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DAHLIA SAT AT her desk in her neoclassical Louis XVI study, which was connected to her bedroom and suite of rooms in the large, stately home she shared with Camille in Holmby Hills, adjacent to Beverly Hills. The scent of snowy white lilies, fresh from their cutting garden, wafted from a crystal vase on the fireplace mantle. A violin concerto on the built-in music system filled the air as she sorted through mail and answered social invitations and letters of well wishes for Camille, whose friends still wrote letters rather than sent email.
The world knew Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive, which entrepreneurial retailers Fred and Gale Hayman of Giorgio and Jerry Magnin of I. Magnin’s department store had put on the map, but Holmby Hills was hardly a household word. Long ago, Camille had mov
