Bestselling author Michael Gross brings us an exciting new non-fiction title that offers an exclusive insider’s look into the lives of not the 1%, nor the .1%, but the .01% of the world’s richest and most influential people, a majority of whom happen to call themselves…neighbors. Actors like Denzel Washington, musicians like Sting, hedge fund runners, Russian oligarchs, the heads of Citigroup, Google, Yahoo!, and more strive to call one building in Manhattan their home: Fifteen Central Park West. Fifteen CPW, the House of Outrageous Fortune, is their Mecca, their Pantheon, their Everest, the towering summit of their sometimes awesome, but as often awful, achievement.

Written in the style of Dominick Dunne and Christopher Andersen, the author brings the engrossing stories of this famed residence to the rest of us 99 percenters. Michael Gross was just feature in the Sunday edition of the New York Times. 

“Drawing on interviews with real-estate titans and power brokers, Gross provides a deliciously detailed and completely engaging look at how the 0.1 percent live in one building.”
—Booklist, starred review

“House of Outrageous Fortune pulls back the limestone curtain of 15 Central Park West to reveal seismic shifts in New York society and the astonishing lifestyle-without-limits of the new global elite. It’s a dishy—but not trashy—page-turner.”
—Barbara Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Group



Fifteen Central Park West, on the southwest corner of Manhattan’s Central Park, is more than an apartment building. It is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the 21st Century.

Granted unprecedented access to the Zeckendorfs, New York’s premier real estate dynasty, Gross offers a penetrating look at their billion-dollar development and into the mindset of its residents, today’s upper-crust. With its two concierge-staffed lobbies, walnut-lined library, screening room, sixty-seat dining room with a private chef offering room service, and subterranean health club, Fifteen Central Park West emerges as a character in itself—a towering Olympus for plutocrats whose power and excess stand as emblems of our age of extreme inequality.

Mixing glorious achievement, dubious power plays, and sordid decadence in a crackling good narrative, House of Outrageous Fortune is a jaw-dropping tour of a world most can barely imagine.

Michael Gross is one of America's most provocative non-fiction writers. A contributing editor of Travel Leisure and columnist for Avenue, he's written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Town & Country, the New York Times and New York, and authored twelve books--novels, biographies and social histories--among them, Unreal Estate, a social history of the estate district of Los Angeles, now in development as an HBO series, Rogues' Gallery, a history and expose of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the critically-acclaimed best-sellers Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women and 740 Park.

Below, please find more advance praise for HOUSE OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE. 

PRAISE FOR HOUSE OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE:

"Michael Gross has done it again! In intricate and revelatory detail, he shows how Fifteen Central Park West became the most famous and talked-about building in Manhattan: It's the people who live there, of course, and Gross gives us a front-row seat on their passions, their antics and why they want the very best money can buy."
-William D. Cohan, author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

"Both an incisive social commentary on our modern Gilded Age and an irresistible peek behind the walls of 15 Central Park West, otherwise known as "Limestone Jesus." With characteristic audacity and wit, Michael Gross has deftly chronicled the immense egos (and bank accounts) of the nouveau riche who reside at Manhattan's most coveted address."
-Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City and American Rose

"Want to understand what Occupy Wall Street was about? In House of Outrageous Fortune, Michael Gross explains it--and then some. With a rollicking, informative history of New York City, tales of mega real estate fortunes made and lost, and dizzying examples of the super-wealthy's greed and ostentation, Gross deftly traces the arc of America both socially and financially and proves that the top two percent most certainly do not live like you or I."
-Dana Thomas author of Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

"Michael Gross captures the phenomenon that is 15 Central Park West, where creative talent, towering ambition and unimaginable wealth instill a magical aura of glamour and romance not seen in a Gotham apartment house since the Gatsby era."
-Peter Pennoyer, Architect, author and chairman of The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art

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