On February 6th, 2018, Steve Wynn walked out of the company that bore his name for the last time. He was 76 years old, worth $3.1 billion, and responsible for transforming Las Vegas from a desert outpost into a global entertainment capital. Three weeks earlier, he had been untouchable. Now, he…
October 6th, 1984. A cold autumn night in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Jackie Kunan, the older brother of Westy’s boss, Jimmy Counan, walked out of the Skyline Motor Inn on 10th Avenue. He’d been drinking. He’d been talking. He’d been running his mouth to the wrong people for months. A car pulled up….
It’s a hot July afternoon in 1979 and the Dadeland Mall in Kendall just south of downtown Miami is packed with families doing their weekend shopping. A white Ford Econoline van rolled slowly through the parking lot. If anyone had looked closely, they would have noticed the handpainted signs on each side…
It’s 1984 in Miami and a woman is begging for her life inside a rundown bungalow in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. She’s pregnant. She’s on her knees and the men standing over her with automatic weapons don’t care. Minutes earlier, a Jamaican drug dealer had been robbed of his cash…
In vintage photographs of the Danish royal family from the late 19th century, you can spot faces that ruled literally half the world. The Queen of England, the Empress of Russia, the King of Greece… But if you look closely, standing in the shadow of her illustrious siblings, there is always another…
The Kennedys built an empire through marriage. But with every wedding, the shadow grew longer. From 1914 to today, their celebrations have been private because of something that happened over nine decades ago. Turning celebration into secrecy. To understand what happened, you need to go back to where it all started. Back…
Imagine unwrapping a piece of old parcel paper and finding inside it a pink diamond that once belonged to a French queen who was marched to the guillotine. That is exactly what happened when Christie’s experts were summoned to a private European home not knowing what they were about to see. The…
George V 6th died in his sleep at Sandringham in the early hours of February 6th, 1952. He was 56 years old. His left lung had been removed the previous September, a three-hour operation that had found the cancer already spreading to the right. For a man who had smoked heavily for…
Franklin Roosevelt never prepared Harry Truman for the presidency. Not because he forgot, not because he ran out of time, but because he believed with the certainty of a man who had already defied death once before that he would live long enough to finish what he started. He was wrong. And that single miscalculation…
Emmy Guring called herself the first lady of the Third Reich. She lived in a palace filled with 1,375 stolen masterpieces, wore gowns sewn by concentration camp prisoners, and draped herself in jewelry taken from murdered families. But when the Allies put her on trial after the war, they didn’t charge her…
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