Inside Javanka’s Gilded Miami Life; the Final Days of DiMaggio; the Pope Who Helped Hitler

A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences Family disputes turned epic power struggles, the man whom DiMaggio trusted, and a pope who aided Hitler in a pursuit of absolute power. That and more in this edition of the VF Archive digest. Pariahs in Paradise The Trump-Kushner marriage has thrived in exile despite the chaos that lingered on their periphery. Pitbull is a pal, Carbone is for dinner, and Game of Thrones is only a TV show. As Donald Trump returns to office, a look inside Javanka's gilded Miami life. R E A D  M O R E » The Bettencourt Affair If the Brooke Astor trial met Watergate—in Paris, and thanks to a butler's secret tapes—it would be the Bettencourt affair: a scandal that threw into question the competence of 88-year-old L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the liberty of art-world bad boy François-Marie Banier, the control of one of France's most iconic companies, and even the "bling-bling" presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. R E A D  M O R E » For Love of DiMaggio Perhaps no figure in 20th-century America was worshiped like Joe DiMaggio, and perhaps none had a more tortured relationship with those who loved him. Buzz Bissinger spoke with the one man whose devotion outstripped the legendary ballplayer's distrust: Morris Engelberg, the lawyer who attended to DiMaggio's every whim, built him a fortune, and was privy to his deepest hatreds (Bill Clinton, the Kennedys, and Sinatra) and his greatest love, Marilyn Monroe. R E A D  M O R E » The Man Who Ate Hollywood A giant of a man, Marvin Davis lived a giant life. Rocky Mountain wildcatter turned Hollywood mogul, he treated 20th Century Fox as his personal playground, broke all the rules (even his own), and when he died, left his family warring over what seemed to be a vanished $5.8 billion fortune. R E A D  M O R E » Hitler's Pope Long-buried Vatican files revealed a shocking indictment of World War II's Pope Pius XII: that in pursuit of absolute power he helped Adolf Hitler destroy German Catholic political opposition, betrayed the Jews of Europe, and sealed a deeply cynical pact with a 20th-century devil. 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 2025. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.