{"id":311176,"date":"2026-07-31T22:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311176\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:17:26","slug":"new-yorks-last-socialite-isnt-going-down-without-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311176\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Last Socialite Isn\u2019t Going Down Without a Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Two Drinks<\/a>, the column where The Free Press catches up with a newsmaker, trendsetter, or power broker. This week, Suzy Weiss sits down with Julie Macklowe, the thrice-Trump-voting socialite who shocked the New York elite by supporting Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s pied-\u00e0-terre tax\u2014then found out this week that she was erroneously expected to pay it. \u201cMaybe the mayor should spend less time on TikTok and more time figuring out how to run a portal,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Julie Macklowe, in her Gucci tank top, Louis Vuitton sneakers and load-bearing Hemmerle diamond earrings, has some bones to pick. We\u2019re at Jean-Georges Vongerichten\u2019s Four Twenty Five restaurant in Manhattan, and we\u2019re drinking\u2014what else?\u2014cocktails made from Macklowe\u2019s own line of single malt whiskey, the \u201cfirst luxury, and only luxury, American single malt,\u201d she tells me. The blond mom of two and New York society fixture is having a lemonade and a few fingers of Macklowe Gold, which retails for nearly $300 a bottle; I\u2019m sipping a Manhattan, made with her rye<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not long ago, Macklowe\u2014a loyal Donald J. Trump voter\u2014made headlines by coming out in favor<\/a> of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s pied-\u00e0-terre tax, an annual levy on second homes worth over $5 million that took effect July 1. \u201cYou have people popping in from Palm Beach and throwing galas,\u201d she says. \u201cThey don\u2019t even pay New York taxes, and they\u2019re chairing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macklowe tells me she\u2019s gotten \u201cdirty looks at parties in the Hamptons\u201d and a few people being \u201casshole-y,\u201d but says her approach is: \u201cDeal with it. And if you can\u2019t, I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Two Drinks, the column where The Free Press catches up with a newsmaker, trendsetter, or power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-311176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}