Maureen O'Connor

Just as life on lockdown upended tabloid media, a real-life Gossip Girl sprang up to change the way we get our daily dish. Ten months after @deuxmoi became Instagram’s juiciest account, things have gotten complicated. Stars are trying to unmask the author. Fans are fighting about politics. And the biggest blind item of all remains: Who is @deuxmoi? And what is anyone getting out of this?

Breen took her 12-year-old niece on a black-diamond ski run that week. She discussed her upcoming 50th birthday over wine in the hot tub with her sister. Breen also talked about the pandemic with Feist. Infectious disease was not an uncommon topic for them. Feist’s 16-year-old son had been hospitalized, at age six, when he contracted swine flu during the H1N1 epidemic in 2009. During the 2014 Ebola outbreak—in which a NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia physician had been infected—the sisters discusse…

On Wednesday morning a judge sentenced the convicted sexual offender to 23 years in prison. In interviews in the hours after, his lawyers got candid about the trial, vented their spleens, and discussed their next steps.

The cable network is back—and it reenacted every minute of Harvey Weinstein’s trial. Next up? Heading to L.A. to cover Robert Durst’s long-awaited day in court. Inside the newsroom that wants cameras in every courthouse in the name of justice—and ratings.

On Monday, after days of deliberations, a New York jury found the movie producer guilty of two sex crimes. He will be sentenced in March and could spend decades in prison.

“There’s always a possibility,” Haley answered. Seated in the front row of the courtroom, crimson coat draped behind her and a yellow legal pad in her lap, sat Gloria Allred: feminist crusader, civil litigator, and Haley’s lawyer. For decades, Allred has been a consistent antagonist to America’s baddest men, filing multimillion-dollar sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits on behalf of mistreated women. She has been called a feminist hero, an “ambulance chaser of feminism,” and “a slick b…

“You take on a role, correct?” “And you convince the audience?” Annabella Sciorra had been on the witness stand for close to two hours on Thursday when Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer Donna Rotunno attacked her credibility by invoking her career. Last week, Sciorra became the first woman to accuse Weinstein of rape in a criminal court. (On Monday, Mimi Haleyi took the stand to accuse him of sexual assault.) Called to testify at the movie producer’s trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two other wo…

Both sides made their first appeals to jurors in the much-watched trial Wednesday.

The day of Siegal’s flight from London to Naples, New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor contacted her about disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s social life. Four days prior, federal agents had arrested Epstein on sex-trafficking charges when his private jet landed at Teterboro Airport. For decades, Epstein had cut a shadowy figure in New York and Palm Beach with his mysterious fortune and connections to power players including Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and retail billi…

After a dustup over the disgraced producer’s courtroom cell phone usage, Judge James Burke described Weinstein as “noncompliant and defiant and challenging to court officers.”