Sublime

Those who knew Harry the longest could attest that he was the same man both before and after acquiring a mountain of riches. “He was quite a marvelous person,” Betty said. Harry was the social conscience of the Warner brothers.

For a surprisingly long time, Sam’s spending on American elections had flown under the radar. Back in 2020, he’d sent $5.2 million to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign without anyone asking or even thanking him for it. He was Biden’s second- or third-biggest donor, and yet the campaign had never even bothered to call him. Since then, Sam had tossed

Liberman’s boss, S. I. Newhouse Jr.—known as Si—was the chairman of Condé Nast. When his father sent him to work at the company in 1961, Si Newhouse, short and socially awkward, was wealthy but not naturally glamorous or artistic. Liberman, then art director of Vogue, was his entrée into the sophisticated, expensive world that existed for most