Subscribe to Guide
No Result
View All Result
Hamptons.com
  • Spotlight Magazine
  • Lifestyle
    • Featured
    • Entertainment
    • Arts
    • Community
    • Dining
    • Recreation
    • Trending
  • Events
    • Events Calendar
    • Post an Event
    • Gallery
  • Real Estate
    • Real Estate Features
    • Search Real Estate
      • Open Houses
      • Search Sales
      • Search Rentals
    • Title Insurance
    • Happening In The Hamptons Podcast
  • Live Cameras
    • All Live Cameras
    • Live Weather Cams
    • Amagansett, Atlantic Avenue Beach
    • Bridgehampton, West Scott Cameron Beach
    • East Hampton Village, Main Beach
    • East Hampton Village, Main Street
    • East Hampton Village, Newtown Lane
    • Hampton Bays, Ponquogue Beach
    • Hampton Bays, Ponquogue Bridge
    • Hampton Bays, Shinnecock Fishing Dock
    • Hampton Bays, Tiana Beach
    • Long Island Aquarium | Coral Reef
    • Long Island Aquarium | Penguins
    • Long Island Aquarium | Shark Tank
    • Montauk, Downtown Circle
    • Montauk, Lars Simenson Skatepark
    • Montauk, Gin Beach & Inlet
    • Montauk, Sunset Beach & Inlet
    • Sagaponack, Sagg Main Beach
    • Sag Harbor, Foster Memorial Beach
    • Sag Harbor, Long Wharf Marina
    • Sag Harbor, Main Street (South)
    • Sag Harbor, Windmill Beach & Bay
    • Shelter Island, South Ferry
    • Southampton, 39A to Montauk Hwy Merge
    • Southampton, Conscience Point Marina
    • Southampton Village, Coopers Beach
    • Southampton Village, Main Street (South)
    • Southampton Village, Main Street (North)
    • Southampton Village, Main Street (Hildreths)
    • Westhampton Village, Main Street (East)
    • Westhampton Village, Rogers Beach
  • Public WiFi
    • Public WiFi Map
    • Public Wi-Fi Support
  • Spotlight Magazine
  • Lifestyle
    • Featured
    • Entertainment
    • Arts
    • Community
    • Dining
    • Recreation
    • Trending
  • Events
    • Events Calendar
    • Post an Event
    • Gallery
  • Real Estate
    • Real Estate Features
    • Search Real Estate
      • Open Houses
      • Search Sales
      • Search Rentals
    • Title Insurance
    • Happening In The Hamptons Podcast
  • Live Cameras
    • All Live Cameras
    • Live Weather Cams
    • Amagansett, Atlantic Avenue Beach
    • Bridgehampton, West Scott Cameron Beach
    • East Hampton Village, Main Beach
    • East Hampton Village, Main Street
    • East Hampton Village, Newtown Lane
    • Hampton Bays, Ponquogue Beach
    • Hampton Bays, Ponquogue Bridge
    • Hampton Bays, Shinnecock Fishing Dock
    • Hampton Bays, Tiana Beach
    • Long Island Aquarium | Coral Reef
    • Long Island Aquarium | Penguins
    • Long Island Aquarium | Shark Tank
    • Montauk, Downtown Circle
    • Montauk, Lars Simenson Skatepark
    • Montauk, Gin Beach & Inlet
    • Montauk, Sunset Beach & Inlet
    • Sagaponack, Sagg Main Beach
    • Sag Harbor, Foster Memorial Beach
    • Sag Harbor, Long Wharf Marina
    • Sag Harbor, Main Street (South)
    • Sag Harbor, Windmill Beach & Bay
    • Shelter Island, South Ferry
    • Southampton, 39A to Montauk Hwy Merge
    • Southampton, Conscience Point Marina
    • Southampton Village, Coopers Beach
    • Southampton Village, Main Street (South)
    • Southampton Village, Main Street (North)
    • Southampton Village, Main Street (Hildreths)
    • Westhampton Village, Main Street (East)
    • Westhampton Village, Rogers Beach
  • Public WiFi
    • Public WiFi Map
    • Public Wi-Fi Support
No Result
View All Result
Hamptons.com
June 8, 2020

American Heart Association Goes Virtual For Annual Hamptons Heart Ball

Lee Frydby Lee Fryd
in Recreation
Home Recreation

Missing our Hamptons galas? The American Heart Association says, get dressed and go virtual, for a June 20 celebration, from 7 to 8 p.m. “Pour yourself some champagne. Wear the dress you want. Feel festive,” 2020 Hamptons Heart Ball Chair Cristina Civetta says. “It’s good for your heart.” Although all are encouraged to give, tuning in is free. Get connected by posting photos and videos with #HamptonsHeartBall, tagging the American Heart Association at @AHANewYork on Facebook and Instagram, and @HeartLongIsland on Twitter.

Originally thought to affect the lungs primarily, “COVID-19 is attacking the heart in ways that are causing people to have long lasting heart disease, as well as causing strokes,” Civetta said. “The American Heart Association has pledged 2.5 million dollars to COVID-19 already: for research, CPR training, programs for the underserved, blood pressure cuffs for people to self monitor in their homes, free oxygenation, ventilation courses to health care workers, and creating a data registry of COVID-19 patients. Suddenly, our mission is to not only deal with pre-COVID heart disease, but with this whole new set.”

Besides getting connected on Zoom, the hour will include survivors’ and honorees’ stories, what the AHA is doing, and the auction. Heart survivor Actress Susan Lucci will be featured in a special video.

Civetta and Lucci came to the cause with two very different heart diseases. Yet they are linked by the desire to pay their luck forward.

Cristina was born with ventricle defects that required immediate surgery and two more operations in the next 19 months. “Altogether, I’ve had seven heart surgeries,” the beautiful 36-year-old told us. “I’m doing great. But, I’m always going to be a heart patient with risk factors. In 2013, when I had a pacemaker put in and a double valve replacement, I promised myself, if I made it through, I would make a difference. Three weeks after that surgery, AHA asked me to be their Junior Heart Hero in the Hamptons. Since then, it’s been my calling to work with the AHA.”

2020 Hamptons Heart Ball Chair Cristina Civetta. (Photo: Lenny Stucker)


On the other hand, Susan Lucci had been healthy all her life, even passing a recent physical with flying colors, when a year-and-a-half ago, she couldn’t ignore the tightness in her chest any longer. She was sidelined in a boutique, feeling like there was “an elephant pressing on my chest.” Thanks to a manager who had a nursing degree, Susan’s life was saved that night at St. Francis hospital. “I barely avoided the kind of heart attack they call the widow maker,” she said. As that name indicates, heart disease research has been historically geared towards men.

Women often have different symptoms. So, when she was asked be the National Ambassador for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement, Lucci threw herself into the task. “Heart disease still will go on being the number one killer,” she told us. “It kills more women a year than all cancers put together. That’s extraordinary to me.”

After a lifetime of throwing herself into the tasks at hand, taking this time off with her chef husband Helmut Huber cooking almost feels like a needed respite. “I’ve always felt like I’d been shot out of a cannon,” she said. “There are a lot of good things that I feel will come out of this pause, an opportunity to reflect and appreciate. Maybe we’ll have some new young scientists: new kids that will dream their dreams in that direction and share their talents.”

American Heart Association sponsors include: Life is why sponsors: Bradley and Parker LLp, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Petro home services; Life is why we give: Ippolita, Shop Mamour; Heart Ball sponsors and donors: BNB bank, Jefferies Financial Group, The Scheetz Group, Ingrid Arneberg, Bert and Meredith Cohen, East End cardiology, Stony Brooke administrative services; Local media sponsors include: Hamptons Magazine and Hamptons.com.

The American Heart Association is dedicated to ensuring equitable health in all communities. Through collaboration with numerous organizations, and powered by millions of volunteers, they fund research, advocate for the public health and share lifesaving resources.

For more information, and/or sponsorship opportunities please contact Leslie Bellissimo at [email protected] or visit http: ahalongisland.org.

Sign up for our weekly newsletter!

Get the top Hamptons events and latest scoop!

What's Happening in the Hamptons

Related Posts

Essential Guide to Hamptons Beach Permit Requirements
Recreation

Essential Guide to Hamptons Beach Permit Requirements

April 25, 2025
WAVE Wellness Opens First Social Wellness Destination in The Hamptons
Recreation

WAVE Wellness Opens First Social Wellness Destination in The Hamptons

March 6, 2025
Top Hamptons Events This Weekend: November 15th, 2024
Recreation

Exploring the Best Beaches of the Hamptons: A Walking Guide

January 28, 2025

Search Articles

No Result
View All Result

LOCAL EVENTS

Events

02
Jul
02
Jul
-
02
Jul

Concert in the Park Series: Christiaan Padavan + Tedd Firth

July 2 @ 06:30 PM - July 2 @ 08:00 PM
Agawam Park: 51 Pond Ln, Southampton, NY 11968
02
Jul
02
Jul
-
10
Jul

Deceived

July 2 @ 07:00 PM - July 10 @ 04:00 PM
Sag Harbor NY
03
Jul
03
Jul
-
03
Jul

Toddler & Teeny Tumbling (ages 18mos – 3yrs)

July 3 @ 09:15 AM - July 3 @ 10:00 AM
44 Meadow Way East Hampton, NY 11937
03
Jul
03
Jul
-
06
Jul

The Hub X Paws for a Cause

July 3 @ 10:00 AM - July 6 @ 06:00 PM
The HUB 2183 Montauk Highway Bridgehampton, NY 11932
03
Jul
03
Jul
-
20
Jul

Untitled Art Show – Water Mill Museum – Local Artists

July 3 @ 11:00 AM - July 20 @ 04:00 PM
The Water Mill Museum
Load more listings
Next Post
Manhattan Eatery Offering “At Home In The Hamptons” Catering Boxes

Manhattan Eatery Offering "At Home In The Hamptons" Catering Boxes

    Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube
    Hamptons.com

    Saunders Broadcasting Corp.

    Phone: 631-613-8440
    Email: [email protected]
    Facebook: Facebook.com/HamptonsOnline
    Twitter: @Hamptons
    Instagram: @HamptonsOnline

    About Us | Contact Us

    Hamptons.com

    • Lifestyle
    • Events
    • Real Estate
    • Live Cameras
    • Public WiFi

    Subscribe

    Sign up for our weekly newsletter!

    Get the top Hamptons events and latest scoop!

    © 2025 Hamptons.com | All rights reserved
    Saunders Broadcasting Corp.
    Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | About Us | Contact Us

    No Result
    View All Result
    • Spotlight Magazine
    • Lifestyle
      • Featured
      • Entertainment
      • Arts
      • Community
      • Dining
      • Recreation
      • Trending
    • Events
      • Events Calendar
      • Post an Event
      • Gallery
    • Real Estate
      • Real Estate Features
      • Search Real Estate
        • Open Houses
        • Search Sales
        • Search Rentals
      • Title Insurance
      • Happening In The Hamptons Podcast
    • Live Cameras
      • All Live Cameras
      • Live Weather Cams
      • Amagansett, Atlantic Avenue Beach
      • Bridgehampton, West Scott Cameron Beach
      • East Hampton Village, Main Beach
      • East Hampton Village, Main Street
      • East Hampton Village, Newtown Lane
      • Hampton Bays, Ponquogue Beach
      • Hampton Bays, Ponquogue Bridge
      • Hampton Bays, Shinnecock Fishing Dock
      • Hampton Bays, Tiana Beach
      • Long Island Aquarium | Coral Reef
      • Long Island Aquarium | Penguins
      • Long Island Aquarium | Shark Tank
      • Montauk, Downtown Circle
      • Montauk, Lars Simenson Skatepark
      • Montauk, Gin Beach & Inlet
      • Montauk, Sunset Beach & Inlet
      • Sagaponack, Sagg Main Beach
      • Sag Harbor, Foster Memorial Beach
      • Sag Harbor, Long Wharf Marina
      • Sag Harbor, Main Street (South)
      • Sag Harbor, Windmill Beach & Bay
      • Shelter Island, South Ferry
      • Southampton, 39A to Montauk Hwy Merge
      • Southampton, Conscience Point Marina
      • Southampton Village, Coopers Beach
      • Southampton Village, Main Street (South)
      • Southampton Village, Main Street (North)
      • Southampton Village, Main Street (Hildreths)
      • Westhampton Village, Main Street (East)
      • Westhampton Village, Rogers Beach
    • Public WiFi
      • Public WiFi Map
      • Public Wi-Fi Support

    © 2025 Hamptons.com | All rights reserved
    Saunders Broadcasting Corp.
    Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | About Us | Contact Us