The Mansions of Limbo

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Random House Publishing Group, Feb 22, 2012 - Literary Collections - 432 pages
Bestselling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of high society for Vanity Fair, offers fifteen provocative portraits of some of the most luminous figures of the decade . . . profiles of the movie legend who remains the only divorced wife of a U.S. president; the pretty singing star who fell in love with a notorious mobster; the brilliant photographer who took Dunne's picture weeks before succumbing to AIDS . . . sketches that detail the lavish wedding-that-never-was between an heiress and a counterfeit prince; the incarceration of a high-flying financier; and the brutal slaying of a film mogul and his sife, allegedly by their own two sons. Filled with pathos and wit and the twenty-four-carat insight of a society insider, The Mansions of Limbo offers a peek into a rarified world there nothing is ever enough.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
NIGHTMARE ON ELM DRIVE
QUEENS OF THE ROAD
TEARDOWN
HIGH ROLLERThe Phyllis McGuire Story
SOCIAL DEATH IN VENICE
KHASHOGGIS FALLA Crash in the Limo Lane
MEMENTO MORI
JANES TURN
ITS A FAMILY AFFAIR
GRANDIOSITYThe Fall of Roberto Polo
DANSE MACABREThe Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys
THE WINDSOR EPILOGUE
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPES PROUD FINALE
THE LIGHT OF HUSSEIN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THE PASSION OF BARON THYSSEN

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About the author (2012)

Dominick Dunne was the author of five bestselling novels, two collections of essays, and The Way We Lived Then, a memoir with photographs. He was a special correspondent for Vanity Fair for 25 years, and the host of the television series Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice. He passed away in 2009 after completing Too Much Money.

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