Vulgar Favors

The inspiration for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the second season of FX's Emmy-winning FX series

"It will hook you from the first page and never let you go."  -  San Francisco Chronicle

Two months before Gianni Versace was murdered on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by Andrew Cunanan, award-winning journalist Maureen Orth was investigating a major story on the serial killer for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights from thousands of pages of police reports, Orth tells the complete story of Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed, hedonistic world in which they lived . . . and died. In fascinating detail, she reveals how Cunanan met his superstar victim, why police and the FBI repeatedly failed to catch Cunanan, and why other victims' families stonewalled the investigation, as well as the controversial findings of the Versace autopsy report. 

"[An] exhaustive deconstruction of Andrew Cunanan's five murders... The breadth and thoroughness of Orth's research are often staggering."  -  The New York Times

"Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth might be called the complete Cunanan... She [has] an indefatigable hunger to know everything."  -  Chicago Tribune