Olivia Palermo is a young socialite of New York. She is the daughter of a Connecticut real estate developer named Douglas Palermo. Olivia moved to New York to attend the New School. Attending class. She soon found her interests diverted though, and began making her way on to the social scene and onto society's "It" list.She accomplished this with the help from a publicist and some high up friends, like childhood buddy Byrdie Bell.
Olivia was at the center of socialite controversy in March 2007, when a blog posted an email which may or may not have been written by Olivia.Olivia's family immediately declared the email a forgery and hired a lawyer, claiming "identity theft." But a month later, Olivia's well-publicized grudge with the other socialite of New York,Tinsley Mortimer came to a
head when the socialite queen reportedly shoved Olivia while the two catwalked at a charity event.
Why is she famous?
Olivia became famous after she was cast in The Hills spinoff The City, in which she and Whitney Port appear to be "working" in the PR department at Diane von Furstenberg.
A young social fixture, Palermo's aggressive attempts to scale the social ladder finally got her on the cover of New York magazine in May 2007. More recently, she's become a reality TV staple thanks to her role alongside Whitney Port in MTV's The City.
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