Velvet Mafia

Velvet Mafia
 n.— «It’s a shadowy group of media and entertainment tycoons that author Churcher refers to as “the Velvet Mafia and the male-bonding set.”» —“The Tell-all Book That Rapidly Went Out Of Fashion” by Roger Franklin Sunday Age (Australia) Nov. 21, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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