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The Fall and Rise and Then Fall Again of Jimmy Swaggart
In 1991, the California Highway Patrol stopped a white Jaguar in Indio for driving on the wrong side of the road. The driver's...


Ormond Gigli And The 'Girls In The Windows'
In 1960, Ormond Gigli was a freelance photographer working out of a studio on East 58th Street in Manhattan. Right across the road, at what's now 320 East 58th Street, stood an old Beaux Arts brownstone, empty and awaiting demolition. Gigli kept catching sight of it from his window, and the more he looked at it, the more one image stuck in his head: every window filled with a glamorous woman, right before the whole building came down. That image became Girls in the Windows, a


Behind the Façade: The Dark Descent of Barbara Daly Baekeland and her Son
From Vogue covers to a Chelsea penthouse murder: the remarkable rise and tragic fall of Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son Tony. A story of wealth, obsession and violence
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