Jimmy'z is a Monte Carlo nightlife venue that recurs in the diary as a place where parties lead into dancing, chance meetings, and conspicuous social maneuvering. The two recorded visits show it less as a described physical setting than as a stage on which relationships and ambitions become visible to everyone present.

Dancing and a Public Confrontation

After Regine invited the group to Jimmy'z, the diarist encountered John Larsen, an old friend of both the diarist and Edie Sedgwick who had since become a friend of Jamie Wyeth. Larsen and Wyeth were remembered as great dancers. The evening shifted when Bo Polk arrived with a woman, and Phyllis Diller saw Wyeth dancing cheek-to-cheek with her. Diller went onto the dance floor and struck Wyeth with her cane. The intimate dancing became a public embarrassment: Wyeth was embarrassed because he had been dancing so closely.

The Search for Prince Albert

On July 14, 1980, the group went to Jimmy'z after a cocktail party at Donina Cicogna’s crowded home. The diarist and Mona, bored at the club, went looking for Prince Albert, whom they expected to find somewhere nearby. The diarist spoke about being unable to find him, only to discover that he was standing just behind them. Mona pressed forward, saying they admired him and wanted to know him; the diarist offered to introduce him to a group of women, including Kerry Kennedy. Prince Albert declined, while Regine fetched drinks and later brought Kerry Kennedy and Mary Richardson over to meet him. He drank the drinks but otherwise ignored the group.

Mona then stepped on Prince Albert’s toe, and he told her to do it again. The exchange briefly drew him into their encounter, but he soon said he had to meet someone and was going to Paradise. The diarist and Mona planned to follow, pleased that their search had brought them this far. The episode ends on a small practical detail: the diarist could not record the encounter because the tape recorder had been left behind rather than put into Jed Johnson’s jacket, whose pockets Jed would not let stretch.

A Social Stage in the Diary

Across these visits, Jimmy'z connects different forms of social display. One night, dancing makes a private closeness conspicuous and provokes a sharp intervention; another, the club becomes the setting for an improvised pursuit of a royal celebrity. In both episodes, the diarist records not only who was present but how attention moved through the room—toward the dancers, toward Prince Albert, and then away when he announced his departure. The venue’s significance in these passages lies in that sequence of encounters, and in the gap between the group’s efforts to command attention and the attention they actually receive.