In this interesting interview with Gay Talese and Edward Sorel, the cover that made Sorel's name is revealed to have been purchased by the NPG, probably when they had their big, excellent exhibit on him over a decade ago.
G.T.: Ed, do you remember what they paid you for that?
E.S.: I doubt whether it was much more than $500.
G.T.: And they own it, don't they?
E.S.: No. I had to fight to get it back.
G.T.: You and Taylor Swift!
E.S.: Now it's in the National Portrait Gallery. They paid me $15,000 for it.
G.T.: Wow. Really?
E.S.: Yeah.
G.T.: Trump is going to change that, you know.
E.S.: Too late. I got my $15,000!
Read the whole piece at The Chairman in Profile: Gay Talese and Edward Sorel, the writer and illustrator of "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," on the origins, aftermath, and eventual sanctification of the greatest profile in magazine history
Mark Rozzo
Photographs by Jonathan Becker
Air Mail September 20, 2025 https://airmail.news/issues/2025-9-20/the-chairman-in-profile
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