It's official, I am pletely obssed wh openly gay sociale Peter Brant II and his (potentially gay) younger brother Harry. Screw Glee's Kurt Hummell, every gay teen on earth pretty much wish they were eher of the kids. They're jt spectacularly amazg.
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- LTLE LORD FLNTLEROYSBORN TO A SUPERMOL MOTHER AND A MOGUL DAD, PETER AND HARRY BRANT HAVE EMERGED AS THE DANDY TEENAGE BOULEVARDIERS OF NEW YORK SOCIETY. ASI OM THE MET BALL (NO VATN? AFTER THEY’D CUED UP THE GOLD-PLATED ROLLS-ROYCE AND THE BABY PANTHER THE DIAMOND NECKLACE?), THE BOYS ARE EVERYWHERE, PURSUG THE PLEASUR OF THE 1 PERCENT, EVEN AS BANKPTCY, TABLOID SNDAL, AND THE THREAT OF DIVORCE HAVE SHADOWED THEIR FAY. NANCY JO SAL MEETS THE BROTHERS.BY NANCY JO SALAUGT 8, 2012SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPETER BRANT HAD ALREADY HAD DNER, AND SAID HE AND HIS BROTHER HARRY HAD A “NFINTIAL DNER” TO GO TO LATER ON, BUT BETWEEN ENGAGEMENTS THEY MA TIME TO TALK AT EN, THE ELEGANT JAPANE IZAKAYA ON HUDSON STREET THE WT VILLAGE. ON THEIR WAY THERE, THEY SAID THEY HAD N TO A FAMO ACTOR OM THE 90S, WHO HAD LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT. “HE LOOKS AMAZG,” SAID PETER. “NO MORE HENRY THE EIGHTH,” HARRY SAID CHEERILY.IT WAS A OL EVENG JUNE, AND PETER AND HARRY, WHO ARE 18 AND 15, WERE DRSED BLACK, THEIR STRIKGLY BETIFUL, KY-WHE FAC SHARP NTRAST TO THE DARK CHIC OF THEIR CLOTH. PETER—WHO GO BY PETER BRANT II, CHEWG THE MORE TRADNAL BUT LS GRAND-SOUNDG “JUNR”—STRETCHED OUT ON THE TATAMI A PRIVATE ROOM AT THE BACK OF THE RTRANT AND BEGAN SWIPG AT HIS IPHONE. HARRY SAT ON HIS KNE, LOOKG LIKE A HIGH-SCHOOL HERO OUT OF A JAPANE ANIME RTOON.“I FEEL LIKE I’M A BAD EPISO OF GOSSIP GIRL,” PETER MOANED. “LIKE, LET ME SHOW YOU A PICTURE OM THE PARTY.” HE HELD UP AN IPHONE PIC OF A GROUP OF TEENAGERS DRSED TUX AND SIGNER GOWNS, ALL POSG AT THE MILLENNIAL BALL FOR GABRIELLE’S ANGEL FOUNDATN FOR CANCER REARCH AT LAVO, THE MANHATTAN NIGHTCLUB, ON MAY 30. PETER WAS ON THE ANIZG MTEE FOR THE EVENT. “WE LOOK LIKE A BAD GOSSIP GIRL ST PHOTO,” HE SAID.“YOU LOOK LIKE THE GOSSIP GIRL ST GROUP THAT WASN’T CHOSEN TO BE GOSSIP GIRL,” SAID HARRY. “I N’T GET OVER THE LEOPARD,” HE ADD, SHAKG HIS HEAD AT THE DRS ON PETER’S DATE.MAYBE WAS JT EXHSTN THE BRANT BOYS WERE FEELG THAT EVENG. “OH MY GOD,” SAID HARRY, “APRIL AND MAY WERE SANE.” THERE WAS THE WHNEY MM’S AMERIN ART AWARD GALA—AT WHICH THEIR FATHER, PETER BRANT SR., THE NEWSPRT MOGUL, PUBLISHER, AND ART LLECTOR, WAS HONORED—AND THE SPRG DNER DANCE FOR NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN, AND THE SAVE VENICE MASKED BALL. AND THEN THERE WAS THE DISAPPOTMENT OF NOT GETTG TO ATTEND THE MET BALL (THERE HAD BEEN “PLITNS” WH THE VATNS, PETER SAID), AT WHICH THEY HAD PLANNED TO ARRIVE A GOLD-PLATED ROLLS-ROYCE ACPANIED BY A BABY PANTHER WEARG A DIAMOND NECKLACE.“I HAD ARRANGED FOR THE BABY PANTHER AND EVERYTHG,” PETER PLAED. “WHAT ULD BE BETTER THAN DIAMONDS AND EXOTIC BABY ANIMALS?”“YOU’RE NOBODY UNTIL PETA EHER LOV YOU OR HAT YOU,” HARRY OBSERVED.OR MAYBE THE BRANT BOYS WERE FEELG THE STRS OF BEG, SUDNLY, KNOWN. OVER THE LAST YEAR THEY HAD CROSSED THE THRHOLD TO TERNATNAL NOTORIETY, ASSISTED BY A FAY SNDAL. A PAPARAZZO’S SHOTS OF PETER TENRLY HUGGG AND KISSG HIS MOTHER, THE FORMER SUPERMOL STEPHANIE SEYMOUR, ON A BEACH ST. BARTH’S DECEMBER OF 2010, GAVE RISE TO SALAC INTER CHATTER ABOUT THE NATURE OF THEIR TIMACY—SPECULATN PETER DISMISSED AS “IDTIC.”BUT SEEMS THERE REALLY IS NO SUCH THG AS BAD PUBLICY ANYMORE. THE BRANT BROTHERS ARE NOW SO MAND AT PARTI AND AFTER-PARTI AND SO OFTEN PHOTOGRAPHED EVERYWHERE THEY GO THAT HARRY WAS PROMPTED TO WRE ON HIS AND PETER’S JOT TWTER ACUNT (68,084 FOLLOWERS), “FROM NOW ON WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT I ‘DO’ I’M JT GONNA SAY IN.”“IT’S NOT LIKE WE’RE SURI CISE,” PETER SAID.“HAVE YOU MET HER?” I ASKED.“I HAVEN’T,” SAID PETER. “I WANT TO, THOUGH. SHE’S ONE OF MY IDOLS.”“SHE HAS AMAZG STYLE,” I SAID.PETER SAID, “SHE DO.”“AND ’S ALL G OM HER,” HARRY REMARKED.“CLEARLY SHE’S JT AN AWOME PERSON,” SAID PETER.“SHE’S ALWAYS GOT SOME ’DO. I LOVE HER HAIR,” SAID HARRY.“AND SHE ALWAYS HAS SOME, LIKE, SASSY OG SLIPPERS,” PETER SAID.“AND, LIKE, JAMMI THE RTRANT,” HARRY SAID.“DIDN’T SHE HAVE SOME LADYBUG BOOTS?” PETER ASKED. “I WAS LIKE, I NEED THOSE.”HARRY SAID, “I HAVE THEM GRAY.”LAST DECEMBER, WHEN PETER TURNED 18, THE HUFFGTON POST RAN A SLI SHOW: “A LOOK BACK AT HIS DAPPER CHILDHOOD.” “HMM,” PETER TWEETED. “I GUS I AM FLATTERED.” FROM THE TIME HE WAS A TODDLER, HE WAS CUTTG A DASHG FIGURE, SHOWG UP WH HIS MOTHER AT DISNEY AND STAR WARS PREMIER SPORTG SHY LOAFERS AND CRISP BLUE BLAZERS. THE DANDY LOOK STAYED WH HIM, AND BY THE AGE OF 16, HE WAS APPEARG AT ART OPENGS AND FASHN SHOWS ENSEMBL THAT WOULD HAVE MA LTLE LORD FNTLEROY BLH, ALWAYS WH A REGAL EXPRSN, AS IF HE HAD SMELLED SOMETHG SLIGHTLY OBJECTNABLE.“AT 15, 16,” PETER SAID, “I LIKED TO WEAR A LOT OF, LIKE, VERY WEIRD OUTFS.” TO THE OPERA, HE ONCE WORE A MVE VELVET JACKET WH A BEJEWELED CHA. “MVE IS MY FAVORE LOR,” HE SAID. “I LOVE MVE.” TO A PRIVATE DNER HOSTED BY HOTELIER ANDRé BALAZS AND ART ALER JEFEY DECH, HE DRSED A WHE SU TOPPED OFF WH A SILVER SRF; HE LOOKED A B LIKE SAL MEO PLAYG THE GREAT GATSBY.“I’VE GONE A LTLE B MORE NSERVATIVE SCE THEN, BUT I STILL DO LIKE THE ASTS,” PETER SAID. “I ED TO HAVE A THG AGAST TI, I HATED THEM, I THOUGHT THEY WERE LAME. BUT YOU KNOW, YOU N’T NOT WEAR SOMETHG AROUND YOUR NECK, SO I WAS, LIKE, WHY DON’T I WEAR AN AST? SO I BOUGHT THIS BOOK, AN OLD ANTIQUE BOOK ABOUT CRAVATS—’S LIKE A HANDBOOK THAT WAS MA FOR SOMEONE’S VALET AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. I STARTED REARCHG AND I FOUND MANY OLD TECHNIQU FOR HOW TO TIE CRAVATS AND SRV. I BOUGHT A BUNCH OF WOMEN’S SRV AND STARTED WEARG THEM WH ALL KDS OF DIFFERENT FASHNS, DIFFERENT JACKETS, DIFFERENT LORS.”HE WAS SPIRED, HE SAID, BY THE “HISTORILLY FLUENCED” WORK OF JOHN GALLIANO AND DOLCE & GABBANA. “IT HAS THAT OLD-WORLD FEEL THAT I LOVE. I’VE WORN A LOT OF DOLCE & GABBANA MY WHOLE LIFE.”“MY FASHN SENSE IS ACTUALLY TOTALLY DIFFERENT,” SAID HARRY, WRIGGLG UP ON HIS KNE. “WHEN I STARTED REALLY GETTG TO FASHN, I HAD, AND STILL DO, THIS OBSSN WH MOSTLY WOMEN’S CLOTH. I THK I JT FELL LOVE WH THE IAL OF HOW INIC FASHN IS—PECIALLY HOW ED TO BE, THE POWER THAT ALL THE FASHN PEOPLE HELD AND THE GLAMOUR OF TRAVELG WH, LIKE, A LOUIS VUTON STEAMER TNK, WEARG THE NEW LOOK DR DRS WH THE BIG HATS—SO FANTASTIC, I JT BEME OBSSED.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSH“ONE THG PARTICULAR I LIKE,” HARRY SAID, “IS DRSG UP AND EACH TIME TAKG ON A NEW PERSONA, EVERY TIME YOU GO OUT. ONE TIME I’LL THK OF MYSELF AS, LIKE, A PTA THE ARY OR AS A PRCE WHO’S BEEN BANISHED OM HIS UNTRY. WHICH ACTUALLY ALL STARTED OM MY MOM TELLG ME THAT WHEN SHE ED TO SHOOT WH AVEDON HE ED TO GIVE HER AN ENTIRE BACKSTORY.” DRAMATIC VOICE: “YOU’RE THE COUNTS LYON AND YOU’RE LIVG PARIS, BUT ALL YOUR MONEY’S BEEN TAKEN BY YOUR HBAND, WHO CHEATED ON YOU WH ANOTHER LOVER AND NOW HE’S LEFT YOU AND YOU’RE BANKPT AND THE WD IS BLOWG YOUR HAIR … ”THE BRANT BOYS GREW UP SURROUND BY FASHN. THE MOST CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHERS, SIGNERS, AND MOLS THE WORLD WERE THEIR MOTHER’S IENDS, AND THEY OFTEN ACPANIED HER TO SHOOTS. “I WENT TO LERALLY DOZENS,” HARRY SAID. “I LOVED , LOVED , EVEN TO THIS DAY. PLAYG AROUND AND DRSG UP.” HE ALSO LOVED WATCHG HIS MOTHER POSE. “SHE TRANSFORMS,” HE SAID. “THERE’S A LIGHT SHE GETS HER EY. MY FAVORE PICTURE OF HER IS THE AVEDON” OM 1995, WHICH SEYMOUR APPEARS TO BE FALLG LIKE A MARTE RELEASED OM S STRGS.“I ASKED HER, ‘HOW DID YOU STAND LIKE THAT?’ ” HARRY SAID. “AND SHE WAS LIKE, ‘OH, NO, HARRY, I’M NOT STANDG—I’M FALLG. I HAD THEM BRG A MATTRS EVERY TIME.’ I THK THAT’S SUCH AMAZG VOTN.”SEYMOUR BALKED AT HAVG HER BETIFUL CHILDREN GO TO MOLG, HOWEVER. “SHE’S VERY PROTECTIVE,” SAID HARRY. HE SAYS HE ONCE DID A SHOOT WH HER FOR A VICTORIA’S SECRET MOTHER’S DAY AD, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A B OF A DISASTER. HE WAS THREE. “I THREW THE BIGGT TANTM DIVA F YOU ULD EVER IMAGE,” HE SAID. “I PLAED ABOUT THE CRAFT SERVIC, AND I MA SOMEONE GO OUT AND BUY A BAGEL AND A CROISSANT FOR ME BEE I WAS APPALLED THAT THEY DIDN’T HAVE EHER.”“THEY DIDN’T WANT ME,” PETER SNIFFED. “THEY WANTED A TODDLER. IT’S HARD KEEPG UP WH ALL THE YOUNG KIDS WHEN YOU’RE GETTG OLR AND WHERG AWAY.”“FRH-FACED BCH WHO YOU ACCINTALLY PHED DOWN A NWAY,” HARRY SAID.“IF A YOUNGER CHILD SHOWS UP AT A PARTY AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU, YOU MIGHT AS WELL BE VISIBLE,” SAID PETER.SEYMOUR WAS 26 AND STILL THE TOP MOL FOR VICTORIA’S SECRET WHEN SHE MARRIED THE THEN 48-YEAR-OLD PETER BRANT—WHOM PETER II HAS REFERRED TO ON HIS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE AS “PETER BRANT I.” PETER I WAS STILL MARRIED TO HIS FIRST WIFE, SANDY BRANT, WH WHOM HE HAD FIVE CHILDREN, WHEN PETER II WAS BORN. THE UPLE DIVORCED SHORTLY THEREAFTER, AND PETER I WED PETER II’S MOTHER, WHOM HE HAD MET THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHER SANTE D’ORAZ. THE CEREMONY WAS HELD AT A CHAPEL ON AN TATE OUTSI PARIS 1995. COUTURIER AZZEDE ALAïA GAVE SEYMOUR AWAY. NAOMI CAMPBELL WAS THE MAID OF HONOR.“NAOMI’S THE BT,” PETER SAID. “WE STAYED AT AN ISLAND WH NAOMI NOT TOO LONG AGO. IT WAS LIKE A PRIVATE ISLAND,” THE BAHAMAS. “WE WERE ALL, LIKE, ON ONE OF THOSE LTLE RAFTS THE BAY. WE WERE, LIKE, LYG AROUND TALKG, AND THE ROPE THAT NNECTED THE RAFT TO THE BEACH GOT BROKEN OFF—”“OH, THAT WAS THE BT STORY,” HARRY SAID ENTHIASTILLY.“AND WE JT STARTED DRIFTG, BUT WE DIDN’T NOTICE,” PETER SAID. “AND THEN ONE OF GOT UP TO GET WATER OR SOMETHG OM, LIKE, A OLER, AND WE WERE, LIKE, WHERE ARE WE? WE HAD DRIFTED WAY OUT TO THE OCEAN. WE ALL STARTED EAKG OUT AND, LIKE, WAVG OUR ARMS.”EVENTUALLY, IENDS ON JET SKIS ME TO THE RCUE, BUT NOT UNTIL PETER, HARRY, AND CAMPBELL HAD STARTED PADDLG THE RAFT TOWARD SHORE. “WE NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THAT THG ALL THE WAY ,” PETER SAID.“WE HAVE SO MANY ADVENTUR,” SAID HARRY.HARRY IS A 10TH-GRAR AT RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL. HE ED TO GO TO ANOTHER SCHOOL, BUT, HE SAID, “EVERYONE THERE WAS REALLY MEAN AND SNOBBY,” SO HE TRANSFERRED. “WHEN UR YOUNGER DIVIDUALY RULTS OSTRACISM,” HE TWEETED MARCH, “YET WH AGE BE A VIRTUE WORTH [S] WEIGHT GOLD.”HE SAID HE LOV HIS NEW SCHOOL, WHERE HE RECEIVED HIS “FIRST GROUP OF A’S,” HE TOLD THE WEB SE FASHNISTA. “I JT CID TO STUDY FOR THE FIRST TIME AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU STUDY, YOU WILL DO WELL ON A TT.” HE STILL STGGL WH SOMNIA; OFTEN HE IS UP AT THREE A.M., READG OR PAGG THROUGH BOOKS ON UTURE WHILE TEXTG BACK AND FORTH WH HIS IEND COURTNEY LOVE. “SHE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO’S AWAKE WHEN I AM,” SAID HARRY. “WE WERE IENDS OM THE FIRST TIME WE MET AND REALIZED WE WERE RRYG AROUND THE SAME BOOK ON GREEK MYTHOLOGY.”PETER GO TO HUNTER COLLEGE, WHERE HE IS MAJORG ART HISTORY. HE GRADUATED OM GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL. ON HIS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE HE HAS SCRIBED HIMSELF AS A “DIGNER, ART COLLECTOR, SOCIALE, AND MOL.” MOST DAYS HE STAYS AT A LOFT DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN, BUT GO HOME ABOUT TWICE A WEEK TO GREENWICH, WHERE HIS PARENTS LIVE ON THE 53-ACRE WHE BIRCH FARM, THE NAMAKE OF PETER BRANT SR.’S WHE BIRCH NEWSPRT-MANUFACTURG PANY.THE BRANT BOYS’ GRANDFATHER MURRAY BRANT, AN IMMIGRANT OM A TOWN NEAR THE BORR OF ROMANIA AND BULGARIA, FOUND THE BATO COMPANY, A PAPER-PROCSG FIRM, 1941. THEIR FATHER, WHO GREW UP QUEENS, A CHILDHOOD IEND OF DONALD TMP’S, EXPAND THE FAY BS TO MANUFACTURG. PETER BRANT SR.’S SP NEWSPRT CO. WAS ONCE THE FOURTH-LARGT NEWSPRT MANUFACTURER NORTH AMERI. IN 2007 HIS WORTH WAS AROUND $1.4 BILLN, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM; BUT BY 2010 THE FIGURE HAD SLIPPED TO $500 LN, DUE TO THE DIMISHED ENOMY AND THE CLE OF THE NEWSPAPER BS, AMONG OTHER FACTORS.BRANT BUILT THE HOE AT WHE BIRCH FARM 1987, WHEN HE WAS PRIDG OVER AN EMPIRE. “IT WAS MOLED AFTER MOUNT VERNON, SO ALWAYS REMDS ME OF TARA,” HARRY SAID. “THAT MOVIE [GONE WH THE WD] ALWAYS MAK ME CRY.”“WE HAVE THE GREENWICH POLO CLUB THERE,” PETER SAID. THEIR FATHER FOUND . “MY DAD WAS THE HIGHT-RATED AMATR POLO PLAYER THE WORLD FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE,” HE ADD PROUDLY. “THIS IS WHAT THE HOE LOOKS LIKE.” HE HELD UP AN IPHONE SHOT OF A SPRAWLG GEIAN-STYLE MANSN.“I’M ALWAYS BUGGG MY DAD ABOUT HOW I WANT TO BE MORE LIKE A BRISH UNTRY TATE,” HARRY SAID, “AND HE THKS ’S, LIKE, RIDICULO THAT I WANT TO EXPAND ON THE ALREADY GROWG PROPERTY.”“LIKE, HOW MAJOR IS THAT?” HE ASKED, SHOWG OFF AN IPHONE PIC OF SOME GEOLY GLOOMY WOODS. “IT’S LIKE SOMETHG STRAIGHT OUT OF A ROMANTIC NOVEL, LIKE YOU ULD SEE VICTOR FRANKENSTE ROAMG THE GROUNDS.”“I PERSONALLY HAVE THE BT VIEW THE HOE,” PETER SAID. “I HAVE THE WHOLE ONT FAçA VIEW, BUT I N ALSO SEE THE GARNS, WHICH ARE GREAT.”HARRY CLICKED HIS TONGUE. “O.K., PETER,” HE SAID, “YOU MIGHT FANCY YOURSELF THE PRCE, BUT LILY”—THEIR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SISTER—“STILL HAS THE BT VIEW OH, YOU DO HAVE A GOOD VIEW,” HE THEN EXCLAIMED, LOOKG AT PETER’S CELL-PHONE SHOT. “IT GO STRAIGHT TO THE PUPPY!”BY “PUPPY” HARRY MEANT NOT SOME ADORABLE A.S.P.C.A. RCUE, BUT THE ADORABLE 10-FOOT-TALL BALLOON DOG (ORANGE), BY JEFF KOONS, WHICH SS ACROSS A MANICURED LAWN OM THEIR HOE. PETER BRANT SR.’S ART LLECTN, WILY NSIRED ONE OF THE GREAT LLECTNS OF NTEMPORARY ART, IS SAID TO PRISE OVER 1,000 PIEC, CLUDG WORKS BY ANDY WARHOL, JULIAN SCHNABEL, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, AND RICHARD SERRA. IN 1967, WHEN HE WAS 20 YEARS OLD, BRANT MET THE ART ALER LEO CASTELLI, WHO TRODUCED HIM TO ANDY WARHOL; BRANT WOULD BEE ONE OF THE ARTIST’S MOST AVID LLECTORS AND, 1989, TWO YEARS AFTER WARHOL’S ATH, BOUGHT HIS INTERVIEW MAGAZE (HE ALREADY OWNED THE MAGAZE ANTIQU AND ART AMERI). IN 2009, BRANT TURNED A 9,800-SQUARE-FOOT 1902 STONE BARN ON HIS GREENWICH PROPERTY TO THE BRANT FOUNDATN ART STUDY CENTER (VISS BY APPOTMENT ONLY).THE BRANT BOYS GREW UP SURROUND BY ART. “THERE’S JT NO WAY AROUND ,” HARRY SAID. “WE WAKE UP AND SEE BETY EVERYWHERE. BOTH MY PARENTS BRG SUCH A UNIQUE ELEMENT TO . THEY’VE BOTH VOTED THEIR LIV TO BETY.”THGS GOT A B UGLY 2009, HOWEVER, WHEN SEYMOUR FILED FOR DIVORCE. FOR 18 MONTHS THE BRANTS WAGED A BTER URT BATTLE AGAST EACH OTHER, FALLY RENCILG 2010. THERE WAS DG TTG AND ALLEGATNS OF FILY ON BOTH SIS. EACH PARTY ACCED THE OTHER OF ABSNDG WH WARHOLS, AMONG OTHER ART TREASUR. BRANT LLED SEYMOUR AN UNF PARENT. SEYMOUR SAID HIS SECURY GUARD SHOVED HER. (ALL ACCATNS WERE EVENTUALLY RCD, OR DISMISSED BY THE URTS.) IN THE SENSATNAL MEDIA VERAGE OF THE SE, BRANT SUFFERED THE DIGNY OF HAVG REPEATED THAT 1990 HE HAD SERVED 84 DAYS A FERAL PENENTIARY PENNSYLVANIA FOR A MISMEANOR NVICTN OF FAILG TO KEEP AQUATE TAX RECORDS (HE HAD BILLED MORE THAN $1.5 LN PERSONAL EXPENS, CLUDG SILK SHEETS AND SLP TREATMENTS, TO HIS PANI).MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHAT STAKE THE DIVORCE WAS NOT JT BRANT’S FORTUNE—HE AND SEYMOUR HAD NO PRE-NUP—BUT CTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN, THEN 15, 12, AND 4. (SEYMOUR ALSO HAS A 22-YEAR-OLD SON, DYLAN THOMAS ANDREWS, BY HER FIRST HBAND, GUARIST TOMMY ANDREWS; HE ATTENDS BARD COLLEGE.)BUT THEN, 2011, SEYMOUR TOLD TOWN & COUNTRY THAT SHE AND HER HBAND HAD RENCILED WH THE HELP OF A NAVAJO BLANKET SHE HAD RETURNED TO HIM AS A KD OF PEACE OFFERG. SHE NFSED TO HAVG EXPERIENCED A MID-LIFE CRISIS BROUGHT ON BY TURNG 40; THE MAGAZE SAID THAT SHE HAD FELT “GED, PTIVE AND ORNAMENTAL” HER MARRIAGE—CHILLGLY SYMBOLIZED BY THE SATIRIL NU BT OF HER BY ARTIST MRIZ CATTELAN KNOWN AS “TROPHY WIFE,” WHICH HAS HER MOUNTED ON A WALL. IT WAS MISSNED BY HER HBAND.BUT NOW THE BRANTS ARE SPENDG FAY TIME TOGETHER AGA.“WE HAVE A LOT OF NVERSATNS,” PETER SAID.“WE HAVE LENGTHY DNER NVERSATNS,” SAID HARRY. “IT N BE ABOUT ANYTHG—WHETHER WE WENT TO A SHOW, OR AN CTN, OR AN OPTN SALE. IT N BE ABOUT GARNG OR FASHN OR MAGAZ.”“WE’RE, LIKE, A VERY ATHETIC FAY,” SAID PETER.“I SPEND, LIKE, HOURS TALKG WH THEM EVERY NIGHT THEIR LTLE MASTER-BEDROOM AREA,” SAID HARRY.IN TOUGH TIM, FAI TEND TO STICK TOGETHER. IN 2010, BRANT’S WHE BIRCH PAPER COMPANY WENT TO BANKPTCY. AND THEN NOVEMBER OF 2011, HIS SP NEWSPRT CO. FILED FOR CHAPTER 11.IF THE BRANT BOYS ARE TROUBLED BY PECUNIARY NSIRATNS, DO NOT SHOW. THEIRS IS THE DREAM-L WORLD OF THE LEISURE CLASS. CURLY ENOUGH, ONE OF PETER’S FAVORE BOOKS IS THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS (1899), BY THORSTE VEBLEN, A SATIRIL CRIQUE OF PRECISELY THE SORT OF EXTRAVAGANT LIFTYLE LED BY THE BRANT FAY. HE ALSO REVER THE PRCS CASAMASSIMA, BY HENRY JAM, THE TALE OF A SENSIVE YOUNG ATHETE TURNED REVOLUTNARY AND WOULD-BE ASSASS.IN JUNE, THE BROTHERS TWEETED OM BASEL, WHERE THEY WERE ATTENDG THE ART FAIR, AND INSTAGRAMMED OM A YACHT GLIDG DOWN THE ITALIAN AST: “WATCHG DOLPHS SWIM ALONGSI OUR BOAT AS WE SAIL BLDLY TO THE DARKNS OF THE MEDERRANEAN.” WHEN I ASKED PETER WHAT HIS PLANS WERE FOR THIS SUMMER, HE SAID HE WOULD BE SPENDG TIME EUROPE. “EVERYONE’S LIKE, OH, E ON MY BOAT, E TO MY HOE, E TO MY VILLA, GO HERE WH ME, FLY THERE WH ME,” HE SAID. THIS SORT OF THG WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE GRAND TOUR, WHEN YOUNG MEN OF MEANS WOULD DRIFT AROUND THE CONTENT SOAKG UP CULTURE AND LEARNG HOW TO BE FANCY.IN AN AGE OF RENTMENT TOWARD THE 1 PERCENT, THE BRANT BOYS ARE UNABASHED 1-PERCENTERS. PETER UNTS AMONG HIS FAVORE QUOT THIS ONE OM SENE: “FDG WEALTH AN TOLERABLE BURN IS THE MARK OF AN UNSTABLE MD.” HE TWEETED MARCH: “WAS VED TO A PARTY PENN BADGLEY”—STAR OF THE REAL GOSSIP GIRL—“IS THROWG FOR OCCUPY WALL STREET. MY MA QUTN THOUGH: IS THAT MOVEMENT REALLY STILL A THG?”THE BROTHERS’ TERTS LIE FAR OUTSI ZUCTTI PARK. PETER HAS A FASCATN WH RGS BY JAR, THE RECLIVE FRENCH JEWELER OM THE BRONX, AND BEDS BY LOUIS MAJORELLE, THE ART NOUVE SIGNER; HE HAS ONE OF EACH. HARRY STUDI THE GARNS AT VERSAILL, WHICH HE SAYS “MAKE YOU WANT TO CRY.” “THEY’RE LIKE THE HILTON SISTERS WH BRAS AND CLASS,” SAYS SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THEM.THERE ARE NOT MANY YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE THEM.“I JT WANT TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK LIKE OSR WIL,” HARRY SAID. “JT TO BE ABLE TO ROLL OFF QUOT LIKE THAT.” IT MAK SENSE THAT THEY ARE GOOD IENDS AND LIKE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME TOGETHER.“AND WE’RE VERY GOOD AT TELLG EACH OTHER HOW WE FEEL ABOUT CERTA THGS, LIKE HOW MUCH I HATE THAT SWEATER” OF HARRY’S, SAID PETER.“THIS IS MY EMERGENCY OUTF THAT I KEEP THE LOFT,” HARRY PROTTED.“I FEEL LIKE THE EMBROIRY’S A LTLE B AYED, BUT WHATEVER,” SAID PETER.“OH, THANK YOU,” HARRY SAID. “THIS IS LERALLY THE ONLY THG I HAD AT THE APARTMENT.”“AND I THK THAT YOUR SHOULRS ARE WIR THAN WHEN YOU BOUGHT THAT SWEATER, SO YOUR SHOULRS DON’T F THAT SWEATER,” PETER WENT ON.“I HAVEN’T GONE SHOPPG , LIKE, A REALLY LONG TIME,” HARRY GMBLED.“O.K.,” SAID PETER WH A LTLE LGH, “TELL ME ONE THG THAT YOU HATE ABOUT MY OUTF.”MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSH“I HATE THAT YOU’RE WEARG A DOUCHEY T-SHIRT UNR YOUR SHIRT,” HARRY IMMEDIATELY RPOND, “WH THE SHIRT UNBUTTONED DOWN TO THERE.”“IT’S LD OUTSI,” PETER SAID.“Y, ’S LD, SO YOU HAD TO UNBUTTON YOUR SHIRT?” SAID HARRY.“NO, THE THG JT NATURALLY ME UNBUTTONED,” PETER SAID. “Y, HARRY, SOME BUTTONS POP OPEN BY THEMSELV.”“YOU’RE BOTH VERY TALL FOR YOUR AGE,” I SAID AN ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT.“I’M SIX FEET,” SAID HARRY.“I’M SIX TWO,” PETER SAID.HARRY SAID, “NO.”“I AM SIX FOOT TWO,” SAID PETER.“WE HAVE DONE TTS BACK-TO-BACK,” SAID HARRY.“AND I AM A LTLE B TALLER THAN YOU,” SAID PETER.“MAYBE WH THE POUFFS OF HAIR YOU’RE SPORTG RIGHT NOW,” SAID HARRY.“I PUT NOTHG MY HAIR TODAY,” PETER SAID. “THE REASON MY HAIR LOOKS LIKE THIS IS I PUT NOTHG .”I REMARKED ON THE THICKNS OF PETER’S HAIR.“MY HAIR IS THE THICKT HAIR YOU’VE EVER FELT YOUR LIFE,” SAID PETER. “SILKY, SILKY, LIKE CRAZY—”“DON’T WE SOUND LIKE A L’ORéAL MERCIAL,” HARRY SAID. “ ‘BUOYANT!’ ”“I WOULD DONATE MY HAIR TO LOCKS OF LOVE, BUT ’S PROBABLY TOO PROCSED FOR A SICK PERSON TO WEAR,” PETER SAID.HARRY LGHED. “DON’T YOU MAKE FUN—”“THAT’S WHY I WAS RAISG MONEY FOR NCER THIS WEEK,” SAID PETER, “BEE I DON’T WANT ANYONE LOSG THEIR HAIR.”I ASKED HOW MUCH MONEY HE HAD RAISED.“I THK $80,000,” HE SAID.“WASN’T YOUR GOAL A LN?” ASKED HARRY.BACK 2010, WHEN THE SNDAL EPTED OVER THE PAPARAZZO SHOTS OF PETER AND HIS MOTHER, PETER ANNOUNCED—UNRSRG THE NOCENCE OF THE PICTUR—THAT HE WAS “OPENLY GAY. AT MY AGE,” HE WROTE ON HIS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE, “MY MOTHER AND I ARE ALMOST LIKE IENDS AND I FEEL OPEN TO TALK TO HER ABOUT ANYTHG (AND Y OUR RELATNSHIP MAY BE DIFFERENT BEE OF MY SEXUALY).”BLOGGERS LD HIM FOR HIS BRAVERY AND THE NONCHALANCE WH WHICH HE ME OUT. “THIS IS PROGRS, THIS IS EQUALY,” SAID THE GOSSIP WEB SE GAWKER, REFERENCE TO HIS GENERAL FABULONS. BUT NOW PETER SEEMS RATHER TIRED OF THE WHOLE THG AND UNWILLG TO LABEL HIMSELF.“I MIGHT BE” GAY, HE SAID. “I’M BOTH, KD OF, A LTLE B.... I DO BOTH, AND, YOU KNOW, I’M OL WH EVERYTHG. I DON’T LIKE TO BE FED. I PERSONALLY DON’T THK THAT YOU N BE. I’M UNFABLE. I’M UNFED. AND I THK THAT ANYONE WHO THKS THEY HAVE ME FIGURED OUT KNOWS NOTHG ABOUT ME, ’E VERY FEW PEOPLE THE WORLD ACTUALLY KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT HOW MY MD WORKS.”HE IS OFTEN SEEN OUT WH BETIFUL GIRLS. AND GUYS. IN JUNE HE TWEETED, “IF A GUY SPENDS MORE THAN $300 ON DNER, AFTERWARDS YOU HAVE TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTS … IT ED TO BE $500 BUT WE ARE A RECSN HAHA.” HE SEEMS TO HAVE HERED SOME OF HIS MOTHER’S JOIE VIVRE; SHE WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE WILD CHILD OF THE FASHN WORLD, DATG BAD BOYS SUCH AS WARREN BEATTY AND CHARLIE SHEEN. SEYMOUR HAD AN FAMOLY TEMPTUO RELATNSHIP WH GUNS N’ ROS ONT MAN AXL ROSE, WHO 1993 SUED HER FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSLTG HIM AT A CHRISTMAS PARTY. ROSE’S SU WAS LATER DROPPED, AS WAS HER UNTERSU ACCG HIM OF BATTERY.“I THK LIFE IS ABOUT MAKG MEMORI,” SAID PETER. “I WANT TO BE OLD AND HAVE SO MANY THGS TO REMEMBER, LIKE, I JT DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WH MYSELF—LIKE, I N TALK ABOUT THEM FOR HOURS. ONE DAY,” OVER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, HE SAID, “WE WENT TO BNCH MONTK—JT ME AND A BUNCH OF KIDS MY AGE—AND ONE OF THE GIRLS BORROWED ONE OF HER DAD’S CLASSIC RS. HE LENT HER THIS 1959 CADILLAC ELDORADO THAT’S PATED BRIGHT SHY PURPLE. AND WE DROVE DOWN THE MONTK HIGHWAY WHILE JAMMG OUT TO, LIKE, ‘TATED LOVE’ AND ALL THE 80S HS, ALL DRSED , LIKE, A LOT OF NEON. I WAS WEARG WHE SILK AND WE ALL WORE FEDORAS—”“YOU DIDN’T WEAR FEDORAS,” HARRY GROANED.“I WAS WEARG A WHE FEDORA,” PETER SAID. “WE ALL BORROWED HATS OM THE HOE, AND THE GIRL DRIVG WAS SO HOT SHE TOOK HER DRS OFF AND SHE WAS ONLY WEARG A BIKI AND—”“YOU GUYS SOUND LIKE A REALLY CLASSY GROUP,” SAID HARRY.“SHE WAS SMOKG A CIGARETTE AND WEARG A SUN HAT AND WE WERE LIKE, ‘WE SHOULD BE DOG A PHOTO SHOOT,’ ” PETER SAID.HARRY SIGHED. “YOU HAVE TO LOVE A CLASSIC R.”“IT WAS PRETTY FOXY,” SAID PETER. “WE’D PASS PEOPLE AND THEY’D BE LIKE, ‘YEAH, NICE R.’ I HAVE TO SAY, WE’VE NEVER BEEN MORE GLAMORO, EVEN WH THE TACKY HATS.”“I ALWAYS THK ABOUT HOW AMAZG MY LIFE’S GONNA BE WHEN I’M 18,” HARRY SAID.“WHAT DO YOU PLAN ON DOG?” I ASKED.“BEG VERY SEASONED,” SAID HARRY.AND THEN THE BRANT BOYS WERE OFF TO THEIR NFINTIAL DNER, AND TO EUROPE, AND MORE ADVENTUR.NANCY JO SAL
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LTLE LORD FLNTLEROYSBORN TO A SUPERMOL MOTHER AND A MOGUL DAD, PETER AND HARRY BRANT HAVE EMERGED AS THE DANDY TEENAGE BOULEVARDIERS OF NEW YORK SOCIETY. ASI OM THE MET BALL (NO VATN? AFTER THEY’D CUED UP THE GOLD-PLATED ROLLS-ROYCE AND THE BABY PANTHER THE DIAMOND NECKLACE?), THE BOYS ARE EVERYWHERE, PURSUG THE PLEASUR OF THE 1 PERCENT, EVEN AS BANKPTCY, TABLOID SNDAL, AND THE THREAT OF DIVORCE HAVE SHADOWED THEIR FAY. NANCY JO SAL MEETS THE BROTHERS.BY NANCY JO SALAUGT 8, 2012SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPETER BRANT HAD ALREADY HAD DNER, AND SAID HE AND HIS BROTHER HARRY HAD A “NFINTIAL DNER” TO GO TO LATER ON, BUT BETWEEN ENGAGEMENTS THEY MA TIME TO TALK AT EN, THE ELEGANT JAPANE IZAKAYA ON HUDSON STREET THE WT VILLAGE. ON THEIR WAY THERE, THEY SAID THEY HAD N TO A FAMO ACTOR OM THE 90S, WHO HAD LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT. “HE LOOKS AMAZG,” SAID PETER. “NO MORE HENRY THE EIGHTH,” HARRY SAID CHEERILY.IT WAS A OL EVENG JUNE, AND PETER AND HARRY, WHO ARE 18 AND 15, WERE DRSED BLACK, THEIR STRIKGLY BETIFUL, KY-WHE FAC SHARP NTRAST TO THE DARK CHIC OF THEIR CLOTH. PETER—WHO GO BY PETER BRANT II, CHEWG THE MORE TRADNAL BUT LS GRAND-SOUNDG “JUNR”—STRETCHED OUT ON THE TATAMI A PRIVATE ROOM AT THE BACK OF THE RTRANT AND BEGAN SWIPG AT HIS IPHONE. HARRY SAT ON HIS KNE, LOOKG LIKE A HIGH-SCHOOL HERO OUT OF A JAPANE ANIME RTOON.“I FEEL LIKE I’M A BAD EPISO OF GOSSIP GIRL,” PETER MOANED. “LIKE, LET ME SHOW YOU A PICTURE OM THE PARTY.” HE HELD UP AN IPHONE PIC OF A GROUP OF TEENAGERS DRSED TUX AND SIGNER GOWNS, ALL POSG AT THE MILLENNIAL BALL FOR GABRIELLE’S ANGEL FOUNDATN FOR CANCER REARCH AT LAVO, THE MANHATTAN NIGHTCLUB, ON MAY 30. PETER WAS ON THE ANIZG MTEE FOR THE EVENT. “WE LOOK LIKE A BAD GOSSIP GIRL ST PHOTO,” HE SAID.“YOU LOOK LIKE THE GOSSIP GIRL ST GROUP THAT WASN’T CHOSEN TO BE GOSSIP GIRL,” SAID HARRY. “I N’T GET OVER THE LEOPARD,” HE ADD, SHAKG HIS HEAD AT THE DRS ON PETER’S DATE.MAYBE WAS JT EXHSTN THE BRANT BOYS WERE FEELG THAT EVENG. “OH MY GOD,” SAID HARRY, “APRIL AND MAY WERE SANE.” THERE WAS THE WHNEY MM’S AMERIN ART AWARD GALA—AT WHICH THEIR FATHER, PETER BRANT SR., THE NEWSPRT MOGUL, PUBLISHER, AND ART LLECTOR, WAS HONORED—AND THE SPRG DNER DANCE FOR NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN, AND THE SAVE VENICE MASKED BALL. AND THEN THERE WAS THE DISAPPOTMENT OF NOT GETTG TO ATTEND THE MET BALL (THERE HAD BEEN “PLITNS” WH THE VATNS, PETER SAID), AT WHICH THEY HAD PLANNED TO ARRIVE A GOLD-PLATED ROLLS-ROYCE ACPANIED BY A BABY PANTHER WEARG A DIAMOND NECKLACE.“I HAD ARRANGED FOR THE BABY PANTHER AND EVERYTHG,” PETER PLAED. “WHAT ULD BE BETTER THAN DIAMONDS AND EXOTIC BABY ANIMALS?”“YOU’RE NOBODY UNTIL PETA EHER LOV YOU OR HAT YOU,” HARRY OBSERVED.OR MAYBE THE BRANT BOYS WERE FEELG THE STRS OF BEG, SUDNLY, KNOWN. OVER THE LAST YEAR THEY HAD CROSSED THE THRHOLD TO TERNATNAL NOTORIETY, ASSISTED BY A FAY SNDAL. A PAPARAZZO’S SHOTS OF PETER TENRLY HUGGG AND KISSG HIS MOTHER, THE FORMER SUPERMOL STEPHANIE SEYMOUR, ON A BEACH ST. BARTH’S DECEMBER OF 2010, GAVE RISE TO SALAC INTER CHATTER ABOUT THE NATURE OF THEIR TIMACY—SPECULATN PETER DISMISSED AS “IDTIC.”BUT SEEMS THERE REALLY IS NO SUCH THG AS BAD PUBLICY ANYMORE. THE BRANT BROTHERS ARE NOW SO MAND AT PARTI AND AFTER-PARTI AND SO OFTEN PHOTOGRAPHED EVERYWHERE THEY GO THAT HARRY WAS PROMPTED TO WRE ON HIS AND PETER’S JOT TWTER ACUNT (68,084 FOLLOWERS), “FROM NOW ON WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT I ‘DO’ I’M JT GONNA SAY IN.”“IT’S NOT LIKE WE’RE SURI CISE,” PETER SAID.“HAVE YOU MET HER?” I ASKED.“I HAVEN’T,” SAID PETER. “I WANT TO, THOUGH. SHE’S ONE OF MY IDOLS.”“SHE HAS AMAZG STYLE,” I SAID.PETER SAID, “SHE DO.”“AND ’S ALL G OM HER,” HARRY REMARKED.“CLEARLY SHE’S JT AN AWOME PERSON,” SAID PETER.“SHE’S ALWAYS GOT SOME ’DO. I LOVE HER HAIR,” SAID HARRY.“AND SHE ALWAYS HAS SOME, LIKE, SASSY OG SLIPPERS,” PETER SAID.“AND, LIKE, JAMMI THE RTRANT,” HARRY SAID.“DIDN’T SHE HAVE SOME LADYBUG BOOTS?” PETER ASKED. “I WAS LIKE, I NEED THOSE.”HARRY SAID, “I HAVE THEM GRAY.”LAST DECEMBER, WHEN PETER TURNED 18, THE HUFFGTON POST RAN A SLI SHOW: “A LOOK BACK AT HIS DAPPER CHILDHOOD.” “HMM,” PETER TWEETED. “I GUS I AM FLATTERED.” FROM THE TIME HE WAS A TODDLER, HE WAS CUTTG A DASHG FIGURE, SHOWG UP WH HIS MOTHER AT DISNEY AND STAR WARS PREMIER SPORTG SHY LOAFERS AND CRISP BLUE BLAZERS. THE DANDY LOOK STAYED WH HIM, AND BY THE AGE OF 16, HE WAS APPEARG AT ART OPENGS AND FASHN SHOWS ENSEMBL THAT WOULD HAVE MA LTLE LORD FNTLEROY BLH, ALWAYS WH A REGAL EXPRSN, AS IF HE HAD SMELLED SOMETHG SLIGHTLY OBJECTNABLE.“AT 15, 16,” PETER SAID, “I LIKED TO WEAR A LOT OF, LIKE, VERY WEIRD OUTFS.” TO THE OPERA, HE ONCE WORE A MVE VELVET JACKET WH A BEJEWELED CHA. “MVE IS MY FAVORE LOR,” HE SAID. “I LOVE MVE.” TO A PRIVATE DNER HOSTED BY HOTELIER ANDRé BALAZS AND ART ALER JEFEY DECH, HE DRSED A WHE SU TOPPED OFF WH A SILVER SRF; HE LOOKED A B LIKE SAL MEO PLAYG THE GREAT GATSBY.“I’VE GONE A LTLE B MORE NSERVATIVE SCE THEN, BUT I STILL DO LIKE THE ASTS,” PETER SAID. “I ED TO HAVE A THG AGAST TI, I HATED THEM, I THOUGHT THEY WERE LAME. BUT YOU KNOW, YOU N’T NOT WEAR SOMETHG AROUND YOUR NECK, SO I WAS, LIKE, WHY DON’T I WEAR AN AST? SO I BOUGHT THIS BOOK, AN OLD ANTIQUE BOOK ABOUT CRAVATS—’S LIKE A HANDBOOK THAT WAS MA FOR SOMEONE’S VALET AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. I STARTED REARCHG AND I FOUND MANY OLD TECHNIQU FOR HOW TO TIE CRAVATS AND SRV. I BOUGHT A BUNCH OF WOMEN’S SRV AND STARTED WEARG THEM WH ALL KDS OF DIFFERENT FASHNS, DIFFERENT JACKETS, DIFFERENT LORS.”HE WAS SPIRED, HE SAID, BY THE “HISTORILLY FLUENCED” WORK OF JOHN GALLIANO AND DOLCE & GABBANA. “IT HAS THAT OLD-WORLD FEEL THAT I LOVE. I’VE WORN A LOT OF DOLCE & GABBANA MY WHOLE LIFE.”“MY FASHN SENSE IS ACTUALLY TOTALLY DIFFERENT,” SAID HARRY, WRIGGLG UP ON HIS KNE. “WHEN I STARTED REALLY GETTG TO FASHN, I HAD, AND STILL DO, THIS OBSSN WH MOSTLY WOMEN’S CLOTH. I THK I JT FELL LOVE WH THE IAL OF HOW INIC FASHN IS—PECIALLY HOW ED TO BE, THE POWER THAT ALL THE FASHN PEOPLE HELD AND THE GLAMOUR OF TRAVELG WH, LIKE, A LOUIS VUTON STEAMER TNK, WEARG THE NEW LOOK DR DRS WH THE BIG HATS—SO FANTASTIC, I JT BEME OBSSED.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSH“ONE THG PARTICULAR I LIKE,” HARRY SAID, “IS DRSG UP AND EACH TIME TAKG ON A NEW PERSONA, EVERY TIME YOU GO OUT. ONE TIME I’LL THK OF MYSELF AS, LIKE, A PTA THE ARY OR AS A PRCE WHO’S BEEN BANISHED OM HIS UNTRY. WHICH ACTUALLY ALL STARTED OM MY MOM TELLG ME THAT WHEN SHE ED TO SHOOT WH AVEDON HE ED TO GIVE HER AN ENTIRE BACKSTORY.” DRAMATIC VOICE: “YOU’RE THE COUNTS LYON AND YOU’RE LIVG PARIS, BUT ALL YOUR MONEY’S BEEN TAKEN BY YOUR HBAND, WHO CHEATED ON YOU WH ANOTHER LOVER AND NOW HE’S LEFT YOU AND YOU’RE BANKPT AND THE WD IS BLOWG YOUR HAIR … ”THE BRANT BOYS GREW UP SURROUND BY FASHN. THE MOST CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHERS, SIGNERS, AND MOLS THE WORLD WERE THEIR MOTHER’S IENDS, AND THEY OFTEN ACPANIED HER TO SHOOTS. “I WENT TO LERALLY DOZENS,” HARRY SAID. “I LOVED , LOVED , EVEN TO THIS DAY. PLAYG AROUND AND DRSG UP.” HE ALSO LOVED WATCHG HIS MOTHER POSE. “SHE TRANSFORMS,” HE SAID. “THERE’S A LIGHT SHE GETS HER EY. MY FAVORE PICTURE OF HER IS THE AVEDON” OM 1995, WHICH SEYMOUR APPEARS TO BE FALLG LIKE A MARTE RELEASED OM S STRGS.“I ASKED HER, ‘HOW DID YOU STAND LIKE THAT?’ ” HARRY SAID. “AND SHE WAS LIKE, ‘OH, NO, HARRY, I’M NOT STANDG—I’M FALLG. I HAD THEM BRG A MATTRS EVERY TIME.’ I THK THAT’S SUCH AMAZG VOTN.”SEYMOUR BALKED AT HAVG HER BETIFUL CHILDREN GO TO MOLG, HOWEVER. “SHE’S VERY PROTECTIVE,” SAID HARRY. HE SAYS HE ONCE DID A SHOOT WH HER FOR A VICTORIA’S SECRET MOTHER’S DAY AD, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A B OF A DISASTER. HE WAS THREE. “I THREW THE BIGGT TANTM DIVA F YOU ULD EVER IMAGE,” HE SAID. “I PLAED ABOUT THE CRAFT SERVIC, AND I MA SOMEONE GO OUT AND BUY A BAGEL AND A CROISSANT FOR ME BEE I WAS APPALLED THAT THEY DIDN’T HAVE EHER.”“THEY DIDN’T WANT ME,” PETER SNIFFED. “THEY WANTED A TODDLER. IT’S HARD KEEPG UP WH ALL THE YOUNG KIDS WHEN YOU’RE GETTG OLR AND WHERG AWAY.”“FRH-FACED BCH WHO YOU ACCINTALLY PHED DOWN A NWAY,” HARRY SAID.“IF A YOUNGER CHILD SHOWS UP AT A PARTY AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU, YOU MIGHT AS WELL BE VISIBLE,” SAID PETER.SEYMOUR WAS 26 AND STILL THE TOP MOL FOR VICTORIA’S SECRET WHEN SHE MARRIED THE THEN 48-YEAR-OLD PETER BRANT—WHOM PETER II HAS REFERRED TO ON HIS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE AS “PETER BRANT I.” PETER I WAS STILL MARRIED TO HIS FIRST WIFE, SANDY BRANT, WH WHOM HE HAD FIVE CHILDREN, WHEN PETER II WAS BORN. THE UPLE DIVORCED SHORTLY THEREAFTER, AND PETER I WED PETER II’S MOTHER, WHOM HE HAD MET THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHER SANTE D’ORAZ. THE CEREMONY WAS HELD AT A CHAPEL ON AN TATE OUTSI PARIS 1995. COUTURIER AZZEDE ALAïA GAVE SEYMOUR AWAY. NAOMI CAMPBELL WAS THE MAID OF HONOR.“NAOMI’S THE BT,” PETER SAID. “WE STAYED AT AN ISLAND WH NAOMI NOT TOO LONG AGO. IT WAS LIKE A PRIVATE ISLAND,” THE BAHAMAS. “WE WERE ALL, LIKE, ON ONE OF THOSE LTLE RAFTS THE BAY. WE WERE, LIKE, LYG AROUND TALKG, AND THE ROPE THAT NNECTED THE RAFT TO THE BEACH GOT BROKEN OFF—”“OH, THAT WAS THE BT STORY,” HARRY SAID ENTHIASTILLY.“AND WE JT STARTED DRIFTG, BUT WE DIDN’T NOTICE,” PETER SAID. “AND THEN ONE OF GOT UP TO GET WATER OR SOMETHG OM, LIKE, A OLER, AND WE WERE, LIKE, WHERE ARE WE? WE HAD DRIFTED WAY OUT TO THE OCEAN. WE ALL STARTED EAKG OUT AND, LIKE, WAVG OUR ARMS.”EVENTUALLY, IENDS ON JET SKIS ME TO THE RCUE, BUT NOT UNTIL PETER, HARRY, AND CAMPBELL HAD STARTED PADDLG THE RAFT TOWARD SHORE. “WE NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THAT THG ALL THE WAY ,” PETER SAID.“WE HAVE SO MANY ADVENTUR,” SAID HARRY.HARRY IS A 10TH-GRAR AT RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL. HE ED TO GO TO ANOTHER SCHOOL, BUT, HE SAID, “EVERYONE THERE WAS REALLY MEAN AND SNOBBY,” SO HE TRANSFERRED. “WHEN UR YOUNGER DIVIDUALY RULTS OSTRACISM,” HE TWEETED MARCH, “YET WH AGE BE A VIRTUE WORTH [S] WEIGHT GOLD.”HE SAID HE LOV HIS NEW SCHOOL, WHERE HE RECEIVED HIS “FIRST GROUP OF A’S,” HE TOLD THE WEB SE FASHNISTA. “I JT CID TO STUDY FOR THE FIRST TIME AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU STUDY, YOU WILL DO WELL ON A TT.” HE STILL STGGL WH SOMNIA; OFTEN HE IS UP AT THREE A.M., READG OR PAGG THROUGH BOOKS ON UTURE WHILE TEXTG BACK AND FORTH WH HIS IEND COURTNEY LOVE. “SHE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO’S AWAKE WHEN I AM,” SAID HARRY. “WE WERE IENDS OM THE FIRST TIME WE MET AND REALIZED WE WERE RRYG AROUND THE SAME BOOK ON GREEK MYTHOLOGY.”PETER GO TO HUNTER COLLEGE, WHERE HE IS MAJORG ART HISTORY. HE GRADUATED OM GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL. ON HIS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE HE HAS SCRIBED HIMSELF AS A “DIGNER, ART COLLECTOR, SOCIALE, AND MOL.” MOST DAYS HE STAYS AT A LOFT DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN, BUT GO HOME ABOUT TWICE A WEEK TO GREENWICH, WHERE HIS PARENTS LIVE ON THE 53-ACRE WHE BIRCH FARM, THE NAMAKE OF PETER BRANT SR.’S WHE BIRCH NEWSPRT-MANUFACTURG PANY.THE BRANT BOYS’ GRANDFATHER MURRAY BRANT, AN IMMIGRANT OM A TOWN NEAR THE BORR OF ROMANIA AND BULGARIA, FOUND THE BATO COMPANY, A PAPER-PROCSG FIRM, 1941. THEIR FATHER, WHO GREW UP QUEENS, A CHILDHOOD IEND OF DONALD TMP’S, EXPAND THE FAY BS TO MANUFACTURG. PETER BRANT SR.’S SP NEWSPRT CO. WAS ONCE THE FOURTH-LARGT NEWSPRT MANUFACTURER NORTH AMERI. IN 2007 HIS WORTH WAS AROUND $1.4 BILLN, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM; BUT BY 2010 THE FIGURE HAD SLIPPED TO $500 LN, DUE TO THE DIMISHED ENOMY AND THE CLE OF THE NEWSPAPER BS, AMONG OTHER FACTORS.BRANT BUILT THE HOE AT WHE BIRCH FARM 1987, WHEN HE WAS PRIDG OVER AN EMPIRE. “IT WAS MOLED AFTER MOUNT VERNON, SO ALWAYS REMDS ME OF TARA,” HARRY SAID. “THAT MOVIE [GONE WH THE WD] ALWAYS MAK ME CRY.”“WE HAVE THE GREENWICH POLO CLUB THERE,” PETER SAID. THEIR FATHER FOUND . “MY DAD WAS THE HIGHT-RATED AMATR POLO PLAYER THE WORLD FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE,” HE ADD PROUDLY. “THIS IS WHAT THE HOE LOOKS LIKE.” HE HELD UP AN IPHONE SHOT OF A SPRAWLG GEIAN-STYLE MANSN.“I’M ALWAYS BUGGG MY DAD ABOUT HOW I WANT TO BE MORE LIKE A BRISH UNTRY TATE,” HARRY SAID, “AND HE THKS ’S, LIKE, RIDICULO THAT I WANT TO EXPAND ON THE ALREADY GROWG PROPERTY.”“LIKE, HOW MAJOR IS THAT?” HE ASKED, SHOWG OFF AN IPHONE PIC OF SOME GEOLY GLOOMY WOODS. “IT’S LIKE SOMETHG STRAIGHT OUT OF A ROMANTIC NOVEL, LIKE YOU ULD SEE VICTOR FRANKENSTE ROAMG THE GROUNDS.”“I PERSONALLY HAVE THE BT VIEW THE HOE,” PETER SAID. “I HAVE THE WHOLE ONT FAçA VIEW, BUT I N ALSO SEE THE GARNS, WHICH ARE GREAT.”HARRY CLICKED HIS TONGUE. “O.K., PETER,” HE SAID, “YOU MIGHT FANCY YOURSELF THE PRCE, BUT LILY”—THEIR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SISTER—“STILL HAS THE BT VIEW OH, YOU DO HAVE A GOOD VIEW,” HE THEN EXCLAIMED, LOOKG AT PETER’S CELL-PHONE SHOT. “IT GO STRAIGHT TO THE PUPPY!”BY “PUPPY” HARRY MEANT NOT SOME ADORABLE A.S.P.C.A. RCUE, BUT THE ADORABLE 10-FOOT-TALL BALLOON DOG (ORANGE), BY JEFF KOONS, WHICH SS ACROSS A MANICURED LAWN OM THEIR HOE. PETER BRANT SR.’S ART LLECTN, WILY NSIRED ONE OF THE GREAT LLECTNS OF NTEMPORARY ART, IS SAID TO PRISE OVER 1,000 PIEC, CLUDG WORKS BY ANDY WARHOL, JULIAN SCHNABEL, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, AND RICHARD SERRA. IN 1967, WHEN HE WAS 20 YEARS OLD, BRANT MET THE ART ALER LEO CASTELLI, WHO TRODUCED HIM TO ANDY WARHOL; BRANT WOULD BEE ONE OF THE ARTIST’S MOST AVID LLECTORS AND, 1989, TWO YEARS AFTER WARHOL’S ATH, BOUGHT HIS INTERVIEW MAGAZE (HE ALREADY OWNED THE MAGAZE ANTIQU AND ART AMERI). IN 2009, BRANT TURNED A 9,800-SQUARE-FOOT 1902 STONE BARN ON HIS GREENWICH PROPERTY TO THE BRANT FOUNDATN ART STUDY CENTER (VISS BY APPOTMENT ONLY).THE BRANT BOYS GREW UP SURROUND BY ART. “THERE’S JT NO WAY AROUND ,” HARRY SAID. “WE WAKE UP AND SEE BETY EVERYWHERE. BOTH MY PARENTS BRG SUCH A UNIQUE ELEMENT TO . THEY’VE BOTH VOTED THEIR LIV TO BETY.”THGS GOT A B UGLY 2009, HOWEVER, WHEN SEYMOUR FILED FOR DIVORCE. FOR 18 MONTHS THE BRANTS WAGED A BTER URT BATTLE AGAST EACH OTHER, FALLY RENCILG 2010. THERE WAS DG TTG AND ALLEGATNS OF FILY ON BOTH SIS. EACH PARTY ACCED THE OTHER OF ABSNDG WH WARHOLS, AMONG OTHER ART TREASUR. BRANT LLED SEYMOUR AN UNF PARENT. SEYMOUR SAID HIS SECURY GUARD SHOVED HER. (ALL ACCATNS WERE EVENTUALLY RCD, OR DISMISSED BY THE URTS.) IN THE SENSATNAL MEDIA VERAGE OF THE SE, BRANT SUFFERED THE DIGNY OF HAVG REPEATED THAT 1990 HE HAD SERVED 84 DAYS A FERAL PENENTIARY PENNSYLVANIA FOR A MISMEANOR NVICTN OF FAILG TO KEEP AQUATE TAX RECORDS (HE HAD BILLED MORE THAN $1.5 LN PERSONAL EXPENS, CLUDG SILK SHEETS AND SLP TREATMENTS, TO HIS PANI).MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHAT STAKE THE DIVORCE WAS NOT JT BRANT’S FORTUNE—HE AND SEYMOUR HAD NO PRE-NUP—BUT CTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN, THEN 15, 12, AND 4. (SEYMOUR ALSO HAS A 22-YEAR-OLD SON, DYLAN THOMAS ANDREWS, BY HER FIRST HBAND, GUARIST TOMMY ANDREWS; HE ATTENDS BARD COLLEGE.)BUT THEN, 2011, SEYMOUR TOLD TOWN & COUNTRY THAT SHE AND HER HBAND HAD RENCILED WH THE HELP OF A NAVAJO BLANKET SHE HAD RETURNED TO HIM AS A KD OF PEACE OFFERG. SHE NFSED TO HAVG EXPERIENCED A MID-LIFE CRISIS BROUGHT ON BY TURNG 40; THE MAGAZE SAID THAT SHE HAD FELT “GED, PTIVE AND ORNAMENTAL” HER MARRIAGE—CHILLGLY SYMBOLIZED BY THE SATIRIL NU BT OF HER BY ARTIST MRIZ CATTELAN KNOWN AS “TROPHY WIFE,” WHICH HAS HER MOUNTED ON A WALL. IT WAS MISSNED BY HER HBAND.BUT NOW THE BRANTS ARE SPENDG FAY TIME TOGETHER AGA.“WE HAVE A LOT OF NVERSATNS,” PETER SAID.“WE HAVE LENGTHY DNER NVERSATNS,” SAID HARRY. “IT N BE ABOUT ANYTHG—WHETHER WE WENT TO A SHOW, OR AN CTN, OR AN OPTN SALE. IT N BE ABOUT GARNG OR FASHN OR MAGAZ.”“WE’RE, LIKE, A VERY ATHETIC FAY,” SAID PETER.“I SPEND, LIKE, HOURS TALKG WH THEM EVERY NIGHT THEIR LTLE MASTER-BEDROOM AREA,” SAID HARRY.IN TOUGH TIM, FAI TEND TO STICK TOGETHER. IN 2010, BRANT’S WHE BIRCH PAPER COMPANY WENT TO BANKPTCY. AND THEN NOVEMBER OF 2011, HIS SP NEWSPRT CO. FILED FOR CHAPTER 11.IF THE BRANT BOYS ARE TROUBLED BY PECUNIARY NSIRATNS, DO NOT SHOW. THEIRS IS THE DREAM-L WORLD OF THE LEISURE CLASS. CURLY ENOUGH, ONE OF PETER’S FAVORE BOOKS IS THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS (1899), BY THORSTE VEBLEN, A SATIRIL CRIQUE OF PRECISELY THE SORT OF EXTRAVAGANT LIFTYLE LED BY THE BRANT FAY. HE ALSO REVER THE PRCS CASAMASSIMA, BY HENRY JAM, THE TALE OF A SENSIVE YOUNG ATHETE TURNED REVOLUTNARY AND WOULD-BE ASSASS.IN JUNE, THE BROTHERS TWEETED OM BASEL, WHERE THEY WERE ATTENDG THE ART FAIR, AND INSTAGRAMMED OM A YACHT GLIDG DOWN THE ITALIAN AST: “WATCHG DOLPHS SWIM ALONGSI OUR BOAT AS WE SAIL BLDLY TO THE DARKNS OF THE MEDERRANEAN.” WHEN I ASKED PETER WHAT HIS PLANS WERE FOR THIS SUMMER, HE SAID HE WOULD BE SPENDG TIME EUROPE. “EVERYONE’S LIKE, OH, E ON MY BOAT, E TO MY HOE, E TO MY VILLA, GO HERE WH ME, FLY THERE WH ME,” HE SAID. THIS SORT OF THG WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE GRAND TOUR, WHEN YOUNG MEN OF MEANS WOULD DRIFT AROUND THE CONTENT SOAKG UP CULTURE AND LEARNG HOW TO BE FANCY.IN AN AGE OF RENTMENT TOWARD THE 1 PERCENT, THE BRANT BOYS ARE UNABASHED 1-PERCENTERS. PETER UNTS AMONG HIS FAVORE QUOT THIS ONE OM SENE: “FDG WEALTH AN TOLERABLE BURN IS THE MARK OF AN UNSTABLE MD.” HE TWEETED MARCH: “WAS VED TO A PARTY PENN BADGLEY”—STAR OF THE REAL GOSSIP GIRL—“IS THROWG FOR OCCUPY WALL STREET. MY MA QUTN THOUGH: IS THAT MOVEMENT REALLY STILL A THG?”THE BROTHERS’ TERTS LIE FAR OUTSI ZUCTTI PARK. PETER HAS A FASCATN WH RGS BY JAR, THE RECLIVE FRENCH JEWELER OM THE BRONX, AND BEDS BY LOUIS MAJORELLE, THE ART NOUVE SIGNER; HE HAS ONE OF EACH. HARRY STUDI THE GARNS AT VERSAILL, WHICH HE SAYS “MAKE YOU WANT TO CRY.” “THEY’RE LIKE THE HILTON SISTERS WH BRAS AND CLASS,” SAYS SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THEM.THERE ARE NOT MANY YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE THEM.“I JT WANT TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK LIKE OSR WIL,” HARRY SAID. “JT TO BE ABLE TO ROLL OFF QUOT LIKE THAT.” IT MAK SENSE THAT THEY ARE GOOD IENDS AND LIKE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME TOGETHER.“AND WE’RE VERY GOOD AT TELLG EACH OTHER HOW WE FEEL ABOUT CERTA THGS, LIKE HOW MUCH I HATE THAT SWEATER” OF HARRY’S, SAID PETER.“THIS IS MY EMERGENCY OUTF THAT I KEEP THE LOFT,” HARRY PROTTED.“I FEEL LIKE THE EMBROIRY’S A LTLE B AYED, BUT WHATEVER,” SAID PETER.“OH, THANK YOU,” HARRY SAID. “THIS IS LERALLY THE ONLY THG I HAD AT THE APARTMENT.”“AND I THK THAT YOUR SHOULRS ARE WIR THAN WHEN YOU BOUGHT THAT SWEATER, SO YOUR SHOULRS DON’T F THAT SWEATER,” PETER WENT ON.“I HAVEN’T GONE SHOPPG , LIKE, A REALLY LONG TIME,” HARRY GMBLED.“O.K.,” SAID PETER WH A LTLE LGH, “TELL ME ONE THG THAT YOU HATE ABOUT MY OUTF.”MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSH“I HATE THAT YOU’RE WEARG A DOUCHEY T-SHIRT UNR YOUR SHIRT,” HARRY IMMEDIATELY RPOND, “WH THE SHIRT UNBUTTONED DOWN TO THERE.”“IT’S LD OUTSI,” PETER SAID.“Y, ’S LD, SO YOU HAD TO UNBUTTON YOUR SHIRT?” SAID HARRY.“NO, THE THG JT NATURALLY ME UNBUTTONED,” PETER SAID. “Y, HARRY, SOME BUTTONS POP OPEN BY THEMSELV.”“YOU’RE BOTH VERY TALL FOR YOUR AGE,” I SAID AN ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT.“I’M SIX FEET,” SAID HARRY.“I’M SIX TWO,” PETER SAID.HARRY SAID, “NO.”“I AM SIX FOOT TWO,” SAID PETER.“WE HAVE DONE TTS BACK-TO-BACK,” SAID HARRY.“AND I AM A LTLE B TALLER THAN YOU,” SAID PETER.“MAYBE WH THE POUFFS OF HAIR YOU’RE SPORTG RIGHT NOW,” SAID HARRY.“I PUT NOTHG MY HAIR TODAY,” PETER SAID. “THE REASON MY HAIR LOOKS LIKE THIS IS I PUT NOTHG .”I REMARKED ON THE THICKNS OF PETER’S HAIR.“MY HAIR IS THE THICKT HAIR YOU’VE EVER FELT YOUR LIFE,” SAID PETER. “SILKY, SILKY, LIKE CRAZY—”“DON’T WE SOUND LIKE A L’ORéAL MERCIAL,” HARRY SAID. “ ‘BUOYANT!’ ”“I WOULD DONATE MY HAIR TO LOCKS OF LOVE, BUT ’S PROBABLY TOO PROCSED FOR A SICK PERSON TO WEAR,” PETER SAID.HARRY LGHED. “DON’T YOU MAKE FUN—”“THAT’S WHY I WAS RAISG MONEY FOR NCER THIS WEEK,” SAID PETER, “BEE I DON’T WANT ANYONE LOSG THEIR HAIR.”I ASKED HOW MUCH MONEY HE HAD RAISED.“I THK $80,000,” HE SAID.“WASN’T YOUR GOAL A LN?” ASKED HARRY.BACK 2010, WHEN THE SNDAL EPTED OVER THE PAPARAZZO SHOTS OF PETER AND HIS MOTHER, PETER ANNOUNCED—UNRSRG THE NOCENCE OF THE PICTUR—THAT HE WAS “OPENLY GAY. AT MY AGE,” HE WROTE ON HIS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE, “MY MOTHER AND I ARE ALMOST LIKE IENDS AND I FEEL OPEN TO TALK TO HER ABOUT ANYTHG (AND Y OUR RELATNSHIP MAY BE DIFFERENT BEE OF MY SEXUALY).”BLOGGERS LD HIM FOR HIS BRAVERY AND THE NONCHALANCE WH WHICH HE ME OUT. “THIS IS PROGRS, THIS IS EQUALY,” SAID THE GOSSIP WEB SE GAWKER, REFERENCE TO HIS GENERAL FABULONS. BUT NOW PETER SEEMS RATHER TIRED OF THE WHOLE THG AND UNWILLG TO LABEL HIMSELF.“I MIGHT BE” GAY, HE SAID. “I’M BOTH, KD OF, A LTLE B.... I DO BOTH, AND, YOU KNOW, I’M OL WH EVERYTHG. I DON’T LIKE TO BE FED. I PERSONALLY DON’T THK THAT YOU N BE. I’M UNFABLE. I’M UNFED. AND I THK THAT ANYONE WHO THKS THEY HAVE ME FIGURED OUT KNOWS NOTHG ABOUT ME, ’E VERY FEW PEOPLE THE WORLD ACTUALLY KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT HOW MY MD WORKS.”HE IS OFTEN SEEN OUT WH BETIFUL GIRLS. AND GUYS. IN JUNE HE TWEETED, “IF A GUY SPENDS MORE THAN $300 ON DNER, AFTERWARDS YOU HAVE TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTS … IT ED TO BE $500 BUT WE ARE A RECSN HAHA.” HE SEEMS TO HAVE HERED SOME OF HIS MOTHER’S JOIE VIVRE; SHE WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE WILD CHILD OF THE FASHN WORLD, DATG BAD BOYS SUCH AS WARREN BEATTY AND CHARLIE SHEEN. SEYMOUR HAD AN FAMOLY TEMPTUO RELATNSHIP WH GUNS N’ ROS ONT MAN AXL ROSE, WHO 1993 SUED HER FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSLTG HIM AT A CHRISTMAS PARTY. ROSE’S SU WAS LATER DROPPED, AS WAS HER UNTERSU ACCG HIM OF BATTERY.“I THK LIFE IS ABOUT MAKG MEMORI,” SAID PETER. “I WANT TO BE OLD AND HAVE SO MANY THGS TO REMEMBER, LIKE, I JT DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WH MYSELF—LIKE, I N TALK ABOUT THEM FOR HOURS. ONE DAY,” OVER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, HE SAID, “WE WENT TO BNCH MONTK—JT ME AND A BUNCH OF KIDS MY AGE—AND ONE OF THE GIRLS BORROWED ONE OF HER DAD’S CLASSIC RS. HE LENT HER THIS 1959 CADILLAC ELDORADO THAT’S PATED BRIGHT SHY PURPLE. AND WE DROVE DOWN THE MONTK HIGHWAY WHILE JAMMG OUT TO, LIKE, ‘TATED LOVE’ AND ALL THE 80S HS, ALL DRSED , LIKE, A LOT OF NEON. I WAS WEARG WHE SILK AND WE ALL WORE FEDORAS—”“YOU DIDN’T WEAR FEDORAS,” HARRY GROANED.“I WAS WEARG A WHE FEDORA,” PETER SAID. “WE ALL BORROWED HATS OM THE HOE, AND THE GIRL DRIVG WAS SO HOT SHE TOOK HER DRS OFF AND SHE WAS ONLY WEARG A BIKI AND—”“YOU GUYS SOUND LIKE A REALLY CLASSY GROUP,” SAID HARRY.“SHE WAS SMOKG A CIGARETTE AND WEARG A SUN HAT AND WE WERE LIKE, ‘WE SHOULD BE DOG A PHOTO SHOOT,’ ” PETER SAID.HARRY SIGHED. “YOU HAVE TO LOVE A CLASSIC R.”“IT WAS PRETTY FOXY,” SAID PETER. “WE’D PASS PEOPLE AND THEY’D BE LIKE, ‘YEAH, NICE R.’ I HAVE TO SAY, WE’VE NEVER BEEN MORE GLAMORO, EVEN WH THE TACKY HATS.”“I ALWAYS THK ABOUT HOW AMAZG MY LIFE’S GONNA BE WHEN I’M 18,” HARRY SAID.“WHAT DO YOU PLAN ON DOG?” I ASKED.“BEG VERY SEASONED,” SAID HARRY.AND THEN THE BRANT BOYS WERE OFF TO THEIR NFINTIAL DNER, AND TO EUROPE, AND MORE ADVENTUR.NANCY JO SAL
It's official, I am pletely obssed wh openly gay sociale Peter Brant II and his (potentially gay) younger brother Harry. Screw Glee's Kurt Hummell, every gay teen on earth pretty much wish they were eher of the kids. I want to wre a young adult novel seri based on the two lled Gossip Gays about them beg young and attractive and rich and jt downright awome as they flutter om St.
HARRY BRANT WIKI, GAY, BOYIEND, DGS, CSE OF DEATH, GIRLIEND, NET WORTH, PARENTS, OBUARY, INSTAGRAM
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HARRY BRANT WIKI, HEIGHT, AGE, GAY BOYIEND, NET WORTH, BGRAPHY & MORE
This is like the gay male versn of her, and they're jt allowed to wear leopard prt tops public, hang out backstage at a Versace show, and wear the latt Dolce and Gabanna fashns like Ltle Lord Fntleroy and his gay brother. Gay teens don't need Lydia Hearst anymore, bee they have role mols of their own. His brother Peter is gay, and many fans have prumed Harry to also be gay due to their volvement makp 2015, Harry and his brother Peter found Brant Brothers, a unisex makp le llaboratg wh MAC.