Linda Wolfe

Double Life (eBook, ePUB)

The Shattering Affair between Chief Judge Sol Wachtler and Socialite Joy Silverman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A "spellbinding" account of the New York judge who was brought down by prescription drugs, sexual obsession, and a shocking criminal conviction (Ann Rule). He was the top justice of New York's highest court. She was a stunning socialite and his wife's step-cousin. In 1993 Sol Wachtler was convicted of blackmail and extortion against Joy Silverman, his former mistress. How did a respected jurist and one of the most prominent men in America end up serving time in prison? Linda Wolfe starts at the beginning-from Wachtler's modest Brooklyn upbringing through his courtship and marriage to Joan Wolosoff, the only child of a wealthy real estate developer. Joy Fererh was three and a half when her father walked out. When she and Sol met, he was fifty-five and nearing the pinnacle of his legal career. She was a thirtysomething stay-at-home mother who, with Sol's help, made a career for herself as a Republican Party fundraiser. They kept their affair a secret-until an explosive mix of sex, power, betrayal, and prescription-drug abuse set the stage for the tabloid headlines of the decade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497648869
• Artikelnr.: 44361603

Autorenporträt

Linda Wolfe (1932-2020) was the author of five true crime books: The Professor and the Prostitute and Other True Tales of Murder and Madness, Love Me to Death, Double Life, The Murder of Dr. Chapman,and Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder, an Edgar Award nominee and aNew York TimesNotable Book. She was also the author of My Daughter, Myself, a memoir; The Literary Gourmet, a classic cookbook; and Private Practices, a novel.Wolfe's articles and essays appeared in a wide variety of magazines, among them Vanity Fair, the New York TimesMagazine, and New Yorkmagazine, of which she was a contributing editor.