Behind Claude’s Doors
She was once the “world’s most exclusive madam.”
Great articles, every Saturday.
She was once the “world’s most exclusive madam.”
William Stadiem Vanity Fair Sep 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Michelle Ruiz Vanity Fair Oct 2020 25min Permalink
When Jennifer Farber disappeared in 2019, suspicion immediately centered on her husband and press coverage almost exclusively painted her as a missing suburban mom. But reducing the 50-year-old’s life to a familiar tabloid trope missed so much of her story.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Oct 2020 30min Permalink
On losing your Beloved in 2020.
Jesmyn Ward Vanity Fair Sep 2020 10min Permalink
The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better.
Kiese Makeba Laymon Vanity Fair Aug 2020 20min Permalink
I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair Aug 2020 25min Permalink
The fall of CBS showrunner Peter Lenkov.
Maureen Ryan Vanity Fair Jul 2020 25min Permalink
In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, evidence suggests she got away with murder.
Peter Lance Vanity Fair Jul 2020 35min Permalink
On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.
Ben Schwartz Vanity Fair Apr 2016 25min Permalink
An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Vanity Fair May 2020 Permalink
The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do. The story that became The Bling Ring.
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Mar 2010 20min Permalink
The Manhattan murder mystery spurred a tabloid drama that engulfed the city’s rich and powerful. But what really happened?
Christopher Bollen Vanity Fair Apr 2020 40min Permalink
Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.
Jesse Hyde Vanity Fair Mar 2020 20min Permalink
And unraveled behind the scenes.
Lisa Abend Vanity Fair Mar 2020 30min Permalink
A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.
Adam Ciralsky Vanity Fair Jan 2010 25min Permalink
Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have fled to Canada and are living in their car. They are seeking asylum from the menace of the “Hollywood Star Whackers.”
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Jan 2011 25min Permalink
Ari Emanuel’s failure to launch.
Richard Rushfield Vanity Fair Jan 2020 30min Permalink
How the Ebola outbreak spread.
Jeffrey E. Stern Vanity Fair Oct 2014 20min Permalink
How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
Marie Brenner Vanity Fair Feb 1997 1h15min Permalink
With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Nov 2019 20min Permalink
“This is the remarkable, true story of a rich white male celebrity who abused his power and then apologized for it.”
Nell Scovell Vanity Fair Oct 2019 15min Permalink
How NBC killed its Weinstein story.
Rich McHugh Vanity Fair Oct 2019 30min Permalink
The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.
May Jeong Vanity Fair Oct 2019 30min Permalink
An oral history of Lilith Fair.
Jessica Hopper, Sasha Geffen, Jenn Pelly Vanity Fair Sep 2019 40min Permalink
At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Sep 1998 30min Permalink