What students at Vassar lacked in drive, they made up for in black eyeliner. He dropped the k from Nickolas and changed his last name to Von Meyer. “I can’t say I was friends with Nick, but you couldn’t help but notice him on campus,” said Carl Cade, who graduated in 2000. It didn’t really stand out because there were so many of us who were scholarship kids pretending to be posh and there were so many of us who were rich kids pretending to be street. I remember he once announced that he was getting rid of a Gucci camel coat and whoever came over first would get it free.”

Source: New York Times December 12, 2018 20:16 UTC