Intelligencer - Fabian Basabe Will Not Be Canceled

“I don’t shy away from life,” onetime Manhattan party boy turned Florida Republican state house representative Fabian Basabe, now 45, tells me on a recent Sunday at the Standard Spa in Miami Beach as a waitress delivers his brunch of shrimp grits and a screwdriver. His bright-green eyes, now offset by gray at the temples, are still disarming, even when he tells me about how a dealer had recently offered him $140,000 for the Patek Philippe watch adorning his wrist. Tropical lightning flashes in inky clouds above the ocean, providing a Mephistophelean backdrop to his dark good looks and air of princely mischief.

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