Did Thierry de la Villehuchet Invest with Walter Noels Fairfield Greenwich?
Among the articles in Vanity Fair’s April issue is a report I did on the Noels, the infamously good-looking, gregarious family of Walter Noel, founder of the investment group Fairfield Greenwich, which had $6.9 billion–almost half of its assets under management–invested with Bernie Madoff. Now that that money is all gone, Fairfield Greenwich is being sued by investors. The piece shows how the Noels are being criticized for their seemingly callous behavior in the wake of the devastation that has been caused. On Tuesday night, Marisa Noel Brown–at 31, the youngest of the Fairfield Greenwich Noels, married to former F.G.G. partner Matt Brown–found herself co-hosting a surprise birthday party for a friend at 740 Park Avenue, New York’s toniest address. (She emailed me proof yesterday that she had never been asked to be put on the invitation). Nonetheless she’d been at planning meetings organizing the guest list. Meanwhile her brother-in-law Andres Piedrahita, 50, who owns 22 per cent o
