Plutocrat Podcast
Last week, William D. Cohan interviewed me on covering the world of wealth in New York at a 92Y Talk. Here’s the podcast.
Pretty in Pink
Meet the HOT pink jacket of FOCUS in trade paperback, coming to bookstores and online booksellers on August 29th.
21st Century Rockefellers
The Rockefeller family’s enduring legacy, the subject of a feature story by Michael Kaplan in today’s New York Post, is also a prominent theme in 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery, two of my books. News-hooked on the recent death of David, the last surviving son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the only one to […]
Secrets of the City, Revealed
“One of our most provocative journalists, Michael Gross has cornered the market for insiders’ stories of the most bewitching and private worlds of the privileged, very rich, talented and beautiful,” says the 92nd Street Y, announcing my forthcoming appearance there on the night of June 12th, when I’ll engage in conversation with William D. Cohan, […]
Resolved to read Focus–Thanks Mitchell Kaplan!
Look above his right bicep!
Focus for the holidays
Looking for a holiday present? Focus is “smart, well researched and written with an insider’s eye… engaging and on point….canny,” (Kim France, New York Times Book Review), “delicious, sweeping, thoughtful” (The Daily Beast), “thoroughly absorbing…enthralling and riveting,” (Tim Gunn), “amazing… big, intelligent, exhaustively researched, lovingly written,” (Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune), “deep-diving …groundbreaking,” (DuJour), “sizzling…relentless,” (Hamptons […]
740 Park: The Comeback Begins
After an annus horribilus full of troubles, is 740 Park, subject of my 2005 book, once again New York’s Tower of Power? Consider this: Though his primary residence is California, Secretary of the Treasure-designate Steven Mnuchin remains the owner of a duplex there. And ten floors above him in a triplex penthouse lives the cooperative’s […]
A leak out of Focus: Dick Avedon’s double life
In his column today, Richard Johnson of the New York Post reports on the revelation in Focus that twice-married Richard Avedon, a major character in the book, was secretly bisexual. It’s but one of dozens of secrets spilled in the story of fashion photography’s glory years. What’s next? Stay tuned for more…
Are you down with RPP (Rich People’s Problems)?
I revisit 740 Park, the subject of my 2005 book, in “Fire, Floods, Theft: The Plagues of 740”, in today’s New York Post. All the story is missing is locusts. See if you can ID the frog in the lily pond. UPDATE: Mail Online picked up the story too.
Plague Days at 740 Park
After a devastating fire a few weeks ago, the world’s richest apartment building, 740 Park, is now being cloaked in 184 linear feet of sidewalk shed. Why? A source with detailed knowledge of the 1929 building’s woes says that after chunks of limestone fell from its facade last July, causing the FDNY to rush there, […]