Oleg Cassini's Widow Sues 'Vanity Fair' for Defamation

Si Newhouse blamed personally for inaccuracies in article

Oleg Cassini’s widow is blaming former friend Si Newhouse for errors in a Vanity Fair piece, according to a lawsuit filed recently in Manhattan Supreme Court. Marianne Nestor-Cassini is upset she was paired with CBS CEO Bill Paley in a Midtown apartment in the magazine’s September 2010 story by Maureen Orth about the bitter feud over the late fashion designer's $52 million estate. The suit claims that Newhouse, of all people, should have known better.

“Marianne never had a Fifth Avenue apartment in the 1960s nor did she even know Bill Paley; Si Newhouse, CEO of Advance Publications, should know this to be false, as Marianne was living in SoHo, and Si Newhouse would drive her home after dinner at Orsini’s on West 56th Street, in the same time period,” according to the $10 million defamation suit.

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