The WORST episodes of Vanity Fair Confidential

Every episode of Vanity Fair Confidential ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Vanity Fair Confidential!

Whether we love them or love to hate them, there is something about the rich and powerful that keeps us fascinated. From their rise and fall to their outrageous lies, and even murder, Vanity Fair captures it all and we just can’t turn away. Now, the true stories we have all devoured in Vanity Fair come to television. In each hour-long episode, viewers are treated to a sinful dose of power, wealth, deception and crime.

Last Updated: 11/2/2024Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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6.50
10 votes

#1 - Love and Obsession

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/30/2018

A New York socialite is terrorized by a sadistic stalker who threatens to kidnap her daughter; she is left asking about his identity, his motives and his willingness to carry out his threats.

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6.58
12 votes

#2 - Code of Dishonor

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2016

There are thousands of victims. All members of the American Air Force. How far will they go to stop a covert war against women?

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6.71
24 votes

#3 - Dylan Roof's Radical White Rage

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/3/2017

A young white stranger joins a bible class at the historic black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. After sitting silently for 45 minutes, he shoots nine parishioners dead. The killer, Dylann Roof, recently radicalized on the Internet, is committed to starting a race war. Two months later, three white militia men, calling themselves “Crusaders,” plot to blow up an apartment complex in Kansas where 120 Somali Muslim immigrants live and pray. Intent on “a bloodbath,” they use the Internet to learn how to kill more effectively. How far do these online communities, who seem committed to hate, stretch?

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6.73
22 votes

#4 - Love's Deadly Harness

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/2016

Susan Cummings. She is an heiress and daughter of a billionaire arms dealer. Roberto Villegas. He is a revered Argentinian polo player. Their worlds would collide on a 340-acre estate. And only one would live to talk about it.

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6.73
30 votes

#5 - The Counterfeit Rockefeller

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/23/2015

Christophe Rocancourt. A charming, cunning, French imposter. When he crosses paths with police investigator George Mueller, they begin a cat and mouse game that leaves officials wondering what it will take to stop the Frenchman dead in his tracks.

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6.76
21 votes

#6 - Angel of Death

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/2016

Detectives uncover a national underground organization that gives members specific instructions on how to arrange “death events” without being detected. How many will die before they expose the truth?

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6.89
28 votes

#7 - The Perfectly Sinister Mr. Rockefeller

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2016

A victim of a grisly murder is uncovered. A child from a wealthy family is abducted. It’s the sordid tale of "The Perfectly Sinister Mr. Rockefeller."

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6.90
21 votes

#8 - Bill Cosby Drugged Me

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2016

Supermodel Beverly Johnson and four other women who claim Cosby assaulted them share their stories in this intimate investigation into the allegations made against America's favorite Dad. How many accusers will it take before the women are believed?

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6.93
14 votes

#9 - The Disco Inferno

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/2018

The dark and violent past of Chris Paciello, a nightclub owner in South Beach who was adored by celebrities like Madonna and Sofia Vergara.

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7.00
29 votes

#10 - The Widow on the Hill

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2016

When the owner of a 345-acre hilltop estate dies suspiciously, the eyes of Orange County, Virginia, turn to his pretty second wife – once the hospice nurse for his late first wife. Is she guilty of killing the man she'd comforted?

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7.04
24 votes

#11 - Days of Rage

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/2016

Children of affluent American families declare war on the country using guns and bombs to kill. How many will have to die before justice is served?

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7.06
33 votes

#12 - Mad About the Boys

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/16/2015

When Lou Pearlman, the man behind The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, flees the country, law enforcement officials begin an international manhunt and "Vanity Fair" special correspondent Bryan Burrough uncovers the dark secrets he’s running from.

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7.09
23 votes

#13 - Presumed Guilty

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/6/2015

Two men are convicted of abducting and killing 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico, and sentenced to death. Both men maintain their innocence and a race to identify the real killer begins before an execution date is set.

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7.11
35 votes

#14 - Don't Ask Don't Kill

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/2/2015

An all-American soldier is found bludgeoned to death. The Army calls it a fight that went too far. But investigators discover a shocking story that starts with a nightclub showgirl and ends with two men behind bars.

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7.21
14 votes

#15 - Sins of the Mother

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/26/2018

After a wealthy socialite goes missing, police wonder if two of the most wanted con artists are behind her disappearance.

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7.22
18 votes

#16 - Intimations of Murder

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/5/2018

After a young woman disappears in New York, her family becomes convinced she's been murdered; investigators dedicate themselves to finding out what really happened to the missing woman.

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7.24
38 votes

#17 - The Case of the Vanishing Blonde

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/16/2015

A woman is left for dead. When the case goes cold, private investigator Ken Brennan is hired to find out exactly what happened. His investigation uncovers disturbing clues and sets off a hunt for a man who preys on women nationwide.

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7.24
29 votes

#18 - Henry Lee Lucas: Dead Reckoning

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2017

A Texas drifter is sentenced to death after confessing to hundreds of brutal murders, but some investigators continue to wonder if they have the real killer behind bars.

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7.24
33 votes

#19 - The White House Boys

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/30/2015

More than 500 men claim that when they attended a Florida reform school, they suffered horrifying beatings and sexual abuse. Others vow that students were killed on the campus. Now, investigators uncover a disturbing legacy and unimaginable truths.

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7.25
24 votes

#20 - A Crime of Shadows

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/2016

Katie Tarbox, a 14-year-old, and Michele Deery, an undercover cop, share a mission: to expose dark secrets about sexual online predators. How far will they go to find out if their online playmates are real or just playing a twisted game of seduction?

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7.26
35 votes

#21 - Natalee Holloway: Lost in Paradise

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/2017

In May 2010, Stephany Flores, the daughter of a Peruvian politician, goes missing after a night out in an upscale district of Lima, Peru. Shocked by the sudden disappearance, her family immediately starts searching the downtown casinos where Stephany liked to spend her free time. Culling through surveillance footage of the Atlantic City Casino, it is clear she left the venue with an unknown tall, white man. As they dig deeper, the Flores family is shocked to learn that exactly five years earlier, another family 3,000 miles away was scrambling to track down their own daughter after a night with this same mystery man.

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7.26
23 votes

#22 - Legend with a Bullet: Phil Spector

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/23/2015

Phil Spector, dubbed "the mad genius" of rock 'n' roll, had a penchant for guns. When police are called to his mansion, they find the body of a woman and a music legend who seems to have spiraled out of control. Who pulled the trigger? And why?

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7.26
19 votes

#23 - The Secret of the Summer Wind

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/26/2018

After a governor's aide vanishes without a trace, an investigation is launched exposing the dark secrets of one of the most powerful men in the state.

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7.27
15 votes

#24 - Murder Most Obsessive

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/19/2018

Aspiring actress Vicki Morgan is bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat by her roommate; after he confesses to the police, it seems like an open-and-shut case; then things take a turn leaving everyone wondering, who really killed Vicki Morgan.

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7.29
24 votes

#25 - The Boy Who Cried Author

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/2018

JT LeRoy's meteoric rise to literary stardom is truly remarkable, but the young author's increasingly bizarre behavior gives rise to speculation about what was happening behind the scenes.

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