Journalist and author Julie K Brown photographed in New York. Photograph: Mike McGregor/The Observer
Journalist and author Julie K Brown photographed in New York. Photograph: Mike McGregor/The Observer
It was by focusing on his silenced victims, says the dogged Miami Herald reporter, that she was able to help bring the billionaire sex offender to justice after police and prosecutors had failed
Sun 25 Jul 2021 03.00 EDT
The town of Palm Beach in Florida, the crime writer Carl Hiaasen has observed, “is one of the few places left in America where you can still drive around in a Rolls-Royce convertible and not get laughed at.” It’s an unironic island, filled with the super-rich and famous, plastic surgeons and, of course, the former US president, Donald Trump, who holds court at his ostentatious Mar-a-Lago resort.