Michael Gross is the best-selling author of 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building, Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Lust, Lies, Greed and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women and other books. A Contributing Editor of Travel + Leisure he has also written for major publications around the world, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, Esquire and GQ. He lives in New York City.
""Unreal Estate . . . "might be best described as what would happen if "Us Weekly" and "Architectural Digest" had a love child that was much smarter than either. The book provides a panorama of what was going on inside some of the most frivolous, gated houses on a hill that have ever existed." -Alana Semuels, "Los Angeles Times"""Unreal Estate" has it all: movie stars, murders, strippers, pimps, playboys and Mafiosi alongside the founding members of Los Angeles society . . . The book is a great read." -"New York Social Diary""Murderers, lawyers, actors, pornographers, tycoons, and addicts . . . Fantasy and ambition, cheating and careless waste . . . Gross's research is meticulous. Hard to read. Harder to put down." -"Los Angeles Magazine""A juicy, breezily told social history of La La Land . . ." -"Kirkus ""A gripping picture of what made Los Angeles what it is today...In Unreal Estate, [Michael Gross] takes on the Western Frontier like a modern day cowboy -- seeking, searching and taking no prisoners." -Lucy Blodgett", The Huffington Post""Juicy cocktail-party anecdotes . . . fill "Unreal Estate." "-"Details""Scandal filled" -Degen Pener, "The Hollywood Reporter""Juicy" -"Curbed""Gross writes with an aficionado's zeal . . ." -"Publishers Weekly"
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