Exclusive: Times journalist’s children allegedly became billionaire memoirist’s focus
Semafor · Ben Smith ·
Days after a New York Times investigation raised questions about Amy Griffin’s memoir The Tell, reporter Katherine Rosman received a worrying call.
The Scoop
The New York Times article appeared on September 24, 2025, under the headline The Billionaire, the Psychedelics and the Best-Selling Memoir.
The 4,980-word investigation by Katherine Rosman and Elisabeth Egan captured a wave of discomfort that had rippled from New York’s publishing world to Amarillo, Texas’ police department about a bestselling memoir by a billionaire pillar of Manhattan society. Amy Griffin’s The Tell told the story of a woman whose perfect exterior masked childhood trauma, and how the drug MDMA helped her remember and ultimately move past childhood sexual abuse.