| MATTHEW LYNCH,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR |
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Are you a former star of reality TV currently serving time in a federal prison? There's some news you're going to want to get to your lawyers ASAP. Donald Trump, fresh off of pardoning a guy whose mother attended a $1 million-per-plate fundraiser earlier this year, has issued a presidential reprieve to Christian real estate entrepreneurs Julie and Todd Chrisley of the long-running USA Network series Chrisley Knows Best. It's not even the first such pardon in the space this year. Trump granted a full one to onetime Celebrity Apprentice contestant Rod Blagojevich in February after having freed the former Illinois governor from a corruption sentence during his first term. For a genre with a reputation for so much backstabbing, it's honestly sweet to see the reality stars looking out for one another off-screen.
Elsewhere today, we excerpt Rich Cohen's new book on the murder of Jennifer Dulos and the scorched-earth divorce that preceded it; offer an exhaustive view of the Kennedy family tree; and check in on its fringiest branch, who today is using his HHS secretary authority to threaten to ban government scientists from publishing in medical journals. More tomorrow! |
"One morning in May 2019, [Jennifer] Dulos, in the midst of a contentious divorce, dropped her five children off at the New Canaan Country School in Connecticut, went home, then vanished," writes Rich Cohen in an excerpt from Murder in the Dollhouse.
Jennifer and her husband "represented the American elite. She grew up rich, the daughter of a banker and the niece of designer Liz Claiborne. A graduate of Saint Ann's in Brooklyn, where high school tuition is now more than $60,000 a year, she went on to Brown, where she met the man she would marry, a handsome Greek national named Fotis."
The marriage, however, ended in Jennifer's disappearance and Fotis's suicide. Cohen points out that the divorce at the center of it all struck the deepest chord: "A legal process meant to be the way out can turn into a trial from which no one, not the adults, nor the kids, emerges unscathed." |
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Because why disseminate important knowledge that could advance human health when you can just log on to TikTok and hear what a MAHA influencer has to say about seed oils and beef tallow? |
Found guilty of both evading taxes and conspiracy to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million to fund their lavish lifestyle, the Chrisleys have seized a get-out-of-jail-free card from President Trump. |
Once a permanent fixture at Trump's side, Musk criticized the "big, beautiful bill," that the president has championed. |
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The Kennedys have long been changemakers, champions of Democratic causes, and paragons of public service. But the family has been devastated by tragedy and scandal, leading to the enduring belief in the "Kennedy curse," which has claimed the reputation or lives of many of its members.
"Family is family," John F. Kennedy Jr. once said. "You can pick the Kennedys apart, and I'm sure you will. But at the end of the day, we're just people trying to understand each other."
From RFK Jr. to The White Lotus's Patrick Schwarzenegger, Hadley Hall Meares explores the intricacies of America's preeminent political dynasty. |
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