By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
The popular Gossip Girl show portrays actors who play America's elite and rich, but this weekend it was the really rich who wowed one of the show's actors. Matthew Settle, who plays Rufus Humphrey, experienced a bit of life imitating art at the Niche Media/Capitol File magazine after party at the Corcoran Gallery of Art following the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The show's hipster but unrich dad found himself sitting next to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud in the Qatar Airways VIP lounge. He is the chairman of Kingdom Holding Co. Need we say more? Settle was overheard saying that he didn't expect to be in the company of princes; he also didn't expect that "I'd be talking to the 22nd-richest man in the world. Oddly, the recession didn't even come up."
Gossip Girl's Matthew Settle at the Capitol File magazine after party.
Photo courtesy of mbkphotos.com/Capitol File
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