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After a decade as a Forbes senior editor, Zack O’Malley Greenburg now writes exclusively at Substack, where he’s serializing his fifth book, We Are All Musicians Now (sign up here). His other books include A-List Angels: How a Band of Actors, Artists, and Athletes Hacked Silicon Valley and the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind. He has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Vibe, McSweeney's and Sports Illustrated, tackling topics from public pension fund scandals to Kanye West's quest to overtake Air Jordan. Zack has lectured at Yale, Harvard and Princeton, and appeared as an expert source for 60 Minutes, BBC, MTV and others. Full bio here. ...more

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The King Of Pop’s Latest Throne: Las Vegas

One night in the late 1980s, Michael Jackson asked his longtime lawyer, John Branca, to join him for a Cirque du Soleil show on the Santa Monica Pier. Branca picked up the King of Pop in an unmarked van to evade the paparazzi, and they sped toward the ocean. Under the big tent, Jackson was mesmerized; at the intermission, he insisted on going to meet the performers.

“He was even more excited to mee

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	Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office 3.64 avg rating — 1,624 ratings — published 2011 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise 3.91 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire 4.22 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A-List Angels: How a Band of Actors, Artists, and Athletes Hacked Silicon Valley 3.79 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making The Forbes List: 10 Years Of Hip-Hop Cash Kings 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	巨星天使投資人的誕生: 從有錢，變超有錢！好萊塢與體壇如何破解創投密碼，顛覆矽谷 (投資贏家系列) by Zack O'Malley Greenburg (Goodreads Author), 林奕伶 (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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