Raising Kayne

        Three sisters, Thalia, Euphrosyne and Aglaia, the daughters of Zeus, the ancient Greeks were known as the Three Graces. English literature has found its lasting brotherhood in three Bronte sisters. Tabloids post-World War II and divorce attorneys have the chance to Magda, Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, as now, to get the reality of profits Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian's three. Now appeared a new law into three parts sister of the villa-lined boulevards of Beverly Hills, where a rich banker, Richard Kayne, and North Carolina-born wife, Suzanne, have raised their daughters to the trio become better funded young women from the Miller girls went to trophy hunting for husbands back in the 90s.

Jenni, Maggie, and keep Saree Kayne lower than the old blondes all New York ingenuous social profile, and unlike Pia, Alexandra and Marie-Chantal, who are married, Getty, one of Furstenberg and Crown Prince of Greece, sister of Kayne very get well without the brilliance of the major unions. But the story wove their young adulthood shows what happens when the girls get free thinkers, no cost what they want from their parents. (Nice work if you can get it.) You could say that the sisters Kayne made the best of a very good situation.

"We are grown up six blocks from here," said Maggie, 28, during a lunch break outdoors in late winter in the yard Jenni, a Mediterranean glade with trees, as gnarled, and drifts of ornamental grasses. 'S thriving vegetable garden in the front provides vegetables for meals and flowers for the table-the enviable homemade Jenni on her lifestyle blog documented Rip + Tan but the daily menu consists of a variety of salads from a nearby cafe called.

"I thought I would like to live in Beverly homes," says Jenni, 30, whose house is just south of Sunset Boulevard, six blocks from the house that she and her sisters grew up in and on the same keyboard. "But I'm here."

The oldest child, Jenni, is the tastemaker family. Ten years ago they launched an eponymous fashion line, and in 2006 she entered the battle of New York Fashion Week, where reviews were mixed. The line is sold in 16 outlets across the country, it also has two stores and expansion plans in other enclaves California chic Los Angeles. "I want to go where I wanted," says Jenni, including casual sportswear is Beverly Hills mothers Tory Burch is America at large. The designer is his own best advertisement, wearing a nude-colored silk blouse, apartments signature and a sun hat. In the absence of makeup and a new splendor, Jenni is a certain good vegetarian life. It is no secret that they visited in rehab in his youth, but now she has calmed down and has two children (daughter Ripley Jewel and her son Tanner, the blog is named) with his realtor husband, Richard Ehrlich, 43 Your cute project gap Ladies & Gents, a street-style blog in the vein of the Sartorialist, but for the K-6 set.

Maggie is greater than Jenni and contorts his shoulders anxiously in a Proenza Schouler cropped motorcycle jacket is the rebel of the family. She fell in horror and several colleges and Jenni when she was a Ducati Monster, a look at the ashtray Maggie talks about her series of regulations have bought are now in California. In recent years it has become a staple of the local art scene. They began to gather on a small scale and persuaded his parents to buy a classic James Turrell Skyspace for their real estate Santa Monica. Soon she worked with Bill Griffin, who worked with Turrell on a number of projects, and the retracted befriend dealer James Corcoran, a source of masterpieces on the secondary market. Provided in a few deft gesture, then negotiated art partnership Kayne Griffin Corcoran, who opened a spectacular gallery on South La Brea Avenue, designed with a conference room and other architectural elements of Turrell in May. At 28, with little experience and no college degree, Maggie Presto Chango was an art dealer.

At lunch, the conversation is polite and Maggie Jenni and agile, friendly, but not intimate. Jenni is the easier of the two to the right, Maggie must try harder to take care of his manners. If, at a time when it is at an angle by which may have had a dispute with another branch of the family, interrupts Jenni, cut them with a piercing look and a quick "This is off the record."

Born 21 Months apart, the sisters have a strong bond in the complex dynamics of siblings. Jenni remembers how to save money when they started to New York Fashion Week, she would be inscribed with Maggie, who was for some time at the University of New York. "I take over the apartment," Jenni says. "I'm a virgin, I would reorganize and his anxiety attacks."

"I'm a Gemini: commitment issues," Maggie, do not overcome says enough to have bought Bachelorette Jenni minutes Coldwater Canyon their old house and invited her boyfriend, artist Aaron Sandnes to move influenced decoration Jenni on Maggie is clear. Jenni asks a signature frayed Persian rugs bad side to show the bottom graphics (current residence Jenni was in a standard home porn delightfully presented in Architectural Digest.) Is often asked, What would he Jenni When Maggie against a design decision? In turn, causes do Maggie Jenni artwork for every room, including light-kindergarten children. (Personal Collection Maggie Coldwater Canyon is less family: Two drawings of the first ceramicist Ken Price are very pornographic) Jenni and Maggie both own French Bulldog "..

Sari, 25, is a cat person. It is also the brains of the family, a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Stanford University, who lives in San Francisco with her boyfriend of four years, documentary filmmaker Michael Gregory. (The painter feature on Caio Fonseca, premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last year.) Saree is not lunch'S Jenni, but accidentally burning ears as she calls them sisters speak it. "I should put it on speaker," jokes Jenni before telling the maid to say that they will remember.

"Saree and I like a lot, and we talk a lot alike," says Jenni. "But the way into the realm of Maggie Sari'm smarter than I do."

"There are all kinds of intelligence," says Maggie. "Sari is an intellectual. I think she is a professor and write books."

Jenni and Sari Saree actually are both rider to compete at a high level, but the practical nature Jenni contrast with the romantic sensibility by trained ballet stance Saree and poetic red hair caused. Of the three, is the eccentric Maggie, who with her to the expensive toys and the adrenaline rush they offer as their father, love. (His 2013 Audi S7 laps at a speed of 155 miles per hour). Maggie claims to know how to fly the helicopter and private jet family, but his impatience to education means it still needs to earn a pilot's license. Sometimes during lunch Maggie is a demonstration of his rebellious image while rest and growl, as if Jenni describes his business as places where an elegant woman "an outfit she likes, jewelry, could buy gift hostess and a baby gift."

"I like the term" hostess gift "cried Maggie, not quite, but almost contemptuously, as if she was surprised that her sister, raised under the same roof are, somehow, to speak when they learned French." I'm like , fuck even think a hostess gift? "

A few days later, in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, require cats sushi and sake Saree attention, the loudest creatures in the two-story house that younger Kayne rented with Gregory, a brunette emo dreamboat with glasses very good taste and impeccable manners. The place is beautiful, but not as it would bring from their less fortunate colleagues embarrass the young couple, and the decor speaks to a common spiritual life. A Turrell Roden Crater drawing hung on a wall, and neatly assembled stack of books on the tables. Among them are a valuable asset Saree: a bound set of the complete works of Henry James and his main thesis on James Gregory, who had his pale linen.

"This is my favorite gift ever", Sari, who speaks with a slight rasp, as if she just woke up from a nap said. His art is and every word she hesitates weighed from seemingly innocuous questions its academic program and the charitable foundation of the family on the grounds that his answers could control load unsympathetic corners. is it polite, and a T as Jenni, initiated the conversation carefully. But I felt they would be happier after I left and they could not go back to his books. "Maggie and I are lonely," she said at one point.

When the two older girls were teens, the family moved to Beverly Hills from Kayne Santa Monica. Jenni had strict in Marlborough, a girls' school in Hancock Park and was added Maggie college and spent his first year of high school at Harvard-Westlake, the best preparation for college in Los Angeles. But as angry as the structure, and each in turn bounced Crossroads, a school in a more flexible educational model that promotes creative expression. The family moved to be closer to the ocean and avoid the dreaded trip on Highway 405 While Saree sees "Santa Monica", while her older sisters grew up in Beverly Hills. This is not the only way children of different sari. She describes herself as the "little bones still chasing them," the full students earn up to adolescence. Maggie and Jenni are made saree also had a less rigorous education because their parents have gone lax when it came. "A little naughty," replies sari she was naturally obedient and Jenni needs stricter rules because she was in school, went straight Saree Crossroads chummy with intense intellectual University of Chicago, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, the only sister Kayne claim a degree.

"For four years I was so happy," says Saree remembers whose doctoral thesis at Stanford consider the Olympics as a cultural phenomenon. "It really ended up being a place for me to come into my own." Your decision to pursue a Ph.D. surprised no one in the family, and nobody ask Sari by most young researchers in the pursuit feared a degree in Liberal Arts: What will you do with it?

"These are not the kind of questions that are asked in my family," Sari said, as if I somehow missed a point that should be obvious. "My parents want that we are serious and committed., You want us to care about what we do and we work hard. They But we measure a standard of what they think we should do."

Richard Kayne Ric friends, Big Daddy Kayne his teasing daughters grew up middle class on Long Iceland and for a time attended Bucknell University before moving to California, where he earned his bachelor's degree at the decamped Stanford University in 1966 and earned an MBA from UCLA . After starting his career in the boutique investment houses on Wall Street, he headed west again in 1984 based Kayne Anderson John Anderson, an investor whose name given more credibility and sterling open doors for ambitious young financier. Today Kayne Anderson manages $ 19 billion fortune, specializes in energy. Kayne founded a second firm with Anderson and Allan M. Rudnick, which reached $ 10000000000, when they sold it in 2001. His father, Maggie said, divides the investment into two classes: There are pigs and cows. Pigs for slaughter, but a cow, if you look well to it, hold the milk, butter, cheese, and for years to come. Ric sees himself as a breeder cow.

"Business is a game for him and he is really good at it," said Maggie one day in his office at his Kayne Griffin Corcoran soon the gallery space in Santa Monica to relocate. "It is good, this model of someone who inspired and passionate about what he does, and is it possible," she added. "But it's too intimidating."

Suzanne Kayne grew up in a small Christian family in North Carolina and worked as a bus driver and then a flight attendant before their marriage Ric. "This is someone eager to see the world and to understand how," says Sari, adding that his mother would be just as happy if financial setbacks meant the end of his creature comforts. Although Suzanne never converted to Judaism through religion Ric, she brought the children of Jewish and now Jenni said, "the Jewish of us all." If Ric and Suzanne subject their daughters "who live together before marriage, they held this view for themselves." My parents are not square, "Sari said.

According to a family friend, Kaynes were just doing a lot of things when their daughters were born, and now they will be super-rich, with a luxury yacht of 173 feet, Suri, a former crab boat with cabins, a elegant wooden speedboat, hovercraft and a heliport. The current jet is the third Kayne, each update of a response to the increasing wealth and the addition of significant others, and now the grandchildren in the family. Ric and Suzanne believe that a family that plays together stays together and group vacations are not negotiable. In the last 35 winters, Sari, Ric and Suzanne said've come to a simple hut in Alta, a paradise for a known for his ground without obstacles and equipment Dinky Dog Utah powder. Girls Ski Kayne grew there, and for years Jenni tries to convince her parents about Alta relatively glamorous resort of Jackson Hole, leave this far without success.

The Kaynes build a reputation for philanthropy in Los Angeles. The family foundation has assets of more than $ 21 million in 2011 tax returns (the latest available) and payments of $ 4.5 million to support the arts, the cause of children and special education. Suzanne is a member of the board at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Ric dabbles in art, but not a serious collector, because he believes that art as an investment, "pig", as Maggie. It has bought Turrell and other work under the direction of Maggie, but he has shown in different rooms in the house and her daughters are also commissioned sculptures carved whole family of Jim Lewis "scary." Ric has called informal Gallery Collection Maggie, Maggie tries to dodge an honor. "I'm like," We should not call the gallery Maggie, because it's not what I do. "

True gallery Maggie, the new home of Kayne Griffin Corcoran is nearing completion. Among auto shops on a large stretch of South La Brea "I want a little away," she said as she Jenni goes after lunch to check the progress. Hiking around the area of ​​15,000 square meters, a former garage, she says Turrell designed skylights and a conference room, as well as other elements of his vision. "This is the biggest commitment I've ever made," said Maggie. "It made me itch for a minute."

Ric funded Jenni fashion line and remains a partner in his business, he has support from Kayne Griffin Corcoran They say that Maggie Maggie buys a cow could be accommodated. But Maggie insists that the gallery needs to make money and negotiated thanks to a sharp style and backstage lucrative sales Griffin Corcoran. Maggie is the ideas person, a scout for the circuit from New York to Miami to Venice to London, then to show back home to Los Angeles with new concepts and new artists.

"You have got together," says Turrell, an amateur pilot who shares life with a fondness for Maggie aircraft and dirty jokes. "It's three generations Corcoran example, the statement that today's workers, and the next generation to come up with Maggie., It's great." Griffin describes his junior partner as someone who came from an unconventional way in the world of art and involves the risk of an interruption of creativity in Los Angeles gallery scene. "World of Art is a group of lemmings," he said. "It moves at its own pace."

Despite his lack of formal education, has art, Maggie earned the respect of the scene. "What I find fascinating is that things seem to always go to the right around it," said Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Maggie supported by Kayne. "She's a rebel Foundation, but it is also very professional and responsible. His boho goth and manner belie his super casual seriously."

Certainly no one is happier to start by Maggie severity of his family. In the long run Beverly Hills 90210 drama as the sisters Kayne the transformation of the child is depressed areas II once overshadowed by his sisters effective law. Maybe Maggie took more time to identify its place in the world because it is more like his father and so overwhelmed by his large inheritance sizes. She admits that she be "lucky" to be able to pursue his new passion for art with the kind of financial resources that most people can only dream of being. But Maggie also clearly shows that wealth as his father comes with some built-in fear. "Big Daddy Kayne casts a long shadow," she said.