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The inspiration for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the third season of FX's Emmy-winning FX series Two months before Andrew Cunanan murdered Gianni Versace on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion, Maureen Orth was investigating a major story on the serial killer for Vanity Fair. Now the award-winning journalist tells the complete story of Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed, hedonistic world in which they lived and died, culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and details from thousands of pages of police reports. In chilling detail, Maureen Orth reveals how Andrew Cunanan met his superstar victim why police and the FBI repeatedly failed to catch Cunanan why other victims' families stonewalled the investigation controversial findings of the Versace autopsy report and more. Here is a late-century odyssey that races across America from California's wealthy gay underworld to modest midwestern homes of families mourning their slaughtered sons to the celebration of decadence that is Versace's South Beach. It is at once a landmark work of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his savage crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way. Praise for Vulgar Favors "[An] exhaustive deconstruction of Andrew Cunanan's five murders . . . The breadth and thoroughness of Orth's research are often staggering."The New York Times "Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail . . . paints a disturbing picture."Entertainment Weekly "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