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Nine-year-old Ruby Rabil wondered why her mom was not the parent taking her to school one recent morning in Armonk. That is one of those things her stay-at-home mom, Tamara Rabil, has always done.
Tamara told her daughter she had an early interview with a reporter who was writing about her movie - their movie. There have not been many yet, but interviews come with her new career. It's a career and a business born of a mother's public unburdening of a private fear and harrowing memory.
A native Virginian, Tamara moved to New York after college to pursue a career in the fashion industry. She already was a licensed insurance agent, having worked for her parents in the insurance business they owned in Richmond. In Manhattan she spent about 15 years at fashion's epicenter, working as an executive at Ralph Lauren's and Donna Karan's design companies and at Guess Jeans.
Along the way she met Al Rabil, a successful real estate banker and investor in off-campus student housing properties who co-founded and is managing partner of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Partners.
"I fell in love," Tamara tells us over coffee in the office of her new production company, Wild Angel Films, in an Armonk business park. Her husband's real estate office is one floor above at 200 Business Park Drive and when the phone rings in Suite 204, it's often Al calling, Tamara says amusedly. Three kids later, it's still a tight marriage.
"He's a scratch golfer," she says. "I was not about to be a golf widow. Golf widow is not in my program." So she took up golf, a sport in which, to her professionally appraising eye, women were handicapped by wretched fashions.
So Tamara about 10 years...