Latest WSJ Earn Your Luck column: The Woman Who Built Beijing

After a childhood of privation, Zhang Xin educated herself abroad and rode China’s real-estate boom to become a billionaire. Then she left it all…

21 hrs ago • Holly Peterson

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March 2026

Live with Vicky Ward Investigates: Epstein's inner circle breaking the law

A recording from Holly Peterson and Vicky Ward Investigates's live video

Mar 25 • Holly Peterson and Vicky Ward Investigates

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WSJ Review: How Did Epstein Snare So Many Powerful New Yorkers?

Why would luminaries risk their reputations by interacting with Jeffrey Epstein? Sex aside, it’s clear to me what many of the others were truly after.

Mar 20 • Holly Peterson

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Earn Your Luck: The Director of MOMA on Artists and Billionaire Board Members

Glenn Lowry on the power of stress, why museums should never issue statements and whether art should be considered an asset class

Mar 13 • Holly Peterson

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February 2026

This Entertainment Lawyer to the Stars Shares His Best Negotiating Secret

Hilarious and mega-powerful entertainment lawyer Allen Grubman shares his greatest secrets that’ve worked for decades to close deals and secure the…

Feb 19 • Holly Peterson

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November 2025

Chaperoning Sumner Redstone to sex clubs in Bangkok

Tom Freston reveals the wacky story in my latest Earn Your Luck column for the WSJ.

Nov 13, 2025 • Holly Peterson

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Earn Your Luck: Inside Tom Freston’s Wild Ride From ‘I Want My MTV!’ to $3 Billion in Revenue

The CEO on the time he had to chaperone his boss Sumner Redstone to a sex club and why he immediately greenlighted ‘South Park’

Nov 13, 2025 • Holly Peterson

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The President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google shares her foolproof B.S. detector

My latest Earn Your Luck column for the Wall Street Journal.

Nov 11, 2025 • Holly Peterson

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Earn Your Luck: Google’s Ruth Porat on the Employee Habit That Drives Her Nuts

The president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google shares her foolproof B.S. detector and why big tech can be like playing with fire.

Nov 6, 2025 • Holly Peterson

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October 2025

Bill Ackman Opens Up About Wins, Losses, and his Twitter Madness

The founder of Pershing Square Holdings opens up about his mistakes, his anti-DEI crusades and why he still hates to pay for parking.

Oct 6, 2025 • Holly Peterson

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Inside the Snooty, Well-Dressed World of British Grouse Hunting

A guide to the ‘country gentleman’ look, a dashing fall style that nods to grouse-shoot outfits. Labrador not included.

Oct 2, 2025 • Holly Peterson

September 2025

My Wall Street Journal Earn Your Luck Columns: Art Collector/Industrialist Peter Brant, and Designer Donna Karan

Success, they say, is inspiration plus perspiration. But what of sheer universe-vibration? Holly Peterson asks the most successful people we know to…

Sep 15, 2025 • Holly Peterson

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