1939 April 6, Walter Winchell, “(syndicated column)”, in Charleston Daily Mail:
Brenda Frazier, Inspires a new 1-word description—celebutante.
1985 June 3, “James St. James profile”, in Newsweek:
Young ’celebutants’ hope to win the approval of full-fledged downtown celebrities.
1986 July 9, Karen Heller, “New York Confidential”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, page C01:
St. James is a self-styled celebutante; Newsweek coined the word and St. James is glad to wear it.
1986 November 9, Maureen Dowd, “Lisa in Wonderland: Creating her own celebrity”, in New York Times, sec. 6, page 32:
Lisa Edelstein, a nice girl from a New Jersey suburb, is explaining how she got to be Lisa E., New York's reigning Queen of the Night, Girl of the Moment, new Edie Sedgwick and top "celebutante" of 1986. "Being a celebutante means you're famous for not really doing anything," the 20-year-old says. "You just try to get to know as many people as you can, so that you know everybody."
2007 May 24, Jessica Coen, “A media Frankenstein”, in Mail & Guardian Online[1], South Africa:
Paris Hilton, the United States’s first name in famous-for-being-famous, got her come-uppance. . . . Her ubiquitous nightlife presence, perceived aura of fabulousness and inane conduct made her a tabloid fixture, and she is perhaps our first celebutante, someone who does nothing but exist.
2009 March 9, “Flowers for Your Grave”, in Castle, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Kate Beckett (Stana Katic):
Mr. Castle, this whole "bad boy charm" thing you've got going might work for bimbettes and celebutantes. Me, I work for a living.
