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Joined June 2008
Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list:  1. Sam Altman: The Oppenheimer  2. Dario Amodei: The Paradox  3. Elon Musk: The Mad King  4. Jensen Huang: The Man Selling Picks and Shovels for the Gold Rush  5. Kevin Warsh: The Market Mover  6. JD Vance: The MAGA Heir  7. Marco Rubio: The MAGA Spare  8. Sundar Pichai: The Constant Gardener  9. Ted Sarandos: The Winner  10. Neal Mohan: The New Hollywood Mogul  11. Andy Jassy: The Big Chop  12. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: The Prodigal Son-in-Law and Favored Daughter 13. John Ternus: Not Far From the Tree  14. Zohran Mamdani: The Merry Mayor  15. Josh Kushner: The Good Kush  16. Gwynne Shotwell: The Adult in the Room  17. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Free Radical  18. Pope Leo XIV: His Holiness the Humanist  19. Meredith Kopit Levien: The Lady of the Gray Lady  20. Satya Nadella: Macro at Micro  21. David Ellison: The Son Also Rises  22. Gavin Newsom: The Californian  23. Marc Andreessen: The Edgelord  24. Sheik Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan: The Gamesman  25. Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara: The Odds Couple  26. Christopher Nolan: Zeus  27. MacKenzie Scott: The Giver  28. Alex Karp: The Philosopher King  29. Delphine, Antoine, Alexandre, Frédéric, and Jean Arnault: Their Father’s Children  30. Josh D’Amaro: Not Named Bob  31. Lachlan Murdoch: The Fortunate Son  32. Laurene Powell Jobs: The Benevolent Billionaire  33. Tucker Carlson: MAGA’s Savonarola  34. Kaitlan Collins: The Anchor  35. Taylor Sheridan: The Lone Ranger  36. Ryan Coogler: The Virtuoso  37. Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, Nicolette Aizenberg: The Only Studio With Drip  38. Matthieu Blazy: The Crown Prince  39. Jon Ossoff: The Prospect  40. The Democratic Socialists: The Insurgents  41. Bad Bunny: The Headliner 42. Bari Weiss: The Arriviste  43. Shayne Coplan: The Blockchain Brat  44. Donald Trump Jr.: The Grifter  45. Donna Langley: That’s Dame Donna to You  46. Ryan Murphy: The Counselor of Camp  47. James and Kathryn Murdoch: Gone Their Own Way  48. Alex Soros and Huma Abedin: The True Blues  49. Hasan Piker: Island in the Stream  50. Erika Kirk: The Widow’s Peak vanityfair.com/story/the-new…
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Ready or not, a 'Glee' reboot is in the works at Disney+ and Hulu, with Lea Michele set to return. One VF staff writer breaks down what choices Ryan Murphy should make for 'Glee' round two—and what it would behoove him to avoid vanityfair.com/story/glee-re…
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In an exclusive excerpt from her memoir, ‘Daddy Issues,’ Sofia Franklyn, for the first time, publicly recounts having an abortion in 2023, three years after her departure from Call Her Daddy, and reflects on her fallout with Alex Cooper vanityfair.com/story/sofia-f…
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“When you have an abortion,” writes Franklyn, “the take-home packet gives you explicit instructions on what to do if you bleed through two pads per hour. But nowhere does it include guidance on the emotional clusterf–k that’s to come” vanityfair.com/story/sofia-f…
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“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet. Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed. Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
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Harry Styles is two thirds of the way through his 30-night residency at Madison Square Garden. His stamina is impressive, but VF’s José Criales-Unzueta is more in awe of the number of looks that his stylist Harry Lambert has put together for the tour, which started in May and will continue through August 2027. On Saturday, Styles wore a look by Conner Ives, who, like Li, has become an industry darling. “Conner Ives is one of my favorite brands,” Lambert said, adding that the look is one of his favorites that Styles has worn. Read more from Criales-Unzueta's weekly column Fit Check: vanityfair.visitlink.me/NXFN…
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Victoria’s Secret had said in a statement that on September 6, Piergiorgio Del Moro, who cast the show, had informed model Romee Strijd’s agency, IMG, that she was not cast. But Strijd, it turns out, did not attend the VS casting until September 10. Whether this is a simple mix up regarding dates or a more complicated issue remains a mystery. “I had been on option since early summer,” Strijd said in a statement. “If the decision was that I should no longer be considered, I would appreciate an explanation of what happened and why I still attended.” Strijd understands not being booked for a job, she said, that’s not her issue. “If there is still uncertainty, say that honestly,” Strijd said. “Keeping someone hopeful because a decision might change isn’t fair when they’re making plans and putting their time and energy into something. That has always been my point.” Read more from José Criales-Unzueta's weekly column Fit Check: vanityfair.visitlink.me/NXFN…
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A talented race car driver, martial arts enthusiast, pilot, and notorious ladies’ man, Steve McQueen has become a cultural icon, the definitive king of cool. “His special, unique talent was his ability to balance his inner heat (his emotional rage, his distrust of older authority figures, and his defiance of them) and his cautious, careful, catlike wariness that so beautifully translated to the screen as the ultimate in cool,” Marc Eliot writes in 2011’s gossipy 'Steve McQueen: A Biography' vanityfair.visitlink.me/gecz…
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The RealReal is publishing a surprisingly deep manual about shopping and styling your clothes. Vanity Fair spoke to chief brand officer and coauthor Kristen Naiman about how a website becomes a book, the changing zeitgeist of style, and what she buys vanityfair.visitlink.me/rlnu…
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War exponentially scaled Xtend CEO Aviv Shapira’s business, right as American investors were falling back in love with the military. In September, American Ventures, in which Eric Trump is an investor, helped take the company public in a reverse merger, which saw Xtend fold into a small construction company that was already public. Xtend is part of a greater wave of the Trump sons investing in defense tech: The two brothers’ investments have produced at least $3.2 billion in government business, according to a Washington Post analysis vanityfair.visitlink.me/ehx4…
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“Republicans really need to elevate and highlight more women in our party who have NOT had bizarre or botched plastic surgery that is both distracting and made a mockery all over the internet,” declared Meghan McCain on X. But what if the surgery isn’t botched at all? “It’s very fun, particularly when you’re on one political side or another, to aim your criticism weapon at them and say, ‘Oh, look how bad their plastic surgery is,’” says plastic surgeon and TV personality Dr. Terry Dubrow. “But it isn’t bad. From a technical point of view,  it’s extraordinarily successful…. The plastic surgery is super well executed.” Read more from VF's Clara Molot: vanityfair.visitlink.me/8ZV5…
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“Hermes was terribly like Fred; it’s unbelievable how much of Fred rubbed off on Hermes, and perhaps of Hermes on Fred” Read the untold story of Fred Astaire’s soulmate, choreographer Hermes Pan: vanityfair.visitlink.me/9tQD…
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