Min's Hot Hires Impress Us

Big moves in tab-land! The unstoppable Janice Min has signed up two new high profile writers for Us Weekly, her glossy juggernaut of Brangelina speculation and Hills entrail-reading. The new issue (Inside Beyoncé’s Wedding!) features articles by Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama. The articles are each teased on the cover with "Vote For Read More

Us Weekly Acknowledges Gay Love

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which each year rewards what they view as positive depictions of gay people in various media from reality shows to newspapers to comic books, has made a happy woman of Us Weekly editor Janice Min.

In 2005, GLAAD nominated magazines such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Read More

Downtown Man

A downtown man—that’s what Billy Joel is. Even if he did just unload a 2,681-square-foot spread at the Hubert, a ritzy newish condominium located between Hudson and Greenwich streets in Tribeca, for $4.25 million, according to deed-transfer records.

In 2004, Mr. Joel dropped $3.9 million on the place. Then, last July, the piano man Read More

The Bond Street Boys

Last November, Ian Schrager and Aby Rosen invited about 25 of Manhattan’s top luxury real-estate brokers to dinner at the Tribeca restaurant, Bouley.

The evening was arranged to celebrate the completion of a luxurious and much-anticipated apartment at 50 Gramercy Park North, the 23-unit co-op the duo had developed together alongside their gut renovation of Read More

Janice Min: Free Lunch or Free Agency

Us Weekly editor Janice Min and Wenner Media agree on what she should be paid: $1.2 million per year, according to a source familiar with Min’s contract negotiations. But they don’t agree about what she can serve for lunch.

Owing to an impasse over staff perks–including catered meals–Min’s contract expired last week before a new Read More