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EXCLUSIVE

### Olivia Nuzzi's *American Canto*: Read the Exclusive Excerpt

She flamed out and she faded away. *Vanity Fair*’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.

By Olivia Nuzzi

November 17, 2025

Dots

Politics

### Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump Are at War. What’s Her Endgame?

Over the course of a long sit-down interview in her office, the MAGA stalwart from Georgia sounds like she is on a mission to save Trump from himself, on issues from Gaza to the Epstein files to the question of 2028.

awards season

### Tom Cruise Is Finally an Oscar Winner at 2025 Governors Awards

awards season

### With *The Paper* and *White Lotus,* Sabrina Impacciatore Realizes Her American Dream

kennedy for me?

### Democratic Strategists Mull Jack Schlossberg’s Odds of Getting Into Congress

exclusive

### Timothée Chalamet and Adam Sandler Unite for *Vanity Fair* Scene Selection Live

The actors took an adoring audience through their filmographies, and even played a round of two-on-two basketball.

The Library is Open

### How Joyce Carol Oates Posted Her Way to Social Media Glory

The legendary writer used one of her favorite pastimes to bash Elon Musk on his own platform, causing Musk to crash out—and completing Oates’s own Twitter redemption arc.

## LATEST STORIES

### Behind the Mic

Behind the Mic

### Megyn Kelly Ignores Viral Outcry, Insists She’s the Real Source of Truth on Jeffrey Epstein

*The Megyn Kelly Show* host was torn apart for apparently equivocating on Epstein’s behalf—but is sticking to her guns.

Style

### Inside the $700 Million Art Trove to Be Sold at Christie’s—and That’s Not Counting the Secret Room

Royals

### Kate Middleton Put Issa on the Map 15 Years Ago. What Happened to The Brand?

Movies

### Lady Gaga’s Little Sister, Natali Germanotta, Makes Her Debut at Vegas Fashion Week

Royals

### Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Downfall Coincided with a Major Shift at the British Tabloids

Politics

### Gavin Newsom Is Winning the “Attention Primary.” Insiders Say He’s Building Infrastructure to Win an Actual Primary

## Most Popular

News

### Olivia Nuzzi's *American Canto*: Read the Exclusive Excerpt

She flamed out and she faded away. *Vanity Fair*’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.

Politics

### Megyn Kelly Ignores Viral Outcry, Insists She’s the Real Source of Truth on Jeffrey Epstein

*The Megyn Kelly Show* host was torn apart for apparently equivocating on Epstein’s behalf—but is sticking to her guns, saying she resents “these Johnny-come-latelies finally getting interested in the story.”

Food

### The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Cookie Maker

In the third and fourth episodes of *Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story,* hosted by Sarah Amos, his daughter explores how her dad turned a simple cookie into a national phenomenon and then lost it all.

Television

### How Taylor Frankie Paul, Once a Mormon Wife, Became a *Bachelorette* With a Not-So-Secret Life

In just three years, the 31-year-old single mom has infiltrated reality TV by simply being her authentically messy self: “I’ve made a lot of mistakes, and I share it—take it or leave it.”

true colors

### Two Curators Put Gigantic Confederate Monuments in an LA Contemporary Art Museum. How Did They Pull It Off?

“Monuments,” a new exhibition at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary, juxtaposes toppled statues and paintings by living artists—and is the most talked-about museum show in the country. Hamza Walker and Bennett Simpson walk us through it all.

Exclusive

### The SAG Awards Get a Facelift: Call Them the Actor Awards Now

The Screen Actors Guild is rebranding its marquee awards telecast—but “the real core DNA of the show remains the same.”

all in the family

### Helena Bonham Carter’s Lookalike Daughter With Tim Burton Makes Her Modeling Debut

The future is bright for 17-year-old Nell Burton, who posed alongside her famous mother in their first joint fashion campaign.

Rocky Mountains

### The Trump Pardon and the Trail Runner: Inside the Curious Case of “Free Michelino”

He’s no J6er or Darryl Strawberry. Mountain-running scofflaw Michelino Sunseri talks to *Vanity Fair* about the niche sports drama that consumed him, and his clemency from potential community service.

not so true crime

### Is Matthew Rhys Playing a Fake Robert Durst on *The Beast in Me*?

The new Netflix show starring Claire Danes and Rhys seems to pull from a notorious criminal, as well as a true crime obsessive.

on the scene

### *GQ*’s Men of the Year Bash Brought the ’90s Back

The 30th-anniversary celebration brought out a slew of famous faces in their best ’90s-inspired looks.

ROYALS

### Kate Middleton's 2025 Christmas Carol Concert Will Celebrate Love, With Help From Kate Winslet

Kensington Palace has unveiled the theme, date, and a few guests for the 2025 Together at Christmas carol concert.

future, tense

### As AI-Artist Xania Monet Climbs the Charts, Victoria Monét’s Caught in the Uncanny Valley

The Grammy winner can’t prove the virtual singer was trained on her music or image—but “It’s not ideal,” says Monét.

SHOW AND TELL

### In Taylor Swift’s *End of an Era* Trailer, Mama Swift Says What We’re All Thinking: “That’s Complicated”

The first trailer for the upcoming six-episode docuseries has it all: Travis Kelce, Andrea Swift, Andrea Swift talking about Travis Kelce…and Meredith the cat.

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girlhood, uninterrupted

### Sofia Coppola Says She’s Dying to Work With Kirsten Dunst Again

Twenty-five years after *The Virgin Suicides*, Coppola chats with *VF* before being honored at the Museum of Modern Art’s 2025 Film Benefit, presented by Chanel.

Da Pope

### Pope Leo XIV Is a Cinephile Who Loves *It’s a Wonderful Life,* *The Sound of Music*

Before welcoming prominent figures in cinema to the Vatican on Saturday, Pope Leo XIV shared his four favorite films of all time— including a Christmas classic, a beloved musical, and an Oscar-winning drama.

baptism by fire

### How Taylor Frankie Paul, Once a Mormon Wife, Became a *Bachelorette* With a Not-So-Secret Life

In just three years, the 31-year-old single mom has infiltrated reality TV by simply being her authentically messy self: “I’ve made a lot of mistakes, and I share it—take it or leave it.”

royals

### Inside Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Emails to Jeffrey Epstein

Documents released by the House Oversight Committee reveal how the former prince and the late pedophile responded to public allegations about their friendship in 2011.

MUSIC

### Kelsea Ballerini’s “I Sit in Parks” Is the Latest Lightning Rod for Conservative Anti-feminists

To women on TikTok, the song was a reflection of the emotional difficulties of “having it all”—but to conservatives, it showed the hollow core of feminism.

florida men

### The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Relationship: Everything We Know

Amid a looming vote on the Epstein files, House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which the late financier and sex trafficker said Trump “knew about the girls.”

ROYALS

### Prince William Explains the Importance of Wearing a Poppy on Armistice Day

“When we wear a red poppy or take a moment of silence, we are saying, 'Thank you. We have not forgotten, and we will not forget,’” the Prince of Wales said Tuesday.

POLITICS

### Meet Sue Gordon, the Former Deputy of National Intelligence Who Podcasts About Trump’s “Vice and Graft” From Her Living Room

The veteran intelligence officer and ex-Trump appointee is fighting for democracy—while she fights for her life.

PODCAST

### The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Cookie Maker

In the third and fourth episodes of *Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story,* hosted by Sarah Amos, his daughter explores how her dad turned a simple cookie into a national phenomenon and then lost it all.

a sussex syllabus

### Meghan Markle Returns to Acting After an Eight-Year Hiatus. From Hallmark Romance to a Robert Pattinson Drama, Revisit Her Filmography.

The retired royal appears in a new project opposite Brie Larson and Lily Collins, her first scripted role since leaving *Suits* to marry Prince Harry.

Based on a true story

### *Death by Lightning:* The Bizarre, True Story of Charles Guiteau and James A. Garfield

Netflix’s new series depicts the assassination of the 20th president by a fan with mental illness, and the wild story that involved a brain in a jar, a surprise election, and a religious sex cult.

Defying Gravity

### Jon M. Chu Thought Making *Wicked* Might End His Career

Instead, the director is taking a victory lap as he reveals how he approached the musical’s infamously more challenging second act in *Wicked: For Good.* “I don’t say darker, I say deeper.”

Royals

### Meghan Markle’s Holiday Special Has a Release Date

The Duchess of Sussex has already confirmed that she will show off her “advanced gift wrapping” skills in the *With Love, Meghan: Holiday Special*.

royals

### Who Was Elena of Montenegro, Queen Sofía’s Godmother Who Aided Soldiers in World War I?

At the end of World War II, she and her husband Victor Emanuel III, with whom she had five children, were exiled to Egypt until his 1947 death.

Aftermath

### Erika Kirk Tells Jesse Watters She Is Grieving Through C.S. Lewis and Charlie Kirk Fan Art

As the Turning Point USA CEO accepts a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for her late husband, a new Fox docuseries captures how the conservative youth organization is continuing after the loss of its founder.

HOLLYWOOD

### You Know Francis, Roman, and Sofia Coppola. It’s Time You Knew Eleanor.

In the years before her death in 2024, the wife of Francis Ford Coppola and mother of Sofia and Roman Coppola wrote a book reflecting on a lifetime spent as the matriarch of one of Hollywood’s most famous families.

STAFF ANNOUNCEMENT

### *Vanity Fair* Announces New Hires

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adrienne Green, José Criales-Unzueta, Marisa Meltzer, and more join the magazine

true colors

### Who Is Alma Allen, the Artist Who Will Represent the US at the Venice Biennale?

In early October, word of Allen’s selection began ricocheting around the art world—and now we can confirm it. While the sculptor has shown with blue chip galleries, his selection came as a shock to most. How did this Utah-born, Mexico-based recluse end up representing the US on the grandest stage?

It's really, uh, sharp don't you think?

### Cynthia Erivo Finds Her Black Hat, Thanks to a Fan

A viral TikTok helped Erivo reunite with the hat she wore—and lost—at last year's London *Wicked* premiere.

Royals

### Lady Loelia Ponsonby, Former Duchess of Westminster, and the Aristocratic Marriage from “Hell”

A bright young thing, a gifted artist, and a renowned journalist, Lady Loelia escaped life as the Duchess of Westminster and went on to marry an arctic explorer before she died, 32 years ago.

ROYALS

### How Prince William and Princess Kate Are Preparing Prince George For His Future as Monarch

The 12-year-old prince “needs to understand the importance of occasions” like the Festival of Remembrance as he prepares to one day become king, a royal insider tells *Vanity Fair*.

One-Two Punch

### Sydney Sweeney Is Taking a Bruising at the Box Office But the Real Christy Martin Is Impressed

Sydney Sweeney stars as Christy Martin, who nearly lost her life to an act of domestic violence. “She was fighting her biggest battle outside of the ring,” says the film’s producer.

documentary

### In *Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth,* a Grieving Mother Tries to Clear Her Daughter’s Name

*Love Island* presenter Caroline Flack died by suicide after being accused of assault—and excoriated by the British media. “I’ve met with journalists from the tabloids. They don’t acknowledge that they did anything,” says Flack’s mother, Christine. “That’s all I want; ‘Do you know, we did get it wrong.’’’

bad mormon

### Heather Gay Knows Exactly Why Mormon Wives Are All Over Your Feed. She Used to Be One.

In *Surviving Mormonism*, the *Real Housewives of Salt Lake City* star is exposing the secrets of her former religion, and zeroing in on why Mormon influencers are having a moment: “If any faith was built to thrive on Instagram, it’s Mormonism.”

ROYALS

### Kate Middleton Channels Princess Diana's Style With a Surprising Remembrance Day Outfit

The Princess of Wales reached for a black dress, as she usually does for the occasion, but with a detail that nodded toward her late mother-in-law.

art

### A Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Could Become the Most Expensive Painting By a Woman Sold at Auction

*El Sueño (La Cama)*, painted by Frida Kahlo in 1940, is estimated to fetch between $40 and $60 million.

Style

### Get Ready For GQ's Men of the Year 30th Anniversary

With huge celebrity hosts, big fashion moments, and a secret musical performance, you can tag along for the show here.

exclusive

### Actor, Villain, Victim: In *Allison After NXIVM,* Allison Mack Finally Tells Her Story

An exclusive preview of the new podcast from Natalie Robehmed and *Vanity Fair*’s Vanessa Grigoriadis. “That was compelling to me,” says Robehmed, “her willingness to grapple with the wrong she’s done.”

Society

### Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, and More Stars Turn Out for Serena Williams at the Baby2Baby Gala

The tennis GOAT was this year’s honoree at the annual Hollywood fundraiser, which raised over $18 million for to aid children and families.

CULTURE

### Royalty, Artists, Architects, and More Celebrate the Opening of the Peter Beard Museum Siwa Oasis in Western Egypt

With large-scale images, pages from his diaries, and personal family photos all on display, Beard’s legacy comes to life at Eye of the Desert: The Peter Beard Museum Siwa, which opens Friday.

lie detector

### Jennifer Lawrence Doesn’t Judge Robert Pattinson for Having Zero Oscars, Really

During *Vanity Fair*’s Lie Detector Test, the stars of *Die, My Love* also settled what’s better: *Twilight* or *The Hunger Games.*

ROYALS

### Prince Harry Apologizes to Canada For World Series “Hatgate”: “I Was Under Duress”

Canadians jokingly accused Prince Harry of betrayal after he was spotted wearing a Dodgers cap at the World Series.

ROYALS

### Prince William and Princess Kate Played “Crucial Role” in Decision to Strip Andrew of Title, Says Source

The Prince of Wales is said to be thrilled with the response to his five-day trip to Brazil, as it shifted the spotlight away from his scandal-plagued uncle, sources tell *Vanity Fair*.

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