You're A Rich Girl

I doubt whether Mayor Mike is happy about this article.

"My dad has changed a lot since he became mayor seven years ago," she says. "When he was just a businessman, he was pretty egotistical. People were telling him how great he was every day. Politics has humbled him. Now he seems to really want to hear what I have to say, and I wouldn't have said that a few years ago—but I've also become less of a brat."

How does someone make a living (evidently a pretty substantial one) as an equestrian?

"For me, it's about the competition," says Georgina, who had her first riding lesson at 4. "I love horses, but if I couldn't show I wouldn't ride." (Today she spends her summers competing in Germany and touring Europe. In the winters, she's showing in Florida.) As a professional equestrienne, she's sponsored by Audi, the clothing company Ariat, Heritage Gloves and County Saddlery. (Marty Bauman, PR director for the Hampton Classic, notes champion riders can earn as much as $60,000 per event.) And Georgina says she's proud to have her own income.

This strains the limits of credulity unless Mayor Mike is.....

When Georgina was 7, the Bloombergs moved to a townhouse on 79th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, where the mayor still resides today. Mike and Susan divorced in 1993, after 17 years of marriage. "The divorce was the best thing that ever happened," Georgina says with a warm chuckle. "I went from having parents who didn't get along and never wanted to be around each other, to having parents who are friends." The split was so amicable, in fact, that the Bloombergs all continued living under the same roof for a year after the split, until Susan started dating property mogul Richard Chapman and Georgina, then 10, moved with her mom and Emma to his home on 67th Street. When Susan and Richard broke up in 1996, the family moved back in with Mike. "My mom's boyfriends would come and pick her up, but it seemed normal," she recalls.