Wealthy Los Angeles investment banker and noted art collector, Richard Weisman, lost millions of dollars worth of Andy Warhol original 1970s art in a heist worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. Weisman’s housekeeper alerted authorities of the 11 missing paintings on September 3 after she noticed the bare walls.

Dennis Mehiel, Westchester’s pronounced businessman and mogul for his corrugated-cardboard manufacturing company, put his award-winning properties at the Carhart Mansion on the market just more than a year ago. Mehiel chose to work alongside Dolly Lenz, powerful and savvy mega-broker to New York’s finest.

It looks like the well-known celebrity set of Hollywood now have a new playground to call home. The celebs have slowly but surely been migrating East to fill their shopping, dining, and nightlife needs. The Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles is the new cool where you will find America’s most famous faces on almost any given day.

Miami International University of Art & Design has teamed up with Bloomingdale’s during its Fall Film campaign to celebrate the art and style of film in an exclusive exhibit titled: “Lights, Camera, Fashion.”

Our world is not only full of 739 billionaires, according to Forbes, but 14 of whom have given away at least $1 billion throughout their lifetime in nonprofit gifts.

The culinary world shed several tears on September 9, 2009. Not one, but two legendary restaurants in Manhattan officially filed for bankruptcy last Wednesday, to the chagrin of chefs and gourmands the world over.

There’s a new bidder getting in line for the renovation plans for the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. While many heavy hitters have been considered for the project that will turn the long-defunct racetrack into a Vegas-like casino, the new kid on the block has turned some serious heads.

Vijay Mallya, the Sausalito billionaire who made headlines earlier this year when he spent $1.8 million purchasing Mahatma Gandhi’s pocket watch, glasses, sandals, bowl, and plate, is making the news once again, albeit this time on a more local level.

The Turks & Caicos locale, Nikki Beach Resort & Spa, complete with 48 rooms and suites with luxury amenities, opened in March 2008 (just two months after the interview), but it apparently didn’t do as well as planned.