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The DoorDash Delivery Scandal That Rocked the Internet

TikTok, Reddit, and X are abuzz over the alleged sexual assault of a female delivery driver

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Un-Maintenance

Steve McQueen’s granddaughter is suing for ownership of a $68 million Jackson Pollock painting, which the actor allegedly swapped for a motorcycle that never appeared

To Catch a Catfish

A former police officer turned private investigator is hunting down romance scammers preying on wealthy, lonely seniors in Australia

She Faked Her Way into Yale. Then Things Unraveled

How fabricated transcripts, recommendation letters, and a personal statement about North Dakota fooled the Ivy into admitting a Chinese student from the Bay Area

France’s A-Team

Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers reveal how they came to represent the victim in the rape trial that shocked the country

Man on the Run

Two years after the model Abby Choi was brutally dismembered, troubling new details have emerged about her ex-husband’s criminal past—and how he was able to evade arrest

The 40-Year Con: Part III

Once Spiro Pavlovich became Nicholas Rockefeller, he never dropped the charade, even in private. But beneath the “wonderful man,” as he was described by a Yale Law School classmate, lurked a dark, abusive Mr. Hyde

Famiglia Feud

Gianni Agnelli’s grandson John Elkann turned a failing family business into a $40 billion global empire. Now he’s doing community service to avoid a legal dispute with his own mother

The Gall of Inigo Philbrick

From London to Miami, the art dealer tricked the ultra-rich out of millions. A new documentary traces the unprecedented scale of his fraud—and the delusions that fueled him

The Fall of Fashion’s First Couple

The dramatic falling-out between Natalie Massenet, the founder of Net-a-Porter, and her partner, Erik Torstensson, includes allegations of drug dealers, escorts, exorbitant spending, and herpes medication

The Doctor Will Sue You Now

Dr. Douglas Schottenstein manages pain for a living, but even he wasn’t equipped to allegedly be defrauded of hundreds of thousands of dollars by his own employees

Grab ‘Em by the Pants!

Sydney Sweeney is a master of self-promotion—but is allying herself with the Republican Party a social-media storm too far?

The Italian Job

How a Roman forgery network faked “impossible to replicate” artworks by Picasso, Edvard Munch, and Paul Klee using … coffee and tea

The Davos Man Who Fell to Earth

What could have prompted the resignation of the alleged funds-misusing, data-rigging, employee-harassing founder of the World Economic Forum?

How to Steal $40 Million Without Really Trying: Part II

Biscuits, Bollywood, and lots of bullion … Inside the hunt for the Toronto gold robbers

Rage and Ravioli on Lake Garda

Italy’s Rana family, of the global pasta empire, is rumored to be in hot water with locals over renovations to a historic estate on Lake Garda better suited to Las Vegas than to Como’s quainter cousin

The Coldplay Kiss-Cam Faux Pas

How is Andy Byron, the now infamous (and now former) C.E.O. of Astronomer, ever going to rebuild his reputation? Perhaps by using the Bill Clinton playbook

Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis

When the art dealer Ezra Chowaiki was offered the deal of a lifetime, he found himself in a confounding world of counterfeits

Where Is Her Body?

When Rich Cohen released his book on the murder of Jennifer Dulos, he was inundated with theories on her last resting place. The craziest theory of all just might be true

The Road Less Fact-Checked

After triumphing over adversity and disease, Raynor Winn wrote a memoir, The Salt Path, that became a sensation in England. A new report reveals that her story isn’t quite so straightforward

Jho’s Low Blow

How a Malaysian businessman laundered billions, financed The Wolf of Wall Street, looted his country’s state fund, and walked away unscathed—unlike his partners in crime

Was My Friend a Fraud?

Matthew Pietras worked for the Soros family, donated millions to museums, and produced a fistful of Broadway shows. So why did it all feel make-believe?

Bosom Buddies

Michelle Mone, the scandal-plagued lingerie hawker known as “Baroness Bra,” has become a pariah in her native United Kingdom. Now she’s trying to start fresh in—where else?—Florida

Lord of the Lies

Inspired by his love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, a São Paulo judge posed as a member of the British aristocracy for decades