Awaiting trial for murder in a Texas prison, real-estate scion Bobby Durst reaches out for support.

Despite all the gaffes, the good doctor hopes a strong voter turnout in Wisconsin will restore his street cred in New York.

As the shamelessly sexual Samantha on Sex and the City, Kim Cattrall is proving to a new generation of single women (and men) that bad girls don't always get punished. Just ask her husband.

Forget about those people she writes about—Liz Smith herself is the story. She's feuded (and made up) with Frank Sinatra; flirted with everyone from Warren Beatty to Norman Mailer; flacked for Liz Taylor, Barbara Walters, and Madonna; married a college-football star; and had her heart broken by a college girlfriend. So is she coming out? "Honey," she says, "I've never been in."

How the wife of a billionaire fugitive reinvented herself as a Grammy-nominated songwriter, peripatetic party girl, and first-class FOB. Lisa DePaulo on the second coming of Denise Rich.

On the longest election night in history, Steve Armistead is doing what he's always done: taking care of his childhood pal, Al Gore.

When Allen Myerson jumped from the fifteenth floor of the New York Times building, it wasn’t just the tragic end to a respected editor’s life. It was the beginning of a ferocious battle between his estranged wife and the sisters who accuse her of “murdering” him.

Camille Colvin would use any means to retrieve her son from her ex in China, but in the end, she just took matters into her own hands.

Writer Susan Berman, whose devoted circle of intimates included real-estate scion Bobby Durst, didn't discover her roots as a Mafia princess until a freewheeling stint at New York in the seventies. Her father died of natural causes, but she was murdered, gangland-style, in L.A. just before Christmas -- leaving questions worthy of one of her own mysteries.

In Tom King, David Geffen thought he'd found the perfect biographer: a young, openly gay rising star at the Wall Street Journal who promised him a "fair and accurate" book. But after he got a peek at The Operator, which hits stores this week, Geffen began complaining that he'd made a deal with the devil.