Dan Loeb hedges his bet
Noted without comment: Hedgie superstar Dan Loeb‘s email campaign (with fellow financier Barry Rosenstein) to banish a planned House of Outrageous Fortune book party from the building that’s the book’s subject, Fifteen Central Park West, failed on Monday. He backs off in Richard Johnson’s column in tomorrow’s New York Post, claiming through a spokesperson that […]
“Filled with inside stuff,” says David Patrick Columbia of New York Social Diary
Writing in today’s New York Social Diary, David Patrick Columbia says House of Outrageous Fortune is “filled with inside stuff on the people and their houses and their spouses and their louses. Michael is highly skilled at delivering what is called gossip by some, but most frequently fact (and eventually history) known by others-in-the-know. His […]
#HOOF has “the best dirt,” says New York Magazine
My favorite alma mater, New York Magazine, highlights some of the juicier tid-bits from House of Outrageous Fortune in this story by S. Jhoanna Robeldo. Meantime, the New York Post reports that investors in Sotheby’s are giving 15CPW’s chief resident party-pooper Daniel Loeb bad reviews.
Another rave review from the New York Times
“Michael Gross, America’s answer to Robin Leach, takes another gossip-laden bite out of the upper crust in his dishy ‘House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address’,” writes Sam Roberts in Sunday’s New York Times. “What’s remarkable is the degree of access Mr. Gross was granted or finagled, a reflection […]
“Required reading.” –The Hampton Sheet
“Michael Gross spares no details as he dishes the dirt in this real estate tell-all,” write Vicky Kelsey in the new issue of Hampton Sheet. “But 15CPW isn’t home to celebrities alone: The vast roster of inhabitants spans the entire globe, from Russian oligarchs and property magnates to top executives from Google, Citigroup, and Goldman […]
Airport guy seeks to fly from 15CPW with $4.6 million profit
One frustration in writing House of Outrageous Fortune was that it had too many wealthy apartment owners, and to make a readable book, I couldn’t name them all. Here’s an opportunity to name-check two of the missing. In what appears to be the first attempt to sell a Fifteen Central Park West apartment for the […]
The rich get richer…again
Citigroup founder and spiritual father of the Great Recession Sandy Weill has gone into contract to sell his servant’s apartment at 15 Central Park West for more than three times what he paid for it, writes Richard Johnson in tomorrow’s New York Post. He bought for less than a million–a substantial discount off the official […]
La Repubblica likes House of Outrageous Fortune–but not what it represents
Writing in Monday’s La Repubblica in Italy, about a book he jokingly retitled House of Exaggerated Fortunes, Angelo Aquaro wrote, “No, 15CPW is not the name of a robot from Star Wars, but when will we at last go to war against the stellar injustices of this land, when will we manage to defy–Ah, Hamlet!–‘The […]
Warming up to Dan Loeb
Finance blogs Business Insider and Valuewalk both pick up a Dan Loeb tid-bit from House of Outrageous Fortune today about how Loeb lost a fight with neighbor moms when he tried to keep the condo’s 75-foot-long swimming pool temperature on the chilly side. According to Page Six, Loeb (who refused repeated requests for an interview […]
Outrageous news: It’s a New York Times bestseller!
House of Outrageous Fortune comes on the New York Times bestseller list at #20 on April 6th.