Jesse McKinley

Albany

Domestic Correspondent, Styles at The New York Times

Domestic correspondent for @NYTstyles, after Albany + SF buro chief, culture, features, clerkdom. KC native. Tips, comments, complaints: [email protected].

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Articles

Barry Diller says he’s gay, opens up about 24-year marriage to Diane von Furstenberg

1 week ago | pressdemocrat.com | Jesse McKinley

During his decades as a media mogul, Barry Diller has held an array of powerful titles, serving as chairman and CEO of Fox, Paramount Pictures and, most recently, IAC. The positions have made Diller a boldfaced name and a billionaire. Now, however, Diller, 83, has embraced a new role: that of an openly gay man.
Barry Diller Says He Is Gay, but Happily Married to Diane von Furstenberg

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jesse McKinley

The media mogul publicly addressed being gay for the first time, while also celebrating his marriage to Diane von Furstenberg. "Today he opened to the world," she said. During his decades as a media mogul, Barry Diller has held an array of powerful titles, serving as chairman and chief executive of Fox, Paramount Pictures and, most recently, IAC. The positions have made Mr. Diller a boldfaced name and a billionaire. Now, however, Mr. Diller, 83, has embraced a new role: that of an openly gay man.
This Year's Met Gala Raises the Most Money in Its History

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jesse McKinley

The Met's annual fashion party has become a fund-raising juggernaut, but the lavish event comes with a price tag of its own. How much bang does it get for its buck? The Met Gala has outdone itself, even before it's begun. The annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - the flashy fashion extravaganza that highlights the city's social scene every May - is expected to raise more than $31 million this year, the biggest gross in the event's 77-year history.
Washington Parties On, Without Trump or Big Celebrities

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jesse McKinley

Drinks in hand, anxious media people braved a series of events in the nights before the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
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2 months ago | wyborcza.pl | Jesse McKinley
An unexpected message appeared in a Vermont ski resort's snow report. What happened next?

2 months ago | boston.com | Jesse McKinley |John Waller

A flare of protest against the Trump administration erupted last weekend from the most unexpected of places: a snow report. The setting was the powder-packed peaks of the Sugarbush ski resort in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where Vice President JD Vance had retreated on Saturday for a day of skiing with his family. Before Vance arrived, a lengthy post appeared on the Sugarbush website, meant to be an early morning rundown of the current slope conditions.
Sugarbush Reporter Was Not Fired for Viral JD Vance-Related Snow Update

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jesse McKinley

A flare of protest against the Trump administration erupted last weekend from the most unexpected of places: a snow report. The setting was the powder-packed peaks of the Sugarbush ski resort in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where Vice President JD Vance had retreated on Saturday for a day of skiing with his family. Before Mr. Vance arrived, a lengthy post appeared on the Sugarbush website, meant to be an early morning rundown of the current slope conditions.
A Loan-Scorned Socialite Reported Her Warhol Stolen. A Tempest Ensued.

2 months ago | sun-sentinel.com | Jesse McKinley

It must have seemed, at the time, a fairly simple deal. In late 2023, Libbie Mugrabi, a Manhattan socialite, wanted to take out a $3 million loan. She needed the money to buy a home in the south of France, she told the New York Post, although her lawyer would say later that she merely wanted “to get her finances in order.”Mugrabi may have seemed cash poor, but she was art rich, having received valuable works in her divorce from art market titan David Mugrabi.
A Loan-Scorned Socialite Reported Her Warhol Stolen. A Tempest Ensued.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jesse McKinley

It must have seemed, at the time, a fairly simple deal. In late 2023, Elizabeth Mugrabi, known as Libbie, a Manhattan socialite, wanted to take out a $3 million loan. She needed the money to buy a home in the south of France, she told The New York Post, though her lawyer would say later that she merely wanted "to get her finances in order."Ms. Mugrabi may have seemed cash poor, but she was art rich, having received valuable works in her divorce from the art market titan David Mugrabi.
For These 20-Somethings, Trump ‘Is Making It Sexy’ to Be Republican

2 months ago | myheraldreview.com | Jesse McKinley

NEW YORK — Amid a surge of youthful Republicanism in New York and nationwide, there has been an element of social cachet that has often proved elusive: In blunt terms, the word is “cool.” Indeed, hamstrung by political beliefs that are often in opposition to those of major cultural figures, conservatives have frequently groused about the depiction of them as squares, including President Donald Trump, whose hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center this week was seemingly led by a desire to make...