Vanity Fair chief Mark Guiducci instructed staff to go easy on ex-Prince Andrews daughters due to his friendship with them: report
The new editor of Vanity Fair magazine has told staffers to give favorable coverage to the children of ex-Prince Andrew — with whom he’s friends — according to a new report.Mark Guiducci, who was chosen to succeed Radhika Jones as editor-in-chief of the glossy Condé Nast-owned publication, reportedly took issue with a mention of the disgraced royal’s progeny, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie in a Vanity Fair story about their father’s ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.According to the news site Semafor, Guiducci “wanted to know if it was relevant to include the women in a piece about their father.”The Vanity Fair piece about the former Prince Andrew, which appeared in the September edition of the magazine, “only mentioned the princesses in passing” following Guiducci’s intervention, Semafor reported.A Vanity Fair spokesperson told The Post that “the references to Beatrice and Eugenie in the draft are identical to what ran and still runs on VF.com.Nothing was changed.“Vanity Fair published the first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre’s devastating posthumous memoir,” the spokesperson noted.In late September, Vanity Fair ran a story by reporter Erin Vanderhoof titled: “Sarah Ferguson Avoided the Worst of the Epstein Fallout — but a Newly Uncovered Email Has Led to New Consequences.”The magazine reported on a newly surfaced email from April 2011 in which Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, apologized to Epstein for publicly disavowing him, calling him a “steadfast, generous and supreme friend.”The resurfaced missive ignited outrage in the UK, which prompted at least seven charities to sever ties with the Duchess of York.Ferguson’s events for her children’s book were also canceled.Her spokesperson claimed the chummy email followed a menacing call from Epstein and was intended to defuse potential legal threats, despite her prior public vow to sever all contact.Guiducci’s hiring sparked allegations of nepoti...