The Horn identity: by day, Justin, Murdock is one of L.A.'s flashiest bachelors. By bight, he's Eliphas Horn, Goth antihero. (Eye).

W, December, 2002 by Cutter, Kimberly

For anyone who doesn't immediately see what pleasure lies in screaming out heavy-metal anthems in dingy Los Angeles clubs while sporting a black velvet cape and horns, Justin Murdock will be happy to explain.

"It's kind of like the whole Bruce Wayne--Batman thing," says the raven-haired, pencil-thin, 30-year-old real estate scion, who spends his days doing mergers and acquisitions work for his billionaire father David Murdock's conglomerate Castle & Cooke and who, in recent months, has taken to passing his nights in the guise of his half-man, half-beast alter ego, Eliphas Horn, crowing Zeppelin-esque singles from his debut album, Lost Angeles. "Most of the time, I seem like this normal finance-world guy," Murdock explains, "but then there's this whole other...

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