Vulgar Favors

Award-winning journalist Maureen Orth's *Vulgar Favors* offers the definitive true story of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, whose cross-country murder spree culminated in the 1997 assassination of fashion icon Gianni Versace. Months before the high-profile killing, Orth was already investigating Cunanan for *Vanity Fair*. Drawing on over four hundred interviews and thousands of pages of police reports, this meticulously researched account traces Cunanan’s descent, from California's wealthy gay underworld to the unassuming Midwestern homes of his victims, and finally to Miami's decadent South Beach. Orth reveals Cunanan’s connection to Versace and uncovers the repeated failures by police and the FBI to catch him. A gripping work of investigative journalism, *Vulgar Favors* is the compelling narrative that inspired *The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story*, providing a chilling look into the mind of a sociopath and the mysteries surrounding his crimes.

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