We're still obsessed with comments made by cosmetics queen Evelyn Lauder last week about being surrounded by white collar criminals and corner-cutters. So's a reader, who speculates:

The smart money says that Mrs. Lauder was using her address to point a well-manicured finger at one Robert J. Hurst, Goldman Sachs exec and successful tax avoider — to the tune of $2-million — and Pres. of the Whitney Museum where she and her husband Leonard, who is Chair of the Board, have given big time, big money and big art for years. Hurst has embarrassed them and the museum by flying art on his private plane on round trips to Colorado to avoid paying New York sales tax tax, his dishonesty about when and why he paid the taxes on his art and too many cocktail party comments that he and not Lauder is running the museum. The Lauders have too much class to say anything publicly about Hurst and too much class to let it pass.

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