EXCLUSIVE: Anna Wintour's Met Gala 'Death List' — Vogue Battleaxe's Secret Dossier of Rich, Famous & Powerful Figures Banned For LIFE

Insiders say Wintour never forgets – and once you’re out, you’re out.

Anna Wintour’s grip on the Met Gala is as formidable as ever, with sources telling THE VAULT she has a secret so-called “death list” for the event – made up of a decisive blacklist of celebrities deemed permanently unwelcome at fashion’s most exclusive night.

Vogue’s self-styled ice queen Wintour, 76, who has chaired the gala since 1995, maintains an iron grasp over the guest list for the annual fundraiser at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The 2026 edition – themed around ‘Costume Art’ – drew a mix of huge A-listers, but behind the spectacle, insiders tell us there was a curated absence of the world’s most rich, powerful and famous figures.

Sources tell us No1 on Wintour’s gala “hit-list” is President Donald Trump, 79, who Wintour publicly named in 2017 as the one guest she would never invite back.

A source close to the gala told us: