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The State Department's hostage point man, Roger Carstens, works to free US citizens from captivity, whether they're being held by Vladimir Putin or Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. ADAM CIRALSKY embeds with America's top negotiators through 15 months of rescue efforts with the highest of stakes: liberty or death
Jacqueline Kennedy was the First Lady and iconic widow lauded for her style and beauty. More stylish and beautiful, in many eyes, was her sister, Lee Radziwill. Both adored their dashing, ne'er-do-well father, "Black Jack" Bouvier, were drawn to the same men—including Aristotle Onassis, Rudolf Nureyev, and Peter Beard—and dealt with terrible tragedy. In a revealing interview with SAM KASHNER, Radziwill looks back at their deeply intertwined lives
"La Côte Basque 1965," the first installment of Truman Capote's planned roman à clef, Answered Prayers, dropped like a bomb on New York society when it appeared in Esquire's November 1975 issue. Iced out by the friends he'd skewered—such of his "swans" as Slim Keith, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Babe Paley—Capote began his slide into an early grave. SAM KASHNER pursues the scandal's mysteries, including the fate of the unfinished manuscript
"They're like a Monty Python sketch," said Meghan's father about his new royal in-laws. "I'm like, 'What is this, Joan Crawford speaking?' " says Meghan's half-sister. A slightly fractured, Americanized, Kardashianified royal fairy tale
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
Twenty years ago, a 500-pound pallet containing all the statuettes for the ceremony was stolen from a warehouse just weeks before the big show. The detective on the case, Marc Zavala, still remembers every weird twist and turn.
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The theft of last year’s Oscars led to the arrest of a trucker and a forklift operator. Meanwhile, Willie Fulgear, the junk scavenger who claimed he’d found the golden statuettes in a Dumpster, became a local hero, rewarded with $50,000 and a tribute at the ceremony. Case closed? Not exactly
On the eve of the US Open, VF catches up with the next generation of tennis stars
And What Are the Members of a Team Supposed To Do?
The greatest gymnast of all time opens up about life as a newlywed, her recovery from Tokyo, and what's ahead—including Paris, peut-être
In a break from the scion's progressive family tradition, ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. has become an unlikely evangelist for the anti-vax movement
I met Ivanka Trump at an all-girls school on the Upper East Side, and we were inseparable for more than a decade. Gradually, though, our differences divided us—“Why would you tell me to read a book about fucking poor people?” she once asked—and I watched her blow up her carefully curated image of refined privilege to embrace her father wholesale
IN SECRET UNDERSEA LOCATIONS, AMERICA'S FLEET OF NUCLEAR SUBMARINES SILENTLY PREPARES FOR THE NEXT SUPERPOWER CONFLICT. GAINING UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO THESE RARELY GLIMPSED VESSELS AND THEIR COMMANDERS, VANITY FAIR REPORTS ON THE LINCHPIN OF THE NATION'S STRATEGIC ARSENAL
Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders—consumes and feeds—real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico's print version is what's helped make it profitable
