The Big Bitcoin Heist
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.
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
They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Dec 2018 20min Permalink
Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Oct 2018 20min Permalink
When Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” came unraveled, and the trail led to bones buried in a California backyard.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jan 2009 50min Permalink
The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real life mob.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Mar 2009 Permalink
Most of the men were in their 60s and 70s, with heart conditions, diabetes, and replacement hips. They made off with millions in cash and jewels, only to give themselves up by not understanding how technology works.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Mar 2016 30min Permalink
The mysterious death of a champion Irish setter.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jan 2016 15min Permalink
Paul Newman’s will held some unpleasant surprises for his daughters.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Seth Rogen, Amy Pascal, and the inside story of Sony’s hacking saga.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Feb 2015 30min Permalink
How Harper Lee was duped into signing away the rights to To Kill a Mockingbird, which still sells 750,000 copies per year, and how she’s fighting to get them back.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2013 30min Permalink
The dissolution of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng’s marriage amidst evidence of her affairs with Tony Blair and Eric Schmidt.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Feb 2014 45min Permalink
Inside the Oscar Pistorius murder case.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink
The making of Pulp Fiction.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Feb 2013 35min Permalink
A posthumous profile of Whitney Houston.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jun 2012 35min Permalink
Why “Father of Botox” Arnold Klein, whose famous clients once included Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, thinks everyone’s out to get him.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Mar 2012 35min Permalink
A profile of fashion designer Roberto Cavalli.
It’s 11 a.m. Cavalli has just risen from his wolf-fur-covered bed and said good morning to Boy, his tiger-striped Bengal cat, and Gino, his miniature monkey. At a breakfast table covered with a cloth of one of his swirling bird patterns, on which are placed four packs of cigarettes and two cigars, Cavalli sinks down on a leopard-print cushion. While he eats applesauce and drinks orange juice from Cavalli tableware, he is surrounded by his four parrots and three beautiful publicists. “Give me some bad questions,” he tells me, lighting a cigar. “I will try to be nice.”
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Aug 2009 20min Permalink
On the brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, who has “probably gone through more cash than any other human being on earth.”
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2011 45min Permalink