The Black Paris Hilton? Genevieve Jones, Mysterious Girl

Who Exactly is Genevieve Jones?

“Who is Genevieve Jones?”

That’s the first question many upper crust New Yorkers began asking when the chestnut-colored waiflike woman began showing up at high-brow parties around Manhattan in recent years, looking super-thin and ultra-fabulous in designer gear.

By 2006, the approximately 5’ 6” tall, 100 pound Genevieve had parlayed her knack for knowledge of all things chic into a multi-photo Style.com spread. The March issue of Vogue even crowned Genevieve its “Girl of the Moment.”

But it wasn’t until writer Teri Agins recently probed a little deeper into the fashionista’s life for a piece called “How ‘it girl’ scaled the world of fashion” for the Wall Street Journal  did the Net explode with more questions and accusations. 

Especially since Agins dug up public records putting Genevieve’s real age at 31, though Ms. Jones told an untold number of folks that she was only 27.

The backlash was enough to send Genevieve running home to Baton Rouge, La., as Women’s Wear Daily reported Ms. Jones did the day after the Wall Street  piece ran. 

But whether she was born in the year of the rooster or the monkey wasn’t the only question wagging on the tongues of those even outside the fashion world about Genevieve.

Nouveau Riche?
“Where does she get her money?” was the second popular query typed with fast fury by many a seeker’s fingertips. Or, as the monied lips put it, “What is her breeding?”

Turns out that unlike the famous-for-being-famous billionaire heiress Paris Hilton, Genevieve Jones is the daughter of working-class parents. Her father is reportedly a chemical engineer at Exxon Mobil Corp. and her mom, a homemaker – not necessarily occupations churning out enough moola to fund Genevieve’s “housekeeper and an account with a car service.”