In the Name of Love: The V.F. Archive Collection

Romance! Lust! Divorce! Affairs! From the tender meet-cute of Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian to the woman who catfished dozens of Hollywood high rollers over the phone, these are the stories of people risking anything, and sometimes losing everything, for love.

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The Heart of the Deal: The Love Story of Marla Maples and Donald Trump
Vanity Fair - By Maureen Orth
After a period of hiding—behind a secret code name, in a Southampton beach house, on the Trump Princess yacht—the press and the paparazzi can’t get enough of Marla Maples. In Vanity Fair’s November 1990 issue, Maureen Orth talks to the woman who, in the post-Ivana era, is primed to become the next …
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Serena Williams on Her Pregnancy, Finding Love, and More | Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair - By Buzz Bissinger
Last January, on the eve of the Australian Open, Serena Williams handed her fiancé, Alexis Ohanian, a paper bag containing six positive pregnancy tests. It was just the latest surprise in an unlikely pairing: the world’s greatest tennis player and the geek co-founder of Reddit. From their first …
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The Princess and the Photographer
Vanity Fair - By Anne de Courcy
Britain thrilled to the 1960 wedding of Queen Elizabeth’s glamorous younger sister, Princess Margaret, and debonair photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones (soon to become Earl of Snowdon), the first commoner in four centuries to marry a king’s daughter. But while it seemed the 29-year-old Margaret had …
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Zsa Zsa World
Vanity Fair - By Leslie Bennetts
Nothing is as it seems when Zsa Zsa Gabor and Prince Frédéric von Anhalt are involved. He says he’s her 10th husband; she says he’s only her 8th. She won’t say how old she is; he doesn’t want to know. Some accuse him of keeping her prisoner, but he says he’s the one who’s hemmed in—never mind his …
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Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
Vanity Fair - By Nancy Jo Sales
As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see. It’s a balmy night in Manhattan’s financial district, and at a sports bar called Stout, everyone is Tindering. The tables are filled with young women and men who’ve been chasing money and deals on Wall Street …
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Seduced and Abandoned
Vanity Fair - By Mark Seal
The 14-year marriage of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng ended abruptly last year, after the News Corp. chairman came to believe his third wife had been romantically involved with a former head of state and with a prominent Silicon Valley executive. Talking to friends of the couple’s, Mark Seal …
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Ruth’s World
Vanity Fair - By Mark Seal
Ruth Madoff professed her contrition—and her innocence—soon after her husband’s outraged victims learned she had cut a deal with prosecutors that left her with $2.5 million. Was this a fresh example of Bernie Madoff pulling the strings, even from behind bars? And how could she not have known about …

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