Trashy Divorces
A comedic podcast about bad relationships, hosted by Alicia and Stacie. Every Wednesday and Sunday, they explore stories of marital misconduct and love gone wrong, blending biography, pop culture, history, and politics. The show has been described as a mix of Vanity Fair, Town & Country, and a country music song.
Episodes
646. Louis and Edwina Mountbatten | Origin Stories and Engagement
As many will already know, it was the youngest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine who would become a prominent figure in the lives of the modern world of the Windsors. Young Louis Battenberg, later Louis Mountbatten, was known as Dickie to his confidants, and was stung early when his father, First Sea Lord of the British Navy, was removed from his post
645. The Mountbattens | George and Nada Mountbatten
Prince George of Battenberg, later the 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, was the third child of Louis Battenber and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and was by all accounts a pretty good dude. Like his father, he set his sights on a naval career, and excelled at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, entering the Royal Navy in time to participate in World War I.
His 1916 marriage to Countess
644. The Mountbattens | Princess Louise of Battenberg
The second child of Prince Louis of Battenberg (later, Louis Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven) and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine was Princess Louise, born July 14, 1889. While most royal were promptly shuttled into marriage, Louise was an independent, progressive young woman whose heart was set on marrying for love.
There were suitors, to be sure, but Louise was insistent that sh
643. The Mountbattens | Princess Alice of Battenberg
After Louis Battenberg's (later Louis Mountbatten) successful campaign to marry Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, the couple set about having babies. The first of these, Princess Alice, was born in 1885, and came into the world congenitally deaf. Given the era, no particular accommodations were made for her, and while her condition caused many to underestimate her, she compensated by learni
642. Meet the Mountbattens!
While royal houses are often insular and even incestuous (at least at the cousin-marrying level), new blood does manage to enter those gene pools from time to time. Meet the Mountbattens! The family's story begins in Russia, circa 1850, where the orphaned daughter of a Polish general named Julia von Hauke was serving in the household of Maria Alexandrovna, future wife of future Tsar Alexander II.
641. Jerry Seinfeld | The Shoshanna of It All
In the 90s, Jerry Seinfeld was a king of the TV and of the broader culture. His hit show Seinfeld was four years into its run when Jerry spotted an attractive girl in Central Park. He approached, got her number, and only later learned that he, a 38 year old man, had just chatted up a 17-year-old named Shoshanna Lonstein. Did this stop Jerry Seinfeld from a four year romance with his much younger p
640. Dumpster Dive | Taylor Swift, Libbie Mugrabi, Shakira, James Fishback, and Katie Price
Once again, we're catching up on the haps within the Trashy Divorces Cinematic Universe, and maybe adding some new names into the mix as well. Brand new wedding news is the talk of the town for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. New York socialite Libbie Mugrabi, who left her divorce from art collector David Mugrabi with a cool $100 million, is having to offload a mansion that was part of that settlem
639. Marilyn Monroe | August and Everything After
In this crossover week celebrating Marilyn Monroe, our investigation today brings us to the final days of Marilyn Monroe’s life, as well as many recollections about the night of her death and her legacy.
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638. Marilyn Monroe | Summer of 1962
We are exploring the summer of 1962 for Marilyn Monroe – with multiple plotlines developing. A studio looking to smear her, a doctor and housekeeper with questionable practices, and a few high-level summer romances bring a very complicated summer for Marilyn, whichever biographer you follow.
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637. Marilyn Monroe | Winter and Spring of 1962
In this episode, our investigation brings Marilyn Monroe into 1962, a much more public year than her last. From buying a home to keeping company with John F. Kennedy, Marilyn’s January to May is filled with future planning, a return to work, and a few legendary parties too – one of which causes the final fallout between Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra.
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636. Marilyn Monroe | 1960 and 1961
As we continue our week of Marilyn Monroe, the Swinging 1960s are upon us. Within this episode, we explore the first two years of the decade for Marilyn, which involve some tough times. Included are the bust-up of her marriage with Arthur Miller, a scandalous affair, a reconnection with Joe DiMaggio, and a new President for the United States too.
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635. Marilyn Monroe | 1954 to 1959
In this second of our week of Marilyn Monroe episodes we follow her life, loves, and career from 1954 to 1959. So much is happening in these years with great freedom, and many challenges too. Also entering the frame today, we have Dominick Dunne and Peter Lawford, and so many characters who will be mighty influential in the coming few years as well.
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634. Marilyn Monroe | From Norma Jean to Almost Famous
In honor of her 100th birthday, we begin our journey into the life and death of Marilyn Monroe.
This first episode reveals Marilyn from her birth in 1926 to 1954, with stardom just around the corner. Included are her troubled childhood, her first marriage, and her early path to legend status.
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633. Katie Price Two: Katie Price Hullabaloo
While the last few years of Katie Price's life have not been uneventful, the last weeks of her life have been extraordinary even by Katie Price standards. In January, she married a Guy in Dubai (Lee Andrews) after three days in his company. The Guy in Dubai was immediately the subject of intense media scrutiny, and what was revealed was jarring. So jarring, perhaps, that Lee Andrews opted to step
632. England's Astonishing Katie Price (Encore)
This week on Trashy Divorces, we're celebrating one of our favorite TD alums - Britain's astonishing media figure Katie Price. In this encore of our original episode on her from 2022, we go through the outrageous origins of Katie Price, who has been generating headlines across the pond for three decades. Then, this weekend, we'll get into the current drama surrounding Katie - which is quite a lot,
631. Taylor Frankie Paul | 2026 So Far
Content Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of domestic violence.
Taylor Frankie Paul's relationship with Dakota was far more violent than we knew, and the violence has continued into 2026. The pair have recently been in court seeking mutual protective orders, and, to her credit, Taylor acknowledged that she was indeed part of the problem. For his part, Dakota acknowledged that Ta
630. Taylor Frankie Paul | The Missing Bachelorette
The ABC network went and recorded a whole season of its hit reality show The Bachelorette - and promptly shelved it. Dakota, once again, was the cause, having sold his cell phone video of Taylor Frankie Paul's domestic violence incident from 2023 to TMZ days before the season's premiere. The fate of the season remains up in the air, and as for Taylor Frankie Paul's legal situation, we'll get into
629. Lady Colin Campbell
Lady Colin Campbell has led quite a life in her day, and one very connected into our upcoming storytelling journey. Today, it is crossover all about her trashy divorce, sticky royal spiderwebs, and so much more as we enter Lady Colin Campbell into our cinematic universe as a future player and source too.
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628. Taylor Frankie Paul | Before The Bachelorette
As the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star navigated her on-again, off-again relationship with the philandering Dakota, new professional opportunities arose. As Taylor Frankie Paul's turn as The Bachelorette approached, Dakota's behavior became more off-putting, and the day the season was to begin filming, Taylor was nearly despondent.
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627. Taylor Frankie Paul | Social Media Success, Soft-Swinging, and Dakota Joins the Chat
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For viewers of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Taylor Frankie Paul is an undisputed star, but for those of us outside of the bubble, her rise and seemingly sudden prominence has been a bit mysterious. In this first part of Taylor Frankie Paul's story, Alicia takes us through her rise
626. Remembering Betty Broderick and Her Very Trashy Divorce
Today, we revisit the very Trashy Divorce of Betty and Dan Broderick, which ends in tragedy with the murder of Dan, and his second wife. Betty Broderick’s ultimately fatal obsession with her ex-husband is a true trashy classic and seemed timely to reprise as Betty passed away in prison last week at the age of 78.
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625. Hortense Mancini's Wild English Adventure
After escaping her abusive husband, Hortense spent some time on the lam. She published her memoirs, which made her a celebrated author, and then, at the urging of the English ambassador, headed to London to "see her niece" - and within months, was yet another mistress of Charles II. And soon after, Charles II's eldest daughter with Barbara Villiers. There were plenty more lovers to come, so to spe
624. Hortense Mancini and Her Marital Misadventure
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The Restoration court of Charles II is known not for governing, but for the seemingly endless bed-hopping antics of the Merry Monarch. Today, in this Trashy Royals crossover, we meet the last mistress to join that odd club, Hortense Mancini. Born to a big brood in Rome - Hortense was the ei
623. The Face of Queen Anne Boleyn?!
It is late breaking Tudor news that Alicia had to share! Just published, scientists from the University of Bradford through a little fancy math and facial recognition just might have discovered the true face of Anne Boleyn, the second and murdered wife of Henry VIII.
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622. Divorce Dutch Style | Leontine Ruiters and Marco Borsato
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Today we're wandering to the land of tulips and windmills to explore the trashiest Dutch divorce we've ever heard of. Leontine Ruiters is a well-known television personality in the country, married until 2020 to one of the most successful singers ever to hit the Dutch charts, Marco Borsato.
621. Today's Trash | It's Gonna Be May!
Alicia comes to us with a story we've been loosely watching for years: the slow, apparent destruction of the marriage of singer Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel. According to Page Six, Jessica is near her wit's end with Justin's behavior - drinking seems to be at the core of it - and his absences as she raises their two sons largely solo. Apparently there's been an ultimatum! And Alicia
620. Gordon Lightfoot's Redemption Story
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After his first divorce and his toxic relationship with Cathy Smith, it would be 16 years before Gordon Lightfoot took the plunge and married again, this time to Elizabeth Moon. It's hard to say if this was a good relationship, but it produced two chil
619. Cathy Smith and the Death of John Belushi
After her tumultuous relationship with Gordon Lightfoot ended, Cathy Smith headed to California to pursue her own musical dreams. She was briefly a backup singer for Hoyt Axton. She also had a brief interlude in Paris, where she met The Rolling Stones, who she would later provide drugs to. But it was her association with John Belushi that made her notorious. In March of 1982, she injected Belushi
618. Today's Trash | Patrick Muldoon, Denise Richards, Tori Spelling, Scooter Braun, Sydney Sweeney, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Mike Vrabel, Dianna Russini, Lena Dunham, Jack Antonoff, and Lorde
As ever, the Trashy Divorces Cinematic Universe has been on full display of late, with new entrants as well! First up, we mourn actor Patrick Muldoon, who died suddenly of a heart attack on April 19 at just 57 years old. He was not part of our TDCU, but his 36-year-long friendship (and early 90s romance) with Denise Richards, then later a romance with Tori Spelling, certainly give us reason to gri
617. The Sundown of Cathy Smith and Gordon Lightfoot
Starting around 1970, Cathy Smith and Gordon Lightfoot reconnected and embarked on a wildly toxic romantic relationship that ran three or four years. He, of course, was still married to Brita (Brita would name Cathy Smith in her divorce suit), but they had been living separately. Cathy moved in with him, quit her job, and the pair immediately began cheating on each other. Jealousy seems to have be
616. Cynthia Plaster Caster | The Super Groupie Who Grabbed Life By The Balls
Super Groupies were a hot topic in the 1960s and 1970s, and definitely still are around here on Trashy Divorces. In this episode, Alicia gets into the life, work, and spiderwebs of Cynthia Albritton, known in the day as Cynthia Plaster Caster. Her art was unusual, certainly, but Cynthia went to great lengths to make her creative work her own. Cynthia was truly a Super Groupie, and is remembered in
615. Cathy Smith, featuring Levon Helm and The Band
One especially fascinating figure who intersected with Gordon Lightfoot was named Cathy Smith. As a teenager in Ontario, she'd hooked up (literally and figuratively) with Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel, then future members of The Band. Before her several-year relationship with the married Gordon Lightfoot, she helped The Band get out of a drug bust and gave birth to a daughter who beca
614. Gordon Lightfoot | Background to Brita
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There are few artists as iconically Canadian as Gordon Lightfoot, whose eight decades on Earth produced some of the most recognizable music there is. In this first episode of his story, Alicia gets into his formative years, his time in California, his first marriage, and Canada's then-most ex
613. Today's Trash: Kristi Noem, Bryon Noem, and Corey Lewandowski
Welcome back to Today's Trash! This story has actually been ongoing for, well, parts of it for years, but acutely over the last month or so. Fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has been having some trouble on the homefront recently, as The Daily Mail keeps finding online personalities in the "Bimbofication" subculture that her husband has been paying for services. But what's a guy supposed to do when
612. Today's Trash | Ruby Rose and Katy Perry, Brooklyn Beckham, Britney Spears, and Andrew Shue
Welcome to our first ever Today's Trash, a quick-hits approach to keeping tabs on the ongoing dilemmas of the Trashy Divorces Cinematic Universe! Today, we get into the sexual assault allegation levied by Australian actress and model Ruby Rose against pop songstress Katy Perry, hear more Beckham family drama from one of Brooklyn Beckham's exes, catch up with Britney Spears as she heads to an open
611. Ireland's Most Scandalous Divorce, Talbot v. Talbot
Perhaps it's reassuring to know that people have always been awful, and when a person is powerful, they've always found ways to avoid accountability. Which brings us back to a contested incident in Ireland's County Roscommon back in 1852 - was Mary Anne Talbot engaged in an adulterous affair as her husband claimed, or was John Talbot spearheading a violent conspiracy to lose an infertile wife and
610. Dumpster Dive | SIX The Movie, Justin Timberlake, Tiger Woods, Justin Baldoni, Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Tradwives, Lindsey Buckingham, Kanye West
Trash Pandas, it's time for another catch up with some of our favorite TD alums. In the Dumpster this week, Alicia celebrates the upcoming SIX The Movie, coming to America and Canada in August; wonders aloud why celebrities can't take an Uber instead of flipping their cars or otherwise dealing with DUI-related fallout, notes a changed landscape in the lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, talks parentin
609. Spiderwebs | Terry Melcher, Candice Bergen, and The Manson Family
In this episode, Alicia follows up with some spiderwebs from the Doris Day story, and how her son Terry factors into those terrible events on Cielo Drive on August 8, 1969. Terry and his longtime girlfriend Candice Bergen lived there in a fairy tale dream in 1968, before Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski moved into the home. Why did Terry and Candice move? Doris told them they must.
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608. Doris Day featuring Martin Melcher and The Maître D'
In this second part, Alicia tracks Doris Day's disastrous marriage to Martin Melcher, and the enormous financial hole he left her in when he died at the young age of 52. There was still one more husband to go before Doris would decide she'd had enough of matrimony and turned her focus to a more deserving cause: rescuing animals.
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607. Doris Day featuring Al Jorden and George Weidler
Actress and singer Doris Day built a giant career in Hollywood on the image of the All-American Girl, a perfectly relatable Girl Next Door, virtuous and funny. It was pure spin, with Groucho Marx once quipping, “I’ve been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.” Doris herself chafed at the limitations of the typecasting and how utterly at odds it was to the life she was actually
S32E23: Australia's Tyre King Bob Jane
Australia, it seems to us, is a country of huge personalities, and that's even true when it comes to endeavors as mundane as selling car tires, or tyres. Australia didn't simply need a mass-market tyre retailer, Aussies needed Bob Jane T-Marts with their clean image, catchy jingle, and celebrated race car driver at the helm. The company made Bob himself a multimillionaire, but his inability to for
Trashy Tabloids: Sandra Dee Talks to The Saturday Evening Post in 1963
Alicia is a collector of vintage magazines, and couldn't resist sharing this 1963 Saturday Evening Post profile of a 21 year old Sandra Dee, on the heels of the first separation from Bobby Darin. She is a movie queen and this piece includes bits about her time on the lot, her split from Darin, her stage mother, and more!
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S32E22: Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin
Actress Sandra Dee and crooner Bobby Darin were the Hollywood it couple of the early 1960s, marrying just months after first meeting. But the marriage was troubled from the start, as both partners were unable to escape the effects of their damaging childhoods.
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S32E21: Aimee Semple McPherson | The Disappearing Evangelist
In 1920s Los Angeles, one of the biggest names in American evangelism was, surprisingly for the time, a woman. Aimee Semple McPherson founded America's first megachurch, preaching to some 17,000 people at three services, seven days a week. She founded a radio station that shared those services to millions of households around the country. 10% of the population of Los Angeles held a membership at h
S32E20: Sid and Nancy | How Does It End?
Left to their own devices, and with the Sex Pistols basically over, Sid and Nancy found their way to New York City. From room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel, they spent 1978 in a drug-fueled haze, with Nancy booking some gigs for Sid to keep them supplied with money to support their habits. On October 12, 1978, Sid awoke from a Tuinal-induced sleep and found Nancy dead on the bathroom floor, with a stab
S32E19: Sid and Nancy | Nancy and the End of The Sex Pistols
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Nancy Spungen didn't start life with a lot going for her. She was very smart, but also very emotionally disturbed. At 15, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and would shortly pick up a heroin addiction, an activity that she would share with her future boyfriend, Sid Vicious. As a couple, th
S32E18: Dumpster Dive | Corey Feldman, Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Boy George, Chappell Roan, Billy Joel, P!NK, Tom Brady, Yael Braun, Shannen Doherty, and Cindy Crawford
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Today we're bringing you one of our occasional Dumpster Dives, where we catch up on the latest news from the Trashy Divorces Cinematic Universe. In the Dumpster today:
Corey Feldman's long running divorce is over, but he's found something else to be mad about: the time he was almost cast
S32E17: Sid and Nancy | Sid and The Sex Pistols
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As Britain's youth struggled through the doldrums of the 1970s, their sense of alienation forged a new approach to music, birthing punk. And the band most closely associated with the punk movement at the time was The Sex Pistols. Four young men driven by a sense of aggression and a whole lot o
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S32E16: Billy Bush
Entertainment reporter Billy Bush found himself in a life-changing pickle back in 2016, when a leaked tape was dropped into the final month of a presidential election. It ended his long career with NBC, and for a while, looked like it might have ended his career entirely. In the aftermath, he and his wife divorced, but a funny thing happened on his way to a comeback: he made himself a better perso
S32E15: Horace, Augusta, and Baby Doe Tabor | Colorado's Trashiest Triangle
While researching for her Done & Dunne podcast, Alicia came across a story right up our alley: a scandalous affair, secret marriages, secret divorces, bigamy, and all set in America's Wild West. Meet Horace Tabor, once one of America's richest men and briefly a US Senator for Colorado, his long-suffering wife Augusta, and the mistress Horace couldn't wait to wed, again and again, Baby Doe Tabor.
S32E14: Ryan Lochte and Kayla Reid
Swimmer Ryan Lochte is one of the most decorated male swimmers ever, but he's managed to mar his own accomplishments over and over again. From 2016's Lochtegate to his current messy divorce from his long-suffering wife Kayla, it seems like he just can't manage to get out of his own way.
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Birthday Bust: Andrew (Formerly Known As Prince) Arrested!
It's been a huge day in our Trashy Universe, with what might
be the start of real, criminal accountability for a Jeffrey Epstein friend.
Finally, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - what Americans would likely call "public corruption" - a charge that could land him in prison for life. Americans may still be fuming abou
S32E13: The Beckham Family Feud
A story that's been bubbling for a few years now finally broke open one January day, when Brooklyn Beckham, son of David and Victoria Beckham, took to Instagram to lay out a full-throated indictment of his parents for all the world to see. The story is not at all pretty, and it left us feeling pretty bad for Brooklyn's wife, who seems to have become a target for his family, rather than a part of i
S32E12: Brittany Snow and Tyler Stanaland
When Netflix released The Hunting Wives last summer, it's fair to say the show became a sensation. What's not to love? A taut murder mystery plus graphic, often lesbian, sex scenes - no wonder it attracted such a buzz. But while the protagonist goes through plenty in the show, the actress who plays her, Brittany Snow, had recently gone through her own trashy divorce, from pro-surfer and reality TV
S32E11: Caroline of Brunswick | Rebel of the Regency with Vulgar History's Ann Foster
In this special trashy crossover episode, Vulgar History’s Ann Foster joins Alicia to talk about her new book, Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown. Caroline’s life was pretty incredible and she should be remembered much more in history. This one has everything – a plucky heroine and a trashy king, marital misadventure, affairs, fashio
S32E10: Jane Birkin - It's in the Bag!
This week Alicia gets to the bottom of the basket in this episode about Jane Birkin, English actress, singer, and designer - also, namesake of the very famous Birkin Bag. Jane's story is truly incredible, and is the stickiest spiderweb from our Brigitte Bardot arc that we had to explore. Jane will have a long term love affair with Serge Gainsborough once Brigitte dumps him, but that is only one pa
S32E9: Charles Dickens, Victorian Trashbag
In this "We're Both Sick" re-air from January 2020, Stacie has the surprisingly trashy tale of Charles Dickens’s public abandonment of his wife of 22 years and the secret, 13-year-long affair that he conducted with a young actress throughout the rest of his life. Turns out that so-called “Great Men” only hold up if their followers are willing to keep their secrets.
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S32E8: Frances Howard and The Murder of Thomas Overbury
In this wild Trashy Royals crossover episode, Stacie takes us back to the court of King James I of England, where a young noblewoman, Frances Howard, was desperate to escape her arranged marriage to marry another - and found her paramour's best friend to be a highly problematic obstacle. What to do, what to do?
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S32E7: Sherrone Moore's Bad Calls
The University of Michigan football program has been having a weird few years. After losing their head coach in 2023 to NCAA rules violations, they are once again on the hunt now that Sherrone Moore, head coach for the last two seasons, has found himself embroiled in a workplace sex scandal that's blown up into a full on criminal matter.
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S32E6: Brigitte Bardot, Advocate for Animals & A Curdled Legacy
In her later years, French actress and icon Brigitte Bardot devoted her considerable talents to the protection of animals all over the planet. In the 1980s, having retired from film, she created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation dedicated to animal welfare, and used her substantial platform to contact governments and heads of state with letters decrying their nation's treatment of animals. But her at
S32E5: Brigitte Bardot, Second Marriage & Motherhood
As Brigitte made her way into the 1960s as a bona fide, worldwide celebrity, she found the experience was not especially to her liking. Where she had once strolled the streets of her beloved Saint-Tropez barefoot and happy, by the time she found herself pregnant and married for a second time, an army of photographers assembled outside of her home made her little more than a prisoner in her own lif
S32E4: Brigitte Bardot | The Beginnings
In the final days of the no-good, very-bad year of 2025, the world learned that the iconic French actress Brigitte Bardot had died at the age of 91. Having achieved international stardom back in 1957 in the film And God Created Woman - a collab with her first husband, director Roger Vadim - she became a significant cultural export from France in an era where the rules that seemed to govern the con
S32E3: Amy Schumer and Chris Fischer
Comedian and actress Amy Schumer had a bit of whirlwind romance with her husband, chef Chris Fischer. They married after just four months of dating, but seven years later - after a child, a round of IVF, various health challenges, an autism diagnosis - they've announced that the marriage has come to its end. But cleanly, and apparently very amicably. Are Amy and Chris role models for a good divorc
S32E2: The Greatest Sex Scandal You've Never Heard Of | The Beecher-Tilton Scandal
We live in an era where scandals often fail to make much of a dent in the reputations of the rich and famous, and today's story illustrates that this sad situation isn't really new. In 1870s Brooklyn, a famous preacher named Henry Ward Beecher had a problem in his private life. He was having affairs. Lots and lots of affairs. But it was his affair with Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of his close frien
S32E1: Welcome to the Dumpster!
Happy New Year, Trash Pandas! We're back, and so much happened during our short break that we wanted to get into the highlights - and lowlights! In the dumpster this week:
Mel Gibson is single again, and we wonder if that's related to Mel Gibson being able to own guns again.
Gisele Bundchen won her divorce from Tom Brady so hard that she's now married to the karate guy! Jiu-Jitsu, but you
S31E16: Charlie Chaplin
In this encore from July of 2020, Alicia has screen legend Charlie Chaplin, who passed away on Christmas Day in 1977. His four marriages typify the line from Dazed and Confused, “I get older, they stay the same age.”
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S31E15: Paul Hogan, 'Crocodile' Dundee
Most of the world met Paul Hogan in 1986, when he starred in the smash hit film Crocodile Dundee. A sensation, the movie remains the highest grossing Australian film ever. For Paul, global stardom was the result of an entirely unexpected series of events that led him to a career as a TV funnyman, but what happened next did a lot of damage to his reputation - and marked the final end to his first m
S31E14: Aretha Franklin
This week, Alicia shines the spotlight on The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. From her turbulent childhood to her career trajectory, with a few divorces and spiderwebs thrown in too, Aretha's story really does contain multitudes.
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S31E13: Messy (Across the Pond) | Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton
In this encore mash-up, Alicia brings us the 90s-era heartbreaker split with the marriage and divorce of actors Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh. Then, 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.
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S31E12: Messy | Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza, RFK Jr.
For a certain kind of political obsessive, the Trumpworld dispatches penned by Olivia Nuzzi in the first term were almost too on-the-nose. Still in her 20s then, her ability to paint the distorted, distorting figures that inhabited the era in prose was always interesting and often revelatory. And then, she fell in love with a subject, then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and her life
S31E11: Natalie Massenet and Erik Torstensson
When two visionaries meet, strange things can happen. So it was for Natalie Massenet, founder of upscale shopping site Net-a-Porter, and Swedish creative director and Frame founder Erik Torstensson. The high fashion power couple parlayed their early successes into venture capital projects - including Skims - and then shocked their world in August 2025 with a bombshell lawsuit from Natalie alleging
S31E10: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (Encore)
In this April 2019 encore, we go deep into the turbulent love, life, and times of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Theirs was a complicated love - but also somehow quite inspiring. Check out the art we mention in the episode at our website.
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S31E9: Sharon Stone
Since crossing into stardom with 1992's Basic Instinct, actress Sharon Stone has certainly had some adventures, both in her career and her personal life. It's actually difficult to summarize today's tale, but suffice it to say, there's a lot in here for fans of some of Hollywood's most notorious lounge lizards, as well as lizards of other sorts.
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S31E8: Alicia Corning Clark
Everyone knows that JFK was a man of vociferous appetites when it came to women, but the secret story of a possible love child fathered with a teenage maid in the Hyannis Port compound is not commonly known. Many questions persist, but the tale of JFK's maybe-baby-mama, Alicia Corning Clark, is such a quintessentially American one - from refugee to the Kennedy's to Hollywood and beyond - that we c
S31E7: YouTubers Catherine Paiz and Austin McBroom
The ACE Family channel on YouTube blew up in a big way in 2016, taking two young parents into realms of wealth and fame they couldn't possibly have planned for - and were clearly unequipped to handle. While the channel grew to some 18 million followers, brand partnerships soured into litigation and the marriage of Catherine Paiz and Austin McBroom eventually collapsed. If you've ever wondered, "Wh
S31E6: Andrew Morton is Back - Talking Fergie, Randy Andy, & More Windsor Scandals
We welcome back journalist and author Andrew Morton to spill some tea, past and present, on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson. The former Duke and Duchess of York are not the only Windsor family members in the lens - also included are Prince Phillip, King Charles III, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince William and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie too.
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S31E5: Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor
Today, Alicia revisits a first season episode where... well, we were sweet summer children and there was much that would be revealed. This week, we revisit the "happiest divorced couple in the world", the no-longer-prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
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S31E4: Hedy Lamarr (Encore)
On the occasion of what would have been her 111th birthday, today we revisit Alicia's 2020 story of the incredible life of Hollywood icon Hedy Lamarr. Yes, she was an outstanding and hugely popular actress, but the lesser known part of the story is that Hedy Lamarr was a passionate and gifted inventor. She and composer and pianist George Antheil developed and patented a way to encrypt messages dur
S31E3: To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen
Chris Hansen became a household name by confronting child predators who'd been lured out of hiding by undercover officers posing as children online on Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator. But it was his choices in his personal life that sent him careening off into other directions - dumped by NBC, marriage on the rocks, and even sporting a mugshot or two to his name.
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