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Steve Schwarzman Was a Notoriously Ostentatious Man for Halloween This Year

By Jessica Pressler, a writer living in New York. She has contributed to New York Magazine since 2007.

The Blackstone chief as Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld. We have no words.

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