Marty Markowitz's Wife Hogs Swag at Murakami Gala

Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner wasn’t the only one causing controversy at the Brooklyn Museum’s gala celebration for the Takashi Murakami retrospective last Thursday night. Some attendees say Jamie Snow, wife of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, was rather boorish in her accumulation of freebies at the event.

Each diner at the gala was entitled to one special edition technicolor fiberglass placemat designed by the trendy artist, but it seems Snow’s sense of entitlement was big enough to accommodate eight of the souvenirs, which she snatched from abandoned place settings and had autographed by Murakami after dinner. The mats have been sold for up to $1,000 on eBay by revelers who took them from previous events.

When some attendees at Thursday’s gala realized they missed out on the placemats, they went crying to Snow for one of her eight. According to Radar, she had little sympathy: "You guys really should have acted faster. This is Brooklyn!” Other placemat pleas reportedly elicited responses such as, “You snooze, you lose, buddy. Forget it.” And when her husband, the borough president, was asked to intervene, he responded with a shrug: “Just try being married to her.”

The Daily News confirmed the contretemps with Snow, who admitted it was “a little true.” So Marty Markowitz has vowed to sell the placemats to raise funds for Camp Brooklyn, a program that sends low-income kids to camp. "She didn't steal, she didn't thieve, she didn't take from anyone else," Markowitz told the News.

Photo of Jamie Snow and Marty Markowitz by Theatre for a New Audience

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By John Del Signore in Arts and Events on April 7, 2008 1:33 PM

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Goomba

You mean the guy wasn't a mezzo-finookio?

emilydickinson

"You guys really should have acted faster. This is Brooklyn!”

Amazing. I've been guilty of similar swag discrepancies, but screw it. I can hit Ebay and spend a week in Milan...or have some vapid art world hipsters annoyed with me. Yeah, I think I know which way the wind is blowing.

natis

um... yeah, bitch.

smitty

classy.

Think2wice

I bet Anna Wintour and Marc Jacobs were just itching for an excuse to never step one foot in Kings County again. (The exception being the Belt Parkway on their way to the Hamptons.)

JenChungsThong

Someone dump them in the Atlantic Yards foundation, their bloated egos and sense of entitlement should save a lot of expensive concrete from being wasted. Idiots.

MFer

I always thought Marty was gay. Now this confirms it.

ihateallbrokers

sorry for the double post, im double disgusted

ihateallbrokers

i bet that old hag makes marty wash out the condoms in the sink to re-use next time she doles out her precious old coochie

ihateallbrokers

i bet she's the one who always...

steals all the centerpieces,

pockets silverware,

has an amazing routine of stuffing appetizers in a napkin then hiding in her purse,

then has the nerve to go to the kitchen and ask

for a whole tray of hor dourves.

she probably makes marty clean out the condoms to re-use next year when she doles out the annual cooch.

((he probably shoots blanks but who knows where that schmeke has been!))

and reuse since shes such a cheapo cunt.

im pretty certain she no longer capable of having a monthly gusher, but im pretty suyre when it was biologically possible she probably wasjed her used kotex in the sink to re-use next month!

what a disgusting HAG!

Monkey Butter

Yes even money can not improve on someones class. Sad, she should give them back. But she won't. We just need to keep our peepers out and mug her. ;)

It's a Brooklyn thing.

ihateallbrokers

what else would you expect from a self centered bitch named mrs.markowitz !!!

if the placemats where purloined by a minority member of the catering staff they would be on the cover of the post wearing handcuffs!!!

she is a thieving bitch who should be arrested for FELONY THEFT!

JRod5417

"You guys really should have acted faster. This is Brooklyn!”

Now that is what I call GHETTO.

meowster

she looks like a real piece of work. i hope she is embarrassed, but she's probably not. tacky!

zodak

And when her husband, the borough president, was asked to intervene, he responded with a shrug: “Just try being married to her.”

lol!

wowthatsucks

"She didn't steal, she didn't thieve, she didn't take from anyone else," Markowitz told the News.

Since attendees paid to attend the gala it would make sense that each diner at the gala was entitled to one special edition technicolor fiberglass placemat. It's not like they're lying around unclaimed.

She's a theiving c*nt plain and simple. I bet she also steals the favors at wedding banquets when the guests "abandon" their tables to dance or use the restroom. Pathetic.