Who

A gallerist and contemporary art world fixture, Dayan is the wife of collector/heir Adam Lindemann.

Backstory

Born and raised in Israel, Amalia is the granddaughter of Moshe Dayan, the legendary one-eyed Israeli war general and defense minister. Her father is equally famous in her native land: Assi Dayan is one of the country's most prominent actors and directors. Amalia spent her teenage years in Tel Aviv modeling and acting, before earning an art history degree at Tel Aviv University and moving to New York in 1997 to attend grad school at NYU. She jumped into the art world soon after, spending time working for Jeffrey Deitch's Deitch Projects, the Phillips de Pury auction house, and Larry Gagosian's gallery in Chelsea.

It was while working for Gagosian that Dayan met gallerist Stefania Bortolami; with financing from her soon-to-be husband Lindemann, she and Bortolami went out on their own, opening the Bortolami Dayan Gallery in a 2,700-square-foot space on West 25th Street in 2005. Mild controversy followed—the women took several of Gagosian's artists with them, including Tim Noble and Sue Webster—but the partnership evaporated in a flash. In early 2007, Dayan left the gallery and Bortolami dropped "Dayan" from the name.

Personal

Dayan married Adam Lindemann in Jerusalem in 2006. It's her first marriage and his second. For the time being, the couple lives in the Time Warner Center, although Lindemann is in the process of renovating a carriage house he owns on East 77th Street. They also have homes in the Catskills and Montauk. Lindemann shelled out $21.5 million for the latter in 2008.