Outrageous: USA Today’s hottest book of the week
USA Today’s Jocelyn McClurg just named House of Outrageous Fortune the hottest book of the week. Hope she’s right!
A second outrageous peek into 15CPW
Today’s New York Post opens the doors of Fifteen Central Park West–and the pages of House of Outrageous Fortune one more time before the book is published on Tuesday. This second exclusive preview includes tales of tipping, hedgie art collecting and decor, hooking up and the hushed-up theft of a painting from the home of […]
Looking west from Fifth Avenue
Avenue Magazine turned the Unreal Estate column over to Haley Friedlich this month for the first interview about House of Outrageous Fortune with its author, this blogger. You can read it here.
Liz Smith declares House of Outrageous Fortune “outrageous fun” and “journalistic excellence”
Liz Smith‘s gossip column, which is syndicated across the country (here it is in the Worcester Telegram) and appears daily on New York Social Diary, leads with House of Outrageous Fortune today. “Michael Gross is a delightful guy who has made the privacy-mad 1% of New York crazy because he investigates and tells their many […]
“A lot of fun and definitely worth a read,” says Curbed.
Over at Curbed, Jeremiah Budin links to yesterday’s New York Post excerpt about the man who got paid $17 million by the developers of the building they call Limestone Jesus and I call the House of Outrageous Fortune. The post appears under the rubric Lifestyles of the Rent Stabilized. “The whole thing is a lot […]
House of Outrageous Fortune event at Barnes & Noble
Please join Michael Gross at Barnes & Noble on March 13th at 7PM for the first talk and book signing for House of Outrageous Fortune. The store is located at 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street.
Take that, Putin! 15CPW’s scram scam is front page news
Herbert Sukenik, a genius and a recluse, was paid $17 million to move out of the Mayflower Hotel and make way for Fifteen Central Park West. His astonishing story is on the front page of today’s New York Post, in the first exclusive excerpt from House of Outrageous Fortune. UPDATE: The Mail Online has some […]
Fish Story
Long Key, a luxury fishing camp established on one of the Keys a hundred and five years ago by Henry Flagler, the father of Florida tourism, is the subject of a new book I reviewed in the latest issue of Alexa Luxe Living in the New York Post. I call the book “evocative archaeology, a […]
Correction
A sentence on page 321 of the first printing of House of Outrageous Fortune (to be published March 11) erroneously reports the performance of a Marathon Asset Management investment fund in 1998. The sentence says the fund was down 38 percent that year, its first in operation. It in fact ended that difficult year unchanged. […]
I’m “the Jackie Collins of real estate,” says the New York Times
“Michael Gross’s new book” on 15 Central Park West “packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building (202),” Penelope Green writes in today’s New York Times Home section. “The Jackie Collins of real estate,” she continues, “likes to map expressions of power, money and ego.” House of Outrageous Fortune “is […]