Take a quick look at her pedigree, and you wouldn’t think de Rothschild, wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, could be this hard-nosed. She is rich, charming and beautiful. Portfolio has called her the “the flashiest hostess in London.”

But look closer and you’ll find an iron will. Some Londoners call her “Lady Lynn de Pushy.”

She has long been a power player, counting the Clintons and Tony Blair as good friends. Former husband Andrew Stein is a former New York City Council president.

She wed de Rothschild, the international banker, in 2000, when she was 46 and he was 69. Forbes called the marriage - her third - “the deal of a lifetime.”

A native of New Jersey, she received a law degree from Columbia and was still a young lawyer when she was hired by media mogul John Kluge. Watching Kluge’s series of successes, de Rothschild decided to become an entrepreneur herself.

She bought and sold a cell phone company in Puerto Rico. She snatched up unused wireless frequencies in four U.S. cities, then sold them for more than $100 million. Then she set her eyes on Europe. Her new company, FirstMark Communications Europe, attracted a stellar board, including Vernon Jordan and Henry Kissinger.

“It is less painful to do what she wants than to resist her,” Kissinger told New York magazine.

She sold Firstmark in June 2000 and married de Rothschild six months later. Now she’s CEO of EL Rothschild, the family investment firm, and serves as a director of Estee Lauder and the Economist.

She has raised millions for the Tate Gallery and untold amounts for the Clinton campaign.

She has found ways a woman can wield power simultaneously in the business and political worlds - a role that Clinton might consider in the future.

But last night, de Rothschild stuck by her friend the candidate. Clinton, she said, is “the greatest woman to ever arise in American politics.”

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By Laurie Bennett