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WSJ. Magazine’s October print issue, on newsstands this weekend, features cover star Jacob Elordi, fashion portfolios in the Swiss Alps and England’s rural Northamptonshire, an excerpt from a Jane Birkin biography and much more.
But one feature, published online this week, tells a darker story of philanthropic missteps and disturbing allegations surrounding a Cambodian orphanage called Sovann Komar, which means “Golden Children” in Khmer. It was started by Elizabeth Ross Johnson, a descendant of the family that started Johnson & Johnson, who poured some $20 million of her fortune into the orphanage and the 55 children it took under its care.
Reporter Gabriele Steinhauser writes that Johnson and her co-founder Sothea Arun envisaged the orphanage as “a safe, nurturing home where orphaned and abandoned children can develop—physically, intellectually and spiritually—to their fullest potential,” according to the project’s website. Since Johnson’s death in 2017, however, Sovann Komar has imploded. Steinhauser writes that there’s one thing everyone could agree on: Elizabeth Ross Johnson meant well. So where did she go wrong?
Elsewhere in the newsletter, from our October print issue: Look inside the iconic wardrobe of jazz legend Miles Davis; find out what’s next from ballerina Misty Copeland, who is retiring this month; read an interview with Bill Ackman on his political tweets and anti-DEI crusades; and forget working from home—these executives are working from their yachts.
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