Confessions of a Mob Chef; Inside Hollywood’s Most Notorious Rivalry; Grace Kelly’s Forever Look

A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences In this edition of the VF Archive digest, we present a Mob chef's fall from grace, Princess Margaret's disappointing marriage, the epic rivalry between two Hollywood gossip columnists, and more. 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. R E A D  M O R E » Confessions of a Mob Chef In the 1980s and 1990s, David Ruggerio was a rising star of French cooking in New York and a proto–celebrity chef with cookbooks and TV shows to his name. But all that success in the kitchen belied the double life he was leading as a rank-and-file member of the Mob. R E A D  M O R E » Grace Kelly's Forever Look The rare beauty and stunning self-possession that propelled Grace Kelly into the Hollywood pantheon, onto the Best-Dressed List, and ultimately to Monaco's royal palace were more than captivating—they were completely genuine. R E A D  M O R E » The Man Who Knew Too Much Angrily, painfully, Jeffrey Wigand emerged from the sealed world of Big Tobacco to confront the nation's third-largest cigarette company, Brown & Williamson. Hailed as a hero by anti-smoking forces and vilified by the tobacco industry, Wigand was at the center of an epic multibillion-dollar struggle that reached from Capitol Hill to the hallowed journalistic halls of CBS's 60 Minutes. R E A D  M O R E » Idol Gossips Between them, dueling gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper at midcentury commanded a readership of roughly 75 million—half the country. They challenged the control of the studios who helped create them and wielded devastating power over the careers of stars such as Orson Welles, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Grace Kelly, and Ingrid Bergman. 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 2024. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.