# He Auctioned My Wedding Gown in Front of Manhattan. By Midnight, I Owned Everything He Thought Was His.

doors of the Astor Conservatory while Manhattan’s wealthiest donors watched the discarded wife collapse.

Camille touched the gown’s hand-beaded bodice with red-lacquered fingertips.

My mother had sewn the first pearl onto that bodice three weeks before she died.

Camille did not know that.

Grant did.

“Shall we start at fifty thousand?” she asked.

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