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The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday - and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface...In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove's Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. Hollywood royalty, rock stars, and models flocked to the hotel's club to order bottle after bottle of Dom and to snort lines alongside narcos, hit men, and gunrunners, all while marathon orgies burned upstairs in elaborate fantasy suites. Amid the boatloads of powder and cash reigned the new kings of Miami: three waves of Cuban immigrants vying to dominate the trafficking of one of the most lucrative commodities ever known to man.
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I wrote Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami. I host the NPR One show Full Disclosure (iTunes: FullDRadio.com) and contribute to PBS NewsHour. I was at Businessweek for a decade and have also appeared on CNN, NPR, CNBC, MSNBC and CBS News. Born in Iran; raised in Miami. Graduate of Princeton and the Harvard Business School.LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/RobenFarzadBook pages: HotelScarface.com Facebook.com/HotelScarfaceTwitter: @RobenFarzad #HotelScarface
