“The ownership of the Social Register Association, previously owned by a subsidiary of Forbes Family Holdings, was transferred for the first time in nearly 40 years to Christopher R. Wolf, noted financier and longtime listed member,” a Forbes spokesperson confirmed Friday.
Terms were not disclosed. Wolf did not return e-mails for comment.
In some ways, TSR was a forerunner of the numerous wealth lists — including the Forbes 400 — that have proliferated in recent years.
While it is seen as anachronistic to some, the 25,000 names still carry clout among those to the manor born.
Mimi Alford, in her 2010 memoir, “Once Upon a Secret,” about her affair with President John F. Kennedy when she was a White House college intern, noted, “He just could not resist a girl with a little Social Register in her background.”