VOTE: Who Was Carly Simon's 'Vain' Muse?

Fans have always wondered whom Carly Simon was thinking about when she penned her 1973 hit "You're So Vain." Tell "Extra" who you think Simon was singing about!

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Carly's new album, "Never Been Gone," hits stores Tuesday.

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James Taylor

Patrice
April 16, 2010

I’m not sure where I heard this but I’m fairly certain the “Vain” person in question is Stephen Stills.

AJKarp
November 27, 2009

David Geffen, pretty sure.

Laurie
November 26, 2009


Found out many years ago it was James Taylor.

pctlvr
November 4, 2009

My father said that he saw an interview done with her not long after the song came out and she admitted that the song was about Mick Jagger. It was also pretty obvious since they had just been dating and he then left her high and dry.

Linsey
November 1, 2009

Love is a very rocky road and Carly and I both know it is James Taylor.

Ronnie from Montana
November 1, 2009

She has never divulged whom the song is about so I’m not sure what R. Match is talking about. She also once aluded to the fact it could be about Pierre Trudeau. We may never know, but speculation is always fun!

atorontogal
November 1, 2009

Carly Simon already admitted a couple of years ago in Rolling Stone magazine that it was about Mick Jagger.

Why bring it up again now?

R. Match
October 27, 2009

From what I have seen of these three men over the years, and having heard them all interviewed, it HAS to be Warren Beatty. Cat Stevens is a sweetheart, Mick Jagger is a sweetheart behind his ‘act’, but Beatty is just in love with Beatty, and it is so sadly obvious.

deb
October 26, 2009
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