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...
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The Suspects Wore Louboutins
Vanity Fair
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...
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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...
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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 internal...
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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...
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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...