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"Carly Simon. Photo via PatrickMcMullan.com.On February 26, the news sites were ablaze with the “revelation” that David Geffen was the fabled gavotte-ing stud that “You’re So Vain” was written about. “Huh?” was the almost unanimous response among fans and media alike (New York magazine complained: How dare Carly dash everyone’s decades of high expectations with a “corporate\nbald\nhomosexual!”). Over the course of the day, however, the Geffen “revelation” had been downgraded to “rumor” and then the rumor petered out to “debunked.” (To which all those rooting for Beatty, Jagger, et al, emitted a collective “phew.”)I weighed in on these pages, scything through the grapeviney forest of “You’re So Vain” among Carly’s friends. Now, Carly (freshly back from London, where that latest rumor originated) has e-mailed me that we’d all misheard the first syllable of that name…"
<https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/03/carly-simon-herself-answers-the-david-question>