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Issues Collections Contributors Vanity Fair Archive VF.com Sign In Subscribe The Complete Vanity Fair Archive Latest Issue Latest Issue May 2024 Preview Features OF GODS AND MEN MAY 2024 2024 Features CITIZEN CHAMBERS MAY 2024 2024 Features DEVIL'S EVE, 1982 MAY 2024 2024 View Issue Now Must-Reads Dive into these four classic tales. Not a subscriber? The first one is on us. FREE Features March 1984 JUSTICE: A Father's Account of the Trial of His Daughter's Killer "By the time I arrived in Los Angeles at noon that Sunday, the report that Dominique had been strangled outside her home by her former boyfriend and was in a coma at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was on all the news channels and stations." By Dominick Dunne Features March 1994 TRUMP FAMILY VALUES Once on the brink of losing his gaudy empire, Donald Trump is about to take his casinos public in a sale that he figures will net him billions. Joining him in his comeback are new bride Marla Maples and baby daughter Tiffany. For Trump, getting to the altar was as difficult as any of his financial maneuvers. With his parents telling him to go back to Ivana, and Marla setting deadlines, only Marla's mother kept the course of love running smooth. EDWARD KLEIN joins the re-emerging mogul as he prepares for the deals of his life By Edward Klein Features August 1993 The House That Fred Built Fred Hughes, who fashioned Andy Warhol into an international icon and became the sole executor of his vast estate, is now ill and under fire. While the man Hughes appointed as head of the Warhol Foundation has ousted him, and the lawyer he hired to protect the estate is petitioning for the balance of a $12 million fee, the powerful de Menil family have stepped in to protect their longtime protégé. BOB COLACELLO, former editor of Warhol's Interview , offers an insider's view of Hughes's reversal of fortune By Bob Colacello Features February 2004 Palm Beach Exclusive Palm Beach may be the last place in America where celebrity per se doesn't count. Ever since Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and Carnegies colonized the island in the late 1800s—and on through the grande-dame, charity-ball era White House years; the Lilly Pulitzer shift; and a series of scandals that rocked the social order—it's been about money, money, and more money. As photographer JONATHAN BECKER captures the scene, BOB COLACELLO hears from players such as the late C. Z. Guest on Palm Beach anti-Semitism, Terry Allen Kramer on its current A-list, and Simon Doonan on its camp appeal By Bob Colacello Spotlight Features August 2003 SECRETS AND LIES All the world knows the end of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's story. The hidden chapter was the gradual unraveling of their marriage as it slid from wedding-day hysterics into a spiral of depression, drugs, and violence. In an excerpt from his new book, EDWARD KLEIN explores the conflicts—over starting a family, George magazine, and life in the spotlight—that drove Kennedy and Bessette apart, despite interventions by a couples therapist and, fatally, Carolyn's sister Lauren By Edward Klein A History of Activism Features October 2018 THE PARKLAND GROUND GAME The March for Our Lives movement began with an eruption of anguish. But changing America's gun laws will take long-term logistical prowess. That's where Jaclyn Corin comes in By Dave Cullen Features September 2020 TRUE STORIES ABOUT THE GREAT FIRE In late May, as video of GEORGE FLOYD's murder spread across the nation, Americans defied the pandemic and rallied to the streets in what would become the largest protest movement in decades. The story of those early days is told here by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped By Columns February 2012 REVOLUTION NUMBER 99 America was full of angry people in September 2011, when a few hundred citizens decided to make their anger count. V.F. 's oral history of Occupy Wall Street shows how the spark was lit in Zuccotti Park as a disparate, passionate mix of activists, celebrities, and accidental protesters changed the national conversation By Max Chafkin Featured Collections CrimePunishment Special Collection Turning Points Special Collection On The Cover Special Collection Big MouthsBrilliant Minds Special Collection The Jazz Age Editor Frank Crowninshield filled the magazine’s early pages with the best writers and poets of the era—Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and more—alongside portrait photography that defined the medium. Features October 1916 WHY I HAVEN'T MARRIED Sketches of My Seven Deadly Suitors By Dorothy Rothschild N\A July 1929 Silence Is Golden Being the Misanthropic Reflections of an English Novelist on First Hearing a Picture Talk By Aldous Huxley N\A October 1925 The "Brides In The Bath" Murders The Crown's Case Against George Joseph Smith, an English Bluebeard By Edmund Pearson N\A April 1922 James Joyce A Portrait of the Man Who is, at Present, One of the More Significant Figures in Literature By Djuna Barnes Three’s Company ’Til death do us part... unless... Features December 2015 Case Study in Scandal A once secret affair at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business— between its dean, Garth Saloner, and a star professor, Deborah Gruenfeld— has exploded into scandal, complete with randy texts. Gruenfeld’s estranged husband, James Phills, an academic who was fired from the G.S.B. last year, is suing Stanford and the dean for discrimination and wrongful termination. Following Saloner’s abrupt resignation, and with Phills breaking his silence, DAVID MARGOLICK reports By David Margolick Features December 2007 PORTRAITS OF A MARRIAGE At 36, eager to settle down and have a son, Picasso married the beautiful Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, who embraced the role of Mme. Picasso, social hostess and zealous mother. But he came to resent the bourgeois grip of his increasingly sickly wife, turning to the bohemian sensuality of a mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter. In an excerpt from the third volume of his epic biography, JOHN RICHARDSON explores the split in Picasso’s psyche, through the rage, fear, and cruelty of some of his most famous paintings By John Richardson Features April 2018 COUP OF HEARTS When Prince Charles admitted an adulterous affair, royal-watchers took Diana's side, calling Camilla Parker Bowles a home-wrecker and worse. In an adaptation from her new book, The Duchess , PENNY JUNOR shows how Camilla won over the Queen, the family, and the rest of Great Britain By Penny Junor Features April 2014 O.K., Glass: Make Google Eyes The story behind Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s liaison with Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg—and his split from his wife, genetic-testing entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki—has a decidedly futuristic edge. But, as VANESSA GRIGORIADIS reports, the drama leaves Silicon Valley debating emotional issues, from office romance to fear of mortality By Vanessa Grigoriadis Notable Contributors Vanity Fair has been home to literary icons, dogged reporters, and groundbreaking photographers since 1913. 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