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Jeffrey Epstein reportedly kept a bizarre painting of former President Bill Clinton wearing red heels and a blue dress in his massive Manhattan mansion — and prints of the same portrait are available to purchase for under $50. The Daily Mailfirst reported the existence of the portrait, speaking with a …

This post contains spoilers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is now in theaters. Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, the latest epic from Quentin Tarantino, is not, as you may already know, a historically accurate depiction of the Manson Family murders. Given the director’s work, it’s not …

Let’s all just agree on one thing: the moon is weird. It’s in the sky. It glows. Sometimes it’s big, and sometimes it’s small. It also causes tides, somehow, for some reason, though if you’re looking for an in-depth explanation as to how it does this and why, you are …

‘All-American Despair,’ Stephen Rodrick’s story on white-male suicide, struck a chord with readers, making it one of our most-read stories of the month. We received an outpour of letters in response to the article. Read some of them below. “Hope this is the right and working email. I just read …

Since her retirement, Linda Fairstein — a former prosecutor for the New York sex crimes unit — has built a career as a mystery author, penning more than 20 mystery novels in the best-selling Alexandra Cooper series, which follows the travails of a hard-boiled New York City prosecutor. Recently, however, …

A clinical and forensic psychologist testified today at the trial for Keith Raniere, the leader of the self-empowerment group and alleged “sex cult” NXIVM, about the gradual, complex behavioral patterns that characterize coercive relationships and complex patterns of abuse. Dawn Hughes, PhD, a clinical and forensic psychologist who specializes in …

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced media mogul who has been accused by nearly 80 women of sexual misconduct, has reached a tentative $44 million deal to settle lawsuits with his accusers and other parties, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the terms of the deal, about $30 million would go …

When San Francisco broke heat records in 2017, with 106-degree temperatures in September, psychiatrist Robin Cooper didn’t hear until after the fact that one of her patients had been feeling dizzy and feverish. One day, he’d fainted in his poorly ventilated workspace. Emergency room doctors had surmised he’d had a …

The Twitter account for Mistress May shows an alabaster-skinned, dark-haired woman in a bustier, holding a riding crop and staring suggestively at the camera. “Welcome to my office. I’m Mistress May. And I didn’t give you permission to @ me,” her bio reads. At first glance, it looks much like …

O ut in the leafy suburbs of Woodland Hills, California, in an OK house in an OK neighborhood, the actor Corey Feldman is wandering around, saying he soon might name the name of the man he says raped his like-a-brother best friend and frequent co-star, the late Corey Haim, back …