Scooter Braun doesn’t do anything small. He’s got big lips, big money and a big office inside a gut-renovated West Hollywood compound. Textured wallpaper, plush couches and framed gold records from clients like Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Cody Simpson mingle with black-and-white photos of Braun hobnobbing with ... More

“I’ve never smoked a cigarette,” says cigar sommelier Giuseppe Ruo. Ruo, who was raised on the eastern coast of Italy in Apulia, began his career as a barista in his family’s coffee shop. It wasn’t until 2001, after he had moved to the U.K., that he was first introduced to ... More

In Can I Go Now?, biographer Brain Kellow tells the story of Sue Mengers, the Hollywood agent who made stars out of clients including Ali MacGraw, Candice Bergen, Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand, and who, over more than three decades, almost single-handedly changed the movie business. The ... More

Dozens of college admissions success stories flood the pages of ivywise.com, and it’s no surprise why. This year, 92 percent of IvyWise students were accepted into one or more of their top three choice universities. The leading Manhattan-based educational consulting firm offers a range of services—tutoring and test preparation, ... More

Geoff Kent is game for anything. Except for maybe hang gliding, he tells me as he recounts a trip to Rio de Janeiro with his then-girlfriend, now third wife, Otavia. Upon arriving in Rio, Kent, the founder and CEO of Abercrombie & Kent, born and raised in the bush ... More

Renowned reporter and novelist Gioia Diliberto has written the first-ever biography of fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg. Although Diliberto reports that DVF had first balked at the idea of having her life story put to paper, the finished product is as powerfully seductive as the designer’s ... More

Jimmy and Eddie Russell have been bonding over bourbon for more than 30 years—and it’s not just because they like drinking whiskey. The Russells are the industry’s only father-son Master Distilling team, responsible for crafting Wild Turkey Bourbon and its many variants—including the eponymous Russell’s Reserve ... More

Each weekday between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., more than 3.5 million viewers welcome a triumvirate of CBS This Morning anchors into their homes. But for Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell—the news veterans who host the Tiffany Network’s morning show—the day starts long before they arrive at their Midtown ... More

When it comes to book publishing, Carole DeSanti is one of the biggest, best and brightest. As Vice President and Executive Editor at Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Random House, she has worked with a collection of groundbreaking writers, including Terry McMillan, Dorothy Allison, Ruth Ozeki, George Hodgman, ... More