Robert Couri Hay, born April 1949, is an American publicist, blogger and gossip columnist. He was a gossip columnist for the National Enquirer from 1976 to 1983.Robert C. Hay has said that he was born and raised in Portland, Maine. He dropped out of American University in Washington, D.C. He claims to have moved to New York in 1970 at age 20.Hay is a publicist based in Manhattan and the Hamptons. He has been the publicist of aspiring socialites including Fabian Basabe, Devorah Rose and Melissa Berkelhammer. His company's mission is "founded on the premise that luxury has responsibility to philanthropy." He has worked with luxury brands such as Harry Winston, Bergdorf Goodman, Prada, Chopard, Escada, Bulgari and more and created philanthropic events for the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Henry Street Settlement, the Central Park Conservancy, and the Lighthouse International and New Yorkers for Children that served the ever first benefit after 9/11 where Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attended. According to ABC News, Hay is known "to marry luxury and philanthropy." The Times featured a story on Hay in October 2014 titled, "The Gossip Guy." The story noted career milestones of Hay as a publicist and quoted the writer Jay McInerney who called Hay “irrepressible.” Wikipedia
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