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Serena was the It girl of Constance Billard School for Girls and the talk of Manhattan. Being the It girl of the Upper East Side, she is constant fodder to the rumor mill. Her father runs the same Dutch shipping firm his great-great-grandfather created in the 1700's and her mother Lily van der Woodsen is a socialite. Her parents are on the boards of all major charities and art organizations in the city and live at luxurious 994 Fifth Avenue, a ritzy, white-gloved-doorman building directly across the street from the Met and Central Park, the van der Woodsens own half the top floor, and live in a fourteen room penthouse. (wikipedia.org)