Hamptons Babylon (Hardcover)

From Westhampton to Montauk, the towns, villages, and hamlets of Long Island's fabulous South Fork have become known as the Hamptons -- America's Riviera. The people who flock there every summer have made the Hamptons the world's wealthiest resort. From the earliest buds of spring to the last leaves of fall, the Hamptons are a magnet for old money and the nouveaux mega-riches, Hollywood stars, Wall Street titans, polo-playing princes, husband hunters, models on the make, artists, writers, musicians, and thousands of others who want to bask in reflected glamour.

Hamptons Babylon is the story of the underside of America's richest playground -- of greed, sex, drugs, and murder against a backdrop of conspicuous wealth and extraordinary ostentation. It is a peek through the hedges and over the walls to see the superrich at play. Among the highlights
-- The Hamptons childhood of Jackie Onassis -- how it shaped her entire life and left the future first lady irreparably scarred
-- The untold story of Marilyn Monroe's Hamptons love affair with a stranger and her tumultuous Hamptons summer with her husband, Arthur Miller
-- Why Nobel laureate John Steinbeck used his Hamptons home as headquarters for an ill-conceived campaign to promote the Vietnam War at the height of the antiwar movement
-- Truman Capote's pathetic last days in the Hamptons, ostracized by the people he betrayed
-- The shocking sex secrets of a Hamptons power couple whose marriage ended in murder
-- The Hamptons heiress who kept her murdered husband's body in the attic for months
-- The serial rapist who preyed on women in the Hamptons until he was captured by a bestselling author
-- The Hamptonsmillionaire who videotaped orgies in his mansion
-- The world's most exclusive school, built around the needs of a single pupil
-- The serial killer who used the Hamptons as a graveyard
-- And the private lives in the Hamptons of Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Steven Spielberg, Andy Warhol, Christie Brinkley, Billy Joel, Calvin Klein, Martha Stewart, Ron Perelman, Nora Ephron, and many, many others.

Hamptons Babylon will amuse, shock, and stun with its revelations.