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Jeffrey Slonim, 56, entertainment journalist -- suicide by defenestration
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Events, Red Carpet Reporter Jeffrey Slonim Dies at 56
Slonim, a perennial presence at red carpet events, had long held a column on the back page of Allure.
By Misty White Sidell on October 17, 2016
Jeffrey Slonim, longtime event and red carpet reporter, has died at the age of 56.
A known presence at soirées in Manhattan, Los Angeles and the Hamptons, Slonim had over the years contributed long-running, celebrity-centric columns to Allure and The New York Post, and most recently had written for Town & Country and Gotham magazines.
He is survived by wife Fiona Moore; children Finbarr, 18, and Declan, 15; sisters Anne and Amy, and artist brother Hunt Slonem.
The cause of death was suicide. Slonim died Oct. 13 at the New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, according to a spokesperson with the New York Medical Examiner’s office. His death followed what appeared to be a deliberate fall on Thursday from Lincoln Center’s Illumination Lawn.
Slonim — a graduate of Yale University — had also contributed to People, Blackbook, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest and the New York Observer, amongst other titles. From 2007 to 2009, he served as society editor of Interview magazine, later becoming a contributing editor until 2012. He held a “Snaps” column in the Post from 2001 to 2006. From 1995 onward, he served as editor at large to Hamptons Magazine.
Slonim’s family declined to comment.
“Private Eye,” Slonim’s column at Allure, appeared on the magazine’s back page from the publication’s 1990 founding, until mid 2016 — when editor in chief Linda Wells departed in a masthead shakeup.
“I hired him not long after I started Allure, he was really one of the early contributors to the magazine — we worked together for 25 years. We grew up together: We both got married, both had kids, our kids are the same age. So there was a personal side of it that we shared, all the angst and glory,” Wells said.
“When he first started contributing to Allure he had a knowledge that celebrities were becoming subjects of greater [public] fascination than they had been in a while — that shift from models to celebrities, he sort of predated it.
“So he went out and he did the most exhausting job known to mankind — he went and stood at red carpets and events and asked these bold and disarming questions that really elicited human responses. He had a way of cutting through the formality of those cases and getting something that we could all identify with,” Wells added.
Former Allure articles editor and current Town & Country site director Elizabeth Angell had long edited Slonim at Allure and had recently brought his work to T&C’s online site.
“He really invented a kind of celebrity moment on the red carpet where one asks questions that weren’t about their divorce. He would ask about their favorite movie, the book they were reading, what they like to do when they’re alone in an elevator — this quick snapshot of a celebrity’s life aside from fame was really something he pioneered,” Angell said.
Slonim was an inimitable presence at New York events, where as Wells says, “he was always dressed for the occasion, he looked like he belonged,” in varying degrees of tailored black-tie. Come the summertime Hamptons circuit, Slonim would trade his navy suiting for seersucker ensembles.
Said close friend and Yale classmate Alexander “Sandy” Ewing: “He was at the top of this field — it’s an unusual field — but he was at the top of it. He was admired and loved in a field where you can be easily hated by these celebrities, but Jeff was different, he was a real gentleman — he was beloved.”
Added Joan Kron, former Allure editor at large: “I think it was a contradiction for him to be covering celebrities because so often there can be a b—hiness on that beat, an overall ‘gotcha’ mentality. I think part of his success was that people trusted him to tell him personal things.”
After news of his death broke Sunday afternoon, fashion, art and high society insiders — including Glenn O’Brien, Zac Posen, Coco Rocha, Euan Rellie, Ivan Bart, Ariana Rockefeller, Cameron Silver, Jaime King and others — took to Twitter to relay their grief.
Per Ewing, a memorial service is being planned. A date and time have yet to be confirmed.
http://www.showbiz411.com/2016/10/16/rip-jeffrey-slonim-56-reporter-friend-father-husband-brother-gentleman
RIP Jeffrey Slonim, 56, Reporter, Friend, Father, Husband, Brother, Gentleman
Media
by Roger Friedman - October 16, 2016 3:41 pm
It’s my heartbreaking duty to report an untimely and tragic death. One of our own, Jeffrey Slonim, one of the sweetest guys and hardest working entertainment reporters, died after an accident on Friday. He was 56 years old, a devoted husband, father and brother. (His brother is the artist Hunt Slonem.)
Jeffrey’s entire bio is here. You can read all about his exploits as a ‘war’ correspondent on red carpets for People, Allure, Page Six, Cindy Adams and many other outlets. He was indefatigable in his quest to elicit smart quotes from celebrities and return to the office with great stories, thousands of which then skittered across the wires to newspapers, TV shows, and all the outlets that claim “exclusives.” They more often than not came from Jeff.
I think of Jeff as very preppy, as his Maine background dictated, and very polite. He wore a lot of seersucker, especially in very hot weather, a lot of red and plaid. He was like a walking Ralph Lauren ad. He loved Cole Porter. Jeff was kind of a throwback to a gentler time.
And he never gave up, usually having to deal with publicists whose manners were in direct odds with Jeff’s very good ones. Sometimes he would be hurt personally by poor treatment, and I would tell him, please don’t be, these aren’t real people. But he wanted to see the good in everyone.
And what a life: Jeff went to high school with Julianne Moore, attended Yale, worked for Andy Warhol, was on the front lines with Sean Combs/P Diddy when the rapper ran the NYC Marathon.
A website called KDHamptons ran a great Q&A with Jeff– I’m not sure when– but you can read it here. And see the pictures of this beautiful family, of whom he was so proud. Something went wrong with Jeff on Friday. I’m told it may have come from a bad drug interaction. His friends are in shock, and we send condolences and love to his family. Jeff Slonim will be sorely missed.
media news/
publishing
Events, Red Carpet Reporter Jeffrey Slonim Dies at 56
Slonim, a perennial presence at red carpet events, had long held a column on the back page of Allure.
By Misty White Sidell on October 17, 2016
Jeffrey Slonim, longtime event and red carpet reporter, has died at the age of 56.
A known presence at soirées in Manhattan, Los Angeles and the Hamptons, Slonim had over the years contributed long-running, celebrity-centric columns to Allure and The New York Post, and most recently had written for Town & Country and Gotham magazines.
He is survived by wife Fiona Moore; children Finbarr, 18, and Declan, 15; sisters Anne and Amy, and artist brother Hunt Slonem.
The cause of death was suicide. Slonim died Oct. 13 at the New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, according to a spokesperson with the New York Medical Examiner’s office. His death followed what appeared to be a deliberate fall on Thursday from Lincoln Center’s Illumination Lawn.
Slonim — a graduate of Yale University — had also contributed to People, Blackbook, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest and the New York Observer, amongst other titles. From 2007 to 2009, he served as society editor of Interview magazine, later becoming a contributing editor until 2012. He held a “Snaps” column in the Post from 2001 to 2006. From 1995 onward, he served as editor at large to Hamptons Magazine.
Slonim’s family declined to comment.
“Private Eye,” Slonim’s column at Allure, appeared on the magazine’s back page from the publication’s 1990 founding, until mid 2016 — when editor in chief Linda Wells departed in a masthead shakeup.
“I hired him not long after I started Allure, he was really one of the early contributors to the magazine — we worked together for 25 years. We grew up together: We both got married, both had kids, our kids are the same age. So there was a personal side of it that we shared, all the angst and glory,” Wells said.
“When he first started contributing to Allure he had a knowledge that celebrities were becoming subjects of greater [public] fascination than they had been in a while — that shift from models to celebrities, he sort of predated it.
“So he went out and he did the most exhausting job known to mankind — he went and stood at red carpets and events and asked these bold and disarming questions that really elicited human responses. He had a way of cutting through the formality of those cases and getting something that we could all identify with,” Wells added.
Former Allure articles editor and current Town & Country site director Elizabeth Angell had long edited Slonim at Allure and had recently brought his work to T&C’s online site.
“He really invented a kind of celebrity moment on the red carpet where one asks questions that weren’t about their divorce. He would ask about their favorite movie, the book they were reading, what they like to do when they’re alone in an elevator — this quick snapshot of a celebrity’s life aside from fame was really something he pioneered,” Angell said.
Slonim was an inimitable presence at New York events, where as Wells says, “he was always dressed for the occasion, he looked like he belonged,” in varying degrees of tailored black-tie. Come the summertime Hamptons circuit, Slonim would trade his navy suiting for seersucker ensembles.
Said close friend and Yale classmate Alexander “Sandy” Ewing: “He was at the top of this field — it’s an unusual field — but he was at the top of it. He was admired and loved in a field where you can be easily hated by these celebrities, but Jeff was different, he was a real gentleman — he was beloved.”
Added Joan Kron, former Allure editor at large: “I think it was a contradiction for him to be covering celebrities because so often there can be a b—hiness on that beat, an overall ‘gotcha’ mentality. I think part of his success was that people trusted him to tell him personal things.”
After news of his death broke Sunday afternoon, fashion, art and high society insiders — including Glenn O’Brien, Zac Posen, Coco Rocha, Euan Rellie, Ivan Bart, Ariana Rockefeller, Cameron Silver, Jaime King and others — took to Twitter to relay their grief.
Per Ewing, a memorial service is being planned. A date and time have yet to be confirmed.
http://www.showbiz411.com/2016/10/16/rip-jeffrey-slonim-56-reporter-friend-father-husband-brother-gentleman
RIP Jeffrey Slonim, 56, Reporter, Friend, Father, Husband, Brother, Gentleman
Media
by Roger Friedman - October 16, 2016 3:41 pm
It’s my heartbreaking duty to report an untimely and tragic death. One of our own, Jeffrey Slonim, one of the sweetest guys and hardest working entertainment reporters, died after an accident on Friday. He was 56 years old, a devoted husband, father and brother. (His brother is the artist Hunt Slonem.)
Jeffrey’s entire bio is here. You can read all about his exploits as a ‘war’ correspondent on red carpets for People, Allure, Page Six, Cindy Adams and many other outlets. He was indefatigable in his quest to elicit smart quotes from celebrities and return to the office with great stories, thousands of which then skittered across the wires to newspapers, TV shows, and all the outlets that claim “exclusives.” They more often than not came from Jeff.
I think of Jeff as very preppy, as his Maine background dictated, and very polite. He wore a lot of seersucker, especially in very hot weather, a lot of red and plaid. He was like a walking Ralph Lauren ad. He loved Cole Porter. Jeff was kind of a throwback to a gentler time.
And he never gave up, usually having to deal with publicists whose manners were in direct odds with Jeff’s very good ones. Sometimes he would be hurt personally by poor treatment, and I would tell him, please don’t be, these aren’t real people. But he wanted to see the good in everyone.
And what a life: Jeff went to high school with Julianne Moore, attended Yale, worked for Andy Warhol, was on the front lines with Sean Combs/P Diddy when the rapper ran the NYC Marathon.
A website called KDHamptons ran a great Q&A with Jeff– I’m not sure when– but you can read it here. And see the pictures of this beautiful family, of whom he was so proud. Something went wrong with Jeff on Friday. I’m told it may have come from a bad drug interaction. His friends are in shock, and we send condolences and love to his family. Jeff Slonim will be sorely missed.
Bryan Styble
Oct 18, 2016, 2:42:05 AM10/18/16
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Hate to be semantic or pedantic here, but given that he fell from a terrace known as a "lawn" in The Lincoln Center which presumably is not enclosed and thus has not windows to fall out of, I don't believe the term defenestration applies.
(every time I pass an open window on an upper floor of a building I'm in, I think to myself, Sure hope the cool word defenestration doesn't appear in my obituary.)
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
(every time I pass an open window on an upper floor of a building I'm in, I think to myself, Sure hope the cool word defenestration doesn't appear in my obituary.)
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
That Derek
Oct 18, 2016, 8:25:01 AM10/18/16
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Point taken.
However, what is the actually term for jumping from a roof or a roof-like situation such as a terrace?
However, what is the actually term for jumping from a roof or a roof-like situation such as a terrace?
Sarah Ehrett's Lesbian Love Interest
Oct 18, 2016, 12:29:42 PM10/18/16
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If I may muddy the water, please:
The dictionary I'm reading says defenestration is the act of throwing a person from a window. I am right now reading a novel where the police are presented with a body that has fallen from a window. The police determine it is a murder because suicides mostly just step of high places, while murder victims are mainly thrown. So, suicides are not technically defenestration. As I see it.
The dictionary I'm reading says defenestration is the act of throwing a person from a window. I am right now reading a novel where the police are presented with a body that has fallen from a window. The police determine it is a murder because suicides mostly just step of high places, while murder victims are mainly thrown. So, suicides are not technically defenestration. As I see it.
ruthel...@gmail.com
Dec 20, 2016, 8:56:35 PM12/20/16
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Was Jeffrey Slonims' grandfather Yitzhak Slonim
of Tel Aviv??
There is a big Slonim family in Israel and I am
eager to know if he was one of the family.
Please somebody check this for me.
Thank you,
Ruth Babat
Q
of Tel Aviv??
There is a big Slonim family in Israel and I am
eager to know if he was one of the family.
Please somebody check this for me.
Thank you,
Ruth Babat
Q
That Derek
Dec 20, 2016, 11:28:26 PM12/20/16
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By the fate of serendipity, there just happened to be an item about Mr. Slonim in today's (12/20) print edition of the NEW YORK POST on its notorious "Page Six" celebrity gossip page.
Wherein, there's a reference to a brother who spelled the family name as "SLONEM" - thus, I cannot tell you definitively if the deceased is any relation to the prominent Israeli-based "Slonim" family you metioned.
http://pagesix.com/2016/12/19/friends-and-family-gather-to-honor-beloved-journalist/?_ga=1.120518920.1090817508.1459525133
Friends and family gather to honor beloved journalist
By Page Six Team
December 19, 2016 | 10:16pm
New York’s media elite, socialites and celebrities packed the Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York on Sunday to pay their final respects to beloved red carpet journalist Jeffrey Slonim, who died in October at 56.
Close friends, family and colleagues remembered him for his signature sharp wardrobe and interviewing skills, as well as many impressive, but lesser known, talents such as his ability to speak several languages and play piano and trumpet.
Attendees included “Milk” producer Bruce Cohen, former Allure Editor-in-Chief Linda Wells, actress and Slonim’s close high-school friend Julianne Moore, designer Reed Krakoff, photographer Patrick McMullan, Cristina Cuomo and Andrew Saffir.
After the ceremony, a line to greet Slonim’s family, including famed artist brother Hunt Slonem, stretched over an hour long.
Slonim’s survived by wife Fiona Moore and sons Finbarr and Declan, for whom the family’s set up a college fund.
In a speech, Wells recalled Slonim’s interviews with Donald Trump, Courtney Love, George Clooney and many others.
Wherein, there's a reference to a brother who spelled the family name as "SLONEM" - thus, I cannot tell you definitively if the deceased is any relation to the prominent Israeli-based "Slonim" family you metioned.
http://pagesix.com/2016/12/19/friends-and-family-gather-to-honor-beloved-journalist/?_ga=1.120518920.1090817508.1459525133
Friends and family gather to honor beloved journalist
By Page Six Team
December 19, 2016 | 10:16pm
New York’s media elite, socialites and celebrities packed the Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York on Sunday to pay their final respects to beloved red carpet journalist Jeffrey Slonim, who died in October at 56.
Close friends, family and colleagues remembered him for his signature sharp wardrobe and interviewing skills, as well as many impressive, but lesser known, talents such as his ability to speak several languages and play piano and trumpet.
Attendees included “Milk” producer Bruce Cohen, former Allure Editor-in-Chief Linda Wells, actress and Slonim’s close high-school friend Julianne Moore, designer Reed Krakoff, photographer Patrick McMullan, Cristina Cuomo and Andrew Saffir.
After the ceremony, a line to greet Slonim’s family, including famed artist brother Hunt Slonem, stretched over an hour long.
Slonim’s survived by wife Fiona Moore and sons Finbarr and Declan, for whom the family’s set up a college fund.
In a speech, Wells recalled Slonim’s interviews with Donald Trump, Courtney Love, George Clooney and many others.
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