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Gross’ latest book,Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class,was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in November 2023.His next book, a history of the Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy, will be published in 2025 by Harper Books at HarperCollins. ...
says boydston. still, he was cocky and sure he’d never be convicted. when he learned one of the da’s law clerks had failed her bar exam, he called and told her she’d passed, just to mess with her mind. then boydston went to the fbi with her evidence, and cohen was on his ...
” but it’s been updated with a new Afterword. In the original, “Gross summed up Lauren by saying that the things which made him a success like obsessiveness and control were ‘negative when viewed on the human level,'” the Mail reports. “In the new afterword Gross...
The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning yo...
says susan boydston, the third of cohen’s five ex-wives. “she kept the house spick-and-span, and he was a rebellious slob. he tuned her out at an early age. he felt he had only himself to count on, and everyone in his path would pay.” cohen’s ex-wives aren’t the only ...
RIP Patty Raynes The late Patty Raynes, who died this week, plays a small part in my bookUnreal Estate: Money, Ambition and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles.But her father, Marvin Davis, is and was as oversized a character—physically and in American social and business life—as the L...
Italy Gets Getty Booty Michael Gross The Italian government has concludedan agreementfor the return of 40 antiquities from the Getty museum in Los Angeles, the latest coup in its crusade to recover what it deems Italy’s cultural patrimony. The Metropolitan Museum made a similar deal last year....
r.i.p. alice mason, 100 i’m quoted in today’s new york times obituary of alice mason, the real estate broker and hostess. for lesser beings like me, an invitation to one of her dinner parties was a signal of, if not acceptance, then a certain achievement. i still recall my ...
‘s 1951 obituary. wiggin nonetheless managed to leave a $3 million estate. history has judged him more harshly, even as it has repeated itself. “[even if] they had done nothing actually criminal, [they] had treated their own stockholders and the investing public as so many sheep to be...