By Jeff Vasishta Vanderpump. The name itself sounds like a transatlantic money-minting machine. The “Vander” is vaguely Dutch or Germanic and has an aristocratic jingle to it, while the “Pump” is pure Hollywood glitz, glam and sex.
And, if we are playing by her rules, who can argue? Lisa Vanderpump has followed a familiar path in minting her stateside fortune by engaging Americans’ deference to all things upper crust and British, spiced up with a healthy heaping of toned bodies and tawdry drama.
The former actress and her husband Ken Todd, he of the evergreen mullet meets bouffant hairdo sported by scads of veteran Brit rockers — Wyman, Jagger and Rod Stewart, just to name a few — owned more than two dozen bar and restaurants in their
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