WATCH: Author Michael Gross on billionaire playground St. Barts
For an island that doesn’t even span 10 square miles, St. Barts has taken on an outsized importance in the world of luxury living. It’s what Michael Gross — bestselling author and “premier chronicler of the rich and the jet set” — writes about in his new book “Treasured Island: St. Barts and Its Barbarians, Billionaires, and Beauties.” Gross sat down with The Real Deal’s Amir Korangy for our latest Coffee Talk to discuss all things about his book and St. Barts. Gross walks Korangy through the origins of St. Barts as a hideaway for the elite, including David Rockefeller, […]
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