Not the Smartest Guy in the Room
Once hailed as Britain’s answer to Bill Gates, Mike Lynch is facing 20 years in prison if found guilty of conspiracy and fraud linked to his company’s sale
The Curious Case of the Saint-Moritz Curmudgeon
Adolf Haeberli lives like a squatter in the ritzy ski town—and has become a minor celebrity in the process
The Tortured Musicians Department
Vladimir Putin is resurrecting a Soviet-era, Eurovision-like competition—and crushing musicians’ dissent
Money Talks
A peek inside Prince Albert’s finances paints a picture of a feeble monarch, browbeaten by the women in his life
The View from Here
Jennifer Dulos disappeared three years ago. The husband accused of her murder is dead by his own hand. Now his mistress is on trial
Art on Trial
When Dmitry Rybolovlev took Sotheby’s auction house to court and accused it of defrauding him, it revealed the limits of a billionaire’s power
Swan Song
Truman Capote’s social suicide by novel: the story behind the new mini-series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
Skeletons in the Closet
The culture wars have come for Skull and Bones, Yale’s most prestigious—and mysterious—secret society
Lost Command
Having made 90 films during his career, the French actor, director, and heartthrob Alain Delon is now confronting an unexpectedly tragic final act
Big Law Gets Bigger
Paul, Weiss once embraced a variety of civic-minded causes. Today, the law firm seems more focused on its own bottom line
A Very British Scandal
It was one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history—but it took a TV show to get the government to act
The View from Here
Since 2020, the Ivy League has used its prominence—and free ESPN spots—to stand against various forms of discrimination. But on anti-Semitism, it has been conspicuously silent
Mean Boys
France can’t stop talking about its new prime minister, the young and dashing Gabriel Attal. And neither can his high-school bully
Battle Royale
In a warped tale of lust and betrayal befitting a telenovela, Queen Letizia of Spain’s former flame alleges that they had an affair during her marriage to King Felipe
Oh, Mon Depardieu!
Scores of sexual-harassment charges are finally catching up with France’s most decorated actor. And that’s when the culture wars stepped in
Baroness Bra Comes Undone
Before Michelle Mone sat in the House of Lords, she made a fortune in lingerie. Now that she’s accused of selling defective P.P.E. to the government, gravity is working against her
Burn After Watching
How a flamboyant Frenchman who rose to fame for restoring lost film classics—and burning old film onstage to impress audiences—ended up on trial for manslaughter
By Hook or by Crook
David Henty can mimic Picasso, Monet, Modigliani, Caravaggio, Basquiat, and more. The ex-convict may be the world’s greatest art forger, and he has the plaque to prove it
Putin’s Gold Rush
Russian archaeologists are looting Ukrainian museums of gold, artifacts, and weapons that the Kremlin says prove that Russia is an ancient civilization many thousands of years old. (It’s not)
The Trenches of Academe
Allegations of anti-Semitism have students, faculty, and donors at Harvard in an uproar—and the university’s new president is caught in the middle
Tall Tales
Assessing George Santos’s improbable rise from Brazil to Capitol Hill and his ouster, his biographer warns that the former congressman could be a Donald Trump in the making
Muddy Waters
Last year, the U.S. seized a $300 million yacht belonging to a sanctioned Russian billionaire with close ties to Vladimir Putin. The question is: Which one?
Bleak House, New York–Style
For a quarter-century, artists, activists, and plutocrats have been battling over the future of a former public school in the East Village. Is the end finally in sight?
The Parent Trap
For nearly 40 years, and with the support of a Christian evangelical mega-church, Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo have preached a shocking and damaging parenting program to thousands of Americans
