Trashy Divorces

This week, our intrepid podcasters decided to take a little break to celebrate Stacie’s birthday. Please enjoy some blasts from the Patreon past with Alicia’s telling of the trashy maybe-murder of socialite Sunny von Bulow. Her husband Claus was convicted of the act, but a protracted legal battle ultimately saw him acquitted.Then, Stacie shares a revisionist take on the infamous sex scandal – or was it? – that ruined Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s career in politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes a Trashy Divorce story is just a gateway to something much more delightfully awful! This week, Stacie has the trashy marriage and divorce (and on and on) of actress and model Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. But also: there’s a heist, some yak fur, a sex tape, and biker gangs terrorizing the porn industry! Seriously, this one goes places.Then, Alicia has the four loves and losses of Lisa Marie Presley. After a quickie divorce from her first marriage so she could wed Michael Jackson, and then a quickie marriage to Nicolas Cage, her first ex-husband is still one of her closest friends, and even played best man in her fourth wedding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we get up close and personal with Henry VIII’s sister, and deep dive into a very trashy listener request! Alicia has the three marriages of Margaret Tudor: daughter of Henry VII, one-time Queen of Scotland, legitimate Catholic divorcee, and mother of Scotland’s James V. Margaret’s story scandalized Christendom, at least until her brother lost his freaking mind.Speaking of dudes losing their minds, Stacie has the very not-funny story of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. Their brief marriage ended in 2016 in a flurry of monstrous abuse allegations against Johnny Depp, and their continuing legal feud has only made the story uglier. Honestly, we’re a little worried about everyone in this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we’re putting a philandering British Prime Minister and a scion of Hollywood royalty under the Trashy Divorces microscope. Stacie has all the deets on Boris Johnson, a man who won’t say how many children he’s fathered, but has certainly mastered the art of failing upwards. Then, Alicia takes us back to the Golden Age of Hollywood for the first marriage and divorce of diva and screen legend Joan Crawford, to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we’re taking a look at a couple of American originals. Tennis legend Billie Jean King married her best friend Larry when they were a couple of lovestruck kids bonding over a tennis net. Alicia has the decidedly not trashy story of how Billie Jean came to terms with her sexuality, and how Larry supported her every step of the way. Though divorced, the pair remain permanent friends.Then Stacie hops on the Trashy Divorces time machine to take us back to the 19th century with the bonzo story of Victoria Woodhull, America’s first female presidential candidate. Was she the most successful con artist of her day, or a medium and social reformer driven by her strong ideals? Honestly, we don’t have any idea.Related: Here’s the Henry Ward Beecher story on Patreon (paywall-free) that first got Stacie onto Victoria Woodhull. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the musical Cabaret says, “What good is sitting alone in your room? Come to the Cabaret!” This week, we have the stories of two people inhabiting a role: Luann de Lesseps, the Countess of Real Housewives of New York, and legendary actor and all around dapper fella Cary Grant. Stacie has the trashy Housewives tale of a young American who married into, and then divorced out of, European nobility, while Alicia spills some tea about Archibald Leach, who left England to reinvent himself in New York, and then conquered Hollywood as Cary Grant.Music, sources, and more at trashydivorces.com.Stacie’s Receipts ‘Real Housewife’ De Lesseps Will Soon Be a Wife No Longer (NYT profile) Royal breakup for ‘Real’ Housewife LuAnn de Lesseps in Royal Divorce ‘Shocker’ – Slideshow – Daily Intel Count ‘Housewife’ Couple Out ‘Real Housewives’ LuAnn de Lesseps: ‘SVU’ role is part of her ‘second chance’ at life All the Photos From RHONY’s Luann de Lesseps and Tom D’Agostino Jr.’s Wedding Luann Details The Full Story Behind Her Arrest On RHONY ‘Real Housewives of New York’ star Luann de Lesseps strikes plea dealAlicia’s ReceiptsCary Grant’s Best Moments in Arsenic and Old LaceCary Grant Was Gay/Bi, says friend Orry-KellyUncovering Orry Kelly – Gillian ArmstrongDyan Cannon Talks About Cary GrantA different side of Cary Grant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Alicia has the story of Maurizio and Patrizia Gucci, whose high profile divorce led to the murder that shocked the fashion world. Then, Stacie has the long, low-key love and never-completed divorce of rocker Ric Ocasek and supermodel Paulina Porizkova.Music, sources, and more at trashydivorces.com.Alicia’s ReceiptsThe Murder of Maurizio Gucci | Crime DocumentariesThe Gucci’s: The Last Fashion Victim (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories Curse of the Gucci family continues to haunt the heirsA GUCCI KNOCKOFF | Vanity Fair | July 1995 The Gucci wife and the hitman: fashion’s darkest tale Where’s Patrizia Reggiani In 2018? Maurizio Gucci’s Shocking Murder Is Revisited In ‘People Magazine Investigates: Crimes Of Fashion’Stacie’s Receipts The Mystery of Ric Ocasek (This is the Rolling Stone piece by David Browne that Stacie references most often) The Reason The Cars’ Frontman Ric Ocasek Left His Wife Paulina Porizkova Out of His Will Paulina Porizkova on Ric Ocasek split: ‘It seemed like only one of us wanted to be married, and that was me’ Rocker Ric Ocasek’s Estate Headed for a Court BattleRic Ocasek gets marriedRic Ocasek’s Family Thank Fans For Support Following His Unexpected Death Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova Relationship Timeline How Paulina Porizkova Felt After Learning She Was Cut From Ric Ocasek’s Will Cars singer Ric Ocasek cuts wife Paulina Porizkova out of will Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s listener request time! This week, Stacie covers filmmaker James Cameron, who spent much of his adult life engaging in something like serial monogamy and abusing the heck out of his subordinates. When he wasn’t making actors pee in wetsuits, he was marrying and divorcing in quick succession, most notably to Terminator actress Linda Hamilton. Then, Alicia puts some realism into the man, the myth, the legend, John Lennon. Turns out that the voice of a generation was pretty awful in his first marital go-round.Music, sources, and more at trashydivorces.com.Stacie’s ReceiptsJames Cameron: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series), edited by Brent Dunham. Linda Hamilton: ‘Everyone’s terrified of James Cameron. I’m not’ Linda Hamilton gives RARE interview about ex-husband, director James Cameron The Unmade Films of James Cameron One Of James Cameron’s Ex-Wives Tells Tales Of His Huge EgoAlicia’s ReceiptsJohn, by Cynthia Lennon.A Twist of Lennon, by Cynthia Lennon.Inside John Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend’ Period, by Colin Bertram.John Lennon Wife – Cynthia Lennon EXCLUSIVE 30 Minute BBC Interview & Life StoryWhy did John Lennon largely ignore his first son Julian?….Cynthia clips from ”The Real John Lennon.”John’s Aunt Mimi 1981 UK InterviewJohn Lennon’s Sister Talks About Growing Up With Her Beatle Brother | Good Morning BritainJulian Lennon Gets Candid About His Late Father, The Beatles’ John Lennon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we take a look at two pretty singular individuals who might have been better off staying single. First up, Alicia has the shockingly trashy story of American architectural master Frank Lloyd Wright. This one really has everything: tons of dirtbag behavior, horrific true crime, and another one of those “great men” whose personal lives are garbage.In a similar vein, Stacie remembers the 2009 cheating scandal that temporarily swamped golf legend-in-his-own-time Tiger Woods. No, he wasn’t cheating at golf. He was cheating on his wife, with basically every woman he’d ever met. Once the news broke, wife Elin Nordegren may or may not have taken out her rage with a golf club to their Cadillac Escalade.Music, sources, and more at trashydivorces.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re off this week, but wanted to check in with thanks, trashcandy, and some ideas that might help you disconnect from all the anxiety.Check out our catalog of Patreon stories pulled from the paywall, for your listening enjoyment: bit.ly/trashcandyquarantineStacie recommends Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks. It’s based on the true story of an English village that, back in 1666, way before anyone understood viruses, self-quarantined after plague broke out in the community. Fair warning, this is not light reading, so use your judgment.Alicia, much more wisely, recommends Unlocking Us, the new podcast by OG shero Brene Brown. This is probably a more soothing option than Stacie’s weird book recommendation.Then, we drop a few hints about Season 6, which begins next Sunday, April 5. Thanks so much for being part of the Trashy Divorces community. Stay safe, keep it trashy, and we’ll talk next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices