For the Love of Money: The V.F. Archive Collection

Whether it’s a gated community in the Bahamas, supervillain Bernie Madoff’s jail cell, or a Greek monastery, Vanity Fair follows the money.

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The Billionaire Battle in the Bahamas
Vanity Fair - By Eric Konigsberg
Peter Nygard is a hard-partying retail tycoon, whose estate is fit for a Mayan emperor. Louis Bacon is a buttoned-up hedge-fund king, whose passion is conservation. Both are locked in an eight-year legal war with each other that has turned each man’s paradise into hell. The whole thing began over a …
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“Hello, Madoff!”
Vanity Fair - By Mark Seal and Eleanor Squillari
For more than two decades, Bernard Madoff’s secretary sat just outside his office. She knew his clients and his feeders, his moods, habits, and indiscretions. She saw both sides of his wife, Ruth. Until December 11, 2008, she trusted him as a generous, caring boss. Now, in an exclusive …
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Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds
Vanity Fair - By Michael Lewis
As Wall Street hangs on the question “Will Greece default?,” the author heads for riot-stricken Athens, and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which brought down the last government, laying bare the country’s economic insanity. But beyond a $1.2 trillion debt (roughly a quarter-million dollars …
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How Did Johnny Depp Find Himself in a Financial Crisis?
Vanity Fair - By Mark Seal
For years, Depp has topped the box office as one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, yet somehow he’s facing a financial hole. The actor is charging his former business managers, Joel and Robert Mandel, with fraud, while their counterclaim cites his manic spending: the private islands, French …
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Inheritance Italian Style
Vanity Fair - By Bob Colacello
A year ago, the funeral of Carlo Caracciolo—Prince of Castagneto, Duke of Melito, and co-founder of L’Espresso and La Repubblica—brought together his extended clan, a social elite of Agnellis, Borgheses, Viscontis, and Pasolinis. But the revelation that his body—the prime source of DNA—had been …
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Her House of Cards
Vanity Fair - By Molly Bloom
How did a 26-year-old cocktail waitress end up running a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood’s highest rollers, including the likes of Leo, Ben, and Tobey? In an adaptation from her new memoir, Molly Bloom, who has since gained notoriety as “the Poker Princess,” recalls her lucky break, …
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Madoff’s World
Vanity Fair - By Mark Seal
Among Bernard Madoff’s many dupes were his closest friends, including two tycoons he loved as surrogate fathers: the late Norman F. Levy—whose girlfriend, supermodel Carmen Dell’Orefice, would lose her life savings—and the prominent philanthropist Carl J. Shapiro. Amid the sobs, screams, and curses …

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