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socialite

[soh-shuh-lahyt] / ˈsoʊ ʃəˌlaɪt /


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That summer, photos began to emerge of Trump Jr. with 39-year-old Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Trump Jr. exchanged vows with socialite Bettina Anderson on a private island that was featured in “Pirates of the Caribbean” and the 2006 James Bond movie “Casino Royale.”

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

De Niro and Hightower called it quits in 2018, and the socialite then offloaded the home in March 2025 for $18 million.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

“The Gilded Age” pulls inspiration from New York City’s 19th century elite, with Gladys Russell’s reluctant betrothal to an English duke nodding to socialite Consuelo Vanderbilt’s lavish nuptials a decade later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

The climax of Madame Curie’s visit was a glittering reception at the White Elouse attended by Meloney and the cream of Washington society, including Theodore Roosevelt’s socialite daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

During the Gilded Age, many of the Eastern Seaboard’s socialites and financiers—including families linked to J.P.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

The Real Housewives franchise has spread around the world, with viewers lapping up the partying and catfighting of wealthy socialites in locations from Orange County to Sydney to Nairobi.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025

If stylists, celebrities and socialites heed the message to let sleeping beauties lie, then important, historic clothing has a better chance of preservation for future generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2024

When her character, Aurora Fane, joins a throng of socialites surveying the nearly completed Met, the camera lingers on her face, upraised in awe.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

May’s funeral turned Ob and me into temporary sort-of socialites, and we never really got the chance to howl and pull our hair out.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant


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