Trashy Divorces

Alicia pulls a spiderweb she discovered on another of her podcasts, Done & Dunne, about perhaps the reigning champion of divorce, socialite Barbara 'Bobo' Sears Rockefeller. When Bobo died at 91 in 2008, the New York Sun remembered her with this headline: "Bobo Rockefeller, 91, Married Well, Divorced Better." An ex-wife of both a Sears and a Rockefeller, she was a prominent personality in the 1950...

This week, we have two subjects who take very different views of the prying eyes of an adoring public. Actor Harry Hamlin and his wife, actress Lisa Rinna, seem to delight in public rehashings of the ancient history of his two divorces, to the apparent chagrin of his exes. Actor Robert De Niro would probably prefer to see the prying industrial complex pushed off a cliff, but in his recent divorce...

Inspired a bit of online tomfoolery this week, Stacie walks us through at least one version of the dating history of actor Leonardo DiCaprio, highlighting the birth years of the many, many women he's been attached to. Sponsors Skillshare. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/trashy and get a one month free trial! Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when you sign up at the lin...

With news of a celebrity engagement that ended with a little blood drinking, Stacie's mind turned to the yesteryear pairing of Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton and their infamous lockets of blood. Then, Alicia challenges her own beliefs about how terrible Henry VIII was with a new contender, Russia's Ivan the Terrible. With eight wives and hundreds of thousands dead in his wake, Hank 8 is loo...

For Trashy Breakups this week, Alicia follows up on Sunday's story about the marriage and divorce of Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors. Their split likely had many causes, but actor Ryan O'Neal was certainly near the top. He and Farrah would spend the next decades in a tumultuous affair that damaged everyone in its orbit, especially the children they raised. Sponsors KiwiCo. Redefine learning with pla...

We're kicking off our 13th season with something old and something new! Alicia has the marriage and divorce of the hottest couple of the 1970s, Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors. Then Stacie has the end of the 8-month-long marriage of truth-challenged congressman Madison Cawthorn. Sponsors Skillshare. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/trashy and get a one month free trial! Preply. Learn langua...

New Year, New Trashy Breakup! We're taking a look at a guy who is increasingly looking like the real-life Most Interesting Man In The World, actor and comedian Pete Davidson. We're not quite sure why he's the ultimate ladies' man, but he definitely gets around. Sponsors Skillshare. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/trashy and get a one month free trial! Preply. Learn languages online with...

In our Season 12 finale, we're taking you back in time with some stories of royals gone wrong! First, the origin story of Napoleon Bonaparte and his first marriage (and divorce) to Josephine. Then, Alicia has the dirt on two English brothers who were not only both kings, but were pretty bad as husbands go, too, Richard I and King John. We're off next week, but we'll be back January 5 to kick off S...

In our last Trashy Breakups of the year, we're bringing the very tough split between actors Mary-Louise Parker and Billy Crudup, the fallout of which left a random New York City cabdriver almost as rattled as Mary-Louise herself. Sponsors Truebill. Spot and cancel money-draining unused subscriptions at truebill.com/trashy. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

Alicia has the marriages, divorces, and multiple engagements of comedic actor Jim Carrey, while Stacie, moonlighting as America's Foremost Cricket Expert™, takes us Down Under to meet scandal-plagued cricketer Shane Warne. Crikey! Sponsors The Oak Tree Group. Mention Trashy Divorces for your free one hour financial preparedness conversation. Call 770-319-1700 or visit them on the web at theoaktree...

You may know that Alicia has a couple of other podcasts. For Trashy Breakups this week, we're sharing an episode of her Done & Dunne true crime and Dominick Dunne fancast that's about as trashy a story as they come. Thanks for your patience while we bounce back from our third covid shots. The architect Stanford White (1853-1906) is credited with a host of landmark structures in New York City and b...

We've got two mega-talented, but not particularly trashy, women for you this week. First up, Stacie has actress Kate Winslet's two splits and her apparently very happy marriage to a man with an exceptionally good name. Then, Alicia has the love story of Hollywood legends Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, who were parted by tragedy, not divorce. Sponsors Victoria Emerson. Buy one piece and get one fr...

Today we're changing up for the format so we can talk to one of our favorite comedians, Fortune Feimster. Fortune was all set for a huge 2020 - her Netflix special Sweet & Salty was released that January, with an extensive tour to follow - when of course, the world closed down for a year and a half. Now, she's making up for lost time with a brand new set and months and months of tour dates to foll...

Two very different kinds of writers with one thing in common: a bunch of trashy divorces! This week, Alicia has the five marriages and divorces of bestselling powerhouse Danielle Steel, while Stacie has the man behind television's most notable sound, Dick Wolf. Sponsors Truebill. Spot and cancel money-draining unused subscriptions at truebill.com/trashy. Manscaped. Get 20% off and free shipping wi...

Before sweeping Jacqueline Bouvier off her feet, a young and confident Navy man met Hollywood stunner Gene Tierney on a visit to the set of the film she was shooting in 1946. They were both enthralled, but Gene was just finishing her divorce from fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and John F. Kennedy, began the romance with two strikes against it: his Roman Catholic family, which would never approve o...

This week, we've got two of Hollywood's most fascinating women, from very different eras. Stacie has the two divorces of Uma Thurman, who has an entirely Marvel-worthy origin story, and Alicia has screen legend and proto-feminist pioneer Gloria Swanson, whose transition from silent film actress to filmmaker was as remarkable as her six marriages and long affair with Joe Kennedy. Sponsors FSAstore....

For most of this year, Alicia's been following the slow motion collapse of her favorite celebreality couple, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott. She covered their origin story in Season 6, back in June of 2020, and since then, things only seem to have gotten more breakup-y between the plucky actress and her increasingly estranged husband. Sponsors FSAstore.com. Get $15 off your order of $150 or more...

Trash Panda Nation - we are so excited to share with you HUGE news from Trashy Divorces Headquarters! Coming for you December 6, every weekday, is a new podcast dedicated to delightful and unexpected things. Narrated by Alicia, these 10 to 15 minutes episodes celebrate the people, places and events of the past. Check out the trailer and the first three episodes up now as a bonus for you, with new...

We're featuring some Patreon favorites this week because Atlanta's red hot housing market has brought loud renovations to our normally quiet neighborhood. First up, Alicia follows up her Olivia de Havilland story from last week by spotlighting her sister, fellow actress Joan Fontaine. Then Stacie romps through the second marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte, to Austria's Princess Marie Louise. Sponsors...

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal is having some kind of week. Not only did his pop star ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift, re-release the album documenting their ill-fated romance, but she also made a short film about it all, and released a second song and video that sent Swifties to their keyboards to demand a decade old scarf. We talk about some of Jake's other relationships, including romances with Kirstin Duns...

This week, Stacie has the wild story of one of Australia's most surprising marriages and nastiest family battles, that of Rose Porteous, Lang Hancock, and Lang's daughter, Gina Rinehart. Then, Alicia has the life and loves of screen legend Olivia de Havilland. Promo FSAstore.com. Get $15 off your order of $150 or more with code TRASHY15. Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when yo...

In honor of Joni Mitchell's 78th birthday this week, Alicia commandeers Trashy Breakups to tell the story of her ill-fated romance with fellow musical icon Graham Nash, and talk about some of the enduring music they made for, and about, one another. Promo FSAstore.com. Get $15 off your order of $150 or more with code TRASHY15. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Some relationships really just boil down their turbulence, and that's definitely the story with our couples this week. Alicia has the ups and downs that were the relationship of actress Robin Wright and actor Sean Penn, and Stacie gets kind of blue about the ill-fated romance of actress Cicely Tyson and jazz legend Miles Davis. Promo Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when you si...

We're finally feeling the autumn here at TDHQ, and Alicia is in the spirit of the changing of the seasons. But why do the seasons change? You may have heard a lot of bogus stories about planetary rotation and tilt as a kid, but we are here to tell it like it is: Long ago, the God of the Underworld fell for the Maiden of Spring, a pairing of which her mother, the Goddess of the Harvest, strongly di...

Power: Hugh Hefner is the follow-up to the show’s smash-hit premiere season, Power: The Maxwells. In its second season, Power is examining the rise of Playboy and the legacy of its founder. The pool at the mansion photographed well, but can you imagine actually being in the water? How much of man-boy culture is Playboy responsible for? How influential was Hefner in sexualizing under-age girls? How...