A Trump Family Circus; Diana’s Difficult Marriage; the Mysterious Death of Ghislaine Maxwell’s Father

All in the Family: A Christmas Gift From the V.F. Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks December 25, 2020   The Mouse That Roared Revisit Tina Brown's 1985 feature on Princess Diana, which explored how marriage changed the beloved royal into a Windsor lion. R E A D  M O R E »   A Delicate Balance Jacqueline Kennedy was the first lady and iconic widow lauded for her style and beauty. More stylish and beautiful, in many eyes, was her sister, Lee Radziwill. Both adored their dashing, ne'er-do-well father, "Black Jack" Bouvier, were drawn to the same men—including Aristotle Onassis, Rudolf Nureyev, and Peter Beard—and dealt with terrible tragedy. In a revealing 2016 interview with Sam Kashner, Radziwill looked back at their deeply intertwined lives. R E A D  M O R E »   The Sinking of Captain Bob Did the same furies that drove Holocaust refugee Robert Maxwell to build a high-stakes media empire play a role in his demise? Edward Klein reported in exclusive interviews with Maxwell's widow and daughter—and with his business associates in London and New York—on the final mystery of the press baron who died a death as paradoxical as the life he led. R E A D  M O R E »   The Vanderbilt Century Though they no longer dominate the society pages of the Forbes 400, there is still magic in the Vanderbilt family name. In 1995, Dominick Dunne joined a reunion of more than a hundred descendants of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the legendary patriarch who was once one of the wealthiest men in the world, to find out what had become of the great American dynasty. R E A D  M O R E »   Send in the Clones Raised by their mother and grandparents, and outshone in many ways by their sister Ivanka, Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric are nonetheless thoroughly their father's sons: his real-life apprentices. Charting their paths—from Donald junior's brief rebellion to Eric's golf-club battles, to the inevitable lawsuits in their wakes—William D. Cohan probed whether the two men have what it takes to run the Trump family business. R E A D  M O R E »   Dark Inheritance, Part One What is the price of a father's love? $500 million, said the Johnson & Johnson heirs. In the 80s, as the bitterest will contest ever raged through the newspapers, Barbara Goldsmith found a different, deeper story. This was a dynastic psychodrama of pain and rejection, isolation and incest, created by the unresolved torment of the aberrant patriarch, J. Seward Johnson. At the end of the legal marathon, only the widow, Basia Johnson, emerged victorious. The Polish former chambermaid reigned triumphant over a $100 million art collection in then the most expensive private residence in America, calling herself a woman of "strong dreams." R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.