The Plot to kill Anna Wintour (Wizbang Pop!)

An accused rapist dubbed the "fire fiend" planned to murder the feared fashion editor who inspired the novel and film The Devil Wears Prada.

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.

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