Danielle Steel, Publicist ?!
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It’s been reported far and wide that Danielle Steel is very rich and works very hard. She drinks lime juice for breakfast. She’s obsessed with Chanel. She has nine children, one of whom is Vanessa Traina. She writes a novel every 50 days or so, all of them on 1946 Olympia typewriters. She’s sold a billon books. She gets exercise walking up and down the five flights of stairs in her mansion in San Fransisco. Except when she’s living in Paris, which she does most of the year. She has never been profiled by the New Yorker.
As of 2012, she employed three assistants — Heather, Allee, and Alex — who protected her from paparazzi, fielded her phone calls, and talked with ‘lawyers, bankers, plumbers’, handling all her business… She has a researcher on retainer, Nancy Eisenbarth, who supplies specificity, past and present: “I drive her insane, calling her at 3 am, or sending her emails, needing to know what floor something is on, how many people died in a famous fire, what is the decor of a certain restaurant, or a detail about a unit of the French Resistance in WW2.”