How the Very Rich Really Live, From Billionaires' Row to Lauren Sánchez Bezos
Back Row with Amy OdellShow Notes
Amy Chozick has spent her career writing about polarizing women — she covered Hillary Clinton for The New York Times, profiled Elizabeth Holmes right before prison, followed Stormy Daniels for Vogue, and wrote the widely dissected profile of Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
Her new novel, With Friends Like You (https://amzn.to/4yjRlvI), follows Emily, a broke new mom in Manhattan, who goes looking for the college friend who vanished — and finds her working as a high-end escort to billionaires.
To write the book, she researched the world of the ultra-rich obsessively. She also reveals what surprised her about Lauren Sánchez Bezos, discusses the detail everyone rehashed from that profile, and more.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
02:00 A new mother, a missing friend, and a billionaire's escort
4:00 Billionaires' Row and the empty towers
13:00 Covering Hillary Clinton, and what power does to people
17:00 Profiling Lauren Sánchez Bezos
23:00 "They stopped apologizing" — the new rich
30:00 Hillary's suits, Lauren's taped-up Vogue pages
41:00 Is fashion getting tackier?
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