The attention and controversy seeking Sachs is a contemporary artist best known for his Chanel-branded guillotine and Prada-branded toilet.

O'Brien heads up interior design firm Aero Limited. He's also the owner of SoHo home furnishings shop Aero.

Weinberg is the director of the Whitney, where he's taken on the task of trying to expand the museum in the face of hostile neighbors, cranky trustees, and touchy staff members.

Cappellazzo is the chairwoman of postwar and contemporary art development at Christie's.

Anastos is the founder of Whitney Contemporaries, a $500-a-year club that reels in the under-40 set in support of the Upper East Side museum.

A longtime portrait photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders has become something of a celebrity taking pictures of celebrities.

Bill Telepan is the chef and owner of the restaurant Telepan on the Upper West Side.

The curmudgeonly, litigious Solow is one of the most prominent developers in New York City.

A major American artist since the mid-'80s, Gober is best known for his surrealist sculptures of sinks and disembodied legs jutting out of walls.

Amer is an artist known for her sex and religion-themed embroidery.

As president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization, Ted Chapin is a powerful player on the Great White Way.

A classical composer, conductor, and violinist, Maazel is the former director of the New York Philharmonic.

The founder of H3 Hardy Collaborations, Hardy is an architect known for his renovations of historic pieces of architecture.

Jeffrey Toobin is a CNN talking head, New Yorker staff writer, and author of several books about law and politics, including The Run of His Life: The People versus O.J. Simpson, 2007's widely acclaimed The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, and The Oath: The Obama White House vs. the Supreme Court.

Felder is a fame-hungry divorce lawyer to the rich and famous. His celebrity client list includes Martin Scorsese, Rudy Giuliani, and David Gest.

One of the most prominent trial attorneys in America, Boies is best known for unsuccessfully representing Al Gore during the legal wrangling after the 2000 presidential election and for teaming up with Bush v. Gore adversary Theodore Olsen for challenging the constitutionality of Prop 8.

Art star Julie Mehretu has used her nomadic life as the basis for her large-scale abstract paintings, which take on themes of public space, history, and war.

The president and CEO of Condé Nast, Chuck Townsend is Si Newhouse's right-hand man at the media conglomerate.

Lethem may be the closest thing to a heartthrob the New York literary world's got.

One of America's most respected novelists, Roth has written more than 25 books including Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral, and The Plot Against America.