[5][6] It was created by and named for Grace Mirabella, a former Vogue editor in chief, in partnership with Rupert Murdoch.

[5] In the Family Guy episode "Fore, Father", Stewie Griffin picks up the December issue of Mirabella in the doctor's waiting room.

In a season 3 Sex and the City episode, Samantha (Kim Cattrall) says that she never should have signed up for a Mirabella trial subscription.

Terence Trent D'Arby mentions the magazine on "Castilian Blue", a track from his 1993 album, Symphony or Damn.

In the 1993 film Sister Act, a mock cover featuring Whoopi Goldberg as Deloris Van Cartier is made and used during the credit reel at the end of the film along with similar covers of Rolling Stone, TIME, and the National Enquirer.