An alleged pretend Cartier heiress, Andrea Bartzen, 60, stood within the candlelit courtyard of Bice restaurant exterior Palm Seashore, Fla., final Tuesday, sipping champagne and consuming hors d’oeuvres in an Alice and Olivia model costume.
The Higher East Sider held courtroom with a high-society crowd, together with veteran Navy Seal William Branum, former skilled basketball participant Gary Forbes and ex-Tiger Woods Rachel Uchitel. She had argued with the solid over a “Cocktails and Dialog” mixer, for which she charged $150 per ticket.
“I carry the highly effective and the rich right into a room,” Bartzen advised the Submit of his rolodex of rich entrepreneurs.
Nevertheless, Bartzen herself was as a lot the topic of gossip within the room as her friends, following a scathing article in New York Journal. She reportedly used the identify Andrea Cartier Bartzen for years, establishing a reference to the jewellery household to raise her standing and persuade sponsors to fund her occasions.
She was additionally accused of throwing events, fabricating a lot of her life, paying payments, and pretending to be a part of a social group she wasn’t actually part of to realize cash and relevance.
His accomplice in all this? Matthew Rockefeller, 39, a former magician apparently posing as an oil inheritor, whom Bartzen met on Fb. His actual identify is Matthew Tomasko, in line with New York Journal.
Bartzen says any claims of fabrication are a lie, the work of a small community of individuals jealous of his success.
“I by no means say I am an heiress,” Bartzen stated, though she at present has a pinned put up on her Instagram devoted to her grandmother, Mary Cartier Bartzen, who she says “was like Jackie O.”
When requested to hint her household lineage again to the Cartier household, Bartzen supplied The Submit with a photograph of a household tree that reveals she is expounded to a Francis Cartier of Quebec, Canada — and never the patriarch of Parisian jewellery, Louis-François Cartier.
She nonetheless maintains that the connection is “oblique” – no matter meaning – and that her grandmother was Mary Cartier. Which may be true, however The Submit discovered nothing connecting Bartzen to the jewellery household.
At one level throughout his Tuesday occasion, a celebration entertainer heckled the large elephant within the palm-tree-festooned courtyard, shouting: “Are you going to reply to allegations that you are a fraud?”
Bartzen stated the lady was escorted out and later apologized.
The Ohio native is adamant she will not again down — insisting the New York Journal article was totally fabricated to hurt her and her networking enterprise.
“She was a very unhealthy woman, with malicious intent to carry me down,” Bartzen stated, claiming a lady named Rolise Rachel tried to steal his high-end connections.
“She noticed my life on social media. I had posted all these nice issues. She noticed that I had actual established credibility within the enterprise world,” Bartzen stated.
Rachel disputes this, telling the Submit: “Andrea Bartzen has this narrative in her head that I introduced a bunch of individuals collectively. [and] created the article. That is fully false.
She additionally disputes Bartzen’s status claims, giving an instance of how she allegedly crashed the marriage of a pair she did not know on the Flagler Museum in Palm Seashore, pretending to be a buddy of the bride.
“Inside minutes of arriving, I knew the bride’s mom was beside herself.
“I do not know why she would use the identify Cartier, aside from apparent causes. I’ve met numerous heiresses – it isn’t their standard habits,” Rachel added to the Submit.
She and Bartzen had collaborated on an occasion within the Hamptons that, by many accounts, was poorly organized. It ended with Rachel disadvantaged of all advantages and together with her contacts ebook mysteriously lacking, she advised New York Journal.
Bartzen advised the Submit that she moved to New York within the ’90s, evaluating her life to the TV present “Intercourse and the Metropolis.” She claimed to work in pharmaceutical promoting at main companies, together with McCann.
Within the 2010s, she says she consolidated herself within the circuit of social charitable advantages.
Bartzen says she now runs World Ardour Initiatives, a well-respected firm dedicated to connecting “visionaries, traders, and changemakers from all over the world.” She boasts of getting even organized an actual occasion with the luxurious model Cartier.
Bartzen stated she met Rockefeller, who didn’t reply to The Submit’s requests for remark, in 2024 they usually immediately linked. She had no purpose to consider he wasn’t a part of the well-known household dynasty.
“I met him as Matthew Rockefeller. In fact, I took his phrase for it,” Bartzen stated, though she provides that the journal’s story tore them aside.
“This text broke us. It ruined each of our lives. The stress that got here from it. We had an actual, genuine connection. We had been each coping with the trauma of that. Who is aware of what is going on to occur,” she lamented to the Submit.
Rockefeller additionally joined World Ardour Initiatives over the previous two years.
One among their most infamous tasks was a yacht at Miami Hedge Fund Week 2024, reserving sponsors for as much as $12,000 and promising them entry to a community of 1000’s of traders, in line with promotional supplies.
Bartzen assured: “The Rockefellers are coming! » and paid $15,000 for the venue, donated by contractors that Bartzen allegedly promised to repay.
After the occasion, a minimum of two sponsors reportedly requested their a reimbursement, in line with New York Journal.
Bartzen tells the Submit that the allegations are “a lie,” that she “personally paid all of the payments and all of the occasions” and that she was “sabotaged” by an nameless group of ladies devoted to her wreck.
“They tried to get the websites and the yachts eliminated,” she stated.
She additionally claims the identical group “ran up payments,” together with an $8,000 invoice at a bar on the Ben Resort in Palm Seashore.
“They had been placing celebration tickets on my payments and internet hosting competing occasions. It was one factor after one other. I ended up paying double and triple for every part,” she claims.
Others advised the Submit that Bartzen seems to be engaged in an more and more trendy observe of residing her life in line with her personal “model” of the reality, passing off her opinions as reality and selecting to interpret occasions round her in the absolute best gentle.
She says she’ll by no means let the cabal of so-called “imply women” on the Florida and New York social scenes cease her from residing the excessive life and doing what she does finest: partying.
“There’s no method I can allow them to wreck my occasions,” she added.