Scandal Queens

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 From Gloria Grahame's marriage to her (former) stepson to the notorious party houses of Beverly Hills - these are the strangest secrets, scandals, and controversies that have cloaked Hollywood in shadow for more than a century. In this episode, I'll count down the 10 strangest secrets and scandals that turned Tinsel Town upside down.  Just some of the...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 When 15-year-old Lois Andrews announced she was marrying 42-year-old comedian George Jessel, America held its breath. Today, it looks like Jessel was also having an affair with the girl's 30-year-old mother. This is the tragic tale of Lois Andrews. A child showgirl who got her start on the stage of Earl Carroll at just 14 years old. Her winding journey wou...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 When Frank Ries killed himself in 1947, no one had any idea it was going to expose one of the darkest secrets in Hollywood history. A whole industry, designed to prey on young girls and movie star hopefuls... This is the story of Frank Ries. Hollywood royalty and Tinseltown's very own "King of the Obscene."  A Hollywood story I'm willing to...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 This week, take a deep dive into one of the darkest sides of Hollywood's Golden Age. We'll be exploring the madams, procurers, and brothels that kept the film colony's thriving sex trade alive. From infamous figures like Lee Francis to the "Black Widow" who lurked among some of Hollywood's most powerful figures. We'll explore...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 Think Hollywood only became a nasty place when Epstein got involved with Peggy Siegal? Think again. In this episode, I'm taking you on a journey into the very predatory history of Hollywood...going all the way back to the very begging. Discussed in this episode: Charlie Chaplin's criminal attraction to children  Louis B. Mayer's harassment of Jud...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 What happened to Marilyn Monroe at the Cal Neva Lodge in 1962? And what did Frank Sinatra and Sam Giancana have to do with it? In this episode, I'm taking you deep into the final year of Marilyn's life. We'll look at what was going on in her personal life, her professional life, and the host of dodgy characters around her. Most importantly, we&ap...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 Yeah, Frank Sinatra used to sing for the mob...but what do you know about Johnny Roselli, or Charlie Baron? In this episode, I'm taking you deep into a few of the strangest Hollywood-meets-mafia-related stories. From the scandal-ridden rise of Betty Benson to the CIA conspiracies of Joan Crawford's honey, Charlie Baron -- we're going places the m...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 Assault. Child abuse. Grievous bodily harm. Kim Kardashian. Those are just a few of horrors you can expect in this final chapter on Joe Francis. In part one, we looked at the mysterious childhood that created Joe Francis. Now, in Part 2, we'll see how the boy became the monster behind Girls Gone Wild -- an empire of softcore and hardcore pornography that r...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 In 2008, Joe Francis plead no contest to child abuse and prostitution. Today, he lives in Mexico, in a palatial resort estate often frequented by the Kardashians. Who is this pornography mogul who has avoided more arrests than Ted Bundy? And how did he become a sweeping sensation of the early 2000s?  In this episode, I'm taking you deep into the history of...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 While you might know the Baekeland family for their plastics empire, in the 1980s -- they became known for a scandal filled with incest and murder. It was the kind of story that "just doesn't happen" in the high society circles of America. But in 1972, the curtain was peeled back on the elite of Manhattan when one of their own was murdered in col...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And we were there for every moment of it... Yes. Early 2000s reality television. The wildest time in the Wild West. From Flavor of Love to Bad Girls Club, and Jon and Kate Plus 8 - the brand-new world of reality television showed us things we had never seen before. And then some. Behind the scenes, though, th...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 This week, we wrap up the story of the Duggar Family by diving deep into their ties to the IBLP...and it's crazy ties to the Kardashians? Yeah. It's wild. Also in this episode: Clive Davis is dead, Jack White is getting divorced...again, and declassified CIA documents that will blow your mind.  Enjoy!  Support the show Love this episode? Follow Scanda...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 They were Christian royalty on American reality tv. Now, the Duggars are a stain on the evangelical movement. How did a backwoods family from Arkansas become one of the most recognizable household names in the country? How did they climb from free housing to a $25M a year empire that fueled a political campaign?  In this episode, we're talking the history...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 Murders. Overdoses. Suicides. Assaults. This was the face of Hollywood's Golden Age before the Doom Book took over the scene... It was the one list you didn't want to be on. Decades before McCarthy, there was William H. Hays and the Doom Book, a list that destroyed the careers of some of Hollywood's most gifted...and most scandalous.  In this epi...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 WARNING: This episode is NSFW. Lots of ranting ahead. This week, we close the chapter on Lou Taylor and lay it all out in the open - how did Lou Taylor build her business, how did she trap the Spears family and a revolving door of bad decisions (and a conservatorship)?  It's all in this episode, PLUS: Ariana Grande is tour and looking mini. Will this singl...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 Who was the mastermind behind the Britney Spears conservatorship? Ask any #FreeBritney historian, and they'll point the finger squarely in one direction: Lou Taylor. She's been labeled "Loucifer" by Britney Spears fans, but who is the woman behind Tri Star Sports and Entertainment, really?  In this episode, I'm taking you into the world...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 In this week's episode, I'm breaking down the basics of the Britney Spears conservatorship. How did Britney end up in a conservatorship? What happened to her in that conservatorship? Who was in charge?  It's all laid out for you in this episode, but listener beware: this is tragic story.   Support the show Love this episode? Follow Scandal Queens...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 She was one of Hollywood's first and only originals...and she was dead by 26.  This is the story of Jean Harlow, one of Hollywood's most influential and controversial talents. The original platinum blonde, whose life was marked by failed marriages, suicide, abortions, and the Hollywood machine that would eventually consume her.  Support the show Love...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 This week, Connie and I close this chapter on the Kardashian family saga.  We're talking the O.J. Simpson trial, Robert Kardashian's infamous 1996 deposition, the Kardashian Kard scam, California Community Church, that time Caitlyn Jenner killed someone, and more.  If you can't see who the Kardashians are by the end of this episode...you don&apos...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 This week, Connie and I deep-dive the controversial life (and loves) of Robert Kardashian - the patriarch of today's Kardashian clan.  Think you know who Robert Kardashian was? Think again.  From strange ties in the music industry, to a controversial relationship with a seventeen-year-old child, Robert Kardashian was a man of contradictions. And a man who...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 In this episode, we dive even deeper into the Kardashian family and their ties to (cult leader) William Branham and the Healing Revival movement.  Selected Sources :  Hundreds Seek Aid of "Miracle" Healer. Hearst Metrotone News. (1947, May 26). News of the world [Video]. UCLA Film & Television Archive. https://newsreels.net/v/3ko1nm0 Collins, J. A...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 Who are the Kardashians behind the BBLs and the filtered social media posts? And why are they so damn famous? It's a question that's tortured a generation, and now it's time to answer it... Because the truth is that the Kardashian story is much longer and darker than we've been led to believe.  While Kris and Kim sell stories of a hard-worki...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 In the final installment of my Katy Perry deep dive, I'm taking you into the heart of some of Katy's closest personal and professional relationships. We're going through Katy's Super-MAGA parents, and right through her questionable relationship with alleged rapist, Russell Brand. Then, it's on to Dr Luke and Katy's ties to the scan...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 From Dark Horse to just dark, there is a pattern that has followed Katy Perry through the decades.  This week, I'll be leading you on Part 1 of my journey into one of the darkest pop princesses in the industry. Katy Perry has been a divisive figure, ever since she stepped onto the scene with "I Kissed a Girl," but this bubble gum diva's spar...

What do you think? Send me a text 📱 From Sabrina's "weird" statements at Coachella, to Taylor's flirtation with the right, it's time to admit -- your favorite pop princess is probably a bad person.  In this episode, I'm breaking it all down. Their bad behavior, the bad people they associate with, and the manipulative techniques they use to dysregulate your emotions a...