Who

The daughter of Veronica Hearst, Fabiola is one of the city's most active young social butterflies.

Backstory

Maria Fabiola Beracasa was born in Caracas to Veronica de Gruyter and her first husband, Alfredo Beracasa, a Venezuelan insurance and banking tycoon. Her parents divorced when she was a kid; when her mom moved to New York to become the third—and final—wife of the late tycoon Randolph Hearst in 1987, Fabiola and her brother Carlos traded an estate in Caracas for a lavish apartment on Fifth Avenue. Fabiola spent her teen years at boarding school in Switzerland before returning to the States to attend Boston College. After graduating—and spending a summer interning for Karl Lagerfeld—she decamped to New York and took a job working in Christian Dior's special events department. She also became a major social presence and later joined Circa Jewelry, where she served as the company's creative director until 2008.

Currently

Thanks to her busy social schedule, Fabiola became one of the most talked-about socialites during the mid-'00s, along with fellow limelight addict Tinsley Mortimer. More recently she's been looking to build her journalism and TV resume. Fabiola is currently a contributing editor at Interview and has hosted online video segments for AOL and New York magazine. 

Personal

Fabiola's longtime boyfriend is Jason Beckman, a money manager at Deutsche Bank. She lives in the West Village.

True story

In November 2006, Fabiola's longhaired Chihuahua Alfonso was struck by a car at 64th and Lexington, as the butler was taking him to the vet. Beracasa immediately cancelled all her social engagements and spent a week recovering from the tragedy in Palm Beach.