Inger McCabe Elliott

Inger McCabe Elliott (born February 23, 1933) is an American entrepreneur, photographer, artist, and socialite. She is the founder of China Seas, Inc., a textile company.

A fictionalized version of her life involving the 1983 encounter she had with con artist David Hampton was chronicled in the film Six Degrees of Separation, in which she was portrayed by Stockard Channing, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.

Early life

She was born in Norway, the daughter of Lova (née Katz d. 1966) and David Abrahamsen (1903–2002). She has a younger sister, Anne-Marie (Abrahamsen) Foltz. Elliott came to the United States next her associates in 1941 and became a citizen in 1946. Her dad was a prominent psychoanalyst who became blacklisted during World War II and the associates was goaded to leave the country. Her intimates was Jewish and from one of the oldest and most prominent Jewish families in Norway. In 1954 she graduated from Cornell University subsequent to a degree in History. She earned her master’s degree at Radcliffe College in 1957 and did post-graduate play in at Harvard.

Personal life

With her first husband she had three children, Marit, Kari, and Alexander McCabe. The couple adopted two refugee children from China together. They divorced and she married Osborn Elliott in 1973. Her second husband was the editor of Newsweek and the former Dean for the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is step-mother to his three children from a previous marriage, Diana, Cynthia, and Dorinda Elliott.

Career

Elliott worked as a theoretical after achievement school, and next worked for the Eastern European Student and Youth Service. She next became a photographer for Rapho Guillumette, traveling on the world and energetic in Hong Kong during the 1960s, when her pictures appeared in magazines like Vogue. In 1972, she created her own textile business, China Seas, Inc, specializing in Batik fabrics from Indonesia. She is the owner of several patents bearing in mind her business partner in crime Helena Uglow. The company became successful, catering to prominent fashion designers and celebrities including Jackie Kennedy. Elliott was a founding aficionada of The Committee of 200, and associated the American Women’s Economic Development Corporation. She is along with a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the Citizens Committee for New York City.

Elliott donated her personal amassing of fabrics to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is the author of several books on fabrics and design, and has also published her photography in the series “Henry’s World” and “Amy’s World”. She has worked as a consultant upon art and culture for institutions in the freshen of Sotheby’s. Elliott is a zealot of the New York City Council on Foreign Relations, and a trustee for the American Scandinavian Foundation. Elliott serves as a trustee emeritus for the Asia Society.