Marian Fountain "Minnie" Mortimer (born 1982), (1980 not '82) \Was born and raised on Manhattan's Upper East side where she attended The Brearley School and the Convent of the Sacred Heart.

Convent of the Sacred Heart (New York)

The Convent of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic all-girl school in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Teaching grades from pre-kindergarten through twelve, it is located on Manhattan's Upper East Side at East 91st Street and Fifth Avenue....

Mortimer's high school years where spent at St. Marks School an independent boarding school in Southborough, Massachusetts.
On May 19th 2007 she married American Oscar winning film maker Stephen Gaghan

Stephen Gaghan

Stephen Gaghan is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed.-Childhood and education:Born in either Louisville,...

. Together they have one daughter.

In the Spring of 2009 Minnie Mortimer launched an eponymous woman's sportswear line with a feature in Vogue Magazine. She and her designs have been features in Marie Clair, InStyle, Elle, Vogue Nippon, Teen Vogue, Paper Magazine and others. Minnie Mortimer had been featured on the Today Show, Good Day LA and has an upcoming cameo on the CW show Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite...

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Minnie Mortimer designed an exclusive collection for the W Hotels Global Glam line in the Fall of 2010.

Her mother is Senga Mortimer, an editor at House Beautiful magazine and daughter Henry Mucci

Henry Mucci

Henry Andrew Mucci was a colonel in the United States Army Rangers. In January 1945, during World War II, he led a force of 128 Army Rangers on a mission which rescued 512 survivors of the Bataan Death March from Cabanatuan Prison Camp, despite being heavily outnumbered.- Youth :Mucci was born in...

 a hero of World War II, most famous for liberating the Japanese prison camp Cabanatuan.
Her father is John Jay Mortimer whose great great great grandfather was John Jay

John Jay

John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States ....

 the first Chief Justice of the United States and grandfather was Stanley Mortimer president of Standard Oil

Standard Oil

Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational...

 California. Minnie Mortimer is also related to Babe Paley

Babe Paley

Barbara "Babe" Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American socialite and style icon. She was known by the popular nickname "Babe" for most of her life. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958....

 and Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields

Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress and model. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle....

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Sources

• http://www.minniemortimer.com
• http://www.style.com/stylefile/2010/03/minnie-mortimer-grows-up/
• http://fashion.elle.com/blog/2010/04/minnie-mortimer-celebrates-spring-at-scoop.html
• http://www.wwd.com/fashion-week/fall-ready-to-wear-2010/review/minnie-mortimer-rtw-fall-2010-2453790
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gaghan