Vanity Fair
Our investigations stand on Vanity Fair's reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
7 stories, each opening at its source.
- Vanity Fair — Matthew Cole: Kushner's hacked phone and the alleged Gulf slush fund (adapted from 'Princes and Thieves')
- David Rose, 'The Gaza Bombshell' — Vanity Fair, April 2008
- Vanity Fair (2022) — the Saudi panel's concerns about the Affinity deal
- Vicky Ward, The Talented Mr. Epstein (Vanity Fair, March 2003)
- Vanity Fair (2022) — Kushner's firm and the Saudi investment (his camp's position that the deal was proper)
- Vanity Fair long-read on the Cohn–Trump relationship; Cohn's disbarment for 'dishonesty, fraud, deceit' just before death, 1986
- Vanity Fair — Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele, 'Monsanto's Harvest of Fear' (May 2008)
Where their work appears on this site
How we graded the claims built on their work
7 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE · 5 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Princes and Thieves →
Alleged: a secret Gulf 'slush fund' was set up for Kushner while he was a sitting White House adviser.
SOME SMOKE - Princes and Thieves →
Alleged: the whole thing surfaced because Dutch intelligence had screenshots of Kushner's hacked iPhone.
SOME SMOKE - Israeli Influence on the United States →
Bush 43, the 2006 Hamas election, and the covert reversal
PROBABLY TRUE - Princes and Thieves →
Documented: the Saudi sovereign fund put $2 billion into Kushner's firm after he left office — over its own panel's objections.
FACT - The Roy Cohn Method →
Jeffrey Epstein's adoption of the Roy Cohn method
SOME SMOKE - Princes and Thieves →
Kushner denies impropriety; the allegations are uncorroborated as of publication — and that is the open question.
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
Leslie Wexner as the documented source of Jeffrey Epstein's wealth
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Roy Cohn as Trump's Mentor and Fixer (1973–1986)
FACT - The Roy Cohn Method →
S.I. Newhouse Jr. — the Condé Nast alignment
FACT - The gene police: what the Schmeiser case actually decided →
The 'seed police': investigators, a tip line, and lawsuits against farmers
FACT - Princes and Thieves →
The money allegedly moved onward — to figures Cole describes including a warlord and a mercenary — which we do not assert as fact.
SOME SMOKE - Princes and Thieves →
The quid-pro-quo — 'push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a fund' — is a source's characterization, which we pose.
SOME SMOKE - The Epstein Class →
What Epstein's contact directory documents about his operational reach
PROBABLY TRUE - The Roy Cohn Method →
What Trump took from Cohn
FACT