Deanna Kizis

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Deanna Kizis

If it feels as though the legal feud between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni has been going on for years, settle in. Their court date isn’t until March 9, 2026. What’s more, neither side will agree to mediation—which is just the latest move that baffles Hollywood insiders who can’t understand why two stars off a hit movie would compromise their careers in a Johnny Depp–versus–Amber Heard kind of debacle.

2 months ago | vanityfair.com | Deanna Kizis

The DC-10 jetliners were still dropping hot-pink fire retardant on the fires raging across the Santa Monica Mountains when Angelenos began frantically calling their real estate agents. Most of them were looking for a rental in a good zip code—something comparable to the home they’d just lost. Often, they wanted a yard for the dog, and for the place to be close to work, community, and their kids’ schools. “The Palisades looks like a war zone,” says luxury real estate agent Shelton Wilder.

Dec 19, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Deanna Kizis

Erik and Lyle Menendez, who killed their parents with shotguns in 1989, are often referred to simply as “the Menendez Brothers.” They committed their crime together, were found guilty of murder in the first degree without the possibility of parole together, and have been held in the same prison together since 2018.

Nov 20, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Deanna Kizis

So many people visit the Hermès store in Beverly Hills that there’s crowd control out front, but for followers of all things Erik and Lyle Menendez, 722 North Elm Drive is the ultimate destination. For less than the price of a few movie tickets, a guide will chauffeur them to the Mediterranean-style mansion where the infamous brothers murdered their parents with multiple shotgun blasts at close range.

Oct 24, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Deanna Kizis

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has announced that he is recommending that the Menendez brothers, who murdered their parents with shotguns in 1989, be resentenced. This will begin a judicial process that gives them a new chance at freedom. Today, at a press conference in LA, he said that after careful review he has decided to recommend resentencing.