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Everyone is sitting on their hands waiting for The New York Times to publish a feature on Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet’s suit against Erik Torstensson. Both parties are “praying it’s old news,” according to one person in the loop with them. (Neither responded to my request for comment.) Of course, it’s not old news to the majority of Times readers, and whenever the story arrives—I was told today or tomorrow, but who knows given the way things work over there—it’s bound to keep people talking about this scandalette for at least the rest of New York Fashion Week. Many are hoping the Times piece will help to explain why Massenet took the lawsuit route in the first place—even if getting to the bottom of that, really, could require months of reporting and years of psychoanalysis.