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  • rumormonger

    Are Michael Wolff and Victoria Floethe Done?

    Have Michael Wolff and Victoria Floethe broken up? That's what we hear! If true — and please tell us, either way — it's a tragic end to a fairy tale romance that enchanted even the most jaded of observers. More »
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Baroness: She was jealous when she caught him fellating Politico in this month's VF. Sloppily and hungrily, I might add. 3 Responses | Other threads

  • shocker

    Michael Wolff Finds Wronged Wife Unpleasant

    Incisive Michael Wolff commentary on Jenny Sanford: PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEE!!
    07/02/09
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Pope John Peeps II: I don't know, I actually hate to say it, but I sort of agree with it. A wife who manages... 18 Responses | Other threads

  • media

    Michael Wolff: He Used to Have a Mustache, And Credibility

    "The scandalous elements of a man having an affair seem to escape me." That is Michael Wolff, talking about himself. We think some of the aggregated headlines over at his news website Sploid Newser might help enlighten him! More »
    07/02/09
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Mount_Prion: Please tell me he was never REALLY a porn star. 4 Responses | Other threads

  • 180s

    Michael Wolff Used to Hate Politico

    Weird! Last year Michael Wolff thought Politico was lame because politics is boring. Now he thinks it is the greatest thing ever! Politico's foreign policy correspondent disagrees, which is why he quit after six months. More »
    07/01/09
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    By Pareene

    Comment by vitajex: I don't get it. Why the picture of Kojak? 1 Responses | Other threads

  • michael wolff

    Politico Is Revolutionary, Says Man Who Should Just Be Writing About His Affair

    Michael Wolff, internet shouty guy and writer-for-magazines, was supposed to write a juicy tell-all for Vanity Fair about his scandalous affair with an intern! Instead he's apparently been working on a piece about fucking Politico? More »
    07/01/09
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    By Pareene

    Comment by GORDONGARTRELLE: Sweet "Virginia offices," Politico! more » | Other threads

  • Media Crack

    Where Were You When Vibe Died?

    In your emboldened Wednesday media column: More on the Spin layoffs, "Where were you when Vibe died?" stories begin, Froomkin's proud, Michael Wolff's unnecessarily loud, and newspapers are how(itzer)ed. More »
    07/01/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by Rickyneck: The best part of Vibe was the "20 Questions". If unkut.com decided to make a magazine, that would be what's... more » | Other threads

  • media

    Newser Secures Millions in Funding

    Newser, the news aggregator co-founded by intern-shagging media blowhard Michael Wolff, has secured $2.5 million in first-round funding. The source is reported to be numerous individual investors, who must have been unfazed by the Wolff goat-molestation rumors. [Paid Content]
    06/19/09
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    By The Cajun Boy

    Comment by Wrapitup: Sinister rumors abound that Michael Wolff cooks a mean Jamaican goat curry. Note to self: if Michael Wolff molests you,... 1 Responses | Other threads

  • michael wolff

    Today In Michael Wolff

    Michael Wolff has a habit of surreptitiously offering meta-commentary on his own untidy life via his Newser columns. Today's headline: "Here's Why I Like Silvio Berlusconi." At this point we have to assume he's just fucking with us. More »
    06/04/09
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    By John Cook

    Comment by Wrapitup: Michael Wolff has the focused, knowing smirk of the man who can blow himself, and do it incredibly well. 6 Responses | Other threads

  • media matters

    Is The 'Jon And Kate Plus Eight' Story The Future Of Journalism?

    Are you sick of Jon and Kate Gosselin? Probably. But that's not going to stop the media from writing about them. They apparently just discovered the story, and in a room in Minnesota, news types are wringing their hands over missing it for so long. More »
    05/31/09
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    By Foster Kamer

    Comment by Meretrix: Uh, isn't Borowitz a parody writer, a la "The Onion"? I assumed all his quotes in this story were deliberately... 12 Responses | Other threads

  • the real issues

    Does Michael Wolff Molest Goats?

    I have no idea! It's just an eye-grabbing headline. Like Michael Wolff's own headline on his onanistic daily column today: "Is Sonia Sotomayor Gay?" Michael Wolff has no idea. But he made you click, ha! More »
    05/29/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by Pope John Peeps II: Although to be honest, the whole thing is pretty tongue-in-cheek. LIke with this sentence: "I don't know, for instance, if Condi... 8 Responses | Other threads

  • creeps

    Michael Wolff's Daughter Narrowly Escapes Dov Charney's Lecherous Advances

    We already know more about Michael Wolff than we'd frankly like to, so his disclosure today that pervy American Apparel founder/pornographer Dov Charney recently hit on his daughter in Union Square just creeps us out. More »
    05/19/09
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    By John Cook

    Comment by Pope John Peeps II: Everybody's young girlfriend is somebody's daughter. That's a neat lesson, eh Michael Wolff? 2 Responses | Other threads

  • feuds

    Michael Wolff Does Not Like David Carr, or His Book Reviews

    Professional media beef-starter Michael Wolff is starting another beef! It's just what he does. Today's target: NYT media columnist David Carr, who Wolff says "I've never personally liked very much." We know why, Michael! More »
    05/05/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by power_stroke: Wolff is disgusting. I would rather sleep with Mario Batali. 4 Responses | Other threads

  • Media Crack

    Esquire Really *****d The *******s

    In your overblownTuesday media column: Time is a biter, Michael Wolff is an exaggerator, Portfolio is a fantasist, Newsweek is stank, and Esquire is an [expletive deleted]: More »
    04/21/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by BookishLookish: Nice job, Esquire. You were once the classy arbiters of masculine taste, and now you've gotten yourself down to the... 3 Responses | Other threads

  • scandal

    Michael Wolff Offers Odd Meta Analysis of Eliot Spitzer's Public Rehabilitation

    Michael Wolff, whose affair with a 28-year-old Vanity Fair intern and subsequent divorce were publicized all over the place, is just thinkin' about Eliot Spitzer, today. More »
    04/20/09
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    By Pareene

    Comment by czecher: In fairness... the editor of Vanity Fair having an affair with an intern isn't really on the same level as... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • audiuhoh

    Michael Wolff's voicemail to CityFile is now a ringtone: "Be a man and call me."

    04/09/09
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  • affairs

    Michael Wolff's Blonde Problem

    At first gossip is shameful, then it becomes linkbait. Media gadfly Michael Wolff starts his daily jotting for Newser.com today: "What do men in their fifties and sixties know about girls in their twenties?" More »
    04/03/09
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by blogissuchanuglyword: Women in their twenties have a similar problem with men in the 40's to 80's. We're especially uninterested in you... 47 Responses | Other threads

  • Media Crack

    No Need to Buy a Plane Ticket Just For the In-Flight Magazine Any More

    In your magaziney Thursday media column: Maxim UK's dead in print, Airline magazines go terrestrial, Michael Wolff's Vanity Fair retribution piece, and Esquire plays with toys: More »
    04/02/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by ChillbearLatrigue: Delta, who just emerged from bankruptcy, is now going to diversify into the booming print media business by selling Sky... 4 Responses | Other threads

  • self defense

    Victoria Floethe Will Rise Above You Gossipmongers

    Victoria Floethe is tired of the moralizing prudes! The younger half of media beef-starter Michael Wolff's recently exposed affair is telling her side of the story: she's a free-living woman beset by Victorian gossiping hordes. More »
    04/02/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by TheGintheCity: Ha. I went to college with this girl, and I used to see professors doing the walk of shame out... 13 Responses | Other threads

  • scandals

    Michael Wolff's Girlfriend Costs Him His Wife

    Media beef-starter Michael Wolff is getting a divorce, one month after news broke of his affair with his 28-year-old employee Victoria Floethe. More »
    03/30/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by El Matardillo: He would make the perfect boyfriend for JA, and together they could have a whole school of trout-pouted fingerlings. 3 Responses | Other threads

  • advice

    How to Handle a Media Sex Scandal

    Last month, news broke of a rumored affair between Michael Wolff and a younger employee. A week later, rumors came out about CNN's Jeff Toobin having an affair. Now, all is quiet. Technique is everything: More »
    03/20/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by FormerEnglishMajor: Isn't Toobin going to have some news being birthed any minute now? 2 Responses | Other threads

  • gossip roundup

    Robin Williams Needs Heart Surgery

    Today's gossip is depressing, sorry: Robin Williams will go under the knife, Rihanna's friends are processing her Chris Brown decision and Michael Wolff is supposedly trying to kick out his mother in law. More »
    03/06/09
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by Almostbanned: What photograph of two people kissing could ever possibly be worth $28k? Unless it's of Jesus kissing the Easter Bunny,... 6 Responses | Other threads

  • media wars

    News Corp's Revenge on Michael Wolff

    Bad: Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff is rumored to be having an affair with his younger employee. Far worse, for Wolff: this gives News Corp (and others) a chance to get back at him. More »
    03/03/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by Dickdogfood: For all his specious twattery, Michael Wolff is at least one-half the poundage of Delonas himself. Does the dude have... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • field guide

    Victoria Floethe, the New Media Ingénue

    A staff writer at Michael Wolff's Newser, Victoria Floethe, is rumored to be having an affair with her boss. Who knew there were any media jobs still worth sleeping your way into? More »
    02/26/09
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by FormerEnglishMajor: Hmmm. So her means of support is sleeping with older men. That would make her... ? 7 Responses | Other threads

  • conspiracy theories

    Did Michael Wolff Sink Steven Rattner's Car Czar Job?

    Here's something for conspiracy theorists: earlier this month, news emerged that the wife of financier Steven Rattner got a DUI last year, which was conveniently not reported upon. Now Rattner's Obama administration job has disappeared. More »
    02/16/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by son of spam: Gosh, you people would live longer if you let go of the Bush-hating. They're gone. The reason Rattner didn't get appointed... 3 Responses | Other threads

  • media

    New York Papers Ignored the DWI Bust of Democratic Bigwig

    Did you know that financier Steven Rattner's wife Maureen White, the former national finance chair of the Democratic Party, had a hilarious drunk driving arrest last October? Nope, because no one reported on it! More »
    02/09/09
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Not The Red Baron: Throgs Neck Bridge?! Where was this alleged offence, the World of Warcraft? 3 Responses | Other threads

  • Media Crack

    Alt-Weeklies Doing Way Better than Time Warner

    In your frostbitten Wednesday media column: Time Warner burns billions, the Daily Beast loses luster, alt-weeklies miraculously manage, and more! More »
    02/04/09
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by Catfish_Jones: And speaking of Tina...who declares in today's Daily Beast that "Gawker readers buy Playgirl for the stories"? a) Emily Brillb) Dianne... 1 Responses | Other threads

  • moguls

    Jon Stewart Reduces Rupert Murdoch To '14-Year-Old Girl'

    Jon Stewart humiliated pundit Tucker Carlson with a public deconstruction years ago. But his disassembling of media villain Rupert Murdoch last night was, in a way, more damning. More »
    01/07/09
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by ge90036: No offense, but if Jon Stewart is "the coolest guy on television" then excuse me while I go take a... 18 Responses | Other threads

  • slapfights

    When Media Critics Fight

    In today's NYT Book Review, media critic David Carr kinda savaged Michael Wolff's Rupert Murdoch bio. After the jump, see Wolff's vicious response via Facebook status line. Aren't media nerds cute when they fight? More »
    12/28/08
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    By Gabriel Snyder

    Comment by dadoorunrun: I know you banned the word but what an asshat. Carr was, if anything, too kind. The good news is... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • contests

    Which Media Megalomaniac is More Ridiculous?

    Woo, the feud between Conrad Black and Michael Wolff—an incarcerated media mogul fraudster and a self-absorbed media gossip—is heating up! Which of these two ridiculous men is more deserving of your scorn? Let's see: More »
    12/17/08
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by Sarcastro: Totally a trick question. The answer is Bill Jelavich of the Journal Register Co. Or Sam Zell. 1 Responses | Other threads

  • My Lord

    Freedom Fighter Conrad Black Calls Michael Wolff A Shitty Writer

    Former newspaper mogul and current jailed columnist Conrad Black says that Michael Wolff's book about Rupert Murdoch was all wrong, and furthermore, that Conrad Black is a heroic innocent man: More »
    12/17/08
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by IHateWhatYouHaveOn: Being and Nothingness? Is he Sartre now? 3 Responses | Other threads

  • Shut up, Media

    Judith Regan Vs. Michael Wolff In Sad Gossip Feud

    Judith Regan, the crazy, Bernard Kerik-fucking former star publisher fired by News Corp. last year, is now locked in a public feud with self-regarding media argument starter Michael Wolff. They deserve each other. More »
    12/15/08
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by ✈The Late Pufflehuff✈: Still, quite a fun book on Rupes, and I've not heard of the other one, so she loses. 3 Responses | Other threads

  • the internet

    Why MySpace Is Worthless

    "If you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor." [Michael Wolff]
    12/02/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by Lonely Goatherd: I hate all networking sites, but this may just be because I have no friends. 5 Responses | Other threads

  • media

    Rupert Murdoch's Gross-Out Gay Sex Joke

    Media critic Michael Wolff's new book, The Man Who Owns the News, is excerpted in the London Guardian today. But it glosses over the details of a joke in particularly poor taste that the reptilian Newscorp billionaire told his Sun tabloid editor Rebekah Wade—who was was arrested a few years back for assaulting her supposed "hard man" British actor husband—after "a few drinks in a posh London restaurant," about gay sex. "Seeing [Wall Street Journal publisher Robert] Thomson arrive, Murdoch whispered: "For God's sake, don't tell Robert what I said. He's a gentrified man ... very clever," it reads. The actual joke, as it appears in the book, comes after the jump.
    12/01/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by loliver35: Ok, so what is a Poofter? 4 Responses | Other threads

  • wendi deng

    How Rupert Murdoch's Man-Eating Wife Controls Him

    For the most part, Rupert Murdoch courts controversy. "He likes to set the house on fire and watch all the fire engines drive maniacally down the road," Michael Wolff writes in a biography of the News Corporation chairman. But he's touchy about his third wife, Wendi Deng, nearly 40 years his junior. He was upset when the Wall Street Journal decided to profile her in 2000. And he is suspected to be behind the spiking of a Fortune contributor's Deng profile for an Australian newspaper chain he partly owned at the time, and the subsequent sanitization of Deng's Wikipedia entry. So Murdoch can't be tickled that Wolff says Deng has him by the short wires, according to the Times' new review of Wolff's Murdoch bio: More »
    11/30/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by VirusWithShoes: The Gold-Digger And The Dirty-Digger. 3 Responses | Other threads

  • michael wolff

    Wolff To NBC: 'You Guys Are The Trash Heap'

    The recurrent bitchiness between Michael Wolff and NBC's Ben Silverman usually lapsed back into polite chatter at the Monaco Media Summit, judging from the lengthy YouTube video of a panel discussion at the Monte Carlo event. But one can't help but wonder if would-be internet mogul Wolff was more personally invested in his reference to television networks as the scapegoated "trash heap of everybody's expectations" than he let on. And calling Silverman "functionally digitally illerate" was just plain mean, as was using a vulgar expletive to refer to old media. But then sublimated envy and resentment are kind of Wolff's calling cards, so no harm, no foul! Click the video icon to watch the fireworks.
    11/18/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by Aaron Altman: Also: honest question. Does Silverman (or did Silverman) have anything to do with the creation of Hulu? Because... 1 Responses | Other threads

  • rupert murdoch

    Does Rupert Murdoch Wish The Post Had Endorsed Obama?

    Has Rupert Murdoch made a terrible miscalculation? Michael Wolff thinks so! Wolff, Murdoch's newest biographer, says that the New York Post's uncharacteristically fawning Obama-centric cover today is Murdoch's way of apologizing to the future president (Obama) for the Post's endorsement of McCain. In fact, it's been widely rumored for months that Murdoch wanted the Post to endorse Obama. So what's going on here? More »
    11/04/08
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by BookishLookish: OT, but does anyone know why there has been a consistent police presence in front of the Post/FOX offices on... 4 Responses | Other threads

  • rupert murdoch

    Rupert Murdoch's Strange Kids

    Vanity Fair has a new excerpt from professional media beef-starter Michael Wolff's upcoming biography of News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch already said publicly that the book is flawed, but his problems with it seemed to center on how some of his business relationships are portrayed. The excerpt today, disappointingly, focuses on Murdoch's family life, and some of it is predictable. Friction between the new wife and the old wife and the kids from the old wife! Drama about succession! The only real interesting parts come when Wolff starts riffing on Murdoch's greedy ambitious kids and their Oedipal tendencies: More »
    10/31/08
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by BadUncle: James was a puppetry major at Harvard, specializing in found objects. Which I find weirdly appropriate for a Murdoch. ... 4 Responses | Other threads

  • the olds

    Michael Wolff befuddled by Facebook

    Burn Rate, Michael Wolff's tell-all book about the birth of the Internet business, was a clever read which used the then-nascent medium to best effect. The Web-startup founder posted the index of his book online, driving all the Web insiders to his site to see if they were mentioned — and then to the bookstore to see exactly how. Which makes me surprised to see how clueless he is about Facebook. A tipster points out that his profile reads like an ad for his new book on Rupert Murdoch — but you have to be one of his 438 friends to see it. Which sounds like a good predictor of his book sales.
    10/27/08
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    By Owen Thomas
  • michael wolff

    Michael Wolff: Murdoch Just Embarrassed, Tina Brown Just A Hack

    Oh professional media beef-starter Michael Wolff, is there any power to which you will not speak the truth, or at least some tough-sounding simulacrum thereof? No, there is not. News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch preemptively slammed Vanity Fair writer Wolff's upcoming biography of him, in a tone of indeterminate sincerity. Now Wolff has responded, telling the Observer that Rupert's just "a little embarrassed" about what he let slip, and what he calls are errors are really just "an internal political thing." That's much nicer than what he had to say about former New Yorker editor Tina Brown's new Daily Beast: More »
    10/23/08
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    By Hamilton Nolan

    Comment by UnreliableNarrator: Gawker media covering the Observer's midea coverage of Michael Wolff's media coverage of Daily Beast, itself a media outlet. So... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • rupert murdoch

    Rupert Murdoch Lashes Out At Crafty Biographer

    If it wasn't inevitable from the get-go that Rupert Murdoch would, via tentacles that touch every distribution channel and medium, obtain an advance copy of Michael Wolff's biography of him, it certainly became so when the book landed in the hands of the News Corporation chairman's son-in-law Matthew Freud. Freud got it from a London newspaper negotiating serialization rights, Murdoch got it from Freud, and Wolff soon heard from Murdoch, the Times reported this morning: "[The book] contains some extremely damaging misstatements of fact," he emailed, thus playing into Wolff's hands, as he seems to have done from the beginning. More »
    10/23/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by Monte Wooley: Oh please! Murdoch isn't stupid. He owns Wolff's ball is is just trying to sell books by manipulating people--and it's... 2 Responses | Other threads

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