Trashy Divorces

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 financi...

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 ) Clas...

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 Gro...

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 yo...

Alicia's leaning into Leo Season privilege this week to highlight the many breakups - and the music they inspired - of noted Sagittarius Taylor Swift! Advertise with us ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Time for a Gen X nostalgia tour back to the 80s and 90s! Alicia has the two marriages and divorces of Baywatch babe Carmen Electra, who was married to basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman and guitar icon Dave Navarro. Stacie has Heather Locklear's rock star obsession, with her marriages to Motley Crue's Tommy Lee and Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora. Promo Feals premium CBD. Get 50% off your first order and...

If you listened Sunday, you know what this week's Trashy Breakups is all about: The affair and cover-up that ended John Edwards's political career and marriage, and which nearly landed him in prison for diverting donor dollars to the project of keeping his mistress, Rielle Hunter, out of sight. Promo Feals premium CBD. Get 50% off your first order and free shipping at feals.com/trashy . Advertise...

This week, we have two long-time listener requests! Stacie has the tale of author and activist Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former US Senator and 2004 VP nominee John Edwards, told, as much as possible, from Elizabeth's perspective. We'll follow up with a deep dive on the sex scandal that ended John Edwards's marriage and political career on Wednesday's Trashy Breakups. Then, Alicia takes us through...

This week, Alicia gets into the trashy breakups of phenomenal woman, Jessica Lange. A life of adventure, and passionate love too - her story is made for Trashy Breakups! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

You've asked for 'em and we're answering! This week, Alicia has the two divorces of music legend Lionel Richie, and Stacie gets us up to speed on perhaps the trashiest Housewives story ever: Erika Jayne and Tom Girardi. Sources and more at this episode's page at trashydivorces.com . Here's the direct link to our chat with Andy from Astrology with Andy! Website: https://astrologywithandy.com/ Podca...

We are sad to report that he apparently didn't get with her friends: it's the 2006/2007 Trashy Breakup of Spice Girl Mel B and comic legend Eddie Murphy! After a whirlwind romance when both were fresh off of long relationships, Mel and Eddie were having a baby and talking marriage - until it all blew up spectacularly and publicly. Sources and more at this episode's page at trashydivorces.com. Want...

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Welcome to Season 11! This week, we begin with two heavyweights in very different arenas. First up, Stacie has the three-and-a-half divorces of music legend Phil Collins, and Alicia can't stop deep diving into Kennedy trashiness with the sad marriage and divorce of Joan and Ted Kennedy. Promo Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when you sign up at the link! The Oak Tree Group . Ne...

Back in 1995, singer-songwriter Alanis Morisette let it all hang out in one of the grittiest, angriest breakup songs ever recorded, You Oughta Know. The specific subject of the song - and whether it was even one guy or some kind of composite of breakups - has long been rumored to be Full House's Uncle Joey, comic actor Dave Coulier. In our introductory Trashy Breakups, Alicia has all the dirty det...

Friends, we have arrived at the finale of Trashy Royals, our Season 10 Wednesday series. This week, we have the most tragic tale in Tudor England, the story of Arbella Stuart. Granddaughter of Bess of Hardwick and connected to basically everyone else we've talked about on Trashy Royals, this episode ties everything together in one tragi-trashy package. Get ready for Season 11's Wednesday series Tr...

It's Wimbledon time again, which always puts us in a nostalgic place. Alicia has the three divorces of Chris Evert, but also how Evert found her way to herself after a lifetime of working it out. Then Stacie matches Wimbledon and Pride Month with the outstanding journey of Martina Navratilova and the trio of "galimony" suits she's endured. Promo The Oak Tree Group . Need help getting your financia...

You may recall Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, but did you know that's been a thing for centuries? This week we're taking a look at four-times married, always-building female Tudor real estate magnate, Bess of Hardwick. She's a favorite Tudor lady, and rightly so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac...

It's Pride Month, so this week Stacie takes a look at the life and loves of actor and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. Then Alicia walks us through one of her favorite pandemic-era brain escapes, the trashy lives of the cast of Netflix's 'Selling Sunset.' Promo Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when you sign up at the link! The Oak Tree Group . Need help getting your financial house in...

If it isn't clear by now, Alicia will never get enough of the trashy behavior of the Court of Queen Elizabeth I. Oh, the trash and the scandal! This week, we check in with pony boy/puppy boy Robert Dudley, late of The Original Staircase Murder fame, and his other lovers, Douglas Sheffield (who is not a man) and Lettice Knollys (who is not a lettuce). These Tudors get themselves into all kinds of k...

Some unexpected issues mean you get a couple of Patreon faves! First up, Alicia has Truman Capote's dirtiest deed: the publication of La Cote Basque, 1965 , the short story in which he knifed every single one of his "swans," betraying and humiliating some of the most important figures in his coveted high-society circle. Speaking of cautionary tales, Stacie has the high flying life and times of cel...

Alicia can never get enough of the Tudors! This week on Trashy Royals series, we focus in on the maternal influences of Princess Elizabeth, the ladies who took care of this child to ensure she becomes Queen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .