Amanda Gordon

The Robin Hood Foundation put George Soros, Steve Cohen, Lloyd Blankfein, Stanley Tucci and about 3,800 other guests on a virtual train ride last night at its annual gala.

David Einhorn, chairman and founder of Greenlight Capital, took home victory last night at the 7th annual Hillel Texas Hold’em Tournament.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Ball, was attended by David Koch of Koch Industries, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone and Jessica Pare to name but a few.

Left, actress Scarlett Johansson attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Ball in New York, on May 8, 2012.

“I’m ashamed, because I know this issue and I’ve done nothing about it,” Paul Tudor Jones said yesterday at the Robin Hood Foundation Veterans Summit.

January Jones, who plays the well- situated but unhappy Betty in “Mad Men,” said she’s a saver, not a spender on the red carpet last night.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn was in the hot seat last night at the Friends of the High Line Spring Benefit, supporting the park built on elevated railroad tracks along Manhattan’s far West Side.

Wilbur Ross, the billionaire chairman of private-equity firm WL Ross & Co., pushed up his tuxedo sleeve to reveal a custom Van Cleef & Arpels timepiece.

J. Michael Evans, vice chairman at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., who oversees the firm’s business in emerging markets, last night paid $22,000 for Eric Ripert to cook in his home.

Robert Thomas of the pop band Matchbox Twenty performed an acoustic set in the Temple of Dendur last night for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

“I remember a waiter spilling a tray of food on Sandy Weill,” Bill Cunningham, the New York Times photographer, said of Citigroup Inc.’s former chairman, a frequent subject in his column “Evening Hours.” “All the gravy went down his back, and he just went with the flow, sitting with his guests.”

Elmo, Cookie Monster and Abby Cadabby, along with Diane Sawyer and Lesley Stahl, sang “As Time Goes By” to Pete Peterson and his wife, Joan Ganz Cooney last night.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Foundation last night announced a $2.5 million gift to Turnaround for Children, a New York-based nonprofit that works to transform low-performing schools.