Dominick Dunne Libri

Details the life of the former Hollywood producer and director turned author

Gus Bailey, the confidant of New York society, observes the social repercussions of socialite Justine Altemus's engagement to TV anchorman Bernie Slatkin and inadvertently precipitates a social explosion

The extraordinary testimony of OJ Simpson about the murder of his wife Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman that became an Oscar-winning Netflix series.

Gus Bailey, journalist to high society, knows the sordid secrets of the very rich. Now he turns his penetrating gaze to a courtroom in Los Angeles, witnessing the trial of the century unfold before his startled eyes. As the infamous case and characters begin to take shape, and a range of celebrities from Frank Sinatra to Heidi Fleiss share their own theories of the crime, Bailey bears witness to the ultimate perversion of principle and the most amazing gossip machine in Hollywood--all wrapped in a marvelous addictive true-to-life tale of love, rage, and ruin. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight. And in the end, she wants no more than what she was promised. But when Flo begins to share the true story of her life among the Mendelsons, not everyone is in a listening mood. And some cold shoulders have very sharp edges. ... --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

The definitive book of its kind, Vanity Fair's Hollywood is an incomparable collection of classic photographs, essays and caricatures depicting a century of Hollywood power, glamour, myth and mystery - directly from the pages of Vanity Fair, from 1914 to today. The brightest stars in Hollywood's firmament have been assembled in one volume: Garbo and Swanson, Gable and Grant, Tracy and Hepburn, Fairbanks and Pickford, Taylor and Burton - along with today's cinematic giants: Cruise and Kidman, Nicholson and Streep, De Niro and DiCaprio, Hanks and Roberts, and scores more. Vanity Fair's photographers - among them Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen and Bruce Weber - have helped to define modern portraiture. Likewise, Vanity Fair's stable of Hollywood writers in this volume includes luminaries of the past (P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy Parker and D.H. Lawrence) and of the present (Christopher Hitchens, Dominick Dunne, Amy Fine). Here, then, is a century's worth of stars and moguls, parties and scandals, power and glamour, through the unrivalled lens and the inimitable prose of Vanity Fair.

Der Selbstmord eines Freundes sorgt im Hause des Milliardärs Mendelson in Hollywood für Aufregung. Um grösseren Schaden von seiner Familie abzuwenden, verschleiert Mendelson die wahren Hintergründe

Pauline et Jules Mendelson vivent dans la société la plus huppée de Los Angeles. Leurs réceptions sont célèbres, leurs œuvres d'art enviées. Ils sont ce ceux que la richesse, les relations, le pouvoir politique et financier protègent. Alors, invulnérables ? Ils l'ont cru. En dépit des journalistes trop curieux et des petits malfrats à la solde des gros. En dépit de quelques sales affaires, tout près d'eux... Les mœurs et la corruption d'un milieu que l'auteur connaît bien - il fut durant vingt-cinq ans producteur de cinéma et de télévision à Hollywood - et où sa fille, actrice, fut assassinée en 1982.