Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 044022585X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vanity Fair was Andrew Cunanan's favorite magazine, so there's a certain synergy to Maureen Orth's engrossing and meticulously researched account of Cunanan's 1997 cross-country killing spree, which left celebrated designer Gianni Versace and four others dead before Cunanan took his own life. Even in death, it would appear, the rich are very different from you and me. The most interesting parts of Orth's tale, however, are not the lurid details of depravity but the revelations on how Versace's celebrity status influenced the investigation into his murder. --Patrizia DiLucchio. From his earliest childhood, Cunanan's severely dysfunctional parents programmed him with a sense of entitlement but gave him no means of entrée into the glittering world of wealth and privilege he so desperately desired. Orth, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and an award-winning investigative journalist, had just filed a story on the homicidal young poseur when Ve
A Well Researched Recount of the Andrew Cunanan Story Daniel J. Maloney Maureen Orth was involved in following Andrew Cunanan's blood trail early on when writing for Vanity Fair. The limitation on her at the time was that Vanity Fair is a monthly publication and much took place in between issues.Here in Vulgar Favors, Orth embarks on a careful research journey, to find out, and report as accurately as possible. A Customer said A mile wide and an inch deep. Gives us all the information available about this odd young man, but never gets close to understanding him. Okay, that's difficult when he died before he could be interviewed or tried. Like an overlong Vanity Fair article, this book is full of brand names and oh so subtle "I am hip and you are not if you don't understand the allusions why . This book is boring and homophobic. Much like her laborious writing in Vanity Fair, Ms. Orth's dull and insipid tome offer few insights, fewer original thoughts and is shockingly homophobic. Anyone who attempts a book like this and uses the term sexual preference instead of sexual orientation clearly is the wrong person to tackle such a topic. Her implication that Lee Miglin
It is at once a landmark work of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his savage crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way.. Two months before Andrew Cunanan murdered Gianni Versace on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion, Maureen Orth was investigating a major story on the serial killer for Vanity Fair. Now the award-winning journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondent tells the complete story of Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed, hedonistic world in which they lived and died, culled from interviews with over 400 people, and details from thousands of pages of police reports.In chilling detail, Maureen Orth reveals how Andrew Cunanan met his superstar victimwhy police and the FBI repeatedly failed to catch Cunananwhy other victims' families stonewalled the investigationcontroversial findings of the Versace autopsy report, and more. Here is a late-century odyssey that races across America from California's wealthy gay underworld to modest midwestern homes of families mourning their slaughtered sons to the celebration of decadence that is Versace's South Beach