[
  {
    "id": "studio54-history",
    "title": "Anything Went",
    "publisher": "Vanity Fair",
    "url": "https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1996/03/studio-54-nightclub-new-york-city",
    "date": "1996-03",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full page reopened",
    "summary": "Farewell party on February 2, 1980, two nights before prison; exchange of notes for the Executive Hotel; friendship from Syracuse in 1964 until 1989.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "studio54-sentence",
    "title": "A federal judge Wednesday cut in half the prison...",
    "publisher": "UPI",
    "url": "https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1980/12/31/A-federal-judge-Wednesday-cut-in-half-the-prison/9380347086800/",
    "date": "1980-12-31",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "search index full relevant text",
    "summary": "Original 42-month sentences and $20,000 fines; reduced sentences following cooperation; prison began on February 4, 1980.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "studio54-sale",
    "title": "Studio 54 reopens: thunder and lightning as hundreds wait in rain",
    "publisher": "UPI",
    "url": "https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/09/16/Studio-54-reopenses-thunder-and-lightning-as-hundreds-wait-in-rain/6796369460800/",
    "date": "1981-09-16",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "Prior-day full-page research retained; fresh request returned 403.",
    "summary": "Fleischman and London purchased the club; roughly $5 million was reported, while their spokesman declined to disclose the price.",
    "note": "The roughly $5 million figure was published reporting, not a disclosed purchase price."
  },
  {
    "id": "iou-interview",
    "title": "The king of Manhattan is back",
    "publisher": "The Observer / The Guardian",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/oct/24/theobserver.observerbusiness18",
    "date": "2004-10-24",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full page reopened",
    "summary": "Schrager’s first-person account of accepting an IOU for Studio 54 and trading it for a hotel.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "morgans-restoration",
    "title": "Morgans Hotel Group Reveals Andree Putman’s Restoration of Morgans",
    "publisher": "Morgans Hotel Group via Journal des Palaces",
    "url": "https://www.journaldespalaces.com/en/pressrelease-17415-morgans-hotel-group-reveals-andree-putman-s-restoration-of-morgans-the-original-boutique-hotel-.html",
    "date": "2008-09-12",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "Ordinary HTTP 200; text read locally.",
    "summary": "Morgans opened in 1984 at Madison Avenue and 37th Street. Its original palette was black and white; richer grey tones appeared in the 2008 restoration. Also documents Mapplethorpe photographs.",
    "note": "The original black-and-white scheme and the 2008 restoration’s shades of grey are different periods."
  },
  {
    "id": "morgans-prospectus",
    "title": "Morgans Hotel Group final IPO prospectus, Form 424B4",
    "publisher": "Morgans Hotel Group / SEC",
    "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1342126/000104746906001979/a2167441z424b4.htm",
    "date": "2006-02-13",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full filing reopened",
    "summary": "Historical property descriptions: Morgans in 1984, Royalton in 1988, Starck’s block-long lobby, and the 802-room Hudson. Explains management’s pricing and occupancy investment case.",
    "note": "Historical company filing. Statements about occupancy and pricing power are management’s investment case, not independent proof of returns."
  },
  {
    "id": "design-interview",
    "title": "Nightclubbing: Ian Schrager",
    "publisher": "FX",
    "url": "https://www.fxdesign.co.uk/nightclubbing-ian-schrager-4763609/",
    "date": "2015-12-28",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "Relevant text returned by the search index; live page returned 403; prior full-page research is retained locally.",
    "summary": "Schrager describes cold-calling collaborators: Putman’s first hotel, Armani uniforms and Mapplethorpe flower photographs at Morgans.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "boutique-history",
    "title": "The Complete Oral History of Boutique Hotels",
    "publisher": "Skift",
    "url": "https://skift.com/history-of-boutique-hotels/",
    "date": "2017-03-20",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full page reopened",
    "summary": "Participant interviews document Rubell’s claim to the term, competing Blakes and Bedford histories, and a boutique identity based on focus rather than size.",
    "note": "Participant recollections differ on the first boutique hotel and the origin of the term."
  },
  {
    "id": "morgans-royalton-comparison",
    "title": "Schrager on His First Time",
    "publisher": "Observer",
    "url": "https://observer.com/2008/09/schrager-on-his-first-time/",
    "date": "2008-09",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full page reopened",
    "summary": "Schrager directly compares quiet, introverted Morgans with the busy, extroverted Royalton.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "paramount-release",
    "title": "Paramount Hotel: The Second Act",
    "publisher": "Ian Schrager Hotels via Hotel Online",
    "url": "https://www.hotel-online.com/news/archive-48967",
    "date": "1998-04-27",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full release reopened",
    "summary": "The 1998 company release describes the Paramount’s 1990 opening, 610 rooms, Cheap Chic positioning, Starck design and social public spaces.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "partnership-interview",
    "title": "Still Doing the Hustle",
    "publisher": "New York magazine",
    "url": "https://nymag.com/news/features/31278/",
    "date": "2007-04-27",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full page reopened",
    "summary": "Schrager’s direct interview states that he and Rubell did not have a partnership agreement and discusses the loss of his friend.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "rubell-obituary",
    "title": "Steve Rubell Dies at 45",
    "publisher": "Associated Press via Washington Post",
    "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/07/27/steve-rubell-dies-at-45/8eab4d71-6c78-4851-88f2-73a87b5a18e0/",
    "date": "1989-07-27",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "search index relevant text",
    "summary": "Contemporaneous reporting of Rubell’s death in July 1989, aged 45, and the announced causes of hepatitis and septic shock.",
    "note": "Contemporaneous public cause-of-death announcement; later reporting identified AIDS as the underlying illness."
  },
  {
    "id": "studio54-documentary",
    "title": "A History of Studio 54, This Time Told by the Quiet Partner",
    "publisher": "The New York Times via WRAL",
    "url": "https://www.wral.com/archive/17893869/",
    "date": "2018-10-04",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full page reopened",
    "summary": "Interviews with Schrager and the director discuss the film, Rubell’s AIDS-related death, and its disclosure about Schrager’s father and Meyer Lansky.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "marriott-partnership",
    "title": "Marriott International FY 2007 Form 10-K",
    "publisher": "Marriott / SEC",
    "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048286/000119312508032582/d10k.htm",
    "date": "2008-02-15",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full filing reopened",
    "summary": "Marriott’s filing dates the Schrager collaboration to June 2007 and describes the initial ambition for up to 100 properties.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "waikiki-court",
    "title": "In re M Waikiki LLC: Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law on Estimation of Marriott Claim",
    "publisher": "U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Hawaii",
    "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-hib-1_11-bk-02371/pdf/USCOURTS-hib-1_11-bk-02371-0.pdf",
    "date": "2012-05-29",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "Ordinary HTTP 200; PDF text read locally.",
    "summary": "Court findings establish the first EDITION’s 2010 opening, approximately $8.4 million operating loss before debt service, removal of Marriott as manager, and Schrager’s share of management fees.",
    "note": "Court findings concern the first Waikiki property. Its operating loss before debt service is not a performance claim about the whole EDITION brand."
  },
  {
    "id": "edition-count",
    "title": "Marriott International Q2 2026 earnings release, Exhibit 99.1",
    "publisher": "Marriott / SEC",
    "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048286/000104828626000033/mar-2026q2xex99earningsrel.htm",
    "date": "2026-08-03",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full filing reopened",
    "summary": "As of June 30, 2026, Marriott reported 23 EDITION properties and 4,768 rooms. Its table notes that some brand counts may include hotels awaiting renovations before operating under the listed brand.",
    "note": "Marriott’s counts can include hotels awaiting renovations before they begin operating under the listed brand. This is the company’s system count as of June 30, 2026."
  },
  {
    "id": "studio54-insurance",
    "title": "Lights out at Studio 54",
    "publisher": "UPI",
    "url": "https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/04/11/Lights-out-at-Studio-54/6396513579600/",
    "date": "1986-04-11",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "search index full relevant text",
    "summary": "Supports caption 1: Studio 54 closed in April 1986 because Fleischman could not obtain liability insurance.",
    "note": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "schrager-current-interview",
    "title": "Ian Schrager Still Has It",
    "publisher": "Interview",
    "url": "https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ian-schrager-still-has-it",
    "date": "2026-05-28",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17",
    "verification": "full page reopened",
    "summary": "The May 2026 introduction describes 15 EDITION hotels Schrager created between 2008 and 2022; it does not attribute all 23 to his personal design work.",
    "note": ""
  }
]