Harvey Weinstein is the only person to have been banned from every Vanity Fair event, the magazine’s former editor Graydon Carter told Page Six in an interview published Sunday. “He got banned from everything because he was rude to the staff and I didn’t like that,” Carter said.
And though the ban was initially temporary, it was ultimately instated permanently due to Weinstein’s repeated transgressions. “It was not from drink,” Carter said, “it was just within him.”
Carter also touched on several other notable figures in the conversation, including the Duchess of Sussex. “Jane Sarkin, who booked our covers, came in and said, ‘We should do a cover on Meghan Markle’,” he said. “I said, ‘I have no idea who that is.’ She said, ‘She’s on ‘Suits.’ I said, ‘I have no idea what that is, why should we do a story on her?’ So she said, ‘Because she’s going to marry Prince Harry.’”
During her interview, Markle reportedly asked the outlet’s reporter, “Excuse me, Is this going to all be about Prince Harry? Because I thought we were going to be talking about my charities and my philanthropy.”
Carter was also good friends with Princess Diana. At one dinner Diana asked Carter about Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
“She was very intrigued and kept asking questions — she wanted to know how Jackie Kennedy was treated by the Kennedy family because, I think, she felt there were parallels between how Jackie was treated and the way she was treated by the royal family,” he explained.
Carter also offered his opinion on how Princess Diana would feel about Prince Harry’s estrangement from the royal family. “I would think she would feel great sorrow for her son to have been pulled away from his family like this, especially his brother but also his father,” he said.
Read the interview on Page Six.
