Swinging Susie

I suppose that this is a fitting epilogue after the recent announcement that the Androssan, the Main Line mansion and home of the legendary Hope Montgomery Scott, who was the basis for Katharine Hepburn's character the "The Philadelphia Story," is being sold. See End of a class act. Of the real Tracy Lord, it was said "Hope was a mistress of the art of making other people feel special, of putting others at ease. In other words, she was gracious." Society in its highest sense. Not exactly how the Main Line Ladies of today would be described.

Instead, there is socialite Susan Tabas Tepper. As described in the Inky, Heiress again accused of assaulting a nanny:

The Villanova heiress, who smacked her children's nanny with a bag of carrots last May, was charged yesterday with roughing up another one, along with the woman's 9-year-old daughter.

Tepper, 45, faces two counts of simple assault and harassment - the same charges on which she was sentenced in February to a year's probation, $2,800 in fines, community service and anger-management classes after hurling the vegetables and a telephone handset at her Venezuelan nanny.

See also, Probation for socialite accused in nanny attack, for details of the first installment of how to harass the help.

The Daily News provides the background with the right amount of flavor for the latest episode, in Nanny, get your gun!:

It's apparently going to take more than a few anger-management classes to slow down the millionaire Main Line nanny-boss-from-hell.

Late Sunday, less than three months after banking heiress Susan Tabas Tepper was sentenced to probation and fined for hitting a nanny with a bag of carrots and beating the woman up, police again were called to her Villanova mansion.

Now, the 44-year-old socialite is accused of assaulting a second nanny - allegedly scratching the side of her face and shoving the woman to the ground when she tried to leave the estate house on Eagle Farm Road.

What's more, Montgomery County authorities said in an affidavit that when the nanny's 9-year-old daughter, who was present, tried to intervene to protect her mom, Tepper shoved her to the ground and called the little girl a 'bitch.'"

When you are a millionaire main line matron, nothing gets in the way of your mission -- even a 9 year old child. The Inky's report adds:

According to Lower Merion police, the incident took place at 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Kordzior alleged that Tepper, who she said had been drinking, became angry and blocked the door.

The mother of four, ages 2 to 13, followed her employee outside. She demanded that the nanny return the keys to the car that Tepper had provided her, according to the police report. Then she scratched the left side of Kordzior's face and lip with her hand and shoved her down.

When Kordzior's daughter, Maja, approached and asked Tepper not to hurt her mother, Tepper called her a "bitch" and shoved her aside, according to police.

The nanny, who police said spoke with a foreign accent, was treated for her injuries at Bryn Mawr Hospital.

Tepper said yesterday that she was the real victim.

"My boyfriend was present the entire time. Nothing happened," Tepper told 6ABC.

"This is based on malice because [Kordzior] was being let go and she was trying to steal my car," she said.

Got that? Nothing happened. Much ado from a "disgruntled employee," trying to take advantage of the generous spirited Tepper.

Another way of looking at this: It was 10:30 pm on a Sunday night and the woman had her 9 year old daughter with her. She probably had to bring her daughter because she couldn't get a babysitter on a Sunday and was trying to leave because the kid had school the next day and it was getting late. But Tepper no doubt needed help pouring her drinks, so she wasn't going to let the woman go.

For yet another take on this, see Philebrity, Smack My Bitch Up, Tony ‘Burbs Edition.

We've definitely reached the end of an era. I think we've traded crass for class on the old Main Line.

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