Business
The fraud and drug binges that helped create a billion-dollar shoe company – Sydney Morning Herald
Steve Madden blazed onto the scene with an aptitude that verged on genius for designing shoes for the zeitgeist. But after the meteoric rise came a rapid fall.
While many of Madden’s introspective takeaways are unenlightened at best-the lesson from his 2 ½ years in prison is: “I screwed up, I paid my price, and I guess I had to go down that road to get to where I am now”-the book is a valuable, often riveting play-by-play of one man’s rise to riches. If Horatio Alger were transported to the 1990s and gave his characters an opioid addiction, this could be his story, too.
Nobody seemed to hold my mistakes against me
Steve Madden
Madden’s career began …
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