"Life Is Short" author Christina Oxenberg got annoyed by movie star and seatmate at the East Hampton's Library author's night Gwyneth Paltrow when Paltrow's fans blocked Oxenberg's view.
"Due to the inflexibility of the alphabet, I had the questionable good fortune to be seated directly beside Paltrow... Slowly yet unmistakably a line began to form in front of my section of table," Christina vented on her blog.
Christina Oxenberg is the daughter of Howard Oxenberg and HRH Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. Her sister Catherine Oxenberg is known as one of the cast members of the series 'Dynasty'.
Named after the Tsarina of Russia Empress Catherine II her ancestress, the London-raised granddaughter of Prince Paul, Yugoslavia's former regent, is as passionate as her mother -an activist for women's rights.
Gwyneth's bodyguards, apparently not knowing who Christina Oxenberg is, blocked her re-entry to their table after a short trip to the snack table. "Gwyneth's bodyguards blocked my re-entry despite my assurance I was a just an author and pointing at my name tag, 'No!' they growled, body blocking me. So I was forced to crawl under the table. And there I sat with my meat products, wafting the excellent smells toward my sleek vegan neighbor. She ignored the siren smells of protein. We never did say hello, although I did try to sell my book to her sleek vegan children. No bites." Oxenberg said.
In her About the Author section in her website Wool Domination, Christina is described as a woman "born, and briefly raised, in NewYork City. This was followed by prolonged stays in London, then Madrid, then back to New York before returning to London, and so on, until after fourteen schools and a multitudinous array of stepparents and their tribes of offspring, a precedent for adventure was set. Bypassing University, Oxenberg plunged into a whirlpool of random employment, everything from researcher to party organizer to art dealer to burger flipper. Oxenberg's single true love is writing and she published her first book,TAXI, a collection of anecdotes, in 1986. Despite the lousy pay, Oxenberg published articles in Allure Magazine, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Tattler, Salon.com, Penthouse and anyone else who would have her. In 2000 Oxeberg was seduced by the offer of a regular paycheck and she fell down the rabbit-hole world of fine fibers. In the blink of an eye a decade vanished into an unwieldy wool business. With relief she returns to the relative calm of writing fiction. Between excursions, she lives in NewYork City."
