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When I think of Ibiza, I think of bohemian paradise and all-night discos—crocheted bikinis, and also ecstasy. I had never really thought of it as an island that might have a titan of industry, until Max Marshall called up and explained Yann Pissenem to me. Would we run an interview with the king of all clubs, who hauls in millions each night, but who never partakes of the bacchanals he fuels? Yes, we would, and we did. Read it here. And when you’re done, check out Max’s excellent 2023 book, Among the Bros, about a drug ring in a Deep South fraternity.

Speaking of the Deep South, VF’s Kase Wickman has the exclusive on a forthcoming biography of Lane Kiffin, probably the most hated coach in college football, who is now leading LSU. Journalist John Talty spoke to Kase about why he picked Kiffin as a subject—click here for that, and click here for Chris Smith’s bombshell profile of the man himself.

And speaking of most hated, something even Trump’s allies don’t like is his continued delusion that he won the 2020 election. He didn’t! But that didn’t stop him from hitting up prime time for some Big Lie riffing last night. Washington correspondent Aidan McLaughlin has an analysis, including the post-speech revelation of new allegations that Russian election interference helped…Trump.

CLAIRE HOWORTH,
DEPUTY EDITOR

King of Clubs

BY MAX MARSHALL

Yann Pissenem, the owner of Ushuaïa, Hï, and [UNVRS], tells Vanity Fair what it’s like to rule the island of partying (while he’s always sober).

Culture Watch

POLITICS

Trump Revives “Big Lie” Delusions in White House Address

BY AIDAN MCLAUGHLIN

In a speech Thursday night, the president—“your president”—announced the declassification of intelligence while pushing wild claims of election interference. The intelligence showed that Russia helped propel Trump in 2020.

BOOKS

This In-Depth Lane Kiffin Biography Drops Just in Time for LSU vs. Ole Miss

BY KASE WICKMAN

Vanity Fair has the first look at journalist John Talty’s upcoming book, Lane Being Lane: The Story of Lane Kiffin, College Football’s Agent of Chaos, along with the cover.

FASHION

These Celebrity Stylists Are Turning World Cup Jerseys Into Style Goals

BY KASE WICKMAN

Damian and Avigail Collins have styled the likes of Rihanna and Kim Kardashian, but their summer has been devoted to selling rare World Cup kits and high-fashion soccer pieces. The duo tells VF about their archival holy grails and how to style a kit to look more like you’re heading to Paris than the pub.

From the Archive

De Havilland’s Bumpy Flight

BY WILLIAM STADIEM

Golden Age screen goddess Olivia de Havilland entered the pantheon as Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind, won two best-actress Oscars, then decamped to Paris in 1955. What made her walk out on Hollywood?

In the May 2016 issue, de Havilland opens up to William Stadiem about that enduring mystery, and about her side of the most notorious sibling rivalry in film history—with her sister, Joan Fontaine.

Move over, Meet the Press and C-SPAN. TMZ has come to town to ask elected officials the tough questions, like: Will we ever have a gay president? And what’s the deal with Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry’s budding romance?

VF’s Dan Adler recently spent an afternoon on Capitol Hill with the duo behind TMZ DC, which set up shop in the nation’s capital earlier this year. He found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the Hollywood tabloid is feeling right at home in Donald Trump’s Washington.

In other Washington affairs, former FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, who was fired by Trump, spoke to VF at length about her battle royale to resist executive control. More tomorrow!

CAITLIN DICKSON,
SENIOR EDITOR

TMZ Is Launching Trump’s Washington Fully Into Its Tabloid Era

BY DAN ADLER

The announcement of TMZ DC ignited no shortage of anticipation about a potential clash between celebrity tabloid tactics and a comparatively staid political press corps. But in a Washington ruled by a reality TV character, the two men wielding the cameras have quickly made themselves at home.

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POLITICS

Rebecca Slaughter Doesn’t Want Your Sympathy

BY CRISTIAN FARIAS

The former FTC commissioner challenged Donald Trump’s decision to fire her all the way to the Supreme Court. She lost, but she thinks the American public lost more.

From the Archive

A First-Class Affair

BY SAM KASHNER

Using Terence Rattigan’s screenplay about a life-altering delay in the VIP lounge at a fogged-in Heathrow Airport, The VIPs starred Orson Welles, Louis Jourdan, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford—and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, riding a wave of scandal over the affair begun on their previous movie, Cleopatra.

In the alcohol-fueled filming of this 1963 homage to jet-set luxury, Sam Kashner reveals, the off-camera dramas (the cast’s clashing egos, the Taylor-Burton fireworks) mirrored, and even outdid, those in the script.