For a full week, the Tesla founder and heavy poster has been crashing out over Nolan’s decision to cast Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy. But that’s not the right’s only issue with the upcoming epic.
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While receiving this year’s Kering Women in Motion award in Cannes, the celebrated actor dismissed the insidious assumption “that women’s stories are less interesting or smaller.”
Read an exclusive excerpt from Theo Baker’s book, How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University, where the former Stanford Daily reporter and youngest recipient of the George Polk Award for investigative journalism details his first assignment.
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On Saturday night, the directors joined actors, business moguls, and the cast of the forthcoming season of White Lotus, for Vanity Fair's dinner, co-hosted by Meta.
Musk’s lawyers may not have presented a winning argument, Tom Dotan writes, but at the end of this trial, it seems clear that the OpenAI nonprofit is little more than the most well-funded fig leaf of all time. Will anyone care?
Harris’s non-appearance on Rogan’s podcast is often cited as proof of her 2024 campaign’s failure to compete with Trump in the new media ecosystem. VF talks to Rob Flaherty, head of digital for Harris’s 2024 campaign, about his new Bulwark piece in which he suggests the podcaster was to blame for the infamous interview that wasn’t.
In a recent profile, the willfully controversial head coach told Vanity Fair that he’d had trouble recruiting players to the University of Mississippi, which he left for Louisiana State University last year, due to the school’s history of racist tradition.
Vanity Fair was on the scene as Gaga transformed an aging Los Angeles luxury mall into moving performance art, complete with funeral horns, rose petals, and hundreds of her devoted fans.
In conversation with Vanity Fair’s Mark Guiducci, the Kennedy scion and NY-12 congressional candidate insists that there is more substance beneath his outlandish online exterior.
Continuing her Italy trip’s Eat, Prey, Love theme, the Princess of Wales showed a very regal trick for keeping her heirlooms clean while making pasta at a farm in Felino.
On her last day in Reggio Emilia, Middleton visited with schoolchildren in the woods—even sitting in the grass and hand-pulling pastry while conversing with the students.
From gallery shows to art fairs, private sales to big-ticket lots at auction houses, there’s a lot to see in Manhattan. Here’s a complete guide, in the form of a quest.
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Sean Hepburn Ferrer and brother Luca Dotti have feuded in the past over multiple issues related to their mother—but the books they’ve written about her agree that Hepburn was one of a kind.
Crypto hawkers have erected a giant gilded statue of President Trump at Doral, his members club outside Miami. The golfers may not mind, and neither do his mega-pastor advisers, but his support among his most devoted and devout fans is beginning to slide.
At 57, the X-Files actor made her first appearance at the festival to present Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Like Amy Madigan before her, the film’s reception may spell the awards season accolades that she has for so long been denied.
On the eve of the publication of his new career-spanning book Index, the award-winning photographer speaks with Vanity Fair about life on the battlefield, the enduring power of images, and why he decided to publish his unseen images of Epstein.
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The I Love LA comedian speaks for the first time about his directorial debut, Club Kid, which follows a New York party promoter who discovers he has a son.
The German photographer travels from palace to palace capturing stars like Hannah Einbinder, Oklou, and Leïla Bekhti for Vanity Fair at the Cannes 2026 Festival.
While the 22-year-old daughter of Prince Edward and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, is not a working royal, she’s one of the chief organizers of the Royal Windsor Horse Show, which begins Thursday.
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After taking a couple years out of the spotlight to build up her production company, Viva Maude, Thompson is back with a vengeance with Hedda, Netflix hit series His & Hers, and the revenge thriller Is God Is.
The World Cup is the biggest event in human history. This summer, it's coming to North America. But in Guadalajara this spring, as three nations scrapped for a single ticket to the big show, Franklin Leonard found far more than goals or red cards in the tales of Jamaica, New Caledonia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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“I can't even believe you want to see me fucking cry,” the star said after the credits rolled, telling the audience that Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow had been a source of strength.
The Grammy-winning producer hosted a fundraiser for Pratt at his Brentwood home on Monday, as wealthy donors, influencers, and Hollywood figures increasingly warm to the reality star’s insurgent bid for Los Angeles mayor.
From a Jordan Firstman Club Kid beach party to Graydon Carter’s Hotel du Cap extravaganza with Anthropic and Bryan Lourd, here’s where to see and be seen during cinema’s most glamorous two weeks.
Dressed in a regal ceremonial gown, the sovereign maintained her composure on the palace steps, despite sporting one of the royal collection’s most prestigious pieces.
A source says the Princess of Wales, who hasn't traveled solo in 4 years, is "energized and excited" to return to the country where she studied while she was in college.
As the semifinals get underway, a new investigation returns to the controversial 2025 finals—and reveals exactly how far Israeli diplomats allegedly went in an effort to keep the country in the contest.
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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, Timothée Chalamet and Tilda Swinton, Messi the dog, and many more. These are the most unforgettable style moments at the Cannes Film Festival.
The 2025 edition banned naked dresses on its red carpet. This year, no such formal mandate has been issued, but certain requirements for the A-list attendees remain in place.
In an interview with VF Italia, the head of the Global Epidemic Intelligence and Health Security Section at the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control recounts the initial measures taken by the doctor who boarded the cruise ship to deal with the emergency. “Sporadic outbreaks of hantavirus infections could occur again in the future,” he warns.
The Kennedy scion turned TikToker turned candidate for New York’s 12th congressional seat is drawing in Manhattanites with an interest in civics and social capital. Does his path to Washington run through San Vicente West Village?
As the brightest star on the men’s tennis scene, Carlos Alcaraz draws attention whether he likes it or not. José Criales-Unzueta speaks to the Spaniard about his rise to number one and the rivalry that promises the future of his sport.
He was crowned football’s future king when he was just a teenager, but for Kylian Mbappé, these are now more turbulent times. The captain of France has weathered attacks on his identity while serving as his nation’s chief diplomat. He’s endured criticism of his game while scoring goals by the hatful. He’s on top of the world—and under unfathomable pressure. Everything is on the line at this summer’s World Cup.
Whether she’s lobbing three-pointers or walking the red carpet, the WNBA’s four-time MVP doesn’t miss. We catch up with the queen of the court—and her king, fellow superstar Bam Adebayo.
The King of Pop’s musical biopic is a smash hit, and ends on a cryptic note teasing a sequel. But given the legal troubles surrounding the making of the Michael Jackson movie, is a sequel even viable?
The gossip columnist is taking a relentless approach with his newsletter, Naughty but Nice—fact-checking be damned. “This is the Wild West,” he tells VF. “What I’m doing on Substack, nobody else is doing.”
As her new film Influenced hits theaters, the Upper East Side’s favorite satirist has some thoughts on the must-have designer clothes, bags, and plastic surgeons that mean a certain thing to certain people.
In their latest seasons, hit series Hacks, The Comeback, and The Pitt investigate the perks and pitfalls of the emerging tech’s influence on art and medicine.
Trinidad Chambliss made his Vanity Fair debut a couple weeks ago. Now, Chris Smith talks to the $91 million coach on the other side of the Ole Miss controversy, about money, fame, and yoga.
Infamous cruise ship the MV Hondius, now globally known as the site of a closely-watched hantavirus outbreak, has been anchored just outside the Spanish island of Tenerife.
Queen Elizabeth II gave Anne the gold and diamond adornment to commemorate her marriage to Mark Phillips. Despite the couple's 1992 parting, the princess still wears the sentimental gift.
The US Pavilion has critics in a fury—and not just because Trump's State Department overhauled the selection process. The jury of the Biennale resigned days before the opening. The annual prizes were cancelled. But there are great shows in Venice, if you know where to look.
Vanity Fair speaks with the Scottish actor about working with the late Eric Dane, the American health care system, and saying goodbye to the character he played for 18 seasons.
The MAGA diehard denies that she's flamed out at Voice of America like she once flamed out of Arizona political campaigns. (She also denied losing those elections.) But sources say she's trumpeting a new gig in Trump's State Department.
At Tina Brown’s latest gathering of star journalists in London, Lemon’s political aspirations drew laughter from the crowd. He doubled down on them backstage talking to Vanity Fair. Has he alighted on the most brazen media strategy around?
Pratt, the race’s lone Republican, needed to show that he was capable of more than farming outrage online and firing off meme-ready attacks. And for stretches of the recent debate, he managed to do exactly that.
“It’s been a lot of years, and I haven’t seen a hint of malice in her,” the actor told Variety. “When I see her being photographed on some magazines, I go, Is that my wife? Jesus, is it? It must be!”
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled that Brad Pitt cannot compel his ex-wife Angelina Jolie to hand over private emails relating to the sale of her stake in the French winery.
After 17 months of heated negotiations and decades of inequity, the WNBA and its players reached a deal this spring that has completely transformed women’s basketball. Yohana Desta spent an afternoon with Clara Wu Tsai, the billionaire owner of the New York Liberty, to talk about the league’s next chapter and the expansion that will forever change women’s professional sports.
Forty minutes inland from the power and pomp of Palm Beach lies a greener, but no less gilded, Florida enclave. In this Year of the Horse, Elise Taylor goes inside the winter equestrian capital of the world.
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Before the 79th Cannes Film Festival begins, General Delegate Frémaux opens up about his relationship with Ted Sarandos, his love for Ryan Coogler, and why he won’t program a movie just because a woman directed it.
Famed celebrity stylist Karla Welch sets the record straight on prepping for the Met Gala, and tells VF why shy she has stopped reading best dressed lists.
After years of self-financing his career outside the studio system, Louis C.K. has returned to the mainstream with Netflix’s blessing—suggesting that in Hollywood, “cancellation” only lasts until the audience, and money, comes back.