Contents

Cast of Characters

Preface

1. The Lawyer from Lawndale

2. From Lawndale to the Seneca . . . to the Underworld

3. Birds of a Feather

4. Kaddish for California

5. The Future Is in Real Estate

6. "Hell, That's What You Had to Do in Those Days to Get By"

7. Scenes from Hollywood, Part One

8. Jimmy, Bobby, and Sidney

9. Forty Years in the Desert

10. The Kingmakers: Paul, Lew, and Ronnie in California

11. The New Frontier

12. Bistro Days

13. "He Could Never Walk Away from Those People"

14. Scenes from Hollywood, Part Two

15. "A Sunny Place for Shady People"

16. Coming Under Attack

17. From Hoffa to Hollywood

18. From Dutch Sandwiches to Dutch Reagan

19. Airing Dirty Laundry and Laundering Dirty Money

20. Pursued by the Fourth Estate

21. The True Untouchables

22. Legacies

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Supermob Investments

Appendix B: Pritzker Holdings

Appendix C: Ziffren-Greenberg-Genis Documents

Notes

Bibliography