Now That Deep Throat Is Solved, USA Today Trying To Figure Out Carly Simon

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For more than 30 years, one of America's best-kept secrets has remained a pop culture mystery. No, not Deep Throat. We're talking about Carly Simon and her hit song You're So Vain. Who was she singing about?

“It's about Mark Felt!” Simon, 59, joked by phone Wednesday from her home in Martha's Vineyard, referring to the former FBI official who has said he was Deep Throat.

Vain was a No. 1 hit in January 1973, six months after the Watergate break-in that led to President Nixon's downfall.

But unlike the Watergate principals, Simon says she'll never reveal the answer, not even when she or the song's subject dies. “I don't see why I ever would. What would it advance?

“I wrote that song in the days when people kept confidences to themselves, whereas now, people expose them so easily and readily for the benefit of their next movie sale.”

Officially, only three people know: Simon, the ex-lover and NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol, who paid $50,000 for the answer at a charity auction. (He was sworn to secrecy.)

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20050602/d_centerpiece02.art.htm

I have read that in many places, although she has never confirmed it

the one it's about, and the one who thinks it's about them.
both vain, apparently.

I can't picture WB watching himself as he gavottes......:silly:

Jagger's been accused of being vain, but not that vain.

That's what I've always heard.

That's all I have to say about her. :wow:

It's nobody else's business!! This isn't politics. This isn't history. It is god damned evil "entertainment news media" trying to pressure a mere woman to reveal a secret she vowed to keep forever.

FUCK OFF, USA TODAY.