Dominick Dunne has met them all -- stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty -- and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers -- and the people who pretend to be

Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bulow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man...what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president...why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob...and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed

Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets -- and now those secrets are out

A Word on a Late Start -- Justice: A Father's Account of the Trial of His Daughter's Killer -- Woman Who Knew Too Little -- Candy's Dynasty -- Imelda in Exile -- Beverly Hills Coup -- Lazarama -- Mortimer's Bunch -- Women of Palm Beach -- Ava Now -- Hide-and-Seek with Diane Keaton -- Red Queen -- Gloria's Euphoria -- Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bulow -- Introduction -- Nightmare on Elm Drive -- Queens of the Road -- Teardown High Roller: The Phyllis McGuire Story -- Social Death in Venice -- Khashoggi's Fall: A Crash in the Limo Lane -- Memento Mori -- Passion of Baron Thyssen -- Jane's Turn -- It's a Family Affair -- Grandiosity: The Fall of Roberto Polo -- Danse Macabre: The Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys -- Windsor Epilogue -- Robert Mapplethorpe's Proud Finale -- Light of Hussein -- Paris When It Sizzles -- Three Faces of Evil