Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo
Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty--and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. \ Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of...
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Dominick Dunne has met them all—stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty—and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers—and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed.Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets—and now those secrets are out. Washington Post Book World "Like sitting in an exclusive retaurant, listening to a plummy voiced intimate of the rich and famous tell us all about their foibles and follies."
Introduction to This EditionA Word on a Late Start3Justice: A Father's Account of the Trial of His Daughter's Killer6The Woman Who Knew Too Little44Candy's Dynasty56Imelda in Exile65Beverly Hills Coup85Lazarama94The Mortimer's Bunch96The Women of Palm Beach106Ava Now121Hide-and-Seek with Diane Keaton126The Red Queen137Gloria's Euphoria146Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bulow157Introduction195Nightmare on Elm Drive198Queens of the Road231Teardown243High Roller: The Phyllis McGuire Story256Social Death in Venice271Khashoggi's Fall: A Crash in the Limo Lane283Memento Mori304The Passion of Baron Thyssen319Jane's Turn342It's a Family Affair354Grandiosity: The Fall of Roberto Polo368Danse Macabre: The Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys397The Windsor Epilogue420Robert Mapplethorpe's Proud Finale434The Light of Hussein449Paris When It Sizzles469Three Faces of Evil487
\ Washington Post Book World"Like sitting in an exclusive retaurant, listening to a plummy voiced intimate of the rich and famous tell us all about their foibles and follies."\ \
