Saturday, 12. October 2002

When Rich Kids Go Bad


The Desperate, But Lucrative Business of Putting Self-Destructing Kids Back Together.

She was smart and pretty, with cascades of chestnut hair adorning her rapidly maturing body. Her father, Joel Horowitz, was (and still is) chief executive of fashion giant Tommy Hilfiger. Leigh also had a drug problem. She had been smoking pot since she was 8 years old. She had snorted cocaine, taken LSD and injected heroin. In her freshman year of high school she started coming home drunk late at night. By her sophomore year Leigh was flunking out.

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