My Night With Jeffrey Epstein’s Rabbateur
Twenty five years ago in Paris, I interviewed Jean-Luc Brunel, the model agent now alleged to have procured underage girls for the late Jeffrey Epstein, for a book on the modeling business subtitled The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. That night I got an acrid taste of just how ugly it could be. Highlights of […]
L’Affair Epstein: The French Connection
Tonight’s edition of 66 Minutes, the French equivalent of our 60 Minutes, includes a segment on Jeffrey Epstein and one of his key enablers, the French model agent and Miami modelizer Jean-Luc Brunel. Brunel was first exposed on 60 Minutes in 1988, and (apparently) first responded in a lengthy interview he gave for my 1995 […]
On David Koch (b. 1940, d.2019)
In 2014, as acting editor of Avenue, sitting in that chair for just a few months, I faced a challenge. The October cover had been promised to David Koch, the right wing zealot and social figure, on condition the story be focused purely on his philanthropy, which was a legitimate subject–and ignore his more controversial […]
Meet Jeffrey Epstein’s Enabler
French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel has become a focus of journalistic inquiry in the days since pedo Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide. Yesterday, Brunel made the front page of the Washington Post in a story that cites Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. According to RTL, the French radio network, I’m “one of the few people […]
Toxic Trustees: Named and Shamed
New York Magazine’s Whitney Mallett and Katy Schneider have created a guide to the latest gallery of rogues to join the boards of the city’s leading cultural philanthropies. Rogues’ Gallery gets a shout-out–alongside Metropolitan Museum board members like Henry Kissinger and David Koch.
Margiela Unmasked
According to Wikipedia, only one known photo of the Belgian-born Paris-based designer Martin Margiela exists, taken in 1997 by Marcio Madeira but never officially verified. Here’s a second, taken by me (so I can vouch for its veracity) in Fall 1989 at the second Margiela show I covered in what I understood to be a […]