The arrest in New York City Monday of Robert Chambers, 41, on drug charges launched another chapter in what has been a story that just won’t go away.

Chambers, the so-called “Preppie Killer” became a familiar tabloid figure 21 years ago. And the key lawyers involved in his trial have gone on to a kind of stardom themselves.

In 1988, near the end of a sensation-filled trial, Chambers pled guilty to manslaughter for the 1986 murder of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park.

He entered the plea as the jury was deliberating a murder charge. He later received a 15-year prison sentence.

The trial had opened a lurid window onto the lives of the privileged children of Manhattan society.