Tinsely Mortimer

I wish I knew why so many people get directed to this site looking for Tinsley Mortimer. Who the fuck is she? I gather some sort of NYC socialite, but why are people always googling her? I swear, the majority of B12 Partners web site hits (with the exception of the recent spike because of the Seattle Times & Tami Silicio flag-draped coffin story) are people looking for Tinsley Mortimer, who is mentioned in a Barbara Bush pelvic thrusting party story (archived here)



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update 12/4/05 from the NYT:

a few days before the Winter Wonderland Ball at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx on Friday, Tinsley Mortimer will go to pick out her dress. One of six junior chairwomen of the party, Ms. Mortimer will not be visiting Bergdorf Goodman or Saks Fifth Avenue; she will drop by the showroom of Paco Rabanne to chose a dress from the spring collection designed by Patrick Robinson, which will be lent to her for the night.

Since her marriage three years ago to Robert L. Mortimer, an executive at a private investment group, Ms. Mortimer, 29, has become ubiquitous on the circuit of charity dinners, luncheons and boutique openings in New York. A search of the Web site New York Social Diary (newyorksocialdiary.com) brings back 82 hits, mostly party photos, including one from August with a caption calling her the "glam girl of the moment."

With her cascade of blond hair and lithe figure, Ms. Mortimer, a former event planner, attracts the cameras, a fact not lost on fashion designers, who have lined up to lend her dresses, knowing that the photos that appear in newspapers and magazines bring valuable publicity.

As a pro at this game Ms. Mortimer expects the whole visit to Paco Rabanne - including a seamstress's alteration of the dress she picks - to be quicker than a pit stop at Barneys New York. "I'm pretty aware of what looks good on me," she said, "so it usually only takes me 30 to 40 minutes to find a dress."

It used to be that philanthropically inclined young women like Ms. Mortimer, who is on the fund-raising committees of seven charities and cultural institutions, bought their own gowns for the seasonal galas.

But now many designers lend the gowns in a Manhattan version of the wooing of actresses to serve as clothes hangers on the red carpets of Hollywood.

'Post:' Tinsley Mortimer, Ardent Socialist - Gawker :
In this lengthy interview, Tinsley Mortimer shares her thoughts about the works of Marx and Engels. PSYCH! The Post has no idea what the word 'socialist' means, and Tinsley Mortimer gives the most retarded quotes imaginable. Seriously, more retarded than you are currently imagining them to be.

Yes, product of the finest boarding schools indeed. Maybe she voted for Bernie Sanders?

and I wonder what this means:

And while she has plenty of fans, the posts by detractors can be vicious - mocking her appearance, her intelligence, her absentee spouse. “She looks like a thoroughly nouveau plebe,” read one post, probably the worst thing one can say about a social.

“Obviously it's all sort of in good fun,” Mortimer says, struggling to be polite. “It's humorous. But unfortunately, I think it's a little sad. Those anomynous” - here she wincingly mispronounces the word - “posted comments are just not very nice sometimes. And to give someone free reign to be anomynous and say whatever they want and lie - that's hurtful.”

On the other hand, to paraphrase Columbia: Whatever.

from the NYPost 8/16/07

SHAME on media-hungry socialites Tinsley Mortimer and Olivia Palermo.
Planners of Tuesday's Level Vodka gala, "Rip the Runway for Darfur," to benefit the war-torn Sudanese region at the new club Runway on East 28th Street had to scramble when host Lydia Hearst fell ill.
Organizers ended up calling Mortimer and Palermo for backups, and the two at first agreed to show - until each of them found out the other was involved.
"When Olivia heard that Tinsley was coming and Tinsley heard that Olivia was coming, both suddenly were unable to attend," one organizer told us.
"We think the only people who truly suffered from their selfish no-shows are the poor citizens of war-torn Darfur." Designers for Darfur co-founder Malcolm Harris eventually filled in as host.
An old social type added, "Brooke Astor would roll in her grave if she heard that this is what has happened to society and charity. It's disgraceful. These girls these days know nothing about giving back. They just know how to promote themselves."
The rivalry between Mortimer and Palermo goes back to the days when socialiterank.com was around and the two vied for the spot of No. 1 social heavyweight. Mortimer's jealousy of her younger, prettier rival spilled into violence last April when she physically elbowed Palermo to the ground during a fashion show.