The Elite Club Director Calling Out Her Misbehaving VIPs
Gabé Doppelt was born in South Africa, raised in London, worked in New York and became the ultimate L.A. power broker — first as the maître d’ at Jeff Klein’s Sunset Tower, then as the global membership director at his San Vicente Clubs. She began her professional life as an assistant for legendary media maven Tina Brown at Tatler in 1979. She then made her way to New York and eventually bounced between the coasts as an editor for Vogue, W, Mademoiselle and The Daily Beast, finally leaving media in 2014 for a career in hospitality. She returned to Manhattan last year to oversee the launch of SVC’s West Village outpost, in the former Jane Hotel. It was meant to be an eight-month gig. “Within a week of landing in New York, which by the way was in the middle of a snowstorm, I knew there was no way I was going back,” explains Doppelt. It’s a good thing she settled in so quickly because the task facing Klein and crew required full focus: San …
