The talented Yashar Ali
12th June 2021
Los Angeles magazine has ripped the extra-large curtain off Twitter socialite Yashar Ali. The publication detailed his feuds with celebrities, as well as his debts to an heiress and his rolodex of media moguls.
Peter Kiefer studied Ali’s rise from an unknown political operative for Gavin Newsom to a social media power broker — it’s a backstory copied straight out of The Talented Mr Ripley.
The profile is engrossing and full of scandal — yet has gone curiously unnoticed by most of the media in the last 48 hours. Perhaps journalists feared Ali might lock himself in their wine cellar for six months, or cancel them as he did New York Times food writer Alison Roman.