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Swells By The Numbers

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 74.

Number of people pictured whose names we recognize: 12. (representative sample: Jonny Moseley, the omnipresent George and Charlotte Shultz, Gavin and child model Brittanie Mountz, Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind.)

Minority count: 1 (1.38888%.)

Getty v. Traina: 5-30. This week's event is a party at the DeYoung museum thrown by Dede Wilsey in honor of her son Trevor Traina's recent marriage! (30 = number of times any Traina was mentioned in the piece.)

Age of Gavin Newsom's companion: 19 (or is it 25?)

Stanlee Gattee count: 6.

Number of hats, eyepatches, and cloaks: 0, 1, 1.

Number of roses (in Dede's favorite shade of pale pink) used to decorate Wilsey Court: 250,000.

Number of rose-producing countries Dede Wilsey and Stanlee Gattee say she owns now: 2 (Chile and Ecuador).

Number of rose balls cascading the steps of the main staircase in homage to the gargantuan Richter on the opposite wall (and in the urinals too): 250.

Number of rose balls Gavin Newsom dared Dede Wilsey to bowl down the staircase (which Jonny Moseley thought might make a good mogul run): More than him.

Projects that Dede Wilsey has seen to completion: 4 (raising her children, nursing her late husband Al Wilsey, rebuilding a house that burned down in Napa, building the DeYoung).

Number of times Dede Wilsey's stepson Sean is mentioned: 0

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