| MATTHEW LYNCH,
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Inevitably, Ghislaine Maxwell has entered the Epstein files debate roiling MAGA media. There’s a prominent faction of Epstein skeptics who would like to allow his ex-girlfriend and convicted accomplice to speak her piece on the matter—maybe even in front of Congress. As Dan Adler reports today, her most loyal supporters, who include her family, lawyers, and British socialite Lady Victoria Hervey, are seizing on all this as potential leverage against the 20-year sentence for sex abuse she’s currently serving in a Florida prison. “Let her have her voice,” Hervey says.
Elsewhere today, Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk, whom ICE agents ushered off the Boston streets and into an immigrant detention facility this spring, writes about the harrowing experience; Natalie Korach reports from what was the center of the media universe on Wednesday evening, the cafeteria at the office space once occupied by this magazine’s corporate parent; and Allison Janney answers the Proust Questionnaire. More tomorrow… |
Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, is pleading her case amid fresh outcry over the broader saga. “Let her have her voice,” Lady Victoria Hervey, a British socialite and Mar-a-Lago regular, tells VF. |
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To toast Michael Grynbaum’s dishy new book, Empire of the Elite, a who’s who of the publishing world gathered for a Wednesday night soiree: “If this building burned down tonight, I think the whole news industry would be done.” |
The Oscar winner on dog names, drowsy therapists, and her jam-band aspirations. |
Pro athletes, fiancées, and now business partners Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, discuss their podcast and the mixed emotions of being former players during a surge of interest in women’s sports. |
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“What immediately struck me about Rümeysa Öztürk’s desire to tell her heartbreaking account of being grabbed off the street by ICE agents and spending 45 days in detention was just how determined she was in telling other women’s stories. Rümeysa isn’t an activist seeking the spotlight; she’s an academic who was thrust into it. She’s also a thoughtful writer who was intent to give credit to the women who helped her survive—and are unable to speak out themselves.” — Michael Calderone, editor, The Hive |
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