The Improbable Rise of Ivana Trump; Twitter’s Blue-Check Havoc; Meet The Crown’s New Cast

Plus: Five Years of #MeToo [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Weekly]( A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR November 3, 2022 [THE BIG READ]( [Inventing Ivana Trump]( BY MARK SEAL [From her “greed is good” heyday to her post-divorce denouement cavorting with a series of “freaky” Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name.]( [Read More]( If someone forwarded you this email, [sign up for “Cocktail Hour” here](. [VERIFIED]( [Inside Twitter’s Blue-Check Havoc]( BY JOE POMPEO [Journalists are deleting DMs, scoffing at Musk’s $8 verification fee, and even considering bolting from the platform.]( [Read More]( [#METOO]( [Has #MeToo Changed Hollywood At All?]( BY JOY PRESS [Experienced showrunners, producers, and other industry professionals say that a half decade after what was supposed to be a reckoning, Hollywood has already begun to backslide.]( [Read More]( [THE MIDTERMS]( [We’re Witnessing the Post-Truth Midterms]( BY MOLLY JONG-FAST [This cycle has been awash in lies—about everything from the last election to litter boxes to the assault on Paul Pelosi. An Elon-owned Twitter could further fuel the right’s alternate reality.]( [Read More]( [RECENT HISTORY]( [Meet The Crown’s New Queen and Prince]( BY JULIE MILLER [Oscar nominees Imelda Staunton and Jonathan Pryce play the queen and her consort during the mid-’90s, a time period famously rife with scandal for the royal family, in The Crown’s fifth season.]( [Read More]( [POWER LUNCH]( [Do Not Ask Claire Saffitz for Baking Hacks]( BY DELIA CAI [In her new cookbook, What’s for Dessert, YouTube’s favorite pastry chef eases up—just a little—on her ambitions for your dinner table.]( [Read More]( [AWARDS INSIDER]( [Judd Hirsch Brings an Extraordinary Life—And Career—To The Fabelmans]( BY DAVID CANFIELD [The 87-year-old actor bursts into The Fabelmans and nearly runs away with the whole movie. As he tells Vanity Fair, he’s been waiting a long time for it.]( [Read More]( [Vanity Fair]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( 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 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.