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Friday, June 29, 2001

South Beach crisis: Where have all the models gone?

"I grew up in Miami, and I used to go to South Beach every weekend. It's a stylish, upscale, unique collection of personalities. Sure there was drugs and partying, but in a classy way. If you can put those two wordsÑdrugs and classÑtogether."

Miami New Times. Amy Gerstenfeld's wedding, costly enough to pay for a house, was interrupted by police with pepper spray, over-reacting to the unrelated presence of Black Panthers. Miami Beach is undergoing an identity crisis, its old rich and famous conflicting with the arrivistas. "You take a slum, throw in some fashion people, some gay peopleÑand ten years later you have a Gap and Banana Republic. Why do you think Madonna sold her [Miami] house?"'

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