Monica Noel

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[Noel Family Xmas card 2005, Photo via Daily Intel]

No Christmas season is complete without tree lights on Park Avenue, an enormous tree in Rockefeller Center, and of course a Noel Family Christmas card that boasts a tanned extended international family with tons and tons of smallfries. But this year, although Walter and Monica didn't opt out of the parties (though not entirely without objections), they did break a multiple decades long tradition of family Christmas cards. It must have seemed only appropriate after Noel's Fairfield Greenwich Group's $7.5 billion Madoff losses. A tipster notes:

We are well into January, and there is no Noel Family Christmas card to speak of. I have gotten these things from Walter and Monica like clockwork for the past 15 years, often dreading in some ways how they would still look young, skinny, tanned, and act as a foil to my aged self.

A projection of what the 2008 Christmas card may have looked like after the jump...

The Noel Family Photographed by Bruce Weber in 2002 for Vanity Fair's "Golden in Greenwich" article. Photo via NYMag

When the news broke that Walter Noel of Greenwich was Bernard Madoff's top salesman, losing some 7.5 Billion dollars of investors money in the now infamous ponzi scheme while his firm earned some $500 million in fees, society writers all over the world began frothing at the mouth. The story simply has Vanity Fair written all over it. And this is of course no coincidence. Mother goose Monica Noel has been manufacturing PR for the family for the last 2 decades. Since starting out with glorious Christmas cards and lesser known glossies, their self-styled Yupi porn reached the pages of Vanity Fair in 2002.

And now a tipster writes that the same hand that feeds is looking, well to be fed.

Graydon Carter is literally licking his chops as if he were about to eat a plate of $65 macaroni and cheese with truffles at the Wavery Inn. Vanity Fair has effectively given the Noel family an ultimatum. "Work with us, and you will at least have control over your side of the story. Don't and what will be written will be whatever is available in the public domain...: