Jen's Place--Author: Judith Krantz

Judith Krantz was born and raised in New York City and is a graduate of Wellesley College. She began her career as a fashion editor and magazine article writer. She and her husband, movie and television producer Steve Krantz, live in Bel Air and Newport Beach, California. They have two sons, Nicholas and Tony as well as several grandchildren. Almost all of her books have been made into major television miniseries.

"The Jewels of Tessa Kent"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1998, HC
Reviewed on 5/6/01

Tessa Kent, an exquisite and precocious fourteen, gives birth to an illegitimate dughter. Her parents, devout Catholics, raise the infant, Maggie, as their own child. At sixteen Tessa is discovered by Hollywood; by nineteen she's and international movie star. Maggie lives for her glorious "sister's" infrequent whirlwind visits. Maggie is a captivating, independent eighteen when she accidently learns the truth. Mortally wounded, she breaks all ties with Tessa and starts to work at the famed Manhattan auction house of Scott & Scott. Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa passionately determined to end this estrangement. An auction is the only way she can find to reach her daughter, an auction of teh immensely valuable collection of famed jewels that represent all the love lavished on her by her late husband. Tessa promises Scott & Scott the auction on the condition that Maggie and she work closely together on the sale. For Tessa, her entire future now hangs on teh hope of an almost impossible reconciliation.
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"Spring Collection"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996, HC
Reviewed on 5/6/01

Everyone in the fashion world has been impatiently waiting to learn the names of the three American unknowns who will star in the debut collection of designer Marco Lombardi. No one is more anxious than Frankie Severino, second-in-command at best friend Justine Loring's modeling agency. Not only will the winner recieve a $12 million contract to represent Lombardi's couture house but the agency that represents them will become the hottest in town. When the names are announced, Frankie is stunned - all are under contract to Justine Loring. This inexplicable stroke of good luck forces Justine to admit that it's no accident. Jaques Necker - the man launching Lombardi - is her father. Having deserted her mother before she was born, Justine has refused to meet him and the contest is his attempt to force a meeting. Determined not to play his game, Justine sends Frankie to caperone the models in her place. The three lucky models chosen are April Nyquist, Jordan Dancer, Tinker Osburn. Spending two weeks in Paris, Frankie and the girls get ready to face a runway show where they'll work with the world's top models. Under the magical spell of Paris, all of them become restless, rebellious and wildly romantic. Meanwhile, Justine undergoes a surprisin transformation that finally leads her to confront for father.
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"Till We Meet Again"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988, HC
Reviewed on 5/6/01

Eve dared to bring endless scandal upon herself when she ran away from her conventional home to live in unrepentant sin; to win stardom singing at the leading music hall in paris; to risk her life at the front during World War I; to marry the Vicomte Paul de Lancel, a high-ranking diplomat, and to become the greatest lady of Champagne. Freddy dared to defy her outraged parents and learn to fly in secret; to solo on her sixteenth birthday; to compete fearlessly in air races against the greatest pilots of the late 1930s; to fly for England during six years of World War II; to challenge a Messerschmitt in a unarmed Spitfire; to build a great aviation company in California; to love deeply and lose as gallantly as she won; to discover what lay beyond the horizon. Delphine dared to live a secret life of wild nightclubbing and illegal gambaling when Hollywood was at its memorable height; to make a screen test on a whim and become a famous movie star before her eighteenth birthday; to remain in Occupied France during the war because of her enduring love for the one man she could never impress - or forget. Follow these women throughout their remarkable lives and loves.
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"Scruples" Trilogy 1. "Scruples"
2. "Scruples Two"
3. "Lovers"

"Scruples"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978, HC
Reviewed on 5/6/01

Played out against the opulence of Beverly Hills, the elegance of Paris, the ruthless worlds of high fashion and international movie-making, this is the story of Billy Winthrop Ikehorn and her metamorphosis into one of the world's most desirable women. Once she had been the desperately unhappy and unattractive daughter of a reclusive doctor, the "poor relation" in an aristocratic Boston family. Now, she was beautiful, glamorous, and sought after... and she gloried init. Unleashing her long-pent-up passion, Billy moved from one man to the next until she found Ellis Ikehorn, nearly forty years her senior and ruler of a vast industrial empire. At their villa on the French Riviera, their apartment in Paris, or their vineyard estate in California, Billy learned to forget the pain of her past. After five ecstatic years, Billy was alone once more. To fill the growing, dreadful void, she created Scruples, a playland specialty shop where the rich could indulge their most lavish desires. For some, Scruples was the beginning of a dream come true - for Billy, it was the first step toward finding her real self and her desires.

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"Scruples Two"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992, HC
Reviewed on 5/6/01

Picking up in 1978 with a pregnant Billy Ikehorn Orsini the night after her new husband, Italian producer Vito, wins the Oscar (but, of course). Billy's marital bliss lasts a nanosecond before Vito cheats, she miscarries, they divorce, and Billy once again is glamorously jet-setting to New York, Hong Kong, Paris, wherever, opening namesakes of her famous boutique worldwide. We're reacquainted with the old gang, especially partners Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill. And meet Billy's new and ever widening circle, which now places her teenage stepdaughter Gigi right in the center and ripe for picking. Billy continues to pour her passionate energy into projects - her stores, Gigi, a mansion, and a double life with sculptor Sam Jamison in Paris, and - ultimately - a mail-order boutique called Scruples Two. Meanwhile, tragedies strike, loves are won and lost, loyalties betrayed, backs bitten, and sex - always hot and sometimes kinky - is had by almost all.

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"Lovers"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1994, HC
Reviewed on 5/6/01
Lovers
It's 1983 and Gigi Orsini begins her first day on the job as a copywriter at the advertising agency of Frost/Rourke/Bernheim in Los Angeles. Gigi works with David Melville, a tenderly seductive young art director who has been appointed her creative "teammate" by the two humorous and talented bachelors, Archie Rourke and Byron Berheim, who head the agency. The third partner, Victoria Frost, is a severe beauty with an intensely secret life. Her enmity toward Gigi never dies. Daughter of Millicent Frost Caldwell, the grande dame of American advertising, Victoria is a powerful adversary who cannot be ignored. Billy Winthrop Ikehorn Orsini Elliot and her husband, Spider Elliot, are busy with their twin babies adn the painful problems of their marriage. Gigi's canny father, the movie producer Vito Orsini, is more involved then ever in his multiple intrigues, and her best friend, Sasha Nevsky, is up to ravishingly lofty eyebrows in trouble.
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"Dazzle"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990, HC
Reviewed on 5/6/01
Dazzle
At twenty-nine, Jazz Kilkullen is at the top of her game. Her career as a celebrity photographer has made her as famous as some of her clients. Dazzle, the Venice Beach business she owns with two male partners, is hugely successful. And her love life is never dull. But when her father is killed in a helicopter crash, Jazz must return home to Kilkullen Ranch, a cattle ranch on the coast. There she learns that she and her two half-sisters, one a worldly New York interior decorator, the other a five-times-married socialite, have inherited a heritage worth over three billion dollars. While Jazz retains ownership of the ranchhouse. Devasted by her father's death, Jazz tries to get along with her sisters so that they can come up with some kind of plan for the ranch. Her sisters, with their mother's urging, are determined to sell all the land to be developed. Knowing that her father would never have wanted this done, Jazz must somehow come up with somekind of solution. In the midst of all this termoil Jazz also finds a love that will complete like nothing ever has.
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"Mistral's Daughter"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1982
Reviewed on 5/10/01

They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, bred to success, bound to a single extraordinary man - Julien Mistral, the painter, the genius, the lover whose passions had seared them all. Maggy: Flamboyant mistress of Mistral's youth, the toast of Paris in the '20s. Her luminous flesh was immortalized in the paintings that made Mistral legendary. Teddy: Maggy's daughter, the incomparable cover girl who lived fast and left as her legacy Mistral's dazzling love child. Fauve: Mistral's daughter, the headstrong, fearless glory girl whose one dark secret drove her to rule the world of high fashion and to risk everything in a feverish search for love. From the '20s Paris of Chanel, Colette, Picasso and Matisse to New York's sizzling new modeling agencies of the '50s, to the model ward of the '70s, follow the explosive glamour of life at the top of the worlds of art and high fashion.
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"Princess Daisy"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980
Reviewed on 5/10/01

She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy. She was a blonde beauty living in a world of aristocrats and countless wealthy. Her father was a prince, a Russian nobleman. Her mother was an American movie goddess. Men desired her. Women envied her. Daisy's life was a fairy tale filled with parties and balls, priceless jewels, money and love. Then, suddenly, the fairy tale ended. And Princess Daisy had to start again, with nothing--except the secret she guarded from the day she was born.
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"I'll Take Manhattan"
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1986
Reviewed on 5/10/01

Gorgeous, flamboyant Maxi Amberville is twenty-nine and has already discarded three husbands on two continents. Life is a stream of endless pleasure in her lavish Trump Tower apartment - until her widowed mother married a man who plots to sell her father's magazine empire. And Maxi turns her incredible lust for living into a passionate quest for power. Maxi takes over the small weekly Buttons And Bows. She gathers her hot-blooded ex-husband, sassy daughter and a coterie of the powerful elite. Then, risking all, Maxi creates B&B - the glitziest, ritziest, most successful fashion magazine in the country. Here is a dramatic, sizzling story of love, family, ambition and one unforgettable woman who gives life and love everything she has.
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"The Jewels of Tessa Kent" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1998, HC Reviewed on 5/6/01
		Tessa Kent, an exquisite and precocious fourteen, gives birth to an illegitimate dughter. Her parents, devout Catholics, raise the infant, Maggie, as their own child. At sixteen Tessa is discovered by Hollywood; by nineteen she's and international movie star. Maggie lives for her glorious "sister's" infrequent whirlwind visits. Maggie is a captivating, independent eighteen when she accidently learns the truth. Mortally wounded, she breaks all ties with Tessa and starts to work at the famed Manhattan auction house of Scott & Scott. Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa passionately determined to end this estrangement. An auction is the only way she can find to reach her daughter, an auction of teh immensely valuable collection of famed jewels that represent all the love lavished on her by her late husband. Tessa promises Scott & Scott the auction on the condition that Maggie and she work closely together on the sale. For Tessa, her entire future now hangs on teh hope of an almost impossible reconciliation.
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"Spring Collection" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996, HC Reviewed on 5/6/01
		Everyone in the fashion world has been impatiently waiting to learn the names of the three American unknowns who will star in the debut collection of designer Marco Lombardi. No one is more anxious than Frankie Severino, second-in-command at best friend Justine Loring's modeling agency. Not only will the winner recieve a $12 million contract to represent Lombardi's couture house but the agency that represents them will become the hottest in town. When the names are announced, Frankie is stunned - all are under contract to Justine Loring. This inexplicable stroke of good luck forces Justine to admit that it's no accident. Jaques Necker - the man launching Lombardi - is her father. Having deserted her mother before she was born, Justine has refused to meet him and the contest is his attempt to force a meeting. Determined not to play his game, Justine sends Frankie to caperone the models in her place. The three lucky models chosen are April Nyquist, Jordan Dancer, Tinker Osburn. Spending two weeks in Paris, Frankie and the girls get ready to face a runway show where they'll work with the world's top models. Under the magical spell of Paris, all of them become restless, rebellious and wildly romantic. Meanwhile, Justine undergoes a surprisin transformation that finally leads her to confront for father.
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"Till We Meet Again" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988, HC Reviewed on 5/6/01
		Eve dared to bring endless scandal upon herself when she ran away from her conventional home to live in unrepentant sin; to win stardom singing at the leading music hall in paris; to risk her life at the front during World War I; to marry the Vicomte Paul de Lancel, a high-ranking diplomat, and to become the greatest lady of Champagne. Freddy dared to defy her outraged parents and learn to fly in secret; to solo on her sixteenth birthday; to compete fearlessly in air races against the greatest pilots of the late 1930s; to fly for England during six years of World War II; to challenge a Messerschmitt in a unarmed Spitfire; to build a great aviation company in California; to love deeply and lose as gallantly as she won; to discover what lay beyond the horizon. Delphine dared to live a secret life of wild nightclubbing and illegal gambaling when Hollywood was at its memorable height; to make a screen test on a whim and become a famous movie star before her eighteenth birthday; to remain in Occupied France during the war because of her enduring love for the one man she could never impress - or forget. Follow these women throughout their remarkable lives and loves.
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"Scruples" Trilogy		1. "Scruples"
		2. "Scruples Two"
		3. "Lovers"

"Scruples" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978, HC Reviewed on 5/6/01
		Played out against the opulence of Beverly Hills, the elegance of Paris, the ruthless worlds of high fashion and international movie-making, this is the story of Billy Winthrop Ikehorn and her metamorphosis into one of the world's most desirable women. Once she had been the desperately unhappy and unattractive daughter of a reclusive doctor, the "poor relation" in an aristocratic Boston family. Now, she was beautiful, glamorous, and sought after... and she gloried init. Unleashing her long-pent-up passion, Billy moved from one man to the next until she found Ellis Ikehorn, nearly forty years her senior and ruler of a vast industrial empire. At their villa on the French Riviera, their apartment in Paris, or their vineyard estate in California, Billy learned to forget the pain of her past. After five ecstatic years, Billy was alone once more. To fill the growing, dreadful void, she created Scruples, a playland specialty shop where the rich could indulge their most lavish desires. For some, Scruples was the beginning of a dream come true - for Billy, it was the first step toward finding her real self and her desires.

"Scruples Two" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992, HC Reviewed on 5/6/01
		Picking up in 1978 with a pregnant Billy Ikehorn Orsini the night after her new husband, Italian producer Vito, wins the Oscar (but, of course). Billy's marital bliss lasts a nanosecond before Vito cheats, she miscarries, they divorce, and Billy once again is glamorously jet-setting to New York, Hong Kong, Paris, wherever, opening namesakes of her famous boutique worldwide. We're reacquainted with the old gang, especially partners Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill. And meet Billy's new and ever widening circle, which now places her teenage stepdaughter Gigi right in the center and ripe for picking. Billy continues to pour her passionate energy into projects - her stores, Gigi, a mansion, and a double life with sculptor Sam Jamison in Paris, and - ultimately - a mail-order boutique called Scruples Two. Meanwhile, tragedies strike, loves are won and lost, loyalties betrayed, backs bitten, and sex - always hot and sometimes kinky - is had by almost all.

"Lovers" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1994, HC Reviewed on 5/6/01
		It's 1983 and Gigi Orsini begins her first day on the job as a copywriter at the advertising agency of Frost/Rourke/Bernheim in Los Angeles. Gigi works with David Melville, a tenderly seductive young art director who has been appointed her creative "teammate" by the two humorous and talented bachelors, Archie Rourke and Byron Berheim, who head the agency. The third partner, Victoria Frost, is a severe beauty with an intensely secret life. Her enmity toward Gigi never dies. Daughter of Millicent Frost Caldwell, the grande dame of American advertising, Victoria is a powerful adversary who cannot be ignored. Billy Winthrop Ikehorn Orsini Elliot and her husband, Spider Elliot, are busy with their twin babies adn the painful problems of their marriage. Gigi's canny father, the movie producer Vito Orsini, is more involved then ever in his multiple intrigues, and her best friend, Sasha Nevsky, is up to ravishingly lofty eyebrows in trouble.
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"Dazzle" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990, HC Reviewed on 5/6/01
		At twenty-nine, Jazz Kilkullen is at the top of her game. Her career as a celebrity photographer has made her as famous as some of her clients. Dazzle, the Venice Beach business she owns with two male partners, is hugely successful. And her love life is never dull. But when her father is killed in a helicopter crash, Jazz must return home to Kilkullen Ranch, a cattle ranch on the coast. There she learns that she and her two half-sisters, one a worldly New York interior decorator, the other a five-times-married socialite, have inherited a heritage worth over three billion dollars. While Jazz retains ownership of the ranchhouse. Devasted by her father's death, Jazz tries to get along with her sisters so that they can come up with some kind of plan for the ranch. Her sisters, with their mother's urging, are determined to sell all the land to be developed. Knowing that her father would never have wanted this done, Jazz must somehow come up with somekind of solution. In the midst of all this termoil Jazz also finds a love that will complete like nothing ever has.
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"Mistral's Daughter" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1982 Reviewed on 5/10/01
		They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, bred to success, bound to a single extraordinary man - Julien Mistral, the painter, the genius, the lover whose passions had seared them all. Maggy: Flamboyant mistress of Mistral's youth, the toast of Paris in the '20s. Her luminous flesh was immortalized in the paintings that made Mistral legendary. Teddy: Maggy's daughter, the incomparable cover girl who lived fast and left as her legacy Mistral's dazzling love child. Fauve: Mistral's daughter, the headstrong, fearless glory girl whose one dark secret drove her to rule the world of high fashion and to risk everything in a feverish search for love. From the '20s Paris of Chanel, Colette, Picasso and Matisse to New York's sizzling new modeling agencies of the '50s, to the model ward of the '70s, follow the explosive glamour of life at the top of the worlds of art and high fashion.
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"Princess Daisy" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980 Reviewed on 5/10/01
		She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy. She was a blonde beauty living in a world of aristocrats and countless wealthy. Her father was a prince, a Russian nobleman. Her mother was an American movie goddess. Men desired her. Women envied her. Daisy's life was a fairy tale filled with parties and balls, priceless jewels, money and love. Then, suddenly, the fairy tale ended. And Princess Daisy had to start again, with nothing--except the secret she guarded from the day she was born.
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"I'll Take Manhattan" Crown Publishers, Inc., 1986 Reviewed on 5/10/01
		Gorgeous, flamboyant Maxi Amberville is twenty-nine and has already discarded three husbands on two continents. Life is a stream of endless pleasure in her lavish Trump Tower apartment - until her widowed mother married a man who plots to sell her father's magazine empire. And Maxi turns her incredible lust for living into a passionate quest for power. Maxi takes over the small weekly Buttons And Bows. She gathers her hot-blooded ex-husband, sassy daughter and a coterie of the powerful elite. Then, risking all, Maxi creates B&B - the glitziest, ritziest, most successful fashion magazine in the country. Here is a dramatic, sizzling story of love, family, ambition and one unforgettable woman who gives life and love everything she has.
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