Condé Nast’s own stars compare their glossy empire to the MGM of Old Hollywood. But no one would wish it the same fate.

What made Bernie Madoff, a man who helped revolutionize Wall Street and built a completely legal billion-dollar business, perpetrate the greatest fraud in history? And what led Ezra Merkin, born to immense privilege, to enable him?

L.I. macher in hot water?

Is Lehman CEO Dick Fuld the true villain in the collapse of Wall Street, or is he being sacrificed for the sins of his peers?

A.G. Eliot Spitzer nearly arrested the subprime crisis.

How a Five Towns macher brought down the prime minister of Israel.

Aides like Darren Dopp would have walked through fire for Eliot Spitzer. And in a sense, Dopp has.

Her desires were simple: to have a relationship, adopt a child, do something meaningful with her life. So why did things between Johnson & Johnson heiress Libet Johnson and her weight-loss-guru boyfriend get so complicated?

Before he was the Bourne director, Doug Liman was the son of a New York legend, the lawyer Arthur Liman, who managed to do good while getting rich. No wonder Liman has sellout issues.

Eighty-three-year-old Anthony Marshall spends his days trying to convince the courts—and himself—that his mother loved him and felt guilty enough about her failings as a parent to transfer a huge amount of money to him before she died. The courts, at least, don’t seem to buy it.