Jane Lewis

Jan 22, 2025 | family.style | Patrick McGraw |Magdalena O'Neal |Meka Boyle |Jane Lewis

When I tell people that I haven’t left New York City in years, they react as though it’s a medical emergency. Invariably, they offer advice on how I can alleviate the problem, telling me that there is no amount of money not worth spending to leave now, as if the situation is something that can only worsen with increased delay. They offer destination ideas. First, far off ones, like Europe and Japan.

Jan 22, 2025 | family.style | Jane Lewis |Felicity Carter |Annabel Keenan

Collier Schorr and Nicole Eisenman seemingly resemble one another. The photographer and artist share dark eyebrows, short hair, and sloped shoulders from careers hunched over cameras and canvases. Both create revered scenes, too: Schorr with intimate photographic portraits and Eisenman with contemporary political paintings and sculptures.

Jan 14, 2025 | moneyweek.com | Jane Lewis

David Montgomery is no stranger to audacious acquisitions and boardroom fights. But the pugnacious newspaper baron enters 2025 with quite a battle on his hands. At 76, he faces losing control of his National World local newspaper group, whose heritage titles include The Scotsman and The Yorkshire Post. In November, Montgomery managed to rebuff a “shock” takeover move from the group’s largest shareholder, Ireland’s Media Concierge, says The Telegraph.

Dec 9, 2024 | moneyweek.com | Jane Lewis

Three decades before he was tapped to lead the US Treasury department, Scott Bessent was asked to “break” another country’s financial system, says The New York Times. Then 29, he played a key role in financier George Soros’s big bet against the Bank of England (BoE) in 1992, which “crushed” the pound – earning Soros’s fund $1 billion – and forced the UK government to pull sterling out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Dec 4, 2024 | moneyweek.com | Jane Lewis

Whatever else he does in his life, Justin Sun will always be known as the “banana” guy – having outbid six other contenders to secure a prime piece of the fruit for $5.2 million (plus $1million in fees) at Sotheby’s New York last week. Of course, it wasn’t just “any old banana”, says The Observer.