Jane Mayer is many things: a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, an author, an incisive investigative reporter. But among that litany of celebrated achievements hides one little-discussed, yet equally essential piece of information—Mayer once had both her boyfriend and her dog stolen by Laura Ingraham. Luckily, she was able to steal back the more important one.
Elle ran a long profile on Mayer on Wednesday, digging into her storied reporting career, friendship with Jill Abramson (sigh), and relationship with fellow journalist Bill Hamilton. Somewhere amid tales of exposing Obama’s drone strike habit and teaming up with Ronan Farrow on bombshell reports about the (numerous, remember!) sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, was this explosive tidbit (emphasis mine):
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