The King of Pointland

Anatomy of a Rumor

Remember that John Kerry adultery rumor from February? In this week's New York Magazine, Alexandra Polier, the alleged mistress, tells her tale. A journalist by training, Pollier resolved to find the source of the bogus story. Good stuff.

By the way, this is what she looked like before the magazine's stylist got to her. And that man in the first photo is her fiance: Yaron Schwartzman, international man of mystery. "Do jzhoo know who I am? Hmm?"