Tom Freston

Tom Freston has put Andy Warhol's East 66th Street apartment on the market for $38.5 million, according to Page Six. The 12-room, six story apartment was originally bought by Mr. Warhol for $310,000 in 1974; Mr. Freston bought the property in 2000 for $6.5 million. [P6]  read more »

What's Next for Tom Freston? Arianna Huffington turns on abrasive bloggers! Gotham’s Very Gay Bachelor List. 27 out of 101? Really? Mrs. Tobey McGuire Does Lunch. In L.A., everyone can hear you talk about therapy and baby names at lunch. Meeting Prince Charles. Royal protocol at Asprey. Chris Meloni Rocks the Globe. The celebs continue to convene for the Globe Theater that as of yet isn't....

She’s the One    read more »

In this week's paper:

Let The Transom take you deep inside the first world, where Viacom king Tom Freston does a mean downward-facing dog; where any public interest in the shooting of The Devil Wears Prada evaporates when Meryl Streep isn't on set; where Jesse Eisenberg, the young star of The Squid and the Whale is not yet glib with reporters; and also where Marc Levin's new documentary gets, or requests, the heat from the Nation of Islam.

Cool Hand Judy! As Judy Miller goes free, the vultures are circling the New York Times, says Bill Keller—and we have met the vultures and they are us. The Devil Writes Nada: million-dollar hack chick lit-er Lauren Weisberger is the luckiest gal alive. Hysterics—never the Hysterics— are the teenage prep school sophisti-kid rock band of Brooklyn. The Transom would like to adopt them all.

Jason Binn bought a really expensive apartment. Relatedly: The Transom figures that a two-million-dollar apartment is the kind of thing that really brings solace when one is wheezing on one's deathbed.  read more »

Finally, we are not unconvinced that sending George Gurley to couples therapy and publishing the transcripts is an experiment that has gone truly, horribly wrong. Seriously. The Transom is reminded of the time it totalled a Jeep Cherokee in Denver; the hood mashing ever closer, the pressure of the steering wheel in the sternum... but this car crash may be, The Transom fears, fatal.

Beneath the striking W.P.A.  read more »

Wednesday, July 25 Tom Freston remembers when he lost it.  read more »

Andy Warhol lived at 57 East 66th Street from 1974 until his death in 1987, dwelling there longer th  read more »