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The Astor Trial So Far: High Society, Low Class

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 26, 2009 10:56 PM CDT

(Newser) – Meryl Gordon has a plum seat at the so-called Brooke Astor trial, in which her son, Anthony Marshall, stands accused of thievery. Complete with the crème de la crème of New York society recounting terrible things and scathing Astorisms, Gordon writes in Vanity ... Read full story »

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