0Miami VicesIn an excerpt from Miami Babylon, Gerald Posner recalls 1980s South Beach, when it was a Wild West of drug cartels and sex parties that made Scarface look tame.Updated Jul. 14, 2017 6:06PM EDT / Published Oct. 12, 2009 9:10AM EDT AP Photo Al CaponeAP Photo Kefauver HearingsAP Photo Fontainebleau HotelAP Photo Meyer LanskyMZ / AP Photo Miami ViceUniversal / Everett Pablo Escobar Files, AFP / Getty Images Mariel BoatliftJacques Langevin / AP Photo Don AronowJohn Pineda, Zuma / Newscom Gianni VersaceGregory Smith / AP Photo Chris PacielloDiane Bondareff / AP Photo
Al CaponeAP Photo Kefauver HearingsAP Photo Fontainebleau HotelAP Photo Meyer LanskyMZ / AP Photo Miami ViceUniversal / Everett Pablo Escobar Files, AFP / Getty Images Mariel BoatliftJacques Langevin / AP Photo Don AronowJohn Pineda, Zuma / Newscom Gianni VersaceGregory Smith / AP Photo Chris PacielloDiane Bondareff / AP Photo