12 new york | july 22–august 4, 2019
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71 minutes with ...Andrea Catsimatidis
Lobster on the Upper East Side with the self-described
“billionaire heiress, business bombshell, jet-setter, NYC native,
footballer, and Manhattan Republican Party chair.”
by olivia nuzziA
ndrea catsimatidis sug-
gested we meet at Avra Madi-
son, the clubstaurant of choice
for conservatives in New York
City on nights when they
aren’t knocking back pineapple marti-
nis at Del Frisco’s. My first trip to Avra
Madison, in 2017, was to meet Anthony
Scaramucci, who was holding court with
a rogues’ gallery of political misfits con-nected, in one way or another, to Donald
Trump: There was Kimberly Guilfoyle,
South Jersey Democratic boss George
Norcross, and former NYPD detective
and sometime right-wing personality
Bo Dietl. (Roger Stone was said to be on
his way.) My second trip there was with
Catsimatidis, who became the chair
of the Manhattan Republican Party in
2017 and occupies a Norm-like role in