Vulgar Favors The Assassination of Gianni Versace [Paperback]

Read the true story of the manhunt that inspiredThe Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the latest chapter of the acclaimed FX series.
 
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 forVanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports,Vulgar Favorstells 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 Favorsis at once a masterwork of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way.
 
“The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
 
“Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly“A fascinatingly detailed account.”—USA Today
 
“It will hook you from the first page and never let you go.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Vulgar Favorsby 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