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The day Elizabeth Taylor kidnapped my daughter

[Photo: George Rinhart / Contributor] 
issue 07 May 2022

New York

Back in the good old days the Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was the hotel for Yankee swells, rich politicians such as JFK, and, of course, upper-class Eurotrash. Both my children were born at a hospital nearby, and both newborns spent their first month of life at the hotel.

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