‘I Hung Out with Movie Stars, Then I Lost Everything’
By all benchmarks, I grew up in privilege. I was educated in private schools in Washington, DC and New Hampshire. My father was a popular businessman who started Nationwide Journal magazine, and my mother was a socialite. But the privilege of my parents’ interest was almost never granted to me. My mom was an alcoholic who invested most of her time entertaining close friends and my father traveled the globe a lot more than he stayed at property. I felt…