Bass died Wednesday at age 78 due to complications of a longtime illness.
Anne Bass, a fixture of the New York social scene in the Eighties and Nineties and patron of the arts, died Wednesday at age 78 due to complications of a longtime illness.
She and Sid moved to New York in the early Eighties, which marked the beginning of her presence on the charity circuit. It was the era of big shoulders and big finance, when couples like the Kravises, the Steinbergs, the Gutfreunds and the-then plain Donald and Ivana Trump swirled through New York society at lavish galas and even more lavish private parties. The age was captured in the late John B. Fairchild’s book “Chic Savages,” as well as in Tom Wolfe’s novel “Bonfire of the Vanities.
Blaine Trump, who says she last saw Bass in January at fellow social’s Nina Griscom’s funeral, met Bass in New York around 1984. She, like many from that time, had more or less dropped off the social circuit by the Aughts. Her name did hit the headlines again in 2007, however, when she and her partner, the painter Julian Lethbridge, were taken hostage at her estate in South Kent, Conn., for a night by three men. Her butler was later charged in the home invasion.
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