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From Ava Gardner's three marriages to a yogi whose reign included allegations of abuse, not all great stories have happy endings. Plus, we delve into the Barbizon's mystique and meet a Gatsby for the Reagan era—all in this week's VF Archive digest.
Three Men and a Goddess
Once Hollywood's most irresistible woman—wed to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra—by 1988 Ava Gardner was nearly broke, ravaged by illness, and intent on selling her memoirs. But the man she chose as her ghostwriter, Peter Evans, had his own problems, not least a legal war with Sinatra. In an excerpt from the book that wasn't published in either of their lifetimes, Gardner spills the seduction-to-split secrets of her three marriages.
The Second Coming of Guru Jagat
When Katie Griggs died, kundalini adherents were bereft—they'd lost their last apostle. Others—former members, calling it a cult rife with abuse—felt relief that the movement's Janus-faced leader was gone, and that their truths could be set free. Griggs, a.k.a. Guru Jagat, spoke to VF just before her sudden death about the rift in kundalini yoga—now without its leader.
Betting on the Blind Side
Michael Burry always saw the world differently—due, he believed, to the childhood loss of one eye. So when the 32-year-old investor spotted the huge bubble in the subprime-mortgage bond market and created a way to bet against it, he wasn't surprised that no one understood what he was doing. Michael Lewis charts Burry's oddball maneuvers, his almost comical dealings with Goldman Sachs and other banks as the market collapsed, and the true reason for his visionary obsession.
The Sorority on East 63rd Street
For a small-town girl with a dream, from the Roaring Twenties through the 1960s, there was no address more glamorous than New York's "women only" Barbizon Hotel. A combined charm school and dormitory, it would shelter a parade of yet-to-be-discovered damsels—Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, Candice Bergen, Sylvia Plath, Ali MacGraw, and many more—nurture their ambitions, and leave some with broken hearts.
Grandiosity: The Fall of Roberto Polo
The swell life of Roberto Polo, who backed charity balls, bought a fashion house, and gave art to the Louvre and The Met, crashed in Italy with his arrest for misappropriating $110 million of his mysterious investors' money. Dominick Dunne tracks Polo's stupendous sting.
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