Native New Yorkers No Longer Interesting

Rebecca Mead finds the "talk of the town" at a Le Cirque book party for Melanie Craft, who normally spends her days in San Francisco. I'm half convinced, though, that Mead's parodying the TOTT format with passages like this:

Craft does not write under a pseudonym, though she does have an alter ego: Mrs. Larry Ellison, the fourth wife of the billionaire C.E.O. of Oracle. Craft, whose résumé includes an undergraduate degree from Oberlin and stints as a bartender, a pastry chef, and a safari driver, married Ellison five months ago in a simple back-yard ceremony—if any ceremony can be said to be simple when it takes place in a back yard that consists of forty-five acres, is performed by a congressman, and is photographed by Steve Jobs. Craft has honey-colored hair and the kind of radiant beauty that is testament to genes and grooming working together in perfect concert.