Dan Adler
Staff Writer
Dan Adler is a staff writer at Vanity Fair covering culture, celebrity, and more. His work has spanned profiles of influential characters and connectors, investigations at the fringes of fame, and the criminal trials of Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump. His reporting for VF on Justin Bieber’s former megachurch Hillsong was the basis for the FX docuseries The Secrets of Hillsong. He was born in Brooklyn and lives there. You can reach him at dan_adler@condenast.com and follow him on X and Instagram.
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