Either group was, to Marc, the equivalent of walking pawnshops. He’d seen with his own eyes how difficult it was, if not impossible, for a certain category of rich or famous women to resist the temptation to drape themselves in the bulk of their jewelry box while attending a red-carpet event.įor Marc that group was easy to spot: female stars who were a few too many years past the cursed number forty, and whose phone had stopped ringing or else trophy wives who had visited their plastic surgeons one too many times to suction off fat that would have better been shed with diet and exercise. He was something of an expert on the subject. It amazed him that the vast majority of celebrities had no taste. The gaudy blue stones had been five carats each, and the lonely eared woman he’d swiped them from had also been wearing a gold bracelet laced with rubies that he’d sold for another ten thousand. He liked to think of himself as a professional.ĭuring his last trip to New York City and its famous Diamond District-he’d driven cross-country all by himself, in three days no less-he’d fenced a pair of sapphire earrings studded with diamonds and netted twenty grand in cash. Most people would have called Marc a thief. Being a valet was just a role he played so he’d know which trunk to climb into at the end of the night.

Because Marc didn’t park the cars for tips.

That and what kind of jewelry the owners of the cars-specifically the ladies-wore to the red-carpet events. The only thing that mattered to him was how much trunk space each vehicle had. He never got to feel how they handled on the open road, and besides, even if he’d been given a chance to drive a sports car up the California coast, he wouldn’t have cared. He just parked them, usually drove them less than two hundred yards. homes.īecause he was a parking attendant for Grauman’s-now legally the TCL Chinese Theatre, a name no one in Hollywood was even aware of-the majority of people his age would have assumed Marc Simona loved riding in such cars. Roll out the red carpet and prepare to welcome the hordes of beautiful people in their Mercedes S-Class sedans, Jaguar convertibles, Beamers, and Bentleys-and a bevy of other cars worth more than most U.S. PREMIERE NIGHT AT GRAUMAN’S CHINESE Theatre.

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