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Michael Gross

New York, United States
As seen in: The New York Times, TIME, New York Post, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Travel + Leisure, AVENUE (New York, NY)
Covers:  Wealth, fashion, luxury, American history and culture, real estate.
Doesn't Cover: Celebrities needing fluffing.
Author of 740 Park, Model, House of Outrageous Fortune, and in November, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall and Future of America's Original Ruling Class

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Michael Gross’s Biography

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Author of three New York Times bestsellers, Michael Gross is recognized as one of America’s most provocative writers — “a premier chronicler of the rich,” in the words of Gay Talese. The late Dominick Dunne called his books “social history at its finest.” His specialty, deconstructing the most privileged lives and revealing the reality behind carefully constructed images, is well-suited to these skeptical times. He is the author of House of Outrageous Fortune, 740 Park and Model, as well as Rog…

Michael Gross’s Journalist Portfolio

Return to Bermuda: What's New on the Island

Return to Bermuda: What's New on the Island

It doesn't take long to get to Bermuda-it's only a 90-minute flight from the East Coast, less onerous than a …

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Inside the twisted, sexed-up childhood of Terry Richardson

Inside the twisted, sexed-up childhood of Terry Richardson

There are few more-controversial figures in fashion than Terry Richardson - a photographer as associated with…

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Hotel Safety in a New Age of Travel

Hotel Safety in a New Age of Travel

I had just booked a flight to Rome for Thanksgiving when terrorists attacked Paris. A few days later, the U.S…

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The Other Side of Paradise

The Other Side of Paradise

The best place on the Côte d'Azur has been debated since the southern French coast was so named in 1887, and …

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New York's First $100 Million Apartment is Coming Soon

New York's First $100 Million Apartment is Coming Soon

Forget the gated motor court, the private courtyard or the waterfall in the lobby and check out the dizzying …

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Michael Gross

Michael Gross

"Does not skimp on the gossipy goods. There are descents into madness, prolific drug use, orgies, blackmail p…

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How Jimmy Buffett — and a ragtag band of drug smugglers — helped turned St. Barth into celebrities’ hedonistic paradise Original

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By Michael Gross
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See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Although St. Barth has been known as a tropical playground for the rich and famous for several decades, it’s not so long ago that the Caribbean island was a scruffy, even rough corner of paradise attracting hard-living ex-pat dropouts who fancied themselves as modern pirates.
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Why Anna Wintour really decided to pull a power move and put herself on the cover of Vogue, alongside Meryl Streep Original

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By Michael Gross
| New York Post Verified
First off, let’s stipulate that editors-in-chief do not run their own photos on the covers of their publications. Let’s further stipulate that Dame Anna Wintour stepped down as the editor-in-chief of Vogue months ago, replaced by Chloe Malle, daughter of Candice Bergen and director Louis Malle. But Malle is not Vogue’s editor-in-chief, either. She’s got the mouthful title Head of Editorial Content. And Wintour’s two titles trump Malle’s one.
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Opinion | ‘Kill, Kill, Kill’: How to Wrestle With Death in Gaza Original

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By Michael Gross
| The New York Times Verified
Opinion|‘Kill, Kill, Kill’: How to Wrestle With Death in Gaza https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-killing-casualties.html Guest Essay Nov.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Crawdaddy mag record reviewer

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

For the worse.