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Alexis Neiers’s Pretty Wild Road to Recovery

The Former Celebrity Thief and Drug Addict Who Inspired Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’

Alexis Neiers's life has been turned into a meme, a magazine article, a book, a symbol for millenial narcissism, and now a movie directed by Sophia Coppola and starring Emma Watson. But she's trying to escape all that. Full story

Does ‘The Love Song of Jonny Valentine’ Explain Why I’ve Seen Justin Bieber Naked?

The idea of getting inside Bieber, not just gazing at his leaked private photos, is the unspoken subtext of Teddy Wayne’s new novel about a Bieberesque character that might serve as an origin story for all of society’s terrible, wonderful pop angels. Full story

Impossible Is Dead

Aleksey Vayner, the Yale graduate who garnered the internet's mistrust for a video résumé he made called “Impossible is Nothing,” has died at the age of 29. According to IvyGate, the website that first reported on his fabrications in 2006, the cause of death is pending investigat… Full story

One in the Oven

Artist and ‘Girls’ Star Jemima Kirke Bares Her Belly and Chats with Us About Being a Grown-Up

Richard Kern and I drove out to the East Hampton family home of Jemima Kirke, the star of HBO's 'Girls,' to photograph her at eight months pregnant. I also chatted with her about the time we did key bumps together in a bathroom, dating assholes, and being famous. Full story

One in the Oven

Artist and ‘Girls’ Star Jemima Kirke Bares Her Belly and Chats with Us About Being a Grown-Up

Richard Kern and I drove out to the East Hampton family home of Jemima Kirke, the star of HBO's 'Girls,' to photograph her at eight months pregnant. I also chatted with her about the time we did key bumps together in a bathroom, dating assholes, and being famous. Full story

Our Piss Dungeon Has Hit the Big Time!

You all remember The Piss Dungeon, right? The story we broke back in March about a guy we knew who found a masturbating piss-fetishist hiding behind the urinals of a London pub so that men would piss onto his face without knowing it? Well, the Sun just published an exclusive of t… Full story

Off Hollywood - Angelyne

"As a child, I wanted to save the world. My dream was to get the chance to sit on the President’s lap and be so cute and say, 'No more war.'" Full story

Motherboard

Now I'm a Meme: Vermin Supreme

The first time I saw fringe presidential candidate Vermin Supreme on the internet, I thought he was dead serious, and I was terrified of him. I was convinced this weird guy was going to enslave us. Full story

My Parents Know More Than You - What Does Famous Mean?

I don't know what fame is anymore. I blame my parents. Full story

Karl Lagerfeld

An interview with the Kaiser himself.

When Vice called me last month with an out-of-the-blue offer to fly to Paris and interview the Kaiser himself, Karl Lagerfeld - creative director of the $10 billion Chanel empire, the house of Fendi, and his own eponymous line - I jumped at the chance. Full story