Set against the free-wheeling sixties New York City from  to the cocaine-fueled excess of the eighties, this screenplay explores the rise and spectacular fall of Buddy Jacobson. Once celebrated as one of America’s premier horse trainers, Jacobson pivoted to Manhattan real estate. At the center of his empire was a carefully constructed facade, built on “My Fair Lady,” a successful agency he launched with a young Midwestern beauty, Melanie Cain. However, the glamorous life of rooftop parties and elite social circles hid a web of deception that eventually stretched from the racetrack to the prison cell.

Jacobson’s double life begins to unravel. For years, he maintained an elaborate charade, to keep is Covergirl muse in his web to support his realestate ventures. When the truth finally surfaces about Jacobson’s family and past, it it turns Melanie Cain’s world upsidown, and she seeks a new suitor with Queen’s native Jack Tupper. As Jacobson desperately tried to reclaim his fractured romance with Melanie, the story spirals into a shocking crime that left the city stunned.

Drawing on exclusive, never-before-heard audio recordings and years of meticulous research, this film goes beyond a simple true-crime retelling to examine the nature of a man’s claim to innocence, crime, and betrayal. It utilizes a haunting framework of archival footage and first-hand accounts to piece together a story of shattered dreams. By diving into the perspective of a man who proclaimed his innocence until his final breath in Attica prison, the screenplay invites the audience to navigate the murky waters of a legendary New York scandal where the line between success and disaster was razor-thin.