Billy’s lover in Paris ”gave out so much physical strength just sitting there that he’d probably welcome a fight. Krantz would be a sure thing for a Nobel prize if only the phlegmatic Swedes hadn’t neglected to establish a Nobel prize for clichés. Soon Gigi is a gourmet cook, an accomplished seductress of a blond young Englishman, and ”in a perpetual state of the obsession of first love, on a merry-go-round that never stopped, her head whirling, her heart yearning.” Billy transforms Gigi into a delectable young woman even faster than she transformed herself. Billy boots Vito out but welcomes in his deepest secret, Gigi, a previously unmentioned teenage daughter from an earlier marriage, who arrives, waiflike, the night of the Oscar party. At the beginning of Scruples Two, the Oscar comes through and the marriage falls apart, ending in Vito’s obliviousness, Billy’s miscarriage, and divorce. At the end of Scruples, our heroine, Billy Winthrop Orsini, having turned herself from a poor, fat little rich girl into a sleek, sex-craving, inconceivably rich woman who has opened a shopping nirvana called Scruples in Beverly Hills, was pregnant and joyfully awaiting the Oscar about to befall her second husband, ruggedly handsome movie producer Vito Orsini.
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