Red, White, and Tinsley July 6, 2009
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Park Avenue princess Tinsley Mortimer hosted a cocktail party in celebration of American Independence Day at the Samantha Thavasa boutique on Madison Avenue. She is the designer of their Samantha Thavasa by Tinsley Mortimer handbags line and Riccimie New York clothing collection. Supporters of the fashion entrepreneur such as Jules Kirby, Liz Lind, and banking heiress Asia Baker, flocked to the Upper East Side for a champagne toast with Q in honor of the country’s founders, which include the Virginia-born beauty’s ancestors Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
Tinsley has been thought to have separated from her husband, Topper Mortimer, last summer. This past April, Tinsley filed for divorce from him after seven years of marriage. The two first met as students at the Lawrenceville School and spent the past seventeen years together as a couple.
The Manhattan socialite is recently rumored to be seeing the London-based merchant banker Casimir Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, a member of the princely family of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, the centuries-old owners of Sayn Castle and Sayn Palace near Koblenz in Germany’s Rhineland. He is the son of Alexander, seventh Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. Through his mother, Casimir is a great-grandson of Franz Joseph, ninth Prince von Thurn und Taxis; a great-great-grandson of King Miguel I of Portugal; and a descendant of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor as well as King Carlos III of Spain and Louis-Philippe d’Orléans, King of the French.
As the U.S. ambassador of Dior Beauty, Tinsley will attend John Galliano’s Christian Dior presentation on July 6 in Paris.
Photographs: Neil Rasmus/PatrickMcMullan.com.
