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Adam Robb

@lifevicarious.bsky.social
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Cake Zine Caper Gourmet NYMag Observer Playboy Prospect Serviette T WSJ I enjoy free meals and hunting bad men. thelifevicarious@gmail.com

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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I wrote about my mom's neighbors murdering their baby back in April, and how the story got lost in the wake of another baby's death in Brooklyn at the same time. t.co/WN1Pl08SIe
Photo of the Crime Scene Unit notice and police tape affixed to the bolted broken front door of the Bayonne, NJ apartment where a baby was killed this past April.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I've done serious Trump/Epstein-related blimp reporting for @prospect.org this year: prospect.org/2026/04/23/d...
An excerpt from the linked American Prospect story describes the early career of FashionTV founder, accused sex trafficker, and Paolo Zampolli confidant Michel Adam Lisowski : Never one to hide in plain sight, Lisowski sported an unkempt moptop of bushy hair, Coke bottle glasses, and a mix of fatigues and dashikis that rarely covered the weight he liked to throw around from a young age. Born in Warsaw, he defied Princeton’s preppy aesthetics until he was arrested on drug possession charges ahead of his senior year for attempting to smuggle $120,000 worth of hashish from London to New York with two other men in 1970. He bounced between African and European hippie communes before returning to the United States in 1975 to work with the State Department as a government contractor during the unfolding energy crisis. After he failed to implement his vision for a reinvented zeppelin as a useful alternative for cheap and clean transportation, he left the United States for good, while under investigation for securities fraud. In 1977, the SEC won an uncontested injunction against Lisowski and his partners for misstating the value of the company’s patents, contracts, and capital necessary to construct its zeppelins. Soon after, he reinvented himself. He failed in his attempt to open a hot-air balloon amusement park in Pattaya, Thailand, and sold T-shirts on the beach to survive. Just a few years later, his Eden Group was a manufacturing juggernaut, producing T-shirts under license from Disney and Warner Bros.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My @curbed.com reporting on Paolo Zampolli got some love from The Real Deal. therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
therealdeal.com
Trump envoy, notorious model agent faces rental heat at townhouse
Trump official Paolo Zampolli’s Gramercy Park property is allegedly running afoul of the city’s short-term rental restrictions.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Double byline Monday!
caper.media
Vegas Doubles Down on Chefs
From Kwame Onwuachi to Gabriela Cámara to Grant Achatz, casinos are competing for chefs the way they once competed for whales, betting that great restaurants will drive Las Vegas’s next era.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My latest investigation into Paolo Zampolli this time for @nymag.com @curbed.com
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
For @playboy.com, I wrote about the photographer Pixy Liao, and her muse-prop-partner Moro; her latest show, at Florit Florit in Mallorca, channeled the spirit of notorious mobster and wife guy Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, in a Chicago airbnb.
playboy.com
The Artist Using Her Boyfriend as a Human Prop
Playboy talks to artist Pixy Liao about power dynamics, relationships, and expressing it all in her groundbreaking art.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For @gourmetlives.bsky.social, I went long on Morimoto, from the atom bomb to an armed robbery and Iron Chef, from Hiroshima to Philadelphia and Montclair, NJ. gourmetmagazine.net/masaharu-mor...
gourmetmagazine.net
The Gourmet Profile: Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto
“I knew it was where I wanted to be.”
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 23/04/2026
MELANIA RELEASED A STATEMENT TO GET IN FRONT OF @prospect.org?????
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
One funny story, I was in Bucharest to interview Tony Hickox. He died the night I arrived. I couldn’t find him. His body was found days later. My editor at the time, at a UK mag, killed the story after I landed but before I knew Tony was dead. I learned he died from a @jfkenney.bsky.social tweet.
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The Diplomat, the Fashion Channel, and Jeffrey Epstein - The American Prospect
Ex-fashion mogul and U.S. Special Envoy Paolo Zampolli has a long relationship with FashionTV, which Epstein nearly bought and whose founder Michel Adam Lisowski has been accused of multiple instances...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We have some blockbuster reporting here from @lifevicarious.bsky.social about the State Dept envoy who claims to have introduced Melania to Donald. Paolo Zampolli owned a fashion agency & is immersed in a world with ties to Epstein & allegations of sex trafficking. prospect.org/2026/04/23/d...
prospect.org
The Diplomat, the Fashion Channel, and Jeffrey Epstein - The American Prospect
Ex-fashion mogul and U.S. Special Envoy Paolo Zampolli has a long relationship with FashionTV, which Epstein nearly bought and whose founder Michel Adam Lisowski has been accused of multiple instances...
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Seven years ago, @theprophetpizza.bsky.social altered the course of my life when she assigned me a story about FashionTV. She left Garage before she could edit my love letter essay to my favorite white noise. I was upset, but I never gave up on my story, and it ultimately led me to the White House.
Rachel Tashjian emailed me on January 16, 2019: PLEASE WRITE ABOUT FASHIONTVIIII I watched it the ENTIRE TIME I was in Russia. WOW. When do ya wanna file? Signed, Rachel Tashjian, Deputy Editor, GARAGE Magazine
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Facesitting. Latkes. Art crimes. Omakase. In a word, Miami. My first feature for Caper, on the savvy KAWS collector and Supreme investor turned restaurateur Andre Sakhai.
caper.media
The Restaurant Collector
Art dealer Andre Sakhai and his Spicy Hospitality group are turning Miami into the launchpad for a fast-growing, blue chip art-filled restaurant empire, with New York and Los Angeles next.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My latest Epstein investigation, for @curbed.com @nymag.com on interior designers Alberto and Linda Pinto www.curbed.com/article/pint...
curbed.com
The Elite Design Firm That Built Jeffrey Epstein’s World
The Pintos designed his New York, Paris, and Caribbean homes. They seem to have turned a blind eye to everything else.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
For today's @gourmetlives.bsky.social, we explored Jeffrey Epstein chef Francis Derby's relationship with Woody Allen wife Soon-Yi Previn, and Epstein's girlfriend's alleged wife, his non-jerky recipes, why he tried to return to Epstein's employ, and published Derby's response: gourmetmagazine.net
gourmetmagazine.net
Gourmet Magazine
Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
For @gourmetlives.bsky.social I wrote about the latest culinary relegations in the Epstein files including the tumultuous stint of chef Francis Derby of WD-50 and Momofuku fame. gourmetmagazine.net
gourmetmagazine.net
Gourmet Magazine
Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
There’s no point in deleting your Instagram account after I reach out to you for comment.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Wrote about @fourchambers.bsky.social and Marina Abramovic's artistic mission to sexually liberate her late mother, for Observer. observer.com/2025/11/revi...
observer.com
Marina Abramovic’s Erotic Epic Spreads Wide (and Displays the Limits of) the Artist’s Psyche
Hundreds of attendees peeled off before the night was over, despite Abramovic doing her best ahead of time to assure the assembled crowd that the conclusion was worth the wait.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
David Bowie x3; birthday show at MSG, Fashion Rocks, and his last ever performance, at Hammerstein; No Doubt at Roseland; Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Brownies, Strokes + White Stripes at Radio City; Robbie Williams at Bowery Ballroom; The Libertines at CBGB; Amy Winehouse at Joe's Pub + Bowery Ballroom.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
For Eater Atlanta, I spoke to Killer Mike of Run The Jewels about what's going on with his shuttered Bankhead Seafood. atlanta.eater.com/openings/854...
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Killer Mike Makes Predictions on Bankhead Seafood Reopening
“If shit gets f---ed up, we can sell it for $4 million and walk away with a million dollars profit,” says Killer Mike
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
First time writing a 20k word story edited by a Pulitzer winner! I went deep on Logan Paul's CryptoZoo fiasco, spoke with Ja Rule, Nile Niami, skateboard legend Rodney Mullen, and TW, there are unvarnished accounts of sex, graphic violence, and suicide attempts. @switchboardmag.bsky.social
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Bad Egg — Switchboard Magazine
A gripping true crime story that begins with Logan Paul and a flashy NFT project called CryptoZoo — and spirals into one of the wildest scams of the crypto era. Through deep investigation, leaked docu...
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The French-Turkish artist Sarp Karem Yavuz will take part in Christies AI auction before he's forced to leave the country later this month after his green card application was denied.
observer.com
Originality Won’t Be Enough to Keep Sarp Kerem Yavuz in the U.S.
“The fact that I have to jump through so many hoops to be a legal immigrant after so many museum acquisitions and exhibitions is bonkers to me.”
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The publicist for a hot downtown bar didn't like my coverage so she chased me down in Ukraine. It did not go well for her.
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Shock and Awe and Hanna Lee
On going to war with a spirits publicist.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
My last Ukraine story for 2024. observer.com/2024/12/ukra...
observer.com
Ukrainian Resilience as Resistance: How Artist Maya Hayuk Is Leaning into Her Heritage
This past summer, the artist returned to Ukraine for the first time in more than three decades and reconnected with a depleted-yet-hungry art scene.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Spent some long days with Nobu discussing his darkest hours. www.grubstreet.com/article/the-...
grubstreet.com
The Nobu You Don’t Know
A disaster nearly ended chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s career before it had even started.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
For NYMag, I wrote about my first trip to Ukraine last September, encountering viral pastries and constant funerals. www.grubstreet.com/article/chee...
grubstreet.com
Suprêmes in Lviv
In the shadow of Ukraine’s war, one bakery goes about its business.
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Last December, I took Ja Rule to dinner at Torrisi in SoHo, as part of my Buzzfeed News investigation into his NFT business, but the story was killed this past April, along with Buzzfeed News: presstrip.substack.com/p/dinner-at-...
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Adam Robb @lifevicarious.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
The Buffalo Bills are shopping at Harrods and it’s adorable. Now I have to go to the game Sunday and support them.
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