"Maligned by critics, the Fontainebleau instantly became a lively hangout for card sharks, mobsters and movie idols. Frank Sinatra performed there regularly for 20 years—free, according to Gaines—and in return got unlimited use of a penthouse suite. Gaines asserts, 'The only thing Sinatra paid for was his hookers.' Well, at least he didn’t forget the little people."
In The New York Times, Carl Hiaasen reviews Steven Gaines's Fool’s Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach.
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