He’s back. Craig Raywood, the interior decorator who fled New York for Los Angeles in 2005, has returned to our fair city.
The flamboyant and dapper designer is living in an apartment building at 72nd and York Avenue, according to a neighbor.
Raywood — whose clients included Paul Simon, Denise Rich and Beth Rudin DeWoody — left behind a pile of bad debts and angry creditors when he relocated to Los Angeles eight years ago.
After hosting a dinner party at his West Hollywood home, attended by Cornelia Guest, Bret Easton Ellis, Kenny Scharf, Lawrence O’Donnell and Nikki Haskell, he was soon bouncing checks and racking up new debts around town.
“Craig doesn’t need burglar’s tools,” a lawyer who tracked him for years told Los Angeles magazine in 2008. “He breaks into your mind. He breaks into your heart. The rest is easy.”
The two-part magazine story by Steve Oney also quoted Dr. Randal Haworth, who was never paid by Raywood for $19,000 worth of plastic surgery. “The guy has zero remorse,” said Haworth. “He did what he did to me with the cool calculation of a serial killer. He’s a sociopath.”
Fair warning.