Trashy Divorces

So many of our stories involve venerable figures who've been famous for decades, but it turns out that the baby Millennials and elder Gen Zs are just as busy making terrible decisions as the rest of us! This week's Trashy Breakups subjects are model Gigi Hadid and singer Zayn Malik, both still in their 20s, who had a sometimes tumultuous on-again, off-again relationship for five or six years that...

This week, we're taking a look at two of country music's favorite couples and the many roads they went down on the way to their long, happy marriages. First, Stacie has the three divorces it took to bring Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks together. Then Alicia recalls the dismal first marriage of Amy Grant, and the public outrage that erupted when she finally left it - and moved on with the recentl...

You know we can't resist the occasional foray into Real Housewives territory, and this week Alicia brings us the lovelorn journey of socialite Tinsley Mortimer, a woman who still hasn't found what she's looking for. Sponsors Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when you sign up at the link! Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're hopping back into our time machine with two stories from our Patreon vault! First, Alicia has an April 2020 follow-up on her Frank Lloyd Wright episode, with a sprawling story centered around his much celebrated Fallingwater home. Then, Stacie has the story of The Salem Witch Trials and one of their complicated villains, Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather. Sponsors Skillshare. Explor...

Listeners have been asking for this story since day one, but the truth is that Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have been extremely tight-lipped about the breakup of their 21-year-long romance. Still, we've unearthed a few details for you, plus a surprising twist ending you may have missed. Sponsors Skillshare. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/trashy and get a one month free trial! Betterhe...

Two Youtubers promise their followers the secret of true love. But when some of their believers cross the line from love to obsession, the Youtubers are accused of running a cult. As they fight for their new way of life, their followers face a choice too. They have been promised a chance to find The One, but how far is too far?  Listen to Twin Flames: wondery.fm/TD_TwinFlames Learn more about your...

This week, Alicia has the little-known story of Gilded Age heiress Huguette Clark, a wealthy recluse whose portfolio of unoccupied mansions fascinated the world when she died in 2011 at the age of 104. Then Stacie takes us through the increasingly disturbing behavior of Ye (formerly Kanye West), who has spent the week triggering the public, and likely his family, with social media harassment and t...

You asked for it! At long last, Alicia has a made-for-reality-TV story, the recent comings and goings of TLC's biggest family, the Browns of Sister Wives. There's husband Kody, wife Meri, wife Janelle, wife Christine, and wife Robyn, plus the 18 children they share! It's an atypical family, to be sure, but since 2010, millions of viewers have followed the ups and downs and transitions of the famil...

This week, Stacie takes us through the twists and turns in the 18-month-long divorce disaster of rapper Dr. Dre and his wife of 24 years, Nicole Young. Then, Alicia has the two marriages and divorces of acting icon Faye Dunaway, as well as some trashy tidbits from her Academy Award-winning career. Sponsors Skillshare. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/trashy and get a one month free trial!...

This week, Alicia has the story of the most exciting marriage that never was: That of Lauren Bacall, recent widow of Humphrey Bogart, and Frank Sinatra, who idolized Bogie but wanted to keep the relationship under wraps. When Hollywood super-agent Irving 'Swifty' Lazar inadvertently spilled to gossip columnist Louella Parsons, Lauren faced the wrath of Frank - and was saved from an undoubtedly unh...

This week, Alicia has perhaps the spiderwebby-est story she's ever told, with the 1960s marriage and divorce of actors Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper. Then, Stacie covers the high profile romances of actress Laura Dern, including her marriage and divorce from musician Ben Harper. Sponsors Skillshare. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/trashy and get a one month free trial! Betterhelp.com/...

When news broke that a Spanish princess was ending her marriage, Stacie's first thought was, "Spain still has a monarchy?" It does! And Princess Cristina, sixth-in-line to the throne, has a heck of a back story in this week's Trashy Breakups. 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 wh...

This week, Stacie gushes about two of her favorite actors, and Alicia raves about one of her favorite women of the Gilded Age. Rhea Perlman and Danny DeVito's 40-year-long romance was an inspiration, but so is their post-breakup story. American heiress Jennie Jerome was locked out of New York high society, so she became a doyenne of the British aristocracy instead - and mother of a future Prime Mi...

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...