Aug. 2, 2011

Editor’s Note on Photo Credits

New York Magazine acknowledges that photographs of attorney William Unroch with his girlfriend, Avarell Maximilia Cordero, previously published by nymag.com in five different postings in 2007 and 2008, should have been credited © Robert Kalfus 2007.

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