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LICENSE TO STEAL

Two years after his suicide, the Swiss wealth manager Eric Freymond’s alleged web of deception has cost Ursula Andress, the original Bond girl, $22.5 million—and an Hermès heir counting billions in losses …

BLOOD MONEY

When a Polymarket bettor made $553,000 predicting Ayatollah Khamenei’s death, outrage ensued—but profiting from disaster (whether betting on sieges or shipwrecks) is nothing new …

PRE-WAR AND PEACE

Forget Billionaires’ Row—Manhattan’s high-end property market is shifting as buyers swap glossy new condos for historic co-ops that offer old-money cachet at half the price. Michael Gross investigates …

JUST WHEN HE THOUGHT HE WAS OUT!

Stuart Heritage sits down with David Chase, the godfather of prestige TV, who swore off television after The Sopranos—only to be pulled back in with a new series on C.I.A. skulduggery …

THE SHAWSKANK REDEMPTION

More than 30 Real Housewives cast members have been arrested for everything from aggravated assault to telemarketing fraud. We explore the “Housewives-to-prison pipeline” phenomenon …

THE TALENTED MR. BRETTLER

Patrick Radden Keefe reconstructs the life of Zac Brettler, a precocious British teen who assumed the alter ego of a billionaire’s son, only to fall into the clutches of London’s underworld …

ALE’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

From marathon Sunday roasts to splitting the G, New York is in the midst of a British-pub revival—defined as much by a newfound appetite for lingering as it is by day-drinking …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Easter-egg selections for every variety of sweet tooth … a serious rival to Apple’s iPhone, unearthed by our tech columnist … the perfect British-countryside retreat … cottagecore gets the coffee-table-book treatment … Grace Van Patten’s equally talented sister Anna on starring in Euphoria’s final season … and Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem as Thelma and Louise, courtesy of the ever brilliant Barry Blitt …

But First …
Issue No. 351

The View from Here Prediction markets are courting controversy—and allegations of insider trading—by taking bets on the Iran war. Gambling on human life may be venal, but it isn’t new

By Stuart Jeffries
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Tales of grift

The Man with the Golden Con Eric Freymond stole millions from the original Bond girl and bilked an heir to the Hermès fortune out of billions. Was the Swiss wealth manager the greatest fraudster who ever lived?

By Marianka Swain
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Games

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee
Small Talk
“Awww, his first time disabling parental controls.”
“Awww, his first time disabling parental controls.”
High Maintenance

Bye-Bye, Billionaires’ Row #floorplanporn hashtags are flooding social media and Rosario Candela books are stacking up on coffee tables as Manhattan buyers turn from super-sleek new builds to historic co-ops. Is the age of condos coming to an end?

By Michael Gross
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married to the mob

The Reluctant King of HBO David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, discusses his new drama, about the C.I.A.’s infamous LSD experiments—and reveals why he hasn’t written any television since Tony’s final scene

By Stuart Heritage
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Air Supply

The Age of Innocence

AIR SUPPLY’s take on classics isn’t sentimental—it’s selective. These are the pieces that continue to hold up because they never dropped off in the first place. Across fashion, home, and everything in between, they remain exacting, useful, and entirely unbothered by what’s new
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Guest Edit

Tiffany Howell’s Favorite Things The former music-video producer builds rooms the way others build scenes: through texture, light, and emotion. Her selections follow the same logic: sensual, personal, and guided by instinct rather than trends

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Arrested Development

The Real Housewives of Rikers Island On the heels of Taylor Frankie Paul’s Bachelorette blowup and Summer House’s own Scandoval, one writer goes inside the reality-TV franchise that puts them all to shame

By Valeriya Safronova
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Landing Gear

The Heir to Apple Is Here A Chinese tech firm has the goods! An explosively fun model-rocket company! An app for the speed-curious! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis
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Proper Boozers

The British Are Coming! Sunday roasts, sticky toffee pudding, and porn-star martinis hinted at Anglomania’s return to New York nightlife. Now the pubs are arriving in force

By Cami Fateh
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Easter Bests
hunt Li-Lac Chocolates Li-Lac Chocolates has been a New York mainstay since 1923, when a Greek immigrant named George Demetrious first… hunt Louis Vuitton The concept of an edible Louis Vuitton handbag would be funny if it didn’t look so good. First released for Easter last year, the chocolate… hunt Claridge’s Who says Easter eggs are only for children? Behold a worthy prize for your adult (or sophisticated youngster) egg hunt: a handcrafted… hunt Fortnum & Mason Fortnum & Mason does not need a goose from Aesop’s fables to have a golden egg… hunt Dandelion Chocolate If your Easter basket leans more haute couture than supermarket chocolate, the Dandelion Signature… hunt La Maison du Chocolat Oval eggs are overrated—or so La Maison du Chocolat would have you believe. Doing away with the… hunt Li-Lac Chocolates Li-Lac Chocolates has been a New York mainstay since 1923, when a Greek immigrant named George Demetrious first… hunt Louis Vuitton The concept of an edible Louis Vuitton handbag would be funny if it didn’t look so good. First released for Easter last year, the chocolate… hunt Claridge’s Who says Easter eggs are only for children? Behold a worthy prize for your adult (or sophisticated youngster) egg hunt: a handcrafted… hunt Fortnum & Mason Fortnum & Mason does not need a goose from Aesop’s fables to have a golden egg… hunt Dandelion Chocolate If your Easter basket leans more haute couture than supermarket chocolate, the Dandelion Signature… hunt La Maison du Chocolat Oval eggs are overrated—or so La Maison du Chocolat would have you believe. Doing away with the…
Books
Tobias Grey On

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth

by Patrick Radden Keefe
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Around the World in Culture
In Theaters
Robert Pattinson and Zendaya co-star in The Drama, a new film that promises romance but delivers something far more complicated… In New York
An exhibition collects more than 400 hand-colored engravings depicting fashion trends in the era of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI… In Theaters
The French director François Ozon adapts Albert Camus’s lauded 1942 novella, The Stranger, into a black-and-white film… In Vienna
Spanning the 1970s to the present, an exhibition of Richard Prince’s photographs features his renowned “Cowboys” and “Gangs” series… In Venice
Thirty works by the British painter Jenny Saville are on view in the Italian city as the art world gears up for the Biennale this May… In Antwerp
From Dirk Bikkembergs to Dries Van Noten, a museum show pays tribute to the fashion designers known as the Antwerp Six…
Highlight
Isamu Noguchi, photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe in 1955.

Noguchi at Play

“I am not a designer,” said Isamu Noguchi in 1949, even though he was in the middle of a career designing furniture, lamps, ashtrays, a cemetery, bridge railings, parks, public spaces for skyscrapers, and groundbreaking sets for the dances of Martha Graham. He explained that design tended to imply an accommodation to “quixotic fashion,” while he saw himself, a sculptor, as dealing with “fundamental problems of form.” READ ON

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Travel

A Farm Fit for a King At Fowlescombe Farm in South Devon, Scandinavian design and Michelin-caliber cooking meet rare-breed sheep, companionable goats, and just enough English-countryside mud underfoot

By Ashley Baker
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Open Book

Cabin Fever From the stone façades of East Sussex to the wood shingles of Rhode Island, three new coffee-table books capture the child-like wonder of cottage living

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From Summer by the Sea: Ninigret Farm, in Haversham, Rhode Island.
From Summer by the Sea: Wainwright Cottage, in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
From Summer by the Sea: a view of the property outside Fiddler’s Green, on Block Island.
A bedroom in Ninigret Farm.
The dining room in Wainwright Cottage.
From Cottage Gardens: scarlet runner beans, a staple of traditional British cottages.
From Summer by the Sea: the Cottage, in Saunderstown, Rhode Island.
From Cottage Gardens: top, a bed of Benton irises in the village of Hemingford Grey, England; above, the garden outside Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent, England.
From Summer by the Sea: Clingstone, off the coast of Jamestown.
From Cottage Gardens: fuchsia, lobelia, calibrachoa, and ivy-leaf pelargoniums dotting the exterior of a British home.
From Life Inside a Cottage: top, a cottage belonging to Symondsbury Manor, a farm in West Dorset, England; above, the view from Shepherd’s Cottage, in Firle, England.
From Life Inside a Cottage: a hallway in Little Mill Abergavenny, a guesthouse in Abergavenny, England.
A bedroom in Shepherd’s Cottage.
The kitchen in Shepherd’s Cottage.
Little Mill Abergavenny’s façade.
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Close-up

Anna Van Patten The 27-year-old actress discusses growing up as the daughter of Sopranos director Tim Van Patten; acting opposite her older sister, Grace; and joining Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, and Sydney Sweeney for Euphoria’s long-awaited final season

By Gracie Wiener
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Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook
The bunny hop.
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