Born and raised in Southern California, Roy Jimenez has never had a “White Christmas.” In fact, he’s never even seen snow fall.

“People on the East Coast will always laugh at me,” said Jimenez, 42. “They can’t believe I’ve never seen snow before, except for the fake snow at the Grove.”

Jimenez, a partner in the Beverly Hills office of law firm Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle, recently thought he’d finally have his chance to see snow. He was working on a case that required him to visit Denver; Greenwich, Conn.; and Richmond, Va.; to take depositions during some of the coldest weeks of the year.

As luck would have it, though, Jimenez was welcomed only with freezing winds and a bit of rain. But no snow.

“It was the coldest weather I had ever been in,” he said. “The first couple days it was kind of new and novel and it was fun, but after a while you get over having to put on so many layers of clothes.”

Meantime, between trips, Jimenez organized a holiday mixer and charity drive for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, and hosted multiple parties for friends and co-workers at his house on Miracle Mile.

So instead of seeking his first white Christmas, Jimenez opted to escape to the warm desert in Palm Springs after his hectic holiday season.

“I’ll probably go golfing,” he said. “And looking at the mountains in Palm Springs is very peaceful and quiet.”

Second Time’s The Charm

Dr. Robert Kotler has been a leading Beverly Hills plastic surgeon for 37 years and has counted some of the city’s leading lights as patients. He was even featured on the E! reality show “Dr. 90210.”

But Kotler hasn’t always lived such a glamorous life. He recently recounted his first romantic getaway, which came right after he got married in 1967. At the time, he was an overworked and underpaid intern at a San Francisco hospital.

“I stole away from San Francisco just to get married in Wisconsin (where his wife, Helaine, is from) and en route home stopped in Vegas for a mini-honeymoon,” said Kotler, 72. “I could not get any real vacation time and that’s all I could afford.”

But Kotler’s fortunes began to brighten the next year.

“My princely salary had jumped to $1,000 a month, so we went to Jamaica during the winter,” he said. “That was especially super because we were living in Chicago.”

Staff reporters Cale Ottens and Matt Pressberg contributed to this column. Page 3 is compiled by Editor Charles Crumpley. He can be reached at [email protected]