Double Life, Linda Wolfe
Double Life, Linda Wolfe
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Double Life
The Shattering Affair between Chief Judge Sol Wachtler and Socialite Joy Silverman

Author: Linda Wolfe

Narrator: Qarie Marshall

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/30/2024

Synopsis

He was the top justice of New York’s highest court. She was a stunning socialite and his wife’s step-cousin. In 1993, Sol Wachtler was convicted of blackmail and extortion against Joy Silverman, his former mistress. How did a respected jurist and one of the most prominent men in America end up serving time in prison? Linda Wolfe starts at the beginning—from Wachtler’s modest Brooklyn upbringing through his courtship and marriage to Joan Wolosoff, the only child of a wealthy real-estate developer. Joy Fererh was three and a half when her father walked out. When she and Sol met, he was fifty-five and nearing the pinnacle of his legal career. She was a thirty-something stay-at-home mother who, with Sol’s help, made a career for herself as a Republican Party fundraiser. They kept their affair a secret—until an explosive mix of sex, power, betrayal, and prescription-drug abuse set the stage for the tabloid headlines of the decade.

About Linda Wolfe

Linda Wolfe is the author of five true-crime books including The Professor and the Prostitute and Other True Tales of Murder and Madness. She is also the author of My Daughter, Myself, a memoir. Wolfe's has written for a wide variety of magazines, among them Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, and New York Magazine, of which she was a contributing editor. She currently writes a column about books for the website www.FabOverFifty.com.

About Qarie Marshall

Qarie Marshall has narrated over thirty series for the Discovery Channel and the BBC. He has also been a guest voice on Comedy Central's Drawn Together and has recorded BBC radio plays, the in-flight programming for Virgin Atlantic Airlines, over eighty video games for the PlayStation and Xbox, and numerous audiobooks. In 2007, he was made an Associate Artist of The Purple Rose Theatre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barb

I’m still asking myself “why did anyone care about these people.”......more

Goodreads review by Denise

Wow I am so confused why anyone would feel sorry for a man that STALKED and threated to KIDNAP, this woman and her child! Ok he is bi-polar, how does that make it ok to be a stalker? So if Dahmer is bipolar we should feel sorry for him? Give him a slap on the wrist. That's ridiculous! He was a Judge......more

Goodreads review by Jon

Double Life is a surprisingly well written true crime story of a prolific man who came off the rails. Wachtler's true life story is a tragedy of sorts and makes for frequently compelling reading.......more

Goodreads review by Shadira

Linda Wolfe did an excellent job researching and relaying a very complex story that changed the course of New York and, possibly, national politics. The mental breakdown of New York's Chief Justice, which led to criminal charges and his incarceration is not your run of the mill "fall from grace" to......more

Goodreads review by Alexis

I swear sometimes truth makes fiction look like a total joke. In this case this couldn’t be more true. A super well respected judge basically manipulated and tied into knots by a woman whose sole purpose in this life is the consumption of all things money. I highly recommend this book to any of my t......more

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