California congressman Michael Huffington is a man of no apparent convictions, except one: that he deserves to be president of the United States. But first the multimillionaire Republican is running for the Senate. Pulling the strings is his wife, socialite Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the controversial author and New Age minister, who has a mysterious agenda of her own. The author lifts the curtain on their own private Oz.
Read moreWhile Michael Jackson was whisked away to detox treatment, the star’s lawyers fought a desperate battle to protect him from facing the sexual-abuse charges brought by his 13-year-old accuser. The author untangles the whole painful story to provide the definitive account of Jackson’s fall, and in it finds a late-20th-century parable of manipulation, corrupted fantasy, and lost innocence.
Read moreMaureen Orth got the queen mother of rock ‘n’ roll to level about how bad things once were and how good they are now. She also got an earful from Ike.
Read moreA family cringes as father and son wage a bitter, public battle of wills. The father is E. Newbold Smith, who married a du Pont; the son is Lewis du Pont Smith, who took his own vows with the radical Lyndon LaRouche. Newbold had Lewis declared incompetent to manage his $10 million estate, then allegedly recruited a motley crew of accomplices to “snatch” him. The author spoke to both men and found that beneath the accusations is an odd kind of love.
Read moreWhatever you already know about this tangled and painful situation, you’ve only heard half: the case against Mia Farrow. This is the other half and it isn’t any prettier. It concerns Woody Allen’s behavior and what it has done to Mia Farrow and the 11 children involved. The author breaks new ground on one of the year’s most shocking stories.
Read moreSex, Madonna’s shocking new book of erotic photos, is about to make taboo something chic for the 90s. On the eve of the controversial book’s publication, the star gave our author an advance peek.
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