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Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series. “The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”-The New York Times “Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”-Entertainment Weekly 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 for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports, Vulgar Favors tells 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 Favors is at once a masterwork of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way. Review “A fascinatingly detailed account.”-USA Today “It will hook you from the first page and never let you go.”-San Francisco Chronicle “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 . . . Orth tells this twisted story with grace and courage.”-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 “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 About the Author Maureen Orth’s award winning career began as one of the first women writers at Newsweek. Currently a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, she has profiled everyone from Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel to Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, and has researched and written groundbreaking pieces on Woody Allen and Michael Jackson, among others. Her far-ranging work not only includes the investigation of serial killer Andrew Cunanan but also a bestselling cover story for National Geographic on the Virgin Mary. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. PrologueThe phone rang about one A.M., and my husband sleepily caught the receiver.Is Maureen Orth there? Is this Maureen Orth, the writer? The male voice was insistent.Whos this?I want to discuss the article. A pause, then a click.It sounds like him, my husband told me.Who?The guy youre 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 one A.M. I was already booked on a morning plane to Miami to report the breaking story of Versaces 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. Whos calling? But the person on the other end thought better of it. The long-distance ba