Rapist Wanted To Kill Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour, the legendarily frosty and demanding editor-in-chief of style guide American Vogue, was allegedly intended as a victim of accused kidnapper Peter Braunstein.

The New York Post revealed that Braunstein ranted in a personal manifesto, read to a court, about killing Wintour. He wrote: "So I'll tell you why I'm going to kill Anna Wintour -- because I just feel like it."

Braunstein, a former fashion writer, has admitted dressing as a New York firefighter and setting off two homemade smoke bombs to trick his way into a co-worker's apartment on Halloween, October 31, 2005. He has confessed to holding a gun to the victim's head, drugging her with chloroform, and then stripping her and binding her to her bed. Wearing a black ski mask, he then raped her over a 13-hour period in her Chelsea apartment in New York.

His defence team argues the acts were committed unintentionally because of his severe mental illness.

Last week, jurors also heard about Braunstein's loathing for Wintour, the Post reported. He wrote that she "just never talked to peons like us . . . It was beneath her. And all the while I'm thinking 'Who is this skank?' "

He said she played up a "let them eat cake" Marie Antoinette-style regal attitude, but "all she does is edit a magazine -- that's it. So what's with the royalty routine?"

Braunstein also wrote: "Wintour will be escorted by eunuchs to a place in Hell run entirely by large rats. Even Satan can't get in there, because he and the rats had a falling-out a couple of millennia ago.

"The rats, apparently, are unionised and Satan tried to break the union; there's been a lot of bad blood ever since."

The trial continues.

Herald Sun