The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn't Die
What’s wrong with some forgery, fraud, and crystal meth if you’ll soon be gone? A better question: What the hell happens if you survive?
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What’s wrong with some forgery, fraud, and crystal meth if you’ll soon be gone? A better question: What the hell happens if you survive?
Nathaniel Penn GQ May 2019 30min Permalink
In May 2018, schoolgirl Ana Kriégel was lured from her home, brought to an abandoned house, and murdered. A year later two 14-year-old boys were found guilty of her killing, becoming the youngest people in the history of Ireland to be convicted of murder.
Conor Gallagher The Irish Times Jun 2019 1h10min Permalink
Did a member in a shadowy Mormon offshoot known as the Order collect a half-billion dollars in biodiesel credits his company didn’t deserve?
Jesse Hyde, David Voreacos Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2019 20min Permalink
One cyclist rides west, another rides east. They meet on an empty stretch of road in a Kazakh desert.
When a cheating scandal blew up the pastor’s life, some Hillsong congregants were left to question their relationship with a church that cultivated its own kind of fame—and the double standards that often came with it.
Alex French, Dan Adler Vanity Fair Feb 2021 30min Permalink
On the lost pickup basketball games in D.C. between Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor, then both still in college, during the summer of 1957.
Dave McKenna Grantland May 2012 30min Permalink
In just a few years, he’s become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?
Peter Kiefer Los Angeles Magazine Jun 2021 25min Permalink
With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports.
Daniel Riley GQ Sep 2021 30min Permalink
Corruption, venality, and tragedy: a collection of picks on what lies beneath the glitter.
He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.
Mike Sager Rolling Stone May 1989 50min
Somehow, River Phoenix’s reluctance to be a star only made him more famous. When he died outside an LA club in 1993, it only cemented his troubled legend.
Tad Friend Esquire Mar 1994 25min
He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.
Grover Lewis LA Weekly Jun 1993 40min
Bonnie Lee Bakley always wanted to marry a celebrity. The one she chose was Robert Blake, a troubled and only intermittently famous man who would end up accused of her murder.
David Grann The New Republic Aug 2001 20min
Peter Bart was once a movie executive like everyone else, but as the head of Variety, the industry’s powerful source of news,
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2001 45min
How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Jul 2006 35min
He was just another coked-up agent (representing the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.
Evan Wright Vanity Fair Mar 2007 1h35min
Two years ago, the fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. His friends worry that he’s being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion, or something even worse.
Andy Martino New York Daily News Mar 2016 20min
May 1989 – Mar 2016 Permalink
“The central conflict of domestic life right now is not men versus women, mothers versus fathers. It is family versus money.”
Stephen Marche The Atlantic Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The ragtag group of fighters from America and Europe who joined the fight against extremists in Syria don’t seem to know what they are doing.
Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 15min Permalink
The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.
In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed an AIDS epidemic in rural China and the ensuing government cover-up. Forced to leave, she’s now 85 and living alone in New York.
Kathleen McLaughlin Buzzfeed Dec 2013 20min Permalink
At a playground in North Wales, kids are mostly left alone to experiment with fire, jump from great heights and play in a creek. It’s designed to teach the value of taking risks, a lesson many American children have stopped learning.
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Mar 2014 35min Permalink
The life that he has created almost from scratch over the last two years has been defined at least as much by what Tyson wants to avoid — old haunts, old habits, old temptations and old hangers-on — as by what he wants to embrace.
Daphne Merkin New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 10min Permalink
On the ground in Nigeria with the nation’s notorious scam artists, who share a remarkable number of qualities with America’s top entrepreneurs.
Sarah Lacy TechCrunch May 2011 10min Permalink
In the 1970s, Kelbessa Negewo was a midlevel administrator in Ethiopia’s brutal Red Terror regime. In the 1990s, he was a bellhop in an Atlanta hotel. Then someone he had tortured back home recognized him.
Andrew Rice New York Times Magazine Jun 2006 30min Permalink
An interview with Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone writer Vanessa Grigoriadis on the finer points of celebrity profiling.
Jonah Weiner, Vanessa Grigoriadis The Writearound Sep 2011 10min Permalink
A profile of John Alan Schwartz, creator of one of the most notorious movies ever made.
Brian Hickey Deadspin Feb 2012 10min Permalink
An American mystery writer and an Italian journalist join forces to identify a serial killer that targeted couples having sex in cars in the rolling hills above Florence.
Douglas Preston The Atlantic Jul 2006 Permalink
In Russia’s Far East, an orphaned female tiger is the test case in an experimental effort to save one of the most endangered animals on earth.
Matthew Shaer Smithsonian Jan 2015 Permalink
A group of Gambian exiles scattered around America plotted to storm the Presidential palace and overthrow a brutal dictator. Their budget? $221,000.
Craig Whitlock, Adam Goldman The Washington Post May 2015 10min Permalink
It is agreed that the 1977 political murder of a couple in Johannesburg was a political killing that covered up mysterious Swiss Bank deposits. Various reports implicate Cuban Nationalists, Italian Fascists and the CIA.
James Myburgh PoliticsWeb Jun 2010 Permalink
Our debt, conscious or unconscious, to what has come before, and what it can tell us about copyright, the public domain, and the complicated relationship between creators and consumers.
Jonathan Lethem Harper's Feb 2007 Permalink
Many experts believe it’s inevitable that in the coming decades, humans will figure out how to live considerably longer lives. It might not be a good thing.
Charles C. Mann The Atlantic May 2005 20min Permalink