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Vulgar Favors. Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History PDF

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HIGH PRAISE FOR MAUREEN ORTH’S SENSATIONAL NATIONAL BESTSELLER VULGAR FAVORS “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.” —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 (South Florida) “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 Published by Dell Publishing a division of Random House, Inc. 1540 Broadway New York, New York 10036 Copyright © 1999 by Maureen Orth All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law. For information address: Delacorte Press, New York, New York. Dell® is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. eISBN: 978-0-30776661-8 Published simultaneously in Canada June 2000 v3.1 For Tim and for Luke and for my mother, who told me, “Any damn fool can write a book.” CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Prologue PART I Chapter 1. Mother Chapter 2. Childhood Chapter 3. Bishop’s Chapter 4. Pete Chapter 5. Berkeley Chapter 6. Capriccio Chapter 7. Hillcrest Chapter 8. Jeff Chapter 9. Crystal Chapter 10. Kept Boy Chapter 11. David Chapter 12. Breakup Chapter 13. Bad Manners Chapter 14. Unravel Chapter 15. Spinning Chapter 16. Good-bye PART II Chapter 17. Murder Chapter 18. Suspect Chapter 19. Chisago Chapter 20. Miglin Chapter 21. Minefield Chapter 22. Fatal Error Chapter 23. Whispers Chapter 24. Reese Chapter 25. The Lid Chapter 26. Cross-Purposes PART III Chapter 27. Escape Chapter 28. Underbelly Chapter 29. What’s Gay Got to Do with It? Chapter 30. The Secret Chapter 31. Most Wanted Chapter 32. Broad Daylight Chapter 33. King Kong Chapter 34. The Family Chapter 35. Miami Mishaps Chapter 36. Show Me the Money Chapter 37. The Rainbow Chapter 38. Profile and Prosecute Chapter 39. The Last Night of Carnival PART IV Chapter 40. Dead Is Dead Chapter 41. Echoes Acknowledgments About the Author Just look at the vulgar favors that give the crowds of the capital such delight.… Its amusements are insolent, obscene, clumsy and boorish.… You despise these lewd doings and yet you suffer them. —from the Richard Strauss opera Capriccio Prologue T 1 and my husband sleepily caught the receiver. HE PHONE RANG ABOUT A.M., “Is Maureen Orth there? Is this Maureen Orth, the writer?” The male voice was insistent. “Who’s this?” “I want to discuss the article.” A pause, then a click. “It sounds like him,” my husband told me. “Who?” “The guy you’re writing about.” “What? You mean Andrew Cunanan?” “Weird,” my husband said. Then he flopped over and went back to sleep. But by then I was wide awake. About ten days later, hours after Gianni Versace, the famed fashion designer and gay icon, was murdered, the phone rang again a little after 1 I was already booked on a morning plane to Miami to report the A.M. breaking story of Versace’s murder, because the number-one suspect was Andrew Cunanan. By then I had been reporting on Cunanan for nearly two months for Vanity Fair magazine—his favorite publication. I also had learned that he had met Versace several years earlier and that he was suspected of killing four other people, including his best friend and the only man he ever said he loved. “Hello. Is Maureen Orth there?” My husband recognized the same gay male voice. “Who’s calling?” But the person on the other end thought better of it. The long-distance background sound cut off abruptly. I will never know if I thereby lost the scoop of my life. Under any other circumstances, appearing in Vanity Fair would have been Andrew Cunanan’s dream come true. By then, however, in early July 1997, he was about to become the subject of one of the largest

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