Crime & Punishment: The V.F. Archive Collection

Smoking guns, bloody knives, stolen goods: re-visit Vanity Fair’s rich reportage on the murder of Gianni Versace, the trial of O.J. Simpson, the motivations of Hollywood’s most powerful madam, and more.

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The Killer’s Trail
Vanity Fair - By Maureen Orth
The shocking Mob-style execution of fashion designer 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, through his free-spending days at the heart …
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The Suspects Wore Louboutins
Vanity Fair - By Nancy Jo Sales
The most audacious burglary gang in recent Hollywood history—accused of stealing more than $3 million in clothing and jewelry from Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and other stars—appears to be a bunch of club-hopping Valley kids, motivated by vanity and celebrity-worship. Plus: Author Nancy Jo Sales …
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The Fugitive Heir
Vanity Fair - By Ned Zeman
Two decades after his lovely young wife vanished, Robert Durst, scion of a Manhattan real-estate family worth billions, faces new murder charges. A cold case is now red-hot news, with a gangland-style execution, a headless torso, a manhunt, and revelations that Durst led part of his double life as …
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The Body in Room 348
Vanity Fair - By Mark Bowden
The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries. Bent on tracking down his killer, Fleniken’s widow, Susie, turned to …
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L.A. in the Age of O.J.
Vanity Fair - By Dominick Dunne
Barely recovered from four years of Menendez fever, Hollywood is obsessed with the O.J. Simpson circus. Every player in town has his own news and clues, sources and theories—as does the author. When I returned to New York last February, after seven months here covering the first Menendez trial, it …
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Mad About the Boys
Vanity Fair - By Bryan Burrough
Until he fled the country in January, accused of embezzling more than $300 million, Lou Pearlman was famous as the impresario behind the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync. Turns out his investors weren’t the only victims, colleagues reveal: Pearlman’s passion for boy bands was also a passion for boys. The …
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I’m Alex. Call Me.
Vanity Fair - By Jesse Kornbluth
The upcoming trial of Hollywood’s most powerful madam is sending shivers through the executive suites of the majors. “I lived here for years believing that every prostitute in Los Angeles was a teenage runaway working on Hollywood Boulevard. And then, one night at the Troubadour, I spotted this …

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