EXCLUSIVE Vanity Fair staff 'blindsided and devastated' after Anna Wintour appoints an 'unqualified' nepo-baby to run magazine
News hit the web last week that the longtime Vogue editor, 75, had picked her daughter, Bee Shaffer's close pal Mark Guiducci, 36, to run Vanity Fair following a high-profile search for the publication's next leader.
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