Trashy Divorces

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...

We wanted to do something a little different for today, the Spookiest Night of the Year! On a day where the veils between realities are their most gossamer, we decided to blur some lines! First, Alicia has the trashy divorce of actress Paula Patton and Blurred Lines singer Robin Thicke. Then, we answer some of your questions! Promo Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when you sign...

Today we're following up on Alicia's Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh story from Sunday. Stacie continues the thread with actress Helena Bonham Carter, whose post-Branagh relationship, with director Tim Burton, began every bit as controversially as the one with Ken had. Do you have questions for our Q&A on Sunday? Email them to trashydivorces@gmail.com, or phone them in at 404-594-3658! Learn mor...

Get ready for quite a ride! This week, Stacie has the story Yolande Du Bois, the long-suffering daughter of civil rights titan W. E. B. Du Bois, who steered her into a deeply unsuitable marriage to poet Countee Cullen, a leading light of the Harlem Renaissance. Then, Alicia has a long-time listener request: The 90s-era heartbreaker of the marriage and divorce of actors Emma Thompson and Kenneth Br...

For this spookiest of months, Alicia wanted to get into one of her very favorite subjects: The Scottish Play! Not only is there a trashy/tragic marital breakdown, but there are witches, and curses, and prophesies! It also sets us up pretty nicely for Trashy Divorces stories to come... Check out a bunch of additional Macbeth-related episodes at bit.ly/trashcandy, as well as our recent chat with And...

This week, we've got a couple of musical women whose weddings spelled the end of their relationships! Alicia has Adele, who is back with a new single and forthcoming record - and quite a story to tell. Stacie has the decade that was Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth. Promo Victoria Emerson. Buy one piece and get one free when you visit www.victoriaemerson.com/trashy and use the code TRASHY. Funjet Va...

It's been a while since we followed the dysfunction of a band's trashy breakup, but Alicia has a good one this week! For three brief, shining years, The Mamas & The Papas were chart topping leaders of the late '60s hippie sound. Born in professional jealousy, romantic rivalry, and personality conflict, the band's run ended almost as suddenly as it began. Promo Victoria Emerson. Buy one piece and g...

We're kicking off Season 12 with a theme! We've made no secret of our affection for Hulu's Only Murders In The Building, and this week, Stacie has the lone divorce of loner - and genius - Steve Martin. Then Alicia takes a look at the ex-wife of one of TV's Hardy Boys (it ties into Only Murders, if you haven't seen it), with the trashy divorces of Kirstie Alley, including Parker Stevenson, who play...

Welcome to Season 12! After the wild ride of our last season, we found that we still had a lot of questions about some of the people we profiled. To help answer them, or maybe just ask better questions, we turned to our friends Alexa and Nicole of the podcast Legally Judgy! Two pop culture-obsessed attorneys with a kickin' podcast, they helped us judge trashy stories like the Taylor Swift-Scooter...

We're closing Season 11 with two very different Hollywood stories. First, Alicia brings us the mystery of Geena Davis's three - or maybe four - marriages and divorces (who can say?). Then, Stacie emerges from decades of disturbing statements by Mel Gibson in dire need of a scrub brush for her brain. We're off next week! We'll be back October 6 with a new Trashy Breakups to kick off Season 12! Prom...

Alicia kicked off the long and very storied romantic adventures and misadventures of Warren Beatty a couple of weeks ago. This week, we follow him from the early 1970s to his 1992 marriage to Annette Bening. Everyone you've ever heard of is here - Diane Keaton, Mary Tyler Moore, Madonna, and so many others. Promo Dipsea. Get a 30-day free trial to all the steamy audio stories you can handle at dip...

It's a week of high-fliers! Stacie has the over-the-top story of Pancho Barnes, a woman of adventure and aviation pioneer who built a desert watering hole that helped usher in the jet age. Then, Alicia has the story of the long, and in many ways successful, marriage of actress Valerie Bertinelli and rocker Eddie Van Halen. Sure, they divorced, but sometimes that's the best way to save a grand frie...

Remember when Lance Armstrong was a hero and not a villain? Rocker Sheryl Crow spent a couple of years with him during that time, and in some ways, she's never lived it down. Promo Funjet Vacations. Use code Funjet75 for $75 off your next Funjet Vacation at RIU Hotels & Resorts. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alicia has the much-requested octaves of composer/producer David Foster, whose five marriages have yielded, gosh, a lot of delicious quotes about the man himself. Then, Stacie has the trashy tale of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose late 80s/early 90s sex scandals helped define the era. Promo The Oak Tree Group. Mention Trashy Divorces for your free one hour financial preparedness conversation....

Alicia's bringing a son of a gun this week! In fact, Warren Beatty is such a spiderweb-filled son of a gun of trashy breakups that we're having to split his single years into two parts! This week, we meet young Warren and learn about his early years, with starlets like Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Cher, Carly Simon, and many more. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Put on your dancing shoes, friends, because we're going to the Cabaret! Stacie has the tumultuous but hugely consequential relationship between musical theater legends Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, and Alicia has the ups and downs of Liza Minnelli's four marriages and divorces. Promo Funjet Vacations. Use code Funjet75 for $75 off your next Funjet Vacation at RIU Hotels & Resorts. Dipsea. Get a 30-da...

What's the dumbest thing you've ever done? We think we've identified the dumbest thing Ted Danson ever did: roasting his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg, in blackface, at the Friars Club in 1993. The scandal that followed may have ended their relationship. Promo Dipsea. Get a 30-day free trial to all the steamy audio stories you can handle at dipseastories.com/trashy. Funjet Vacations. Use code Fu...

This week, we've got cocktails to go with our profiles! First, Alicia has the trashy divorce - and extraordinary life - of child star and adult diplomat Shirley Temple Black. Stacie has 19th century French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, whose notorious love affair ended Verlaine's marriage. Promo The Oak Tree Group. Need help getting your financial house in order? This all-female financia...

This week, Alicia inducts screen legend Rita Hayworth into the Trashy Divorces Hall of Fame! Part one gives us Rita's childhood, her first two husbands, and plenty to be mad about, to be honest. Alicia's Receipts If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth, by Barbara Leaming (Amazon link) Rita Hayworth. (YouTube link) The Love Goddess: Rita Hayworth’s Tragic Quest (vanityfair.com) Classic...

We've got a big one for you this week! Stacie takes us down the strange lane of Nicolas Cage's five marriages, plus a few tidbits of his life that lead her to avoid a trash can rating. Then, Alicia has the many decades and missteps of music legend Rod Stewart. It's a redemption story that still warrants plenty of trash cans. Promo Dipsea. Get a 30-day free trial to all the steamy audio stories you...

It was only a matter of time before Alicia would turn her spreadsheet-making skills to the life and times of musician John Mayer. The list of his relationships - real and perhaps imagined - is long enough that one would be forgiven for wondering whether there are any prominent women left for him to date. Fair warning, this one is a little explicit. Promo Dipsea. Get a 30-day free trial to all the...

Paolo is a smart and handsome surgeon, renowned for his ability to perform surgeries that transform his patients’ lives. When television producer Benita covers him for a story, he’ll transform her life too, but not in the ways she expects. As Benita crosses professional lines to be with him, she learns how far Paolo will go to protect his secrets. And halfway around the world, four doctors at a pr...

There was big news out of New York this week, which reminded Alicia that Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced, resigning governor there, once had a very trashy divorce from Kerry Kennedy. Stacie, meanwhile, tries to make sense of the car crash of a life that rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has lived. Promo Feals premium CBD. Get 50% off your first order and free shipping at feals.com/trashy. The Oak Tree Grou...

This week, Stacie has the story everybody's talking about this summer: Britney Spears and her battle to get free from the conservatorship she's been under for the last 13 years. In particular, the presence of her father, Jamie Spears, as her conservator has created an incredibly toxic situation. The good news: it looks like Britney may soon be free, or least free from Jamie. Promo Feals premium CB...

For Alicia's Birthday, Stacie spins quite the yarrrrn about the female pirates who've captivated generations, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Then, Alicia tells the very trashy tale of one of the greatest women Alabama ever gave the world, Hollywood legend Tallulah Bankhead. Promo Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when you sign up at the link! The Oak Tree Group. Need help getting you...