Charity Brawls
This is how the Boston Globe described the scene at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club Saturday night:
One guest was Robert Jaffe, 64, who had recruited investors for Bernard L. Madoff, the money manager who last week admitted to a Ponzi scheme in which he lost $50 billion of his clients’ money. Another was 78-year-old Jerome Fisher, founder of the upscale shoe store chain 9 West, who reportedly lost millions with Madoff and was upset by Jaffe’s presence at the club Saturday night.
This is how the NY Post described it…
“Nobody could believe he had the balls to show up because about 25 percent of the guests were people who lost hundreds of millions of dollars with Madoff,” one witness told Page Six.
“One of the victims was Nine West founder Jerome Fisher, who lost $150 million. Fisher, who’s 78, sees Jaffe and goes absolutely nuts. He stalks up to him and screams at the top of his lungs, ‘You dirty bastard! And on top of everything, you got a [bleep]ing commission to get me to invest!’
Jaffe’s people denied the first account and called the second, “a gross exaggeration.” Whatever. I’m not a regular on the charity ball circuit, but I’m willing to believe there might have been some harsh words exchanged.
