03/31/09 The Raw Greenwich Late Night News Feed

If You Want To Know What's Going On In Greenwich You Have Got To Read The Out Of Town Newspapers ....

PHOTO: Taki Theodoracopulos and his son, John-Taki Theodoracopulos

Lifestyles Of The Rich And Their Spoiled And Stupid Offspring

Lock Up Your Daughters! Is the World Ready for Taki Jr.?
New York Observer

.....John-Taki Theodoracopulos—J.T. to his friends—is a bike messenger and an as-of-yet-undiscovered artist. He lives alone in a townhouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He’s married to but currently separated from Assia Baudi de Selve, the daughter of Count Maurizio Baudi de Selve of Torino, with whom he has two young children. They live with their mom in Manhattan and he tries to see them every day......

.....When he was 9, teachers discovered he was dyslexic, so his parents sent him to the Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, Conn. He remembers marveling at the graffiti along the highway ...

....Taki—who lives in New York only for the months of April, May, October and November, spending the rest of his time mostly on his boat and in Gstaad—and J.T. proceeded to share international adventures. In September 2002, J.T. went to meet dad at the Hotel Byblos in St. Tropez. Taki later wrote about it in The Spectator, recounting how one evening while he was “sitting around the hotel’s swimming-pool drinking with the Somerset boys,” J.T. bumped into Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. Mr. Combs suggested J.T. watch where he was going; J.T., who had dreadlocks at the time, told me he responded: “Fucking idiot.” Mr. Combs slapped J.T., who moved to head-butt Mr. Combs. J.T. found himself on the floor with several bodyguards on top of him. Taki grabbed a Perrier bottle and headed for the action, but the dust had cleared....

People & Places
Danbury News Times
Kathleen Malloy, of Stamford, has joined the law office of Philip Russell LLC in Greenwich as an associate attorney. She will concentrate on criminal litigation, claims litigation and civil rights.

Malloy previously was an assistant district attorney at the King's County District Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, N.Y. There, she conducted criminal investigations and prosecuted offenses through trial.

Before that, Malloy worked for a hedge fund in New York City and as a student clerk for the chief judge of the U.S. District Courtin Oklahoma.....

Stamford investment firm buys Hancock tower
Norwalk Advocate
Broadway, underwritten by $723.8 million from Greenwich-based RBS Greenwich Capital, paid $1.3 billion for the property in 2006 and defaulted on short-term ...

State Looking At Ways To Improve Truck Safety
Hartford Courant
Officials know how to improve truck safety in Connecticut.

They didn't need a recent study by an academy of engineers to confirm that high-tech scales and in-truck, EZ-Pass-like transponders already in use at the Union weigh station for companies with good safety records would, if their use were expanded to the state's five other stations, ease congestion — especially at the antiquated Greenwich station.The officials also know that the technology could allow them to zero in on trucks that require more detailed inspections and for a more random weigh-station schedule. That would make it less likely that rogue truckers who communicate by CB and iPhone would take to the back roads and skirt the stations.

Norwalk leads state in building permits
The Hour
.....Ellington issued permits for eight new units; Norwich issued permits for seven new units; Bridgeport followed with permits for six new units; Greenwich recorded five units; Hartford followed with permits for four new residential units during February ...


Community almanac
Stamford Advocate


....LYME DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP Resource and group assistance for issues surrounding tick-borne illness. Meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month through June at Greenwich Town Hall, 101 Field Point Road. Call 622-7849.
AL-ANON Meets at 11:30 a.m. in Room 14 at St. Catherine of Siena Church, Post Road and Riverside Avenue. Beginner's one-hour meeting at 8:15 p.m. in the second-floor conference room of Greenwich Hospital, Perryridge Road. Call (888) 8-ALANON....



Four at Four: Carmakers To Offer Free Cars to Spur Car Sales
Wall Street Journal Blogs‎
Our stock exchanges are now run by people who dance to the tune of powerful hedge funds from Greenwich, New York and elsewhere.....

Hartford’s Front Street developer dies
Hartford Business
Greenwich developer Brad Nitkin, chosen to develop Hartford's Front Street retail-commercial zone, has died. According to HB Nitkin Group Web site, ...

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Front Street Project Will Go On Despite Developer Nitkin's Death
Hartford Courant
He died this weekend in New York, and his Greenwich funeral was Tuesday. But the still-nascent Front Street project will continue unaffected, ...

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