How Robert Moses Democratized the Metropolitan Museum of Art
‘THE DECADENCE OF MUSEUMS’The master planner, no populist, forced the museum to become more democratic, more entertaining, more popular, more representative of the community and more responsive to its needs
My Night With Jean-Luc Brunel and His Terrified Models
Dirty BusinessI don’t remember why I was in the nightclub Les Bains Douches that evening, but what happened there and afterward is a crystal-clear memory.
Inside Trump’s Parties: Attendees Recall Coke, Young Girls
‘So Much Fun’‘I was there to party myself. It was guys with younger girls, sex, a lot of sex, a lot of cocaine, top-shelf liquor’ but no smoking. Trump didn’t approve of cigarettes.
Trump Used Model Parties to Seal Deals, Industry Sources Say
Small-Time‘Marla is a good girl, and I had a good marriage with her, but it’s just that I get f*ckin’ bored,’ Trump told me. ‘One of those little things.’
Is This the Death of Luxury Fashion?
RICHES TO RAGSBig-name high-end brands like Burberry, Prada, and LVMH are in difficult financial times: The public simply doesn’t covet their once-desirable labels as much as it used to.
How Trump Built NYC’s Crass Luxury Hell
Drumptown!Trump envisioned and created today’s city of white boxes for rootless new money types, who dominate the city even as they leave little mark here.
The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of an American Heiress
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRLHeiress Huguette Clark disappeared for decades into her vast estates, strange obsessions, and years in New York hospitals. Michael Gross on a new book that tells her full story.
‘The Boom of Doom’
FlaccidAuthor Michael Gross had to be evacuated when Hurricane Sandy toppled the crane above luxury skyscraper One57.
Behind the Tawdry Brooke Astor Affair
GRANDES DAMESNew York high society has reasserted itself in the tawdry battle for Astor's millions.