Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles on high-brow culture, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and current affairs. The current editor-in-chief is E. Graydon Carter, and the current publisher is Louis Cona.

Contemporary revival

The magazine was revived in its current form in the 1980s by the revived Condé Nast Publications, under the ownership of Si Newhouse. Under editors Tina Brown (1984-1992) and E. Graydon Carter (1992- ), Vanity Fair enjoyed greater circulation, prestige and revenues, the latter attested by a thicket of trendy advertisements which make finding even the magazine's table of contents a formidable task.

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1980s - Condé Nast Publications - Si Newhouse - Tina Brown - E. Graydon Carter

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In 1996, Marie Brenner wrote an exposé on the tobacco industry, entitled The Man Who Knew Too Much. This article was later converted to a movie, The Insider. An article in the May 2005 edition revealed the identity of Deep Throat, the source for the Washington Post articles on Watergate which led to the 1974 resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon.

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1996 - Marie Brenner - Exposé - Tobacco industry - The Insider - May 2005 - Deep Throat - Washington Post - Watergate - 1974 - Richard Nixon

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In 2005, Vanity Fair was found liable in a lawsuit brought in UK by film director Roman Polanski, who claimed the magazine had libelled him in an article published in 2002, accusing him of boorish behavior following the murder of his wife Sharon Tate in 1969. After the verdict, editor Carter stated that he found it "outrageous that this story is considered defamatory, given the fact that Mr. Polanski cannot be here because he slept with a 13-year-old girl ."

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2005 - Lawsuit - UK - Roman Polanski - Libelled - 2002 - Sharon Tate

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