Spiegel Stuff: The Montreal Mafia Murders; the First Couple of American Pop; Princess Diana’s Final Heartbreak

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An art theft that entangled a master criminal, a petty crook, and a Boston Herald reporter. Onscreen lovers whose personal lives were rife with pain. A couple swept up in a series of grisly murders.

In this week's VF Archive digest, we delve into unbelievable stories that have affected suburbia, superstars, and everything in between. Happy reading.

Stealing Beauty

The FBI was baffled by the costliest art theft in American history—more than $200 million taken from Boston's stuffily exclusive Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Tom Mashberg tells how, years later, he found himself at the center of attempts to recover the stolen treasures, dealing with a Mayflower-descended master criminal and his nemesis.

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The Montreal Mafia Murders

When an unwitting rural Canadian couple met two local Mob henchmen, Coen brothers–level mayhem ensued. But the gory murders they became party to were anything but a joke.

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The Runaway Doctor

When luxury-loving Dr. Mark Weinberger vanished, he left in his wake a wife saddled with millions in debts, a father headed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of patients who say he performed unnecessary surgeries.

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Diana's Final Heartbreak

Princess Diana emerged from her divorce with a new style, a new crusade (banning land mines), and a new love whom she hid from the press for 18 months. But her superstar status—and her emotional scars—drove away the man she hoped to marry, sending her into the spiral that would lead to Paris.

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Lovers Come Back

Against the 1950s-Manhattan, martini-and-fur-muff backdrop of Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back, Doris Day and Rock Hudson took romantic comedy to its smoothest and frothiest peak. James Wolcott explains why, given the pain of their private lives, that peachy-keen box-office pairing was a triumph of sublimation.

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Saturday, August 10, 2024

The Montreal Mafia Murders; the First Couple of American Pop; Princess Diana’s Final Heartbreak

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