Pasternak has now written a juicy tell-all-style memoir about her more than 20 years as Stewart’s BFF. The incident was one of many that Pasternak claims she eyeballed over the years during her close friendship with Stewart - shockers, she says, that underscored the domestic diva’s often bizarre behavior with men, women and Pasternak herself.

She had expected him to come courting, and he didn’t, so maybe this was his payment.” “Her agenda was making fun of the man, and it was evil and uncouth. What do you say to her? I mean, she’s the queen of taste,” says Pasternak. “I never said anything to Martha about what she did. Sam immediately said, ‘Martha, girls don’t poke, they stroke.’ “And the man turns to me and says, ‘Did you see what she just did?’ I was going to laugh, but at the same time I felt so sorry for the poor man. “I see Martha make a fist, with her index finger extended, and her hand suddenly goes straight into the front of the man’s pants, and she poked it, and she says, ‘And how is that?!’ ” recalls Pasternak of that day. It was a distressing condition he expected anyone to keep in confidence.īut suddenly the dinner-table chatter reached a jaw-dropping halt. Stewart, a divorcée desperately looking to hook up with the wealthy gentleman, had somehow learned his deepest secret - that he suffered from erectile dysfunction. Biopharmaceutical tycoon Sam Waksal was there opposite domestic diva Martha Stewart, who sat between her gal pal Mariana Pasternak and another power broker who was wealthy, recently divorced and available. Back in the ’90s, four masters of the universe were seated around the table of a posh Manhattan restaurant.

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