Shit Happens (Even When You’re Rich and Beautiful)

Within a month of that Village Pub dinner, Karen White was bowled over when a snapshot of her and George Clooney arm-in-arm headlined the itinerary for her birthday weekend. Christina had planned a surprise fiftieth birthday party in Sonoma Valley, and she’d rallied White’s best girlfriends, the women she wanted there.

These are women who know that, despite the sexy accoutrements and fabulous parties, it had been a grueling year for White. They know she was still in physical therapy, that her back ached every day from a catastrophic car accident she was lucky to have survived. And they know how she traveled back and forth to D.C., sleeping at the hospice beside her cancer-stricken father—from ...

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