Jessica Pressler is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine. Her 2015 New York magazine article “The Hustlers at Scores” was nominated for a National Magazine Award and was made into the film “Hustlers,” starring Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles. Her article about con artist Anna Sorokin was developed into the mini-series “Inventing Anna” released by Netflix in 2022.
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Cynthia Nixon Has Already Won
They say politics is Hollywood for ugly people, so it’s understandable that the question of why exactly Cynthia Nixon is running…
“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It”
It started with money, as it so often does in New York. A crisp $100 bill slipped across the smooth…
The Plot to Bomb Garden City, Kansas
For all of Patrick Stein’s life, Southwest Kansas — “God’s country,” he called it — had looked basically the…
Meet Herman Weisberg, the Mistress Whisperer Who Handles Affairs Gone Wrong
He waits for her where they have agreed to meet, at a wine bar on the Lower East Side….
The Hustlers at Scores
In another life, Roselyn Keo might have liked to work on Wall Street. “I’m smart enough, I know,” she told…
Are You Still Afraid of Javier Bardem?
Javier Bardem is on his knees. “Look at my face,” he explains delightedly, pointing to his iPhone, which displays a…
