How Trump Won Mar-a-Lago; Salman Rushdie’s Invisible Life; Malibu’s Lost Surfer Boys

A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences     As summer winds to a close, spend the weekend with these five stories, handpicked from the Vanity Fair Archive.   His Kind of Town From the moment Donald Trump set eyes on Mar-a-Lago, the grand palace of old Palm Beach, in 1985, he was on a collision course with one of the richest and most insular towns in America. Chronicling how a brash outsider turned Palm Beach's exclusivity against it, with a barrage of lawsuits, Mark Seal discovered that Mar-a-Lago's status as the winter White House merely capped Trump's conquest. R E A D  M O R E »     Malibu's Lost Boys Surfing was still a strange and exotic art in 1961, when Mike Nader, Duane King, and Larry Shaw escaped their troubled homes for the beach at Malibu. Becoming acolytes to the dashing, lawless Miki Dora, the three boys found themselves at the crest of a craze sparked by one of the girl surfers on the scene, whose father wrote the novel Gidget about her obsession. Sheila Weller revisited an underground culture of big waves and wild times, which ended in a blaze of Hollywood decadence, drugs, and death. R E A D  M O R E »     Rendezvous With Rushdie He disappeared into the headlines in 1988. Then, two years later, Salman Rushdie reached out of the shadows with a new book, written for his son, a witty and defiant children's parable that reflected his own fantastic nightmare. Martin Amis talked to Rushdie about his life as the invisible man. R E A D  M O R E »     Magnificent Obsession With its 2,000 acres, 187 rooms, and Masterpiece Theatre lifestyle, Blenheim Palace eclipses even the British monarchy's homes in the eyes of many. And for the three centuries since Queen Anne bestowed the land on the first Duke of Marlborough, his heirs have battled to keep it going. In a rare 2011 interview with the then 85-year-old 11th duke, known as Sunny, and his fourth wife, James Reginato explored the sacrifices made in Blenheim's name—from loveless marriages to a bitter legal battle—while Jonathan Becker shot exclusive photos of the palace and its private quarters. R E A D  M O R E »     Killer@Craigslist The "Craigslist Murder" was a crime made possible by the internet, and the prime suspect was apprehended through online sleuthing. But the 2009 killing of Julissa Brisman allegedly by Boston University medical student Philip Markoff was a very human mystery, with dark sexual overtones and surprising contradictions. 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 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.