On a Sunday afternoon in October, guests carrying luxury gifts from Dior and Hermès were shepherded into Richard White’s Palm Beach mansion.
The occasion was a commitment ceremony to mark White’s marriage to Zena Nasser in Texas three months earlier, and the arrival of a daughter born via surrogate. A posse of Nasser’s friends from Sydney’s eastern suburbs accounted for much of the guest list.
This article has been updated to correct the spelling of Bouyan to Boyuan.