Elaine Kaufman, "The First Woman Mafia Don"

Yesterday, friends remembered restaurateur Elaine Kaufman at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home. The 81-year-old passed away last week , but her legend loomed large. Page Six reports that 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft said, " I would have to categorize her, in a nonviolent way, as the first woman Mafia don. She held a great deal of social cachet in New York and was the arbiter of the pecking order of ...