both the personal and business affairs of Minskoff, and her duties included screening Minskoff's mail, reviewing vendor invoices and credit card statements (including statements for the Corporate Account), and forwarding such invoices and statements to Equities' bookkeepers for payment.  Prior to Blumenfeld's employment with Equities, Minskoff personally reviewed all Corporate Account statements;  after hiring Blumenfeld, he no longer reviewed any of these statements.


5
In March 1992, defendant-appellee American Express received an application for an additional credit card to issue from the Corporate Account in Blumenfeld's name.  The application had been pre-addressed by American Express and mailed to Minskoff at his business address.  It had been completed and submitted by Blumenfeld without the knowledge or acquiescence of Equities or Minskoff.  American Express issued the supplementalExpress and bearing Equities' Corporate Account number.  Minskoff did not review any statements or cancelled checks received during 1992 and 1993 from either his personal account with MHT or the Equities account with MHT.


7
In July 1992, American Express sent Minskoff an unsolicited invitation to apply for a platinum card.  Blumenfeld accepted the invitation on behalf of Minskoff, again without the knowledge or acquiescence of either Minskoff or Equities.3  Blumenfeld also submitted a request for a supplemental card to issue from this new account (the "Platinum Account") in her name.  When platinum cards arrived in both Minskoff's and Blumenfeld's names, Blumenfeld gave Minskoff his card, claiming that it was an unsolicited upgrade of his American Express card privileges.  Minskoff proceeded to use his platinum