Was My Friend a Fraud?
Matthew Pietras worked for the Soros family, donated millions to museums, and produced a fistful of Broadway shows. So why did it all feel make-believe?
Bosom Buddies
Michelle Mone, the scandal-plagued lingerie hawker known as “Baroness Bra,” has become a pariah in her native United Kingdom. Now she’s trying to start fresh in—where else?—Florida
Lord of the Lies
Inspired by his love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, a São Paulo judge posed as a member of the British aristocracy for decades
The Connecticut Way of Death
How my investigation into the disappearance of mother of five Jennifer Dulos went from In Cold Blood to Madame Bovary
One Night in the Tropics
Under cover of darkness, armed men stormed a former British consul’s Ecuador ranch, kidnapping him and his girlfriend. Now he recounts their harrowing escape
Snatch and Grab
Moments before Kim Kardashian testified against her burglars in a Parisian court, another kidnapping attempt was unfolding a few miles away—this time, targeting crypto world
Scandal in Venice
Behind a glamorous façade of art galas and gallery openings, the handsome scion of the historic Bauer Hotel family was allegedly running a sham gynecologic practice, filming women for porn
The Real School of Rock
Richard Linklater’s classic 2003 movie starred Jack Black as a dorky but harmless music teacher. The real-life School of Rock founder’s former students tell a more sinister story
Fyre Sale!
Billy McFarland’s cursed music festival is now available to the highest bidder. But who on earth is buying it?
The Eyes of a Killer: Part IX
More than two years after the murder of four University of Idaho students, prosecutors are ready to offer a motive. An AIR MAIL exclusive
The View from Here
Donald and Melania Trump’s foray into crypto may be the biggest financial scandal in presidential history—and it’s happening in plain sight
20,000 Kilos Under the Sea
With Europe’s anti-narcotics agencies watching the waters, drug traffickers have taken to using submarines
“She Had Her Whole Life Ahead of Her”
The killing of Brianna Kupfer
Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!
How a team of sleuths reportedly tracked down the Brad Pitt impersonators who cyber-scammed a middle-aged Frenchwoman out of her life’s savings
Oh, for God’s Sake!
Accused of being a false teacher, a racist, and a crook, the televangelist and leader of the new White House Faith Office, Paula White, could be a match made in heaven for Trump
The Alien and the Fawn
Accusations of sexual harassment upended the career of award-winning Hollywood composer Danny Elfman. But what really happened between him and his accuser?
Ticking Time Bomb
Inside a chilling campaign of homemade explosives and escalating ransom threats with an unexpected target: Switzerland’s most storied watchmaker, Patek Philippe
A Broke Hallelujah
In the latest twist in a lengthy legal battle, Leonard Cohen’s children have accused their father’s former lawyer of siphoning millions from the singer’s estate
How to Almost Get Away with Murder
A group of transgender, ex-Google “radical vegans”—armed with ammunition belts—are quickly shaping up to be a 21st-century Manson family
Trump’s Mini-Me
Paolo Zampolli, the former modeling agent who introduced Melania to Donald, has stayed in the Mar-a-Lago circle, anticipating and echoing the president’s foreign-policy views
In Bad Faith
The only stone left unturned in the Baldoni-Lively saga seems to be Baldoni’s Baha’i faith, an obscure religion that touts unity and forbids backbiting
It Never Ends with Them
As their frenzied mudslinging intensifies, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni seem to share a single goal: mutually assured destruction
Tommy Supreme and the Blitz
Tom Goldstein was a star in arguing cases before the Supreme Court. He was also one of the world’s highest-rolling—and most reckless—poker players. Then his worlds collided
The Princess Bribes
Swindlers on TikTok are impersonating 19-year-old Princess Leonor, the much-beloved heir to the Spanish throne—and cheating her fans out of hundreds of dollars
