Jeff Jacobs and Felicia Wong Jacobs

Real-estate investor and television producer

j.j.: we purchased an apartment from a Colombian business family. They’d used it as their pied-àterre. My friend was the builder of the building, Arthur Cohen. His apartment was amazing. He had six or seven Rodin sculptures in there. We were both art collectors. His wife sat on the board of the Met, and they came over one time, and

I showed them our stuff—our Chuck Closes, our Lichtensteins, our Warhols. He was a very nice man, very close with us. I always liked to tell him that I disagreed with the brown marble he used in the bathrooms.