Farnood had spent tens of millions of dollars in depositors' money to buy more than a dozen luxury villas on or near Palm Jumeirah, an exclusive man-made island.
For years, executives of Saks Fifth Avenue have been wooing one of the world's most exclusive men's wear lines.
His next stop was the Union League Club, an exclusive men's club on East Thirty-seventh Street, where "denim, sneakers, athletic apparel of any description, or immodest attire are never permitted".
But he is healthy and still very hungry in 2016, and he has resumed crashing a most exclusive men's club.
The soft-spoken, somewhat chilly Mr. Meledandri, 51, grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where his father, Roland Meledandri, operated an exclusive men's clothing store frequented by entertainment power figures like the producer Robert Evans, a young David Geffen and Robert Redford.
Once past security, I felt as if I had walked into Starbucks or maybe an exclusive men's club, a busy, stained-glass beehive of hushed activity and carefully appointed furnishings.
Before 9/11, Americans could think of this place simply as an exclusive men's club where pols in pinstripes did mutually beneficial, if corrupting, deals with princes in robes.
The world of the highly entitled at play and at work — seen traveling the globe over the decades, installing themselves in European hotels and joining exclusive men's clubs and marrying into families made up of "very much our kind of people" — remains irresistible.
"On Jan . 3 the opening day of the 81st Congress, women from across the country converged on Washington -- by auto cavalcade, planes and two special trains -- to celebrate Margaret Chase Smith's entrance into the 'most exclusive men's club in the world,' "Sherman writes.
In its place is an even costlier palace on an exclusive man-made island in Biscayne Bay.
