Tinsley Mortimer Biography
Tinsley Mortimer is a television personality and socialite from the United States. She is well-known for her roles in the reality TV shows High Society and The Real Housewives of New York City.
How old is Tinsley Mortimer? – Age
She is 46 years old as of 11 August 2021. She was born in 1975 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Her real name is Tinsley Randolph Mortimer.
Tinsley Mortimer Family
Her father was a wealthy real-estate investor named George Riley Mercer Jr., and her mother is an interior designer and socialite named Dale Tatum Mercer. Dabney Winston Mercer is her younger sister. Mercer Rug Cleansing was founded in 1936 by her paternal grandfather, George Riley Mercer Sr. Mortimer is descended from several Virginia First Families. She grew up on Graymont, her family’s Richmond estate. On March 26, 2015, her father died in Providence, Rhode Island.
Tinsley Mortimer Education
Mortimer attended St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, a private all-girls Episcopal school, and later the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where she was a member of the Kirby House. Mortimer was a debutante, having been introduced to Richmond society at the Country Club of Virginia’s Bal du Bois. As a freshman, she attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before transferring to Columbia University. She was a member of St. Anthony Hall at Columbia. She was also a varsity tennis player for Columbia and a nationally ranked tennis player. She earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Columbia and a master’s degree in decorative arts from the Cooper Hewitt design museum.
Tinsley Mortimer Husband
Mortimer and Robert Livingston “Topper” Mortimer (son of John Jay Mortimer) met at Lawrenceville School and married when they were both 18 years old. Their parents, however, forced them to annul the marriage. They remarried on May 4, 2002, in Richmond, Virginia. In 2010, the Mortimers divorced. In 2018, her ex-husband married British fashion designer Tabitha Simmons. Carole Radziwill, Mortimer’s Real Housewives of New York City co-star, introduced her to Chicago-based Coupon Cabin CEO Scott Kluth on February 11, 2017. The couple then began an on-again, off-again long-distance relationship between New York and Chicago, and the couple divorced in October 2018. Mortimer and Kluth got engaged in November 2019 and will be married in March 2021.
Tinsley Mortimer Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $35 Million.
How much is Tinsley’s hotel apartment? – House
Mortimer was adamant that Scott Kluth was not paying her bills. She wanted the world to know that Scott was not funding her expensive lifestyle in New York, nor was he paying for her rumored $30,000-per-month hotel apartment in New York City.
How does Tinsley Mortimer get her money? – Career
Mortimer began her career as a beauty assistant at Vogue and an event planner for Harrison & Shriftman. Samantha Thavasa was featured in an advertising campaign for Mortimer’s line of handbags and clothing in Japan. She is also prominently featured in Samantha Thavasa USA’s online promotional materials as well as in the company’s Madison Avenue store, which also sells her handbags. She later launched her own clothing line, Riccime by Tinsley Mortimer, which was only available in Japan. Mortimer became involved in the branding and design of a condominium development in 2008.
Mortimer was a Christian Dior beauty ambassador and collaborated on the Tinsley Pink lip gloss. She has appeared in editorials for Vogue, WWD, Harper’s Bazaar, and Marie Claire, among others. She graced the cover of Vestal magazine in May 2012, along with an editorial styled by Lo’renzo Hill-White and shot by fashion photographer Kevin Sinclair. She has appeared on the covers of several magazines, including Page Six Magazine, Virginia Living, Avenue, CVLUX, Maniac, and New York.
She appeared in the season two premiere episode of Gossip Girl, which aired on The CW on September 1, 2008. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Gossip Girl costume designers Eric Daman and Meredith Markworth-Pollack said that when dressing actress Blake Lively and when asked if they were influenced by New York socialites, they thought of Tinsley Mortimer and Arden Wohl. Mortimer debuted her own reality television show, High Society, on March 10, 2010, alongside other socialites such as Paul Johnson Calderon and Devorah Rose. The show followed Mortimer and her friends around New York City, but it was critically panned and cancelled after only eight episodes due to low ratings. The show’s failure was blamed for Mortimer’s subsequent “fall” as a New York socialite.
Mortimer’s novel Southern Charm follows Minty Davenport from South Carolina to New York, where she becomes the target of rumors. Simon & Schuster published it in April 2013. Mortimer also contributed a chapter to Manhattan diet doctor Stuart Fischer’s book The Park Avenue Diet, which outlines recommendations for improving one’s conversation and social skills. She has been a Town & Country magazine contributor since 2017. Mortimer joined Bravo’s reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City for its ninth season in 2017.
In 2014, she launched Pop Culture Living’s Home Collection, an e-commerce site featuring curated collections of home accessories. She currently sells her own housewares line at Bed Bath & Beyond and Wayfair. Dinnerware, decorative glasses, barware, and ice buckets are all part of the collection. Mortimer debuted “XXO Tinsley for Winky Lux,” a new fake lash collaboration with the beauty brand Winky Lux, in June 2019. She created her own product packaging. Mortimer walked the runway for Garo Sparo’s fashion show during New York Fashion Week in September 2019. Mortimer announced in October 2019 that she has collaborated with RuMe to launch a Resort 2020 Collection of travel, fashion, and beauty accessories.