The Nine Lives of ‘Fat Cat’
The Nine Lives of ‘Fat Cat’ Vanity Fair, April 1991 One of New York’s most ruthless drug warlords, Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols even called the shots from behind bars—ordering hits on a childhood buddy and the mother of his son. But a murder he didn’t commit finally destroyed his empire. Then the Cat turned canary. FREDRIC DANNEN […]
Sins of the City
SINS OF THE CITY Vanity Fair, September, 1990 Alexander DiLorenzo III, the reclusive ex-hippie who owns forty-two acres of Manhattan, is the unlikely slumlord of the Happy Land death trap. _______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN ON THE NIGHT of March 25, 1990, Lydia Feliciano, a woman who checked coats and occasionally bartended at the Happy Land social club […]