Jann Wenner, founder and editor of Rolling Stone, is gay

^ sorry, he left his wife in 1994 for a man and a biography came out about him in 2017.

I believe he and his husband have kids together too

If he would have asked DL years ago we could have saved him a lot of unnecessary grief

He used to be really handsome

This hot young model/designer Matt Nye finally pulled Wenner, who has been a big self-hating asshole for decades, out of the closet...when it was convenient for Wenner.

Thanks for this 28-year-old bombshell, OP.

[quote] He used to be really handsome

Sure, Jann.

I heard Rock Hudson might have GRID.

Yasssssssssssss!

Um, you do know The Golden Girls is "off the air"...Just want to catch you up on everything...

Reading beyond the headline and publication date:

[quote]The biggest guiding force in his success was his then-wife and business partner Jane Wenner, who was destroyed when he told her on Christmas Eve of 1994 that he was “leaving her for a man.”

It took years longer for Jane to accept the dissolution of the marriage, but none of this was discreet.

[quote]This hot young model/designer Matt Nye finally pulled Wenner

Pics please.

^ Dear Helen Keller at R11,

Please see the photo provided at R4

He left her on Christmas EVE??

The bastard!!!

God you're dumb r12.

Matt Nye, like most of us, does not look as handsome as he has aged. I was a grad student at Columbia between 1989-1990 and remember seeing Nye at Dodge gym. Then, he was stunningly beautiful, with no doubt he was a male model.

Wenner appeared as himself - and was also a producer - of the DL fave AND classic Perfect, which featured the sizzling chemistry between Jamie Lee and Johnny.

Here’s a recent AARP magazine profile on Wenner.

The pic of him with a young Mick Jagger, both shirtless on a boat shows when both were pretty sexy

Carly Simon had a scene in the 1985 movie "Perfect", where she played herself spotting John Travolta's character sitting at a restaurant with Jann Wenner.

In this scene, Carly is supposed to be upset about something John Travolta's character has written about her, so she throws a drink in his face.

Carly wrote that Jann had a short line as she walked over and threw the drink - but Jann kept blowing the line every time they tried to film it.

This was especially troublesome for production, because it was a lot work to dry Travolta off and reset the scene every time Jann blew his brief line.

Carly said she could never understand Jann, but she didn't feel comfortable with him, and felt he didn't like her for some reason.

He would have been perfect for John-John rather then that Bessette creature.

OP Always nice to here from the 20th century.

Here's Carly Simon's cameo in "Perfect".

Jann looks short and fat with a big Charlie Brown head.

[quote] Bono and his family had moved around the corner from us on Central Park West. We could wave at each other from our terraces.

I see why Wenner and Bono made such good friends - because they are both such smug and odious cunts.

[quote]OP Always nice to here from the 20th century.

Standard spelling apparently ended in the 20th century.

R18 Meh. Plenty of other fags I can marry.

R21, we can now see that the wine on John Travolta was filmed separately so Jann’s line is completely separate from the cut

Wenner was short, fat and nerdy then. He's staved off aging and shaved off 25 pounds, all from surgery.

He's a poster boy for the kind of boomer who used to be idealistic and want to save the world, but now wants to make sure their 401K performs well, the kind that would support Joe Rogan at best (not that Rogan is best) and Mango Mussolini at worst.

R23 Oh Dears ! ended in the 19th.

Jim Hart was far better looking than Jann, and a decent guy by all accounts.

He and Carly are still close friends to this day.

R21 Maybe Jann really hates John Travolta , he's the one who kept getting hit with wine...or maybe Jann was secretly wanting to give John a facial and couldn't stop once he started.

[quote][R21], we can now see that the wine on John Travolta was filmed separately so Jann’s line is completely separate from the cut

R25, maybe it ended up that way, because of the production problems Carly described.

At any rate, you can read the story - I think it's in one of Carly's books.

In other news Lucy and Desi might be getting a divorce.

i worked for Wenner for a short while in the 1980s. We all knew he was gay before he announced it -- he would ogle the pretty boys and at a time when bosses could do anything they wanted with the attractive women around them, he did nothing. He was also extremely difficult to work for; bombastic, mercurial, and desperate for praise. Very insecure man.

OP - BEARKING news -

JFK was ASSASSINATED!

It's so weird to see how they tried to create "Perfect" to be the new "Saturday Night Fever" - about gyms instead of discos - but it bombed.

By all accounts, Jann is a huge vindictive asshole.

R25 if you think that's wine Carly threw on him, you should get out more.

Joni Mitchell hated Jann Wenner, for the way he treated her - and the way she felt he conspired to hurt her career and keep her out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for decades until it was convenient for him, so she refused accept the award or attend.

Jann finally had to enlist one of Joni's former lovers Graham Nash to surprise Joni with the Hall of Fame award at another event.

Maybe Jann was jealous of all the women who got James Taylor's thick cock on the reg...who knows with a bitchy little queen like Jann.

Pre-surgery Jann

"JFK was ASSASSINATED! "

Thank God his wife and kids are ok 😉

@r38, Oh, so he was a fat little mean queen. Well, that explains everything

Naughtily handsome

Yes he definitely got better looking over the years

Is it just natural aging?

Or a little nip and tuck here and there?

[quote] Oh, so he was a fat little mean queen. Well, that explains everything

Oh R40, you're tripping all over your own projection.

Matt and Jann, 2014

There have been rumors about Clay Aiken.

I've never seen someone's looks improve so dramatically as they aged.

R44... i think Wenner actually looks more handsome and sexier than his "male model" lover, at least in that photo...

R43 You're tripping over your prolapse . Oh dear!

r48 omg warning, please. I nearly threw up my caviar and baked potato.

Craggy

2017

R42 They not only nipped and tucked but they had enough left over to build Kenny Rogers a new host body....

[quote] Jann finally had to enlist one of Joni's former lovers Graham Nash to surprise Joni with the Hall of Fame award at another event.

Joni's ultimate shade was when Graham presented the award to her in a garbage bag, to which Joni quipped "well, that's fitting for it."

But RS and Jann really did treat Joni like shit. Bad reviews aside (no artist like those), he ran article after article of the male stars blubbering about their music, while all Joni got was a "family tree" of all the men that had been supposedly romantically connected to her. They didn't run a full, respectful interview with her until Cameron Crowe interviewed her in the late 70s.

Would you like a Kalua and Cream?

Everyone knew Wenner was gay. It just took him forever to admit it.

So his wife Jane knew he was gay, too, and couldn't accept it? She doesn't strike me as being so dumb, iirc she was supposed to be a smart woman with resources to move on.

Thanks for this news flash from 30 years ago, OP.

[quote]This hot young model/designer Matt Nye finally pulled Wenner, who has been a big self-hating asshole for decades, out of the closet...when it was convenient for Wenner.

When asked about the Wenner marriage split at the time, Fran Lebowitz said, "I wouldn't leave a chair for Matt Nye."

Is this the new form of bumpbitching, positioning a really old news story as something that happened today? I think we knew Jann was gayy in 2015, IYKWIM.

2015 *was* a good year

Any other hot breaking news, OP? Has there been an attack on Pearl Harbor?

So were he and Jason Priestly lovers or not?

Jason Priestly?

This was a rumor in the 90s. Outweek even did a story on the Wenner/Priestly rumors.

In other ***BREAKING NEWS***

Elton comes out to Renate

In still yet more recenter-than-ever news, I came out to my girlfriend after Elton's "Honky Chateau" concert @ OSU.

He was actually good looking in the 90's. He's chucky and tired looking now.

[quote]I was a grad student at Columbia between 1989-1990

I'm going out on a limb and guessing that you did not earn your degree, then?

I suppose now we ALL have to come out?

He definitely held grudges and plenty of bands/people weren't let in for decades. The HoF is just his vanity project.

Aretha Franklin is Rock n Roll?

Well, if you're going to use power to sleep with a boy toy, one could do far worse than Jason Priestly.

Twinkish yet masc and that alleged enormous endowment.....which we really should get to see in all its glory someday.

He was always a dapper dresser, there were signs.

After the break, we'll ask Liberace for his thoughts on this.

John Travolta was far better looking than Jann Wenner was, at the time of filming that scene. Wenner seems like some kind of Allan Carr type.

R68: Columbia offers quite a few 1-year MA programs, in different schools

Master’s from School of Professional Studies

I never found Matt Nye good looking - something off about his features.

Nye is rather monkey faced. He looks good below.

OP, shhhh. Don't tell anybody, but I hear rumors that playwright Oscar Wilde might be gay.

The Titanic sank?? When did THAT happen??

CART Cocktail! It's the future!

He needs to do something about that case of rosacea before he does anything.

R68 ha no typo. I studied there between 1989 and 1992 for a dual masters degree program. The addition of a second degree was a dumb youthful investment.

In other news, water is wet and the sun rises in the East

His son, Theo, is cute.

Bette loves his new memoir.

My god that man aged better than any man I've even seen. He was downright ugly when most of us are at our hottest. And now he's a hot daddy.

I'm guessing he drank a ton of whatever keeps Keith Richards alive.

Bette Midler is doing paid ads on her Twitter?

[quote]I heard Rock Hudson might have GRID.

How’s that?

Short, Jewish, he has $600 Million on hand but with a shocking lack of self-knowledge.

Sure, Jann.

Everyone knew that Jann Weener was gay ,along with Malcolm Forbes. Their kinks were well known to many a queen in the NYC area. Weener was never a good looking closeted queen,he was banal looking at best. I hate what he did to his wife,pumping around like a male slut. However he seems to be a real couple with Matt. Does anyone know if they have porn stars over for three ways like Dame Elton or his husband,Miss Furnish?

He looked his best in his cameo in Jerry Maguire. Now he is a bloated, botoxed mess.

I wonder R93... if ole jann and his prized built up star tom cruise ever dalied?... Wenner put cruise on the cover of rolling stone BEFORE he was a superstar, insuring he would be a superstar..

[quote]Their kinks were well known to many a queen in the NYC area.

Details, please.

Wow he was hot back then.

Actually he's still hot, love my Jewish daddies.

I looked at the 1970s pictures of this millionaire.

His hair looked like an ill-fitting wig.

Is that his real hair?

R95 Weener was fucking guys years before Matt. It was comical that he fronted being a straight when he was seen around town with "male friends" of his. He also use to horse around with his male employees. He came across as an old Jewish yenta chasing after younger guys.....disgusting if you ask me.

Malcolm Forbes was Empress of All Blow Jobs. He used to suck off his employees and leave his office door open!

Is EVERYBODY gay?

interesting comments Wenner states about tom cruse in his autobiography.....

What did he say?

R103.. only 2 pages mentioned cruise, one is about Wenner playing his "boss" in the movie Jerry Maguire, the other page mentions that he wonders why cruise is in a secretive cult, and that he has never got any "ping" from cruise's alleged secret gay-ness and that as bette midler says it's "swishful thinking".. down below is word for word what exactly wenner says about cruise:

Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner couldn't put his finger on Cruise's sexuality when he spent time with Cruise for a profile of the actor, reports Page Six. Wenner met Cruise along with Cruise's mother and sister for a guided tour of the Los Angeles Scientology Center. Cruise is an ardent devotee of the religion.

"It seemed he was opening up, but in the end he said nothing; he thoroughly deflects," Wenner writes in his upcoming memoir "Like a Rolling Stone," due out Sept. 13.

You walk away thinking you know the guy, but all you know is that here is a confident and extremely polite man. He wouldn't even reveal whether he was for or against [President George W.] Bush.

"What the f—k is he guarding? Why is he in a super-secretive cult? He is a great talent. He is Super Tom. All his secrecy gave rise to the suspicion that he was gay. I never got a ping on my gaydar," writes Wenner, who is gay, "but gay people persisted in what Bette [Midler] one night called 'swishful thinking.'"

I did a internet search on jann wenner tom cruise.. the thing is? other websites are now claiming (it came up in the search results) that wenner suspects cruise is gay??? HUH? How in the world would these websites or anyone state this when he, wenner, says nothing of the sort in these comments?

Elder gay here. The reason JW was involved in Perfect was because it was based on a RS article. This also explains why it was so vapid.

Who's shorter: Wenner or Cruise?

Cruise comes off as asexual to me. I’ve never seen him exhibit convincing sexual chemistry with either gender. I think Scientology and other sci-fi cults like Heaven’s Gate (whose members were literally eunuchs) attract asexuals because they feel “alien” and want a group to belong to. (Not including the horn-dog Travolta, of course. He’s just gay and can’t accept it).

I’m beginning to have suspicions about this Rock Hudson fellow.