Then, at age 40, “I just realized, ‘What the fuck? I’m sick of the kids and being drunk.’” In 2005, he started a real-estate development company soon after, he married clothing designer Sylvia Heisel. After Studio, Taylor started a string of bars. Steve was still like, ‘I don’t want him working here.’ But the other bartenders were like, ‘No, no, no. “Then, at the end of the night,” he says, “when all the other guys went out dancing, I took out the garbage and mopped the floor. The second night, he showed up again and was put behind the bar when another bartender, also named Scott, called in sick. On opening night, he just showed up and volunteered his services in coat check. But I was a really hard worker,” he says. “Steve wanted all big, gay, muscle-bound bartenders, and I was, like, this Jewish straight boy from Queens. So I had to jump in to fill Ian’s role.” They went on to build the Paramount, the Delano, Mondrian, the Hudson, and the Gramercy Park Hotel, among others. When Rubell passed away just months after the Royalton Hotel opened, “Ian had to kinda jump in to fill Stevie’s role. Overington, whose wife is a former Studio coat-check girl, is still Schrager’s right-hand man. We were all really serious about creating a great show.” It’s almost like asking the cast of a major show like A Chorus Line, ‘Well, did you guys really go out and party all the time?’ No. We were all there to work really long hours. “Maybe a few busboys like Lenny partied, but the doormen, the people who dealt with money, the technical people handling sets in the back, they didn’t party. Days before the club opened, Overington talked his way into a $3-an-hour janitor job, and then worked his way up. Andy Warhol said I am the jet-setter.” Now, after promoting every nightclub in the city, from Limelight and Tunnel to Cain and Plumm, she’s fulfilling a dream and opening a restaurant-bar-lounge of her own back home in Lima, Peru.
Unlike her Studio cohorts (most of whom she didn’t mingle with because she was a “little diva,” she says), D’Alessio has never lost a taste for nightlife. She also popped out of her own birthday cake in a skimpy gold lamé Norma Kamali bathing suit. And then she put the club on the map by throwing parties like the one where Bianca Jagger rode in on a white horse, or Valentino got to act as the ringleader of real circus animals, or Armani was fêted with a drag-queen ballet.
“I’m the most important person to talk to.” According to the modest Peruvian, she brought Schrager and Rubell “hand-in-hand from the boroughs to the Big Apple,” and presented them at a preopening dinner attended by Warhol, Halston, and Calvin Klein.
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