Julie Miller

Over the years, movie stars have paid homage to the women responsible for their genetic fortune in the most Hollywood way possible—by bringing their mothers as their Oscar plus-ones. In tribute, the actors who have escorted their beloved moms on the Academy Award red carpet.

As new details emerge about the Alberts’ German Shepherd, the ACLU joins Read’s request to drop the murder charge, and Judge Beverly Cannone prepares for the January retrial.

Karen Read Tells Her Story (Part 1): A Murder Trial in Massachusetts

“They killed their parents and they still love their parents,” says director Alejandro Hartmann. “That’s very contradictory and very hard to understand.”

“The real stuff was so weird and better than anything that I could imagine,” says VF special correspondent Gabe Sherman, who wrote the film about a young Donald Trump learning the dark arts from Roy Cohn.

It’s true—as depicted in Netflix’s ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,’ the Menendez brothers really did offer Simpson pro tips for navigating jail in 1994.

The 1993 Menendez murder trial, subject of Netflix’s ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,’ seemed like an open-and-shut case. Then defense attorney Leslie Abramson vowed to discredit therapist L. Jerome Oziel—and she was able to, thanks in part to his mistress, Judalon Smyth.

According to Netflix’s new docuseries Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, Lou Pearlman was a congenial conman. Yes, the jovial former blimp entrepreneur went to prison for running a Ponzi scheme that stole hundreds of millions of dollars from investors. Yes, he used the boy bands he developed—including both the Backstreet Boys and ’NSync—as elaborate distractions from his swindling, getting them to perform on command for investors while stealing from their members too. But according to many of Dirty P…

As viewers wondered whether they were hallucinating, Hogan reminisced about a scene that took place during both men’s glory era. “The last time I was up onstage, Donald Trump was sitting ringside at the Trump Plaza, I was bleeding like a pig, and I had won the world title right in front of Donald J. Trump,” he said. He was presumably referencing one of Trump’s late-1980s WrestleMania appearances—which, technically speaking, actually took place at Atlantic City Convention Hall (though they were b…

Victoria Kalina had already had her heart broken once on television when she was approached about appearing in the docuseries that would become Netflix’s America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Kalina first auditioned to become a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader when she was 18, with the process captured on CMT’s long-running reality show Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. She was told on camera that she didn’t make the cut—a rejection that was especially crushing because, as th…