Like Jay Gatsby, He Threw Parties to Get Her Attention. It Finally Worked.
In November 2020, Andrew Quintero rented Blu Mar, a seafood restaurant in the Hamptons, to host a large dinner party in hopes that Sophia Farah Babai would attend. That night he watched Ms. Babai’s friends walk in, but she wasn’t among them. Again. “I was always hoping that she would show,” Mr. Quintero said. Mr.…