Shawn Holley Is Hollywood’s Secret Weapon

SHE BROUGHT TOGETHER TWO BIG NAMES—KIM KARDASHIAN WEST AND PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP—ALL TO SAVE ONE WOMAN THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF.

MATTIE KAHN

NOT EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED JOURNALISTS could resist a hint of scorn: “Trump Meets With Kim. Kim Kardashian West, That Is,” one headline read. Another: “Welcome to 2018: President Donald Trump Just Met With Kim Kardashian.” Kardashian West had gone to the White House to plead the case of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who’d served more than two decades in prison on nonviolent drug charges. When Trump commuted her sentence a week later, the moment came and went like a season finale. Recapped, critiqued, forgotten. The truth is the meeting between two celebrities (one, breaker of the Internet; the other, president of the United States) was planned over months, and behind it was a woman whose name and narrative—the public defender turned Kardashian “konfidante”—don’t fit in a headline. Kardashian…

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Glamour (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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