The Carlyle Hotel enters the diary as a place of changing associations: a new address proposed for Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall after The Pierre’s repeated reminders of Mick’s past, and a temporary base for Hall in April 1978. Its later appearance as the planned site of a lunch that never took place there shows how the hotel also served as a point of coordination in the diarist’s social life.

A proposed break with The Pierre

On April 8, after dinner with Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall at La Grenouille, the group went with Mick to The Pierre so he could take off his sneakers. Hall complained that the hotel kept making a point of addressing her as Miss Hall. The diary connects that irritation to Mick’s past there with Bianca Jagger: Hall and Mick concluded that they should move to a new place, and The Carlyle Hotel was their choice. The move was not simply a change of lodging; it offered a way to leave a hotel so closely associated with an earlier relationship.

Jerry Hall’s stay

By April 22, Hall was registered at The Carlyle Hotel under another name, Miss Philips. The diarist found her ready to leave almost as soon as they arrived, and they went together to Quo Vadis. Afterward, they walked back along Madison Avenue to the hotel and had champagne and orange juice. Their arrangement divided the expenses: Mick paid the hotel bill while Hall paid for room service. The entry records the hotel as part of the couple’s practical routine as well as the setting for Hall’s brief visit with the diarist.

A meeting point, even when plans change

The Carlyle Hotel was also the scheduled venue for a Sunday lunch on October 29, 1978, when the diarist was expected to meet Mike Nichols and a Polish doctor who claimed to be a long-lost cousin. The lunch was moved downtown to Lady Astor’s instead. Although the meeting did not occur at the hotel, its place in the original plan extends the Carlyle’s role in these entries: it was a familiar location around which social arrangements could be made, revised, and redirected.