Rupert Murdoch’s Tumultuous Third Marriage; Adele Gets Real; and More

A Special Delivery From the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks October 23, 2021 Start your weekend with one of these handpicked long reads from the Vanity Fair Archive.   Seduced and Abandoned The 14-year marriage of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng ended abruptly, after the News Corp. chairman came to believe his third wife had been romantically involved with a former head of state and with a prominent Silicon Valley executive. Talking to friends of the couple's, Mark Seal reports on the shifting power dynamics in the Murdoch household as Deng's ambitions changed, and tackles the question now being debated: Who blindsided whom? R E A D  M O R E »     Likes vs. Hate Facebook blew it on privacy and fake news. Can it do any better against trolls and racists? Simon van Zuylen-Wood embeds with the company's high-level team of policy wonks who are trying to combat hate speech. R E A D  M O R E »     Queen of Hearts The only way Adele can continue with her superstar career is by remaining focused on her "real" life. In the midst of her 43-city world tour in 2016, the record-breaking singer opens up to Lisa Robinson about the roller coaster of success, motherhood, and her dark side, all of which have taken her—and her audiences—to new places. R E A D  M O R E »     Boogie Nights: An Oral History of Disco It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New York clubs such as the Loft and 12 West in the early '70s was the sound of those who wanted to dance, dance, dance—blotting out everything but their bodies and the beat. Lisa Robinson hears from Donna Summer, Ian Schrager, Gloria Gaynor, and others who helped create the strobe-lit, sex-driven, amyl-nitrite-fueled scene, the phenomena of Studio 54 and Saturday Night Fever, and the songs that reverberated into a new millennium. R E A D  M O R E »     Have Tux, Will Travel Humorist Fran Lebowitz seems to fashion her career after Oscar Wilde's quip about putting talent into writing and saving genius for life. Writer's block has been transformed into partygoer's progress as she hobnobs with everyone from Malcolm Forbes to Mick Jagger. Arthur Lubow reports. 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 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.