Fatal charms and other tales of today

Dominick Dunne has met them all - stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty - and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers - and the people who pretend to be.