Picture this. The year is 2015. A foreign billionaire stands on the Las Vegas strip, points at a patch of dirt, and tells the world he is going to build the most expensive, most exclusive, most jaw-dropping casino resort in the history of this city. The press goes wild. Vegas goes wild. Everyone goes…
July 4th, 1857. 9:00 at night. Lower Manhattan is on fire. Not from fireworks, from war. A thousand men are tearing each other apart across six city blocks. Bricks rain down from rooftops. Paving stones the size of a man’s skull crash through windows. Pistol shots crack through the smoke. On Bayard Street, barricades…
February 25th, 1855. Stanwix Hall, a saloon on Broadway near Prince Street, Manhattan. >> [snorts] >> A man named Louis Baker walked through the door with a pistol tucked in his coat. Inside, William Poole, the most feared nativist brawler in New York City, was drinking. Baker raised the gun and fired. One bullet…
Your father did business with Hyman Roth, your father respected Hyman Roth, but your father never trusted Hyman Roth. This warning comes from Frank Pentangeli, one of Michael Corleone’s most loyal captains, and Michael ignores it completely. Weeks later, machine gun fire rips through Michael’s bedroom. …
March 9th, 1997, 12:30 in the morning. A dark Chevrolet Impala rolls up next to a green Suburban stopped at a red light on Wilshire Boulevard 50 yards from the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The driver is wearing a blue suit and a bow tie. He lowers the window, draws a 9…
Not the DC Metropolitan Police, not the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, not the rival drug crews who put prices on his head, not the Italian mobsters he extorted in Georgetown. None of them could touch him. For 3 years, one man turned Washington, D.C. into his personal hunting ground, operating in broad daylight, walking…
A chef lost her job after four words. A chief usher who had served multiple American presidents said he had never encountered anyone who could impose their will on an entire building full of people without a single one of those people knowing it was being done to them. A social secretary described a…
The unseen jewelry moments of Princess Diana. The jewels never worn again. Everyone thinks they know Diana’s jewels. The sapphire ring. The lovers not tiara. The pieces that made headlines and filled gallery walls. But there is another collection, quieter, stranger, more personal that history has almost completely forgotten. These are the jewels Diana…
There’s a version of Catherine Oxenberg’s story that sounds like a fairy tale. Royal blood, Dynasty, diamonds, Joan Collins on the screen next to you, 100 million viewers watching every week. And then there’s the actual story. The one where the royalty came without a country. The fame came without staying power. And the…
There’s a photograph from 1966. Grace Kelly stands in the gardens of Monaco with her three children gathered around her. Caroline, the eldest at nine, looks directly at the camera with an almost knowing expression. 8-year-old Albert squints in the Mediterranean sun. And little Stephanie, barely a year old, sits in her mother’s arms….
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