Cafritz Suffers Second Fire

Cripes, Peggy Cooper Cafritz can't seem to catch a break. After her Chain Bridge Road mansion burned to the ground over the summer, she had another fire just a couple of weeks ago in the Georgetown apartment where she's been staying since, the Reliable Source reports today. Luckily, this most recent fire was confined to the laundry room, "but smoke invaded every cranny, and all her clothing had to be cleaned to remove the acrid smell." Cafritz, a former D.C. school board president and well known local arts patron, told the Post that she is still deciding whether or not to try to rebuild at her Chain Bridge Road property. As for her famed art collection, Cafritz said it looks to impossible to put it back together as it was. "I'll just have to start looking for new, younger artists," she said.