
manymoons
September 29, 2008
10:25pm
hello?!? the reason she got there is b/c she is paying a publicist to get picture taken and into vogue etc...as a career woman, i am embarrassed by her shameful self-promotion with the eye catching dresses (she looks like a teenager who raided her mom's closet) and relentless need for attention. macklowe's first wife was an IT girl in Vogue, not with the use of a publicist I might add, and trying to repeat history never works in anyone's favor.
yoyoma
September 30, 2008
10:32am
robert burke is NOT a publicist and never has been one. Julie DOES NOT HAVE a publicist.... and you just sound really jealous
lovely
September 30, 2008
11:43am
and yet, it seems to be working quite magnificently in hers. She's one of the few featured that actually PURCHASES everything she wears, that in itself makes her a rarity.
na
September 30, 2008
1:37pm
Lets not foul ourselves. None of these "it" girls are as perfect as they seem... ONLY IF YOU KNEW THIS GIRL AT UVA.... First of all no one could stand her. She had no friends. She is in fact one of the most self centered, selfish woman you would meet. Secondly, she was always a gold digger. She dated a guy who had a startup during the internet boom. Then slept with a married guy while she was interning at Goldman. I believe she also got pushed out from the P/E firm she worked at because of sleeping around. No surprise she married a billionaire. Money can buy anything. I am sure she can afford the best publicist out there. The truth is she is very lonely and people around her are there because of her money. She cannot show a true friend even if she tried. So she may be the IT girl, but she probably is not as happy as most of the readers here.
yoyoma
September 30, 2008
2:39pm
na - you dont seem that happy, maybe you should try the making money and sleeping around route - sounds like you are the UVA loser, not her
Le Fre
September 30, 2008
3:00pm
Hmmm, what is an 'IT girl'?
pjd2000
September 30, 2008
4:43pm
i dont know what you FOOLS are talking about. I went to UVA w Lerner and she was a ROCKSTAR. She had 3 majors, a full time job, graduated college in 3 years and had a near perfect gpa at the top of her class. You probably havent heard of her because unlike all those brats who got freebies all their lives she WORKED HER ARSE OFF,got a goldman intern, she DOES NOT SLEEP AROUND...and anyone who knows anything knows that you don't find a billionare by sleeping around. As for those who dont like lerner, just like college, they are just jealous biatches with nothing going on and wish they were her!
SE
September 30, 2008
5:50pm
I agree with pjd2000. Julie was one of the smartest and the most hardworking people at UVa. It is no surprise that she has been this successful. She certainly does not deserve these accusations. And who cares who liked or did not like her 10+ years ago? She has a great family and friends. People are watching too much Gossip Girl these days...
Tim C.
November 8, 2008
2:06am
I knew Julie at UVA and always thought she was just a terrific, totally down-to-earth girl. We've been out of contact for several years, but I can't imagine that Julie has changed much since I knew her. Any good in her life now is so well deserved; I am happy to see her doing so well!
I Lustig
November 17, 2008
9:37pm
Another Aspen social climber--ther're a dime a dozen. And, she's not even hot--couldn't be a coctail waitress.