By the time you read this, if all goes according to plan, I will (hopefully) be fast asleep in my bed at the Rosewood Baha Mar. I’m spending the next four nights here for the Bahamas Culinary & Arts Festival, which, among other things, includes a seaside chat with Chef Daniel Boulud. But for now, I am completely wiped out. This was my third flight in a week, on top of multiple deadlines, dinners, and the general circus that comes with trying to run a newsletter, maintain a journalism career, and speak on more panels than I ever imagined anyone would voluntarily sit through listening to me. So I took a hot shower, crawled into bed, pressed send, and am drifting off to sleep (for a few hours, at least) while you all enjoy the fruits of my labor.
First, we’re heading back to San Diego County, Del Mar specifically, to revisit an item from Monday’s newsletter about the $9.17 million beachfront house featured in Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything. You might remember the one—I was the first to find the original Zillow listing and report on it. When I shared the story on RPS’s Instagram (which, if you aren’t following, you really should be), it went absolutely viral. Nearly a million views in less than 24 hours. The thing took off like I had accidentally posted the Epstein files. I had never seen anything like it, especially considering we’re still relatively small over there, with just 17,000 followers. (Personally, I prefer the word “elite.” Small feels rude.)
But the most interesting part wasn’t the number of views. It was what started landing in my DMs. Readers were telling me things about the property that made its reported former $28,000 monthly rental price considerably more interesting. As it turns out, the house appears to belong to a friend of Billy Evans’s family. Evans, of course, is Holmes’s longtime partner, whom she refers to as her husband despite the fact that the two have never legally married. If your family knows the owner of the $9.17 million beachfront house you’re renting, are you really paying $28,000 a month to live there? Or is there a friends-and-family rate that Zillow doesn’t know about? We get into that—after the jump.
We’re also back in New York City, where JPMorgan Chase is getting into the private members’ club business. Except, it seems, the bank would rather nobody know about it—at least for now. After interior designer Christine Gachot mentioned the project in an interview with Erin Cunningham’s On the House (which has amassed more than 900,000 subscribers), I started digging for more details. But within hours, the reference had mysteriously disappeared from the interview. Why the sudden secrecy? RPS uncovered a possible explanation, along with more details about what JPMorgan Chase has planned for its private club.
Along with that, we’re talking about Art Basel Paris shutting down early over riot fears, the new Delano Miami, Martha Stewart declaring work-life balance boring, Jalil Johnson serving the last of Michael McCarty’s wine, cigarettes returning to the D.C. dining scene, Palm Beach facing an 18-month beach closure, more trouble at Pace Gallery, Beretta celebrating 500 years with the Fanjuls and more…
