The Shadow of the Putney Pusher
Nine years after a jogger shoved a woman into the path of a London bus, a suspect with royal connections was arrested. Now he is dead, and his sisters want answers
“It’s Elizabeth Holmes … I Understand We’ll Be Making a Film Together”
The Theranos documentary that wasn’t
An Heir of Defiance
A quarter-billion-dollar fortune helped Fergie Chambers pursue his revolutionary ambitions. Now he’s in a Spanish prison, fighting to keep the country he loathes from bringing him home
Welcome to SlutCon
For the techies engineering our future, talking to actual women can be a daunting prospect. Fortunately, there’s a conference for that
The Curious Case of the Missing Basquiat
For 16 years, a $20 million Basquiat was at the center of a bitter legal battle between an Oscar-winning Italian producer and his ex-wife. Then, just as mysteriously as it vanished, it turned up in a Miami warehouse
The Recipe Site That Ate Itself
How Food52 went from a wholesome home-cook community to a $300 million e-commerce empire—and ended up being sold for spare parts
The Fantasists Who Fooled Putin
In 2024, the Russian president was left a mysterious art collection said to be worth $2 billion. Is he the world’s luckiest dictator or the heir to a hoarder’s junk pile?
Flacking for the Tate Brothers
Facing charges of human trafficking and rape, the manosphere’s most notorious siblings hired their lawyer’s cousin to stage an image makeover. Can you blame a girl for trying?
The Curious Case of the Zendaya Spider Brooch
Two historic jewelry houses claimed a giant yellow-sapphire piece worn by the actress on a Spider-Man red carpet as their own. Now it has seemingly disappeared. What happened?
The Dark Side of the Sun
As Majorca strains under record tourism, next week’s total solar eclipse threatens to push the once quaint Spanish island to a breaking point
A Nanny State on the Charles
Harvard has come for what may be its last campus outlier: Dudley Co-op, a lefty co-living alternative to the polished, increasingly bland school culture
Epstein’s Music-Camp Hunting Ground
The abuse was well underway when 14-year-old Jeffrey Epstein first arrived at Interlochen Arts Camp. It got worse decades later when he returned to groom his next victims
The Eyes of a Killer: Part XII
This week, Bryan Kohberger withdrew his guilty plea for the murder of four University of Idaho students, seemingly without the help of a lawyer. What’s his next move?
Italy’s Very Own Mar-a-Lago
A look inside Villa Certosa, which played host to all manner of politics and misbehavior (plus, an artificial volcano) during Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s controversial bunga-bunga years, before being sold to the Qataris
Re-Inventing Anna
The Russian-born fraudster Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, has turned notoriety into a career, with campaigns from Goop to French Playboy—and zero signs of remorse
The Curious Case of Stalin’s Wine Cellar
Georgia’s government unveiled the dictator’s “lost” bottles before an audience of collectors, auction-house executives, and the president of Château d’Yquem. It didn’t take long for the official story to unravel
Inside the Search for Nancy Guthrie: Part II
Did law enforcement make a colossal—even fatal—mistake in the investigation’s early days?
The Patrick Bateman of London?
In 2017, a jogger in a fashionable neighborhood shoved a woman into the path of an oncoming bus. The suspect, arrested this week, is reportedly a private banker with ties to the House of Windsor
A Sonic Switcheroo at Mar-a-Lago
Trump spent decades trying to stop planes from flying over his club. Now his tony Palm Beach neighbors say he has finally succeeded—and made their palatial homes unlivable
Invasion of the Bodyworkers
The planned 236-acre Six Senses luxury wellness retreat in the Hudson Valley has many locals feeling very un-Zen
The Rise and Fall of the Art World’s Gadfly
As “Jerry Gogosian,” Hilde Lynn Helphenstein found fame skewering the industry online. But after making her, the Internet destroyed her
The Fall of the House of Mango
After the billionaire founder of the fast-fashion label plunged to his death on a Catalan mountain trail, his ineffectual heir became a prime suspect
Inside the Search for Nancy Guthrie
Her kidnapping riveted the nation—as did the botched hunt for Guthrie’s abductor. Yet even as hopes dim, a resourceful task force soldiers on
Sword Fight!
Beau D., a small Malibu men’s beauty brand whose main product is, yes, a penis cream, is taking on Brad Pitt’s skin-care line, Beau Domaine, over a trademark violation