Is Serge Gainsbourg #Annulé?
The French intelligentsia now see him as Harvey Weinstein in dirty denim
Tempest in a Teacup
The author of a naughty tell-all memoir is driven into hiding while le tout London wonders what on earth Sasha Swire was thinking
Holy Terror
The cardinal in charge of vetting saints is fired over charges that he embezzled Vatican funds meant for the poor
Depp Goes Down Swinging
Once Hollywood’s fêted heartthrob, Johnny Depp may never work again after this week’s High Court verdict in the U.K.
Did She Marry a He-Devil?
Fay Weldon’s life eerily imitates her fiction
The King’s Gambit
Is Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, running out of moves?
Was Diana Duped?
Earl Spencer accuses the BBC of swindling his sister out of secrets in her infamous interview
Pedaling Bad Behavior
SoulCycle was always cultish. Now instructors are accused of having sex with clients, racism, and more
A Tech Tycoon’s Prison Tweets
Before the anti-virus-software guru John McAfee died in prison in Spain, he was a social media animal
Divorce, Oligarch-Style
The ex-wife of an oil-and-gas baron goes to the mattresses to get hold of her $600 million settlement
Boy’s Family Sues Elite Camp
Brant Lake faces three civil lawsuits over sex abuse
Bullfighters Enter Ring with Stepmother
Brothers demand return of their father’s legacy
Daddy Dearest?
Accusations of a third love child threaten to unravel the fragile peace between Prince Albert of Monaco and his wife, Charlene
The Mind of a Killer
A year after Fotis Dulos took his own life, a writer retraces his steps on the day his wife, Jennifer, vanished
Boiling Point
Gordon Ramsay’s family meltdown makes Hell’s Kitchen look like paradise
Naughty or Nice?
Fake-heiress grifter Anna Delvey, imprisoned for a $275,000 swindle, is being released early—just in time for her Netflix debut
Sorry, Not Sorry
In Paris, the Café de Flore set has been plagued with sex-crime scandals—but there’s no apology in sight
The Château That Ate Provence, Part II
In Provence, France’s highest court orders a showman to destroy his opulent $69 million faux Italianate palazzo
When Your Life Is a True-Crime Scandal
Six years after she was freed from an Italian prison and found innocent of a sensational murder, Amanda Knox looks back
Snake Eyes
A bumbling billionaire blows a fortune trying to build the Vegas of Down Under
Howard’s End
Once the master of the castle used in the filming of Bridgerton and Brideshead Revisited, Simon Howard now faces vast troubles, including child-sex-offense charges
Playing Dirty
What led actress Felicity Huffman to risk everything—including the sentence she recently finished serving—to try to cheat her daughter’s way into college?
Treasure Islet
Mysterious thefts on the tiny island of Capraia, where everyone knows everyone, baffle the municipality’s three police officers
Your Schloss or Mine?
Why is the patriarch of one of Germany’s most revered noble families living in the woods and suing his son?