Gwyneth Paltrow may want to prepare herself for the worst. Despite her reported efforts to prevent Vanity Fair from doing an article about her, the influential pop culture magazine is moving forward with what many expect to be an epic takedown piece on the Oscar-winning actress. 
 
 "We started a story on her," editor-in-chief Graydon Carter told the Times of London on Sunday, Oct. 13. (Quotes via Radar Online.) "We have a very good writer and it'll run." 
 
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 Carter's confirmation comes just a little over a month after the New York Times issued a report claiming that the 40-year-old Iron Man 3 star was feuding with the 100-year-old publication. The report alleged that the actress had written an email to her celebrity friends in which she asked that they not speak to the magazine if contacted about her. 
 
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 "Vanity Fair is threatening to put me on the cover of their magazine," Paltrow reportedly wrote in May of this year, per a witness who saw the email in question. "If you are asked for quotes or comments, please decline. Also, I recommend you all never do this magazine again." 
 
 The Times speculated at the time that Paltrow and other stars had taken issue with Vanity Fair's criticism of Hollywood; recent articles include a piece about the role of Scientology in Tom Cruise's love life, and a report about the behind-the-scenes problems that plagued Brad Pitt's World War Z. 
 
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 Carter defended his magazine's coverage of those issues, however, and told the Times it was just business. "We wouldn't be doing our job if there wasn't a little bit of tension between Vanity Fair and its subjects," he said. "In any given week, I can expect to hear from a disgruntled subject in Hollywood, Washington, or on Wall Street. That's the nature of the beast." 
 
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 He also told the Times of London that he felt more compelled to run the Paltrow piece after her alleged email went public. "Well, she sort of forced my hand," he explained. 
 
 "Some famous people believe that they live in a cone of celebrity that protects them," he was quoted as saying. "But it doesn't really exist anymore in L.A. unless they stay in." ||||| Gwyneth Paltrow is shaking in her (probably very expensive) boots. Despite her complaints and a very public email-campaign to her A-list BFFs, Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter has confirmed that his magazine is set to publish a blockbuster takedown piece revealing the true Paltrow once and for all. 
 
 “We started a story on her,” he told The Times of London in an interview published this weekend. “We have a very good writer and it’ll run.” 
 
 The GOOP queen had previously emailed friends warning them not to cooperate with the author of the piece, and further, never to work with Vanity Fair again. Apparently, her pleas fell on deaf ears, because BFF Jay Z is the November cover boy, and she’ll grace the mag herself soon enough. 
 
 In fact, Carter says, Paltrow’s tantrum has made him even more determined to publish the piece. He explained, “Well, she sort of forced my hand.” 
 
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 Despite its cushy reputation, Vanity Fair does not grant celebrities pre-publication approval of photos or text, Carter claims, explaining that publicists are “all p***ed off at us, but I can live with that.” 
 
 And if Paltrow, who recently moved back to L.A. from England, expects any differently, Carter says, she’s got a rude awakening coming to her. 
 
 “She’ll find Los Angeles very different and very difficult,” he says. “Some famous people believe that they live in a cone of celebrity that protects them … But it doesn’t really exist any more in L.A. unless they stay in.” 
 
 That has a lot to do with new 24/7 reality TV celebrities like the Kardashians, of whom Carter is no fan. 
 
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 “Why are they ‘stars’?” he complains. “They are tabloid oddities who will disappear in ten minutes. I’m just weary of the phenomenon. And it’ll go away on its own.” ||||| Gwyneth Paltrow went to such drastic measures to muffle the ballyhooed Vanity Fair “Takedown piece” against her, the magazine’s editor Graydon Carter compared her to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, RadarOnline.com has learned. 
 
 In the magazine’s March issue, Carter in his Editor’s Letter described the chain of events that led to his looking at the seemingly light-hearted actress in the same light as the reportedly-bloodthirsty, loyalty-obsessed despot. 
 
 Carter said the story idea came up with no specific agenda, simply looking to encapsulate public’s “passionate opinions” regarding the second-generation actress. 
 
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 After the story was assigned to editor Vanessa Grigoriadis, who began putting out feelers, Carter said that Paltrow instructed her entertainment industry contacts — a long and impressive list — “not speak to Vanity Fair about her, or about anything else ever again. 
 
 “Ever. Never,” Carter wrote, adding that “Kim Jong-un couldn’t have issued a more blanket demand.” 
 
 Grigoriadis’ draft turned in to Carter around August was not a lurid tell-all, but rather “a reasoned, reported essay on the hate/love-fest that encircles Gwyneth Paltrow. 
 
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 “I thought it perfectly explained the whole phenomenon,” the editor said. “But it was such a far cry from the almost mythical story that people were by now expecting – the ‘epic takedown,’ filled with ‘bombshell’ revelations — that it was bound to be a disappointment. What to do? I decided to sit on it for a time.” 
 
 Two months later — as word trickled out about the discord between the actress and publication — Carter and Paltrow spoke for 20 minutes about the article, reaching some accord by the end of it. 
 
 “At one point, she asked my advice as to what to do to get the ‘haters’ on her side,” Carter wrote. “I suggested putting on 15 pounds. I joked that it works for me. She replied I had put on much more than that. Which I thought was fair and funny.” 
 
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 In retrospect, Carter wrote that the situation had taken a bizarre life of its’ own, a microcosm of Hollywood ego clashing with investigative journalism. 
 
 “The Gwyneth Paltrow saga had clearly just gotten away from us. My instinct was to continue to let it sit until people had forgotten about it, or at least until expectations had diminished,” he said. “The fact is the Gwyneth Paltrow story, the one we ordered up, as delightfully written as it was, is not the one the anti-Gwynethites expect. 
 
 “That it has generated more mail and attention than many of the biggest stories we’ve ever published only makes the situation more complicated.”
– Not besties: Gwyneth Paltrow and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. The latter has announced that his magazine will indeed go ahead with the story it started on Paltrow ... a story that Us Weekly calls an "epic takedown." Carter told the Times of London: "We have a very good writer and it'll run." This follows the news that Paltrow emailed her friends asking them to stay mum. What she is said to have written: "Vanity Fair is threatening to put me on the cover of their magazine. If you are asked for quotes or comments, please decline. Also, I recommend you all never do this magazine again." (Radar points out that one friend was unable to comply: Jay-Z will be on the November cover.) That email, says Carter, "sort of forced my hand." Paltrow hasn't always had such an icy relationship with the mag—she's been on its cover five times. See images here.