Marilyn Monroe’s Monsters; the Miranda Obsession; Princess Margaret, Unlucky in Love

A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences     Happy Saturday. Here are a few long reads from the Vanity Fair Archive that you might enjoy.   Marilyn and Her Monsters For all the millions of words she has inspired, Marilyn Monroe remains something of a mystery. Then, in 2010, a sensational archive of the actor's own writing—diaries, poems, and letters—was published. With exclusive excerpts from the book, Fragments, Sam Kashner entered the mind of a legend: the scars of sexual abuse; the pain of psychotherapy; the betrayal by her third husband, Arthur Miller; the constant specter of hereditary madness; and the fierce determination to master her art. R E A D  M O R E »     Seeing Red Meet the female future of the Republican Party: aggrieved, outnumbered, defiant. They love Trump, they tell Nancy Jo Sales, but they're not racist or sexist—they promise. R E A D  M O R E »     L'Affaire Kardashian Virtually every detail of Kim Kardashian's Paris Fashion Week—jewels, clothes, shows, parties—was documented, by the paparazzi as well as on her Instagram account. Until the early hours of October 3, 2016, when she was robbed at gunpoint in her hotel suite. Mining sources from Paris's chief of police to the concierge who was tied up with Kardashian, Mark Seal explained how the star's glamorous reality became a terrifying vulnerability. R E A D  M O R E »     The Princess and the Photographer Britain thrilled to the 1960 wedding of Queen Elizabeth's glamorous younger sister, Princess Margaret, and debonair photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones (soon to become Earl of Snowdon), the first commoner in four centuries to marry a king's daughter. But while it seemed the 29-year-old Margaret had finally recovered from her heartbreak over Captain Peter Townsend, many close to the newlyweds saw trouble ahead. In an excerpt from her biography of Snowdon, Anne de Courcy explored why happily ever after was never in the cards. R E A D  M O R E »     The Miranda Obsession She said she was a beautiful, well-connected blond named Miranda, and she enchanted an astonishing circle of powerful men—Billy Joel, Paul Schrader, Buck Henry, and Quincy Jones among them—with her flirtatious, gossipy phone calls. But who was the woman behind the voice? 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.