I Ain’t a-Marchin’ Anymore
….but Occupy Wall Street is currently en route to 740 Park, identified for their purposes as the home of David Koch. So what are Steve Schwarzman, John Thain, Ezra Merkin, Izzy Englander, David Ganek, Charles Stevenson, Steven Mnuchin, Thomas Tisch and Ronald Lauder–chopped liver?
Geffen calls “Bull*#!!” on Burkle claim
David Geffen comes out swinging at Unreal Estate in Frank DiGiacomo‘s Gatecrasher column in today’s Daily News. Responding to his neighbor Ron Burkle‘s suspicion that Geffen was a source for a notorious Vanity Fair profile of the supermarket mogul (whose Greenacres estate is one of the stars of the book, which will be out in […]
Unreal Redesign
Welcome to my newly updated web site, featuring my upcoming book, Unreal Estate, to be published November 1. Click the Unreal box just over there to the left to read about the book, meet its vast cast of characters, watch some of them in action, pore over various visual miscellany and pre-order a copy if […]
A 740 Park Correction (Though the Mistake Wasn’t Mine)
I got a Google alert this morning pointing towards a HuffPo piece by an Occidental College professor named Peter Dreier that claims the 740 Park Avenue duplex owned by Steven and Heather Mnuchin (above) was sold for a measly $9 million two years ago when the Mnuchins moved to LA after Steven took over a […]
Unreal Estate is “a juicy, breezily told social history of La La Land,” says Kirkus Reviews.
Kirkus Reviews, which bills itself the world’s toughest book critic, has issued an advance rave review of Unreal Estate. It says the book is “rich in incident and full of thwarted ambition, visionary zeal and conspicuous consumption [and] salacious gossip about [the] socially ambitious builders who forged such exclusive havens for the rich as Bel […]
You can’t bank on it
In Crain’s New York Business this week, I tell a tale of banking woe with a (somewhat) happy ending.
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“..brilliant, well researched and fascinating…”
So writes the Daily Fashion Report, the renegade fashion blog at the online fashion site lookonline, about the just re-released Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. “We highly recommend this book,” the review continues. “It is THE definitive work — an essential read for anyone interested in the unholy relationship between modeling agencies and […]
L.A. Lost and Found
In a great story on a simmering fight between tourists and NIMBY types over the Hollywood sign in today’s New York Times, Adam Nagourney calls Los Angeles “a city where so many landmarks and historical remnants have been torn down and replaced,” it’s become “a center of glamour and celebrity that, in truth, is not […]
Unreality Starts Here
Curbed LA, the real estate blog that covers the Southland, says Unreal Estate is “sure-to-be-juicy” in an item today revealing that the book will be launched at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills on November 9th and that I’ll be talking about and signing it at Book Soup on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood on […]