This news conference has been called to refute the outrageous, inaccurate, baseless statements made in the March issue of Vanity Fair magazine. The family is outraged, and justifiably so.

We happen to know, it's my understanding, that that is not the case. That should cast some doubt on the veracity of the rest of the article.

This [article] is trash. Since the legal team can't respond, I, as a private citizen and as a friend of the family, can respond, and I'll do that every time it happens. These are my friends.

Without giving away any trade secrets ... we're not going to do the morning news exactly the way they do.

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.

But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.