Maureen Orth

A journalist who covered the failed manhunt for Andrew Cunanan pieces together the story of the killing spree that ended with the murder of fashion mogul Gianni Versace. Reprint.

Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History

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DA QUESTO LIBRO, LA SERIE TV AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE L’AVVINCENTE RICOSTRUZIONE DI UNO DEI CASI DI CRONACA NERA PIÙ FAMOSI DEGLI ULTIMI ANNI «I fatti sono ricostruiti con una precisione sorprendente.» The New York Times «Un libro magnifico che racconta nei dettagli una vicenda torbida e sconvolgente. » Entertainment Weekly New York, maggio 1997. La giornalista Maureen Orth sta scrivendo un reportage su un serial killer appena entrato nella lista dei 10 criminali più ricercati d’America: Andrew Cunanan. Abilissimo nel mimetizzarsi, a suo agio in ogni situazione sociale, Cunanan sa perfettamente come coprire le sue tracce e sembra imprendibile. E tutto spinge a pensare che ucciderà ancora… Miami, 15 luglio 1997 Gianni Versace sta rientrando da una passeggiata quando, sulla scala della sua villa, viene freddato a colpi di pistola. La polizia non ha dubbi: il colpevole è Andrew Cunanan. Ma anche questa volta il serial killer si sottrae alla giustizia; qualche giorno dopo, infatti, Cunanan viene ritrovato morto a bordo di una barca: si è suicidato con la stessa pistola con cui ha ucciso Versace. Un delitto la cui eco ha fatto il giro del mondo, uno stilista adorato da milioni di persone e un assassino in cui si mescolano intelligenza e squilibrio: cosa c’è davvero dietro la tragica morte di Gianni Versace? In questo libro, frutto di un imponente lavoro di ricerca, Maureen Orth ricostruisce un mistero che ha mille sfaccettature, da quelle dorate di un mondo avvolto nel lusso a quelle oscure della mente umana.

La storia, i protagonisti, il mistero

Il caso Versace

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Vanity Fair's veteran special correspondent pulls back the curtain on the world of celebrity and those who live and die there Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth always makes news. From Hollywood to murder trials to the corridors of politics, this National Magazine Award winner covers lives led in public, on camera, in the headlines. Here she takes us close-up into the world of fame--bridging entertainment, politics, and news--and the lives of those who understand the chemistry, the very DNA, of fame and how to create it, manipulate it, sustain it. Moving from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Michael Jackson, the ultimate child/monster of show business, Orth describes our evolution from a society where talent attracted attention to a place where the star-making machinery of the "celebrity-industrial complex" shapes, reshapes, and sells its gods (and monsters) to the public. From divas letting their hair down (Tina Turner) to Little Gods (Woody Allen and Princess Diana's almost father-in-law Mohammed Fayed), political theater (Arnold's Hollywood hubris, Arianna Huffington's guru-guided gubernatorial quest), news-gone-soap-opera (I Love Laci), and even the Queen Mother of reinvention (Madonna as dominatrix/children's-book author), Orth delivers a portrait of an era. The Importance of Being Famous shows us the real world of the big room where the rules that govern mere mortals don't matter--and anonymity is a crime.

Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex

The Importance of Being Famous

A true story of dark forces that ended a colourful life. The basis for American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin, this is the unforgettable account of a sociopath, his savage crimes, and the devastation he left in his wake. In the glamorous and hedonistic fashion world in the 1990s there was one world-famous name that everyone knew - Gianni Versace. Vulgar Favours details the events that led to his murder at the hands of Andrew Cunanan on July 15th, 1997. Maureen Orth, investigative journalist, was researching an article for Vanity Fair about the Miami Beach serial killer two days before Versace was brutally killed outside his mansion by Cunanan. Drawing on over 400 interviews and thousands of pages of police reports, Orth recounts in gripping detail how Cunanan became one of America's most notorious serial killers, evading the police and leaving his other victims' families in disarray.

The Assassination of Gianni Versace (American Crime Story)

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A true story of dark forces that ended a colourful life. The basis for the Emmy Award winning American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin, this is the unforgettable account of a sociopath, his savage crimes, and the devastation he left in his wake. In the glamorous and hedonistic fashion world in the 1990s there was one world-famous name that everyone knew – Gianni Versace. Vulgar Favours details the events that led to his murder at the hands of Andrew Cunanan on July 15th, 1997. Maureen Orth, investigative journalist, was researching an article for Vanity Fair about the Miami Beach serial killer two days before Versace was brutally killed outside his mansion by Cunanan. Drawing on over 400 interviews and thousands of pages of police reports, Orth recounts in gripping detail how Cunanan became one of America's most notorious serial killers, evading the police and leaving his other victims’ families in disarray.

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