As revolution reached Tehran, soldiers walked into its new museum of modern art and the Shahbanu’s Western masterpieces went into the basement. Chapter 5 of The Missing Masterpiece of Tehran, free with your email.
Tom Goldstein argued before the Supreme Court and played for millions against billionaires. How long could he keep his two lives apart?
Tom Goldstein takes his poker operation from Alec Gores’s Beverly Hills mansion to a showdown with Tang Hao in Manila. Millions are on the table.
Tom Goldstein had a losing reputation and access to billionaire poker games. Behind him, a team of professionals was preparing him to win.
In public, he was the country’s top Supreme Court litigator. In private, he won close to $100 million from opponents at the highest-stakes poker games in the world. His double life cost him everything.
Iran’s rulers wanted a Persian masterpiece back. The deal involved a de Kooning and an art dealer having an affair with Princess Diana.
Harry Sargeant III built a fortune where sanctions, political access and private opportunity overlapped. Then Washington revoked the licence behind his Venezuelan asphalt monopoly and it all came tumbling down.
For more than a decade, Jho Low has been buying access to power. Yesterday, news reports confirmed Trump is actively discussing his pardon. Here is the full history.
We broke the story of Gaurav Srivastava in 2023. He tried to erase it. Now he faces a federal RICO lawsuit alleging he stole 3 million — and spent it buying his way into the MAGA establishment.
A Greek shipping network that spent years evading U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil is now lobbying the Trump administration for permission to keep doing business — while its CEO dines at the Kennedy Center.
A London PR firm charged $144,000/month to rebrand a dictator's son. Inside the failed operation to whitewash the Marcos name.
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