When Sharon Bush purchased an apartment from Jonathan Adler in Palm Beach, Fla., she received a warm welcome in a Café Boulud bash hosted by Jean Shafiroff.
It was learned by spies that guest Fran Weissler, who has produced Broadway shows which include "Finding Neverland" and "Pippin" -- was entertaining guests with stories of knowing "Robert de Niro when he was broke and working for $65 per week in theater," as reported by Page Six.
But "Brian De Palma whisked him away" for the movie in 1968 entitled "Greetings." She figured out that, "Theater wasn't [De Niro's] forte," said a spy.
According to Vanity Fair, when Neil Bush ventured from one business to another, his wife, Sharon, couldn't understand why she had to worry about their monthly bills. The son of America's 41st president and the brother of two governors, divorced Sharon last April to marry Maria Andrews, and Sharon allegedly said that he had fathered Andrews' two-year-old son.
Maria Andrews is a soft-spoken, dark-haired woman, who is described by a friend as "more comfortable with women than men." Maria's marriage to Robert Andrews had been a lonely one. "She and Robert were great friends and great parents but lived completely separate lives," says Laura Spalding, her lawyer and one of her closest friends. "The break of the marriage was a very, very, very long time coming. Eventually they just called it quits," added Spalding.
The marriage of Sharon and Neil Bush, according to almost everyone who knew them, had been happy for the first 11 years. Neil Bush married Sharon Smith in 1980, after a year's courtship. Sharon was then an elementary school teacher from New Hampshire when they met while he was campaigning there for his father.
The couple has a four-bedroom ranch-style house in a pleasant residential area in Houston and is probably the smallest on the street. But there's a swimming pool out back, and the interior is comfortable and homey. On the walls are plaques, and photograph after photograph of the Bush family.
