moving to Houston. In 1989 President, George H. W. Bush appointed Robert Mosbacher to the position of United States Secretary of Commerce. On June 12, 1990, she was robbed at gun point in front of her hotel room at the Barbizon Plaza in Manhattan (now Trump Parc). She dove into an elevator, the door of which unexpectedly opened, rang the alarm and rode it to the ground floor; the gunman vanished with her jewelry and handbag. After 13 years of marriage, Georgette Mosbacher and her husband divorced in 1998. In 2017, she gave a brief video tour of her Fifth Avenue home, discussing her many distinguished guests at parties there, on the NBC television series Open House. Controversies Mosbacher courted controversy when she suggested that Poland was responsible for the re-emergence of anti-Semitism across the continent of Europe because of a law which criminalizes blaming Poland for the actions of Nazi Germany on its soil during the Holocaust. Prior to being appointed, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated that if Mosbacher were appointed as the new U.S. ambassador to Poland, she would be accepted, despite having made "unnecessary and mistaken" comments about the country. Publishing history See also List of chief executive officers List of female top executives List of entrepreneurs References External links GeorgetteMosbacher.com New York Center for Children (founder, director) 1947 births Living people Ambassadors of the United States to Poland American chief executives of fashion industry companies American chief executives of manufacturing companies American women ambassadors American women chief executives Atlantic Council Indiana University alumni People from Highland, Lake County, Indiana 21st-century American women