Carly Simon will finally reveal who's so vain to a man with major connections in the media world -- should he ever decide to break his vow of secrecy.
But Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC sports and NBC Olympics, said he'll never tell once Simon divulges to him the subject of her 1972 song "You're So Vain" after a private performance in about two weeks. Ebersol won the information with a $50,000 bid in a charity auction; he also gets a lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
"It won't be hard to keep a secret," he said on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday morning.
Ebersol said Simon gave him one clue about the man's identity that she said he could reveal: He has the letter "e" in his name.
Well, that rules me out. I really don't care who it's about, so that puts me ahead $50k. I only care about the album cover which kept a lot of us guys not caring who was so vain.
