Mohamed Al Fayed, controversial chairman of Harrods, owner of
the Ritz hotel in Paris, and onetime front man for the Sultan of
Brunei, is battles the Tory party and the British upper class in his
desperate bid to be an Englishman.
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.
Original Publication: Vanity Fair – September, 1994. “You want to see me naked? You want to see my dirty underwear? Vitaly, bring in my dirty underwear!” Vladimir Zhirinovsky loves talking…
While 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.
Four months into his term, it seemed that Bill Clinton’s White House and official Washington spoke different languages, and the administration was sinking fast, lost in the translation. Enter David…
Maureen 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.