New Jersey Stage December 2014 | Page 98

Swimming At The Ritz An interview with Charles Leipart by Gary Wien SHARE BUTTON Pamela Churchill Hayward Harriman, the ultimate party girl, has been living an idyllic life at the luxurious Ritz in Paris for the past several years accompanied by her young Italian valet, and has been spending her and her stepchildren’s vast inheritance on paintings, clothing, jewels, furs, New Jersey Stage champagne (her day-to-day necessities). But her stepchildren’s attorneys are about to shut her down. On the verge of losing everything, with the creditors literally at her door, Pamela reveals her journey from man-to-man and bed-to-bed, in a funny, poignant tour-de-force. December 2014 pg 98