{"id":627923,"date":"2026-04-25T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627923\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:07:10","slug":"fake-cartier-heiress-defends-her-lineage-and-says-mean-girls-wont-stop-her-partying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627923\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fake Cartier heiress’\u00a0defends her lineage \u2014 and says ‘mean girls’ won’t stop her partying"},"content":{"rendered":"

An alleged fake Cartier heiress,<\/a> Andrea Bartzen, 60, stood in the candlelit courtyard outside Palm Beach, Florida, restaurant Bice last Tuesday, sipping Champagne and eating hors d\u2019oeuvres in a designer Alice and Olivia gown.<\/p>\n

The Upper East Sider held court with a high society crowd, including navy seal veteran William Branum, former pro-basketball player Gary Forbes and Tiger Woods ex Rachel Uchitel<\/a>. She had wrangled the cast for a \u201cCocktails and Conversation\u201d mixer<\/a>, for which she charged $150-per-ticket.<\/p>\n

\u201cI bring the powerful and wealthy into a room,\u201d Bartzen told The Post of her rolodex of rich entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

For years, Andrea Bartzen, 60, has been using the name Andrea Cartier Bartzen, to throw parties and events, though she is not affiliated with the luxury jewelry brand or family. She told The Post: \u201cI never go around saying that I\u2019m an heiress.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, Bartzen herself was as much the subject of the room\u2019s gossip as her guests, following a scathing New York Magazine article<\/a>. It alleged she used the name Andrea Cartier Bartzen for years, making up a connection to the jewelry family to elevate her status and convince sponsors to fund her events.<\/p>\n

She was also accused her of crashing parties, fabricating large parts of her life, stiffing bills and pretending to be part of a social set she wasn\u2019t truly a part of to gain money and relevance.<\/p>\n

Her partner in it all? Matthew Rockefeller, 39, a former magician apparently now posing as an oil heir, who Bartzen met over Facebook. His real name is Matthew Tomasko, according to New York Magazine.<\/p>\n

Bartzen in East Hampton at the Ellen Hermanson Gala last August. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Bartzen says any claims of fabrication are lies, the work of a small network of people jealous of her success.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never go around saying that I\u2019m an heiress,\u201d said Bartzen, although she currently has a post pinned to her Instagram devoted to her grandmother, Mary Cartier Bartzen, who she says \u201cwas just like Jackie O.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked to trace back her family lineage to the Cartier family,<\/a> Bartzen provided The Post a photo of a family tree that shows she is related to a Francis Cartier of Quebec, Canada \u2014 not the Parisienne jewelry patriarch, Louis-Francois Cartier.<\/p>\n

The scathing account did not stop Bartzen from throwing a party with her network including pro-baskteball player Gary Forbes (left) and Navy Seal Veteran William Barnum on Tuesday in Palm Beach. <\/p>\n

Still, she maintains the relationship is \u201cindirect\u201d \u2014 whatever that means \u2014 and her grandmother was Mary Cartier. This may be true, but The Post could not find anything relating Bartzen to the jewelry family.<\/p>\n

At one point during her Tuesday event a party crasher<\/a> called out the huge elephant in the palm tree decked courtyard, shouting: \u201cAre you going to address the allegations of you being a fraud?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartzen said the woman was escorted out and that she later apologized.<\/p>\n

Rachel Uchitel, Tiger Woods ex, and host of the podcast \u201cMiss Understood,\u201d was also in attendance at Bartzen\u2019s Palm Beach bash Tuesday. <\/p>\n

A Palm Beach party crasher called out Bartzen at her event Tuesday in Palm Beach, asking: \u201cAre you going to address the allegations of you being a fraud?\u201d Bartzen said the woman was escorted out and that she later apologized.<\/p>\n

The Ohio native is adamant she won\u2019t back down \u2014 insisting the New York Magazine story was planted entirely to damage her and her networking business.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a complete mean girl, malicious intent to take me down,\u201d Bartzen said, claiming a woman named Rolise Rachel tried to steal her high-end connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe saw my life on social media. I had posted all these great things. She saw I had true established credibility in the business world,\u201d Bartzen said.<\/p>\n

Bartzen is adamant she won\u2019t back down \u2014 insisting the New York Magazine story was planted entirely to damage her and her networking business.<\/p>\n

Bartzen\u2019s grandmother was Mary Cartier, which may be true, but The Post could not find anything relating Bartzen to the jewelry family. Bartzen posted this tribute to her grandmother on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Rachel disputes this, telling The Post: \u201cAndrea Bartzen has this narrative in her mind that I put a group of people together [and] created the article. This is completely false.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also disputes Bartzen\u2019s reputational claims, giving an example of how she reportedly crashed the wedding of a couple she did not know at Palm Beach\u2019s Flagler Museum, claiming to be a friend of the bride.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin minutes of her arrival I knew that the mother of the bride was besides herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure why she would use the Cartier name except for the obvious reasons. I\u2019ve met many heiress \u2014 this is not their typical behavior,\u201d Rachel added to The Post.<\/p>\n

Bartzen met Matthew Rockefeller, 39, a former magician (right) posing as an oil heir. His real name is Matthew Tomasko, according to New York magazine.<\/p>\n

She and Bartzen had collaborated on one event in the Hamptons<\/a>,, which was, by many accounts, badly catered. It ended with Rachel out of pocket of any proceeds and with her contact book mysteriously disappeared, she claimed to New York Magazine.<\/p>\n

Bartzen told The Post she moved to New York City in the 90s, comparing\u00a0her life to TV show \u201cSex and the City.\u201d\u00a0She claimed to work in pharmaceutical advertising at huge agencies including McCann.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the 2010s, she says she had cemented herself on the socialite-decked charity benefit circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bartzen says she now runs Global Passion Projects, a well-respected company committed to connecting \u201cvisionaries, investors, and change-makers worldwide.\u201d She boasts they even hosted an actual event with\u00a0the Cartier luxury brand.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bartzen and Rockefeller (right) collaborated on one event in the Hamptons, which was, by many accounts badly catered. Bartzen says the New York Magazine story tore them apart.<\/p>\n

Bartzen said she met Rockefeller, who did not respond to The Post\u2019s requests for comment, in 2024 and they instantly connected. She had no reason to believe he wasn\u2019t a part of the famously moneyed family dynasty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met him as Matthew Rockefeller. Of course I took his word for it,\u201d Bartzen said, although she adds the magazine story tore them apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis article broke us up. It ruined both of our lives.The stress from it. We had true genuine connection. We were both dealing with the trauma of it. Who knows what will happen,\u201d she lamented to The Post.<\/p>\n

Rockefeller has also come on board with Global Passion Projects<\/a> in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

Bartzen told The Post the allegations about her being a fraud are \u201ca lie\u201d and she was being \u201csabotaged\u201d by an anonymous group of women devoted to ruining her. \u00a0<\/p>\n

One of their more notorious projects was a yacht at Miami Hedge Fund week 2024, booking sponsors for up to $12,000 and promising them access to a network of thousands of investors, according to promotional documents.<\/p>\n

Bartzen assured \u201cThe Rockefellers are coming!\u201d and fronted $15,000 for the venue, given by entrepreneurs whom Bartzen reportedly vowed to pay back.<\/p>\n

After the event, at least two sponsors reportedly asked for their money back, according to New York Magazine.<\/p>\n

Bartzen tells The Post the allegations are \u201ca lie,\u201d that she \u201cpersonally paid for all bills and events\u201d and she was being \u201csabotaged\u201d by an anonymous group of women devoted to ruining her. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Bartzen told The Post of her haters: \u201cThere\u2019s no way I will let them ruin my events.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThey tried to get venues and yachts to pull out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also claims the same group \u201cran up bills,\u201d including an $8,000 tab at a bar inside The Ben hotel in Palm Beach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey put party crashers on my bills and had competing events to mine. It was one thing after another. I ended up double and triple paying for everything,\u201d she claims.<\/p>\n

Others told The Post Bartzen appears to be engaged in the increasingly modern practice of living her life based on her own \u201cversion\u201d of the truth, passing off opinions as fact and choosing to interpret the events around her in the best possible light.<\/p>\n

She says she\u2019ll never let the cabal of alleged \u201cmean girls\u201d on the socialite scenes in Florida and New York stop her living the high life and from doing what she does best \u2014 partying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way I will let them ruin my events,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alleged fake Cartier heiress, Andrea Bartzen, 60, stood in the candlelit courtyard outside Palm Beach, Florida, restaurant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,6388,161974,220568,65775,79000,7460,24308],"class_list":{"0":"post-627923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-palm-beach","14":"tag-palm-beach-society","15":"tag-scams","16":"tag-socialites","17":"tag-society","18":"tag-the-hamptons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}