Who

Somers is the skeletal, overly tanned, on-again/off-again wife of Jonathan Farkas and a regular at black-tie events around town.

Backstory

A Virginia native (her real name happens to be Virginia Somers White), Somers arrived on the scene when she hooked up with Jonathan Farkas, an heir to the Alexander's department store fortune and a longtime playboy. Somers played hard to get initially—she reportedly turned down his first marriage proposal in 1998—but she eventually gave in and tied the knot with Farkas in 2001. Fifteen years his junior and his third wife, Somers also agreed to an unusual stipulation in a pre-nup—that she bear no children. "I get two wonderful stepchildren, and I have more time to spend on Jonathan. This way, we get to be kids together," she cheerfully told the Times. Unfortunately, while Somers never violated the no-child rule, Farkas decided to divorce her anyway in 2005 to ensure, the tabloids speculated, that she couldn't lay claim to half his fortune after the pre-nup expired. The story got stranger when they remained a couple even after divorce papers had been filed. And things got stranger still when Somers agreed to remarry Farkas in 2006.

Charity circuit

Farkas is gala chair of the annual Alzheimer's Association Rita Hayworth Gala, and active with the Strang Cancer Prevention Center, Environmental Defense and the New York Botanical Garden. If you have trouble finding Somers and Jonathan in the crowds, just look for the Humpty Dumpty-esque man accompanying a lady who resembles a stick of beef jerky.

Habitat

Somers and Jonathan live on Park Avenue.