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Vulgar Favors

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

The Hunt for Andrew Cunanan, the Man Who Killed Gianni Versace

The Hunt for Andrew Cunanan, the Man Who Killed Gianni Versace

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

By Maureen Orth

By Maureen Orth

By Maureen Orth

By Maureen Orth

By Maureen Orth

By Maureen Orth

By Maureen Orth
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By Maureen Orth
Read by Dan Woren and Maureen Orth

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    About Vulgar Favors

    Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
     
    “The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
     
    “Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

    On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot and killed on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But months before Versace’s murder, award-winning journalist Maureen Orth was already investigating a major story on Cunanan for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports, Vulgar Favors tells the complete story of Andrew Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed world in which they lived . . . and died.

    Orth reveals how Cunanan met Versace, and why police and the FBI repeatedly failed to catch him. Here is a gripping odyssey that races across America—from California’s wealthy gay underworld to modest Midwestern homes of families mourning the loss of their sons to South Beach and its unapologetic decadence. Vulgar Favors is at once a masterwork of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way.

    About Vulgar Favors

    Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
     
    “The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
     
    “Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

    On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot and killed on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But months before Versace’s murder, award-winning journalist Maureen Orth was already investigating a major story on Cunanan for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports, Vulgar Favors tells the complete story of Andrew Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed world in which they lived . . . and died.

    Orth reveals how Cunanan met Versace, and why police and the FBI repeatedly failed to catch him. Here is a gripping odyssey that races across America—from California’s wealthy gay underworld to modest Midwestern homes of families mourning the loss of their sons to South Beach and its unapologetic decadence. Vulgar Favors is at once a masterwork of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way.

    About Vulgar Favors

    Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
     
    “The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
     
    “Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

    On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot and killed on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But months before Versace’s murder, award-winning journalist Maureen Orth was already investigating a major story on Cunanan for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports, Vulgar Favors tells the complete story of Andrew Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed world in which they lived . . . and died.

    Orth reveals how Cunanan met Versace, and why police and the FBI repeatedly failed to catch him. Here is a gripping odyssey that races across America—from California’s wealthy gay underworld to modest Midwestern homes of families mourning the loss of their sons to South Beach and its unapologetic decadence. Vulgar Favors is at once a masterwork of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way.

    About Vulgar Favors

    Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
     
    “The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
     
    “Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

    On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot and killed on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But months before Versace’s murder, award-winning journalist Maureen Orth was already investigating a major story on Cunanan for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports, Vulgar Favors tells the complete story of Andrew Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed world in which they lived . . . and died.

    Orth reveals how Cunanan met Versace, and why police and the FBI repeatedly failed to catch him. Here is a gripping odyssey that races across America—from California’s wealthy gay underworld to modest Midwestern homes of families mourning the loss of their sons to South Beach and its unapologetic decadence. Vulgar Favors is at once a masterwork of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way.

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    About Maureen Orth

    Maureen Orth’s award-winning career began as one of the first women writers at Newsweek. Currently a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, she has profiled everyone from Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel to  Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, as well as… More about Maureen Orth

    About Maureen Orth

    Maureen Orth’s award-winning career began as one of the first women writers at Newsweek. Currently a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, she has profiled everyone from Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel to  Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, as well as… More about Maureen Orth

    About Maureen Orth

    Maureen Orth’s award-winning career began as one of the first women writers at Newsweek. Currently a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, she has profiled everyone from Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel to  Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, as well as… More about Maureen Orth

    About Maureen Orth

    Maureen Orth’s award-winning career began as one of the first women writers at Newsweek. Currently a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, she has profiled everyone from Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel to  Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, as well as… More about Maureen Orth

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 20th Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Bantam
    Oct 03, 2017 | 560 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385334358

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 20th Century U.S. History

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by Bantam
    Dec 05, 2017 | 560 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780525482574

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 20th Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Dell
    Oct 06, 2010 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780307766618

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 20th Century U.S. History | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 03, 2017 | 1088 Minutes | ISBN 9780525591979
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    Praise

    “A fascinatingly detailed account.”—USA Today
     
    “It will hook you from the first page and never let you go.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth might be called the complete Cunanan. . . . She [has] an indefatigable hunger to know everything.”—Chicago Tribune
     
    “A detailed page-turner.”—St. Paul Pioneer Press
     
    “An exceptionally good account of suspected serial killer Andrew Cunanan’s spree in 1997 . . . Orth tells this twisted story with grace and courage.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram
     
    “Orth has an inviting, readable style.”—Oakland Tribune
     
    “The definitive book on the July 15, 1997 murder of Versace.”—Sun-Sentinel
     
    “An exhilarating journalistic chronicle of Cunanan’s crime and flight . . . The book is charged with adrenaline and the pages just seem to turn themselves.”—Lesbian and Gay New York

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