The Party Girl, Till the End – The New York Times

Still, as Mr. Couturier said: When Blass or anyone dropped her, she didnt say one word against them. Never ever.

Ms. Griscom had something of an advantage over some women in her position. She had always worked. There was the modeling, and when, as they inevitably would, the bookings stopped coming, there was a new job as a co-host with Matt Lauer of HBO Entertainment News, a fledgling show for which she was hired not for her intelligence or looks but because she could memorize scripts quickly.

They were too cheap for a teleprompter, she said.

For six years after that, she served as co-host of Dining Around, an unscripted Food Network show on which, with Alan Richman, she traveled around the country dining in and reviewing restaurants.

Later, she would open two successful lifestyle shops on the Upper East Side and in Southampton, from which, until the bottom fell out of the financial market in 2008, she sold chic housewares and decorative curiosities like articulated bone models of lobsters made in Japan.

WHILE HARDLY A FEMINIST, Ms. Griscom had developed an ornery self-reliance perhaps, as friends said, as her way of flouting her mothers lifelong desire to marry her off advantageously.

She had a sly and raucous, invariably devilish way of looking as if she were about to say something amusing or, better still, as if whatever you might say will inevitably be clever and witty, according to Ms. Moore. And she had this obliging willingness to be pleased that has not been curtailed by her illness, Ms. Moore said.

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