Investigations – Page 2

The Face of Scandal: Bill Clinton, Marc and Denise Rich

Denise Rich is all about connections: her hit songwriting powered her social aspirations, which powered her fund-raising. Marc Rich is defined by his money, the kind of wealth that moves governments and transcends borders. But despite their bitter divorce, Denise says, what drove her to seek a pardon for her ex-husband from Bill Clinton was a deeply personal tragedy—the death of their daughter. In interviews with Denise, with Marc’s new wife, Gisela, and with the U.S. marshal who spent 14 years trying to bring the financier to justice, Maureen Orth explores the passions behind Clinton’s farewell scandal.

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Original Vanity Fair 1997 Article That Started it All – The Killer’s Trail: Gianni Versace’s Murderer

Gianni Versace appears to have been the crescendo of a cross-country murder spree that landed 27-year-old Andrew Cunanan on the F.B.I.’s Ten Most Wanted list. From the truth about Cunanan’s childhood, to the bloody crime scenes he left behind in Minneapolis, Chicago, New Jersey, and Miami, Maureen Orth follows the twisted psychological path that ended only when Cunanan turned the .40-caliber murder weapon on himself.

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Vanity Fair September 1996 – Death by Design: CLAUDE MONTANA Suicide of Wallis Franken Montana

High-fashion muse and model Wallis Franken Montana plunged from the kitchen window of her Rue de Lille apartment in May, leaving the Paris couture world in a state of shock. The author investigates Montana’s tormented relationship with her husband, designer Claude Montana, the abusive “dark angel” who friends and family believe played a part in the American beauty’s death.

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Holy War at Harrods: Mohamed Al Fayed

Mohamed Al Fayed, controversial chairman of Harrods, owner of
the Ritz hotel in Paris, and onetime front man for the Sultan of
Brunei, is battles the Tory party and the British upper class in his
desperate bid to be an Englishman.

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Arianna’s Virtual Candidate

California congressman Michael Huffington is a man of no apparent convictions, except one: that he deserves to be president of the United States. But first the multimillionaire Republican is running for the Senate. Pulling the strings is his wife, socialite Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the controversial author and New Age minister, who has a mysterious agenda of her own. The author lifts the curtain on their own private Oz.