Marilyn and Her Monsters; the Private World of Jeffrey Dahmer; Bernie Madoff’s Betrayals

A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences On your weekend reading list: tales of tragedy, murder, betrayal—plus an extra splash of Marilyn Monroe—from the Vanity Fair Archive. Marilyn and Her Monsters For all the millions of words she has inspired, Marilyn Monroe remains something of a mystery. But 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 » The Things She Left Behind The tragic 1962 overdose…two filing cabinets holding many of her secrets: keys to the mystery that was Marilyn Monroe. As her estate battled for control of her image, Sam Kashner described the cache's revelations—papers, furs, jewelry, and other items—which cast a spell over several people, including photographer Mark Anderson, who spent more than two years documenting the disputed collection. R E A D  M O R E » Madoff's World Among Bernard Madoff's many dupes were his closest friends, including two tycoons he loved as surrogate fathers: the late Norman F. Levy—whose girlfriend, supermodel Carmen Dell'Orefice, would lose her life savings—and the prominent philanthropist Carl J. Shapiro. Amid the sobs, screams, and curses in Aspen, Palm Beach, and New York, with victims sharing their stories, Mark Seal gets behind Madoff's affable facade, to reveal his most intimate betrayals. R E A D  M O R E » Dahmer's Inferno What forces drive a man to kill compulsively, as in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, who confessed to murdering 17 young men? Brian Masters reported from Milwaukee on the private world of Jeffrey Dahmer. And in an unsettling real-life scenario akin to The Silence of the Lambs, he sought a key to the killer's psyche from Dennis Nilsen, who was serving a life sentence off the coast of England for the murder of 15 men in patterns remarkably similar to Dahmer's. R E A D  M O R E » A Splash of Marilyn It was the assignment of an ambitious young photographer's dreams: capturing Hollywood's sexiest star for Look magazine in 1960. The chemistry with Marilyn Monroe seemed promising, and their professional relationship deepened when he photographed her on the set of her final, never finished movie, Something's Got to Give. As the 50th anniversary of her death approached in 2012, Lawrence Schiller, in an adaptation from his memoir of those sessions, recalled Monroe's mix of vulnerability and cold calculation as she guided his camera toward the ultimate revelation and their tense encounter the day before she died. 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.