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CHAPTER 36 Graydon Carter: December 2002 raydon Carter, the legendary editor of Vanity Fair, likes to get to his office early, well before the rest of his staff files in. Most monthly magazines operate at a leisurely pace— three ming up with ideas, assigning articles, and shooting weeks of co c week the shit in the corporate kitchen followed by one franti when all the actual editing gets done. But this isn’t the case at Vanity Fair, which runs hard-hitting investigative pieces along- side its glitzy celebrity profiles. There are also parties to p and host—incredibly glamorous parties, including the annual Oscar-night bash, which i the Academy Awards ceremony itself. Vanity famous brand. But Carter is its public face, just as is the face of Condé Nast’s iconic fashion magazine, Vogue. 142 lan s more fun and far more exclusive than Fair is an old, Anna Wintour © ft One cover of Vanity F superstar. And a single tl down a corporate overlorc Carter’s easy to recogr a lion’s mane. The Santa ( tailored bespoke suit. He v be more serious about hi: heavily on him this montl to Vicky Ward, an English ity Fair. He’d meant for it pregnant with twins. She story right on her doorster Who was he, really? Car attended by academics, billi he’d flown Bill Clinton tc how he had made his fort tor of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ' Carter himself could h his case, the author would dropout who'd worked as York in his late twenties ai rise up the social and med and outgoing, Epstein rea q _ him was known. Maybe, | What did Epstein do, exact | Why were so many brilliz _ And where did those beaut Almost immediately, E pWard. He prevailed upon HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022109