On Friday, the Department of Justice dropped the latest trove of Epstein files. Across the roughly 3 million documents, the word pizza appeared 911 times. (A few days later, 60 of those references were removed.) Search and social media interest in “Pizzagate” spiked, Clara Molot reports for Vanity Fair, as the sheer volume of repetition—along with some unlikely collisions between Epstein’s orbit and the digital spaces that pushed the original conspiracy—have reopened the Pizzagate box.
Plus: Legendary Washington Post editor Marty Baron speaks to Aidan McLaughlin after owner Jeff Bezos shredded the paper to “ingratiate himself with Donald Trump,” and Sarah DiGregorio details why newly revealed Epstein pen pal Peter Attia was never that great to begin with. |
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The documents contain nearly 900 references to “pizza,” spanning years—from long before Pizzagate existed to long after it was broadly considered debunked. |
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Marty Baron tells Vanity Fair that the “tremendous” newsroom brings in readers, but Trump has driven the owner and his publisher, Will Lewis, to decisions that have sent those readers out “the back door.” |
The many exchanges between Epstein and Attia start in 2015, well after Epstein pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution and was a registered sex offender. The emails get increasingly chummy through 2019, the year of Epstein’s arrest and death. |
Charli’s longtime stylist, Chris Horan, tells Vanity Fair about dressing the pop superstar turned multihyphenate for her post-Brat moment: “The best things happen last minute.” |
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“Time to ramp things up a bit,” exclaimed Miss Piggy. The Muppet Show stars take Vanity Fair’s infamous lie detector test and ask each other the hard-hitting questions: Who is the better host? Did Miss Piggy drive Kermit’s car into a ditch? And just how old is Miss Piggy? |
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