NY Post
Richard Johnson's Page Six
October 21, 2004

Drug-laws foe's fete

The Rockefeller Drug Laws will be repealed if Anthony Papa can reach enough people. Papa, who had a radio repair business in The Bronx and a young daughter, did 12 years in Sing Sing after one of his bowling teammates asked him in 1985 if he wanted to make $500 delivering an envelope. It turned out the package was cocaine. Papa wrote "15 to Life: How I Painted My Way to Freedom," about becoming an artist while in prison. He co-founded Mothers of the N.Y. Disappeared in 1998 to bring attention to the unfairness of the 1973 laws which send low-level drug dealers to jail for longer sentences than rapists or murderers. On Monday night, after an opening at the Whitney, Papa was feted at the Waldorf Towers by hedge fund wizard Lawrence Goldfarb and such guests as Andrew Cuomo, art dealer Donald Rosenfeld, Vanity Fair writer Frank DiGiacomo and groom-to-be Al Reynolds, looking relaxed as his Nov. 12 wedding to Star Jones approaches.

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