Tabloid
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★ - 64 ratingsTabloid stories are not just guilty pleasures; they are revelatory ones, electrified by the tripwires of culture: race, class, gender, and politics. Season 2 reveals new details about Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape: how it was stolen and distributed, the effect on their lives--and ultimately, how the tape changed our culture. Season 1 is a full-life inquiry into the making of Ivanka Trump, from child of very public 1980s divorce to teenage party girl and then to her trophy-collecting father’s very favorite trophy.
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Listen Now: Lindsay Lohan | The C-Word
April 04, 2024 15:31 - 1 hour - 106 MB[In honor of what some have called a "Lohanaissance," we're bringing back this conversation from 2022 that looks back at LiLo's formative years. Enjoy.] Lindsay Lohan’s name has become synonymous with maladaptive child stardom, toxic tabloid culture, and the general trainwreckery of the mid-aughts—but it wasn’t always that way. Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett unpack LiLo’s childhood, her precocious talent and early popularity, the media’s perverse fascination with her prepubescent body, and ...
The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape: The Garden of Eden
March 14, 2024 04:01 - 19 minutes - 45 MBThe Pam and Tommy Sex Tape: Birth of a Genre
February 29, 2024 05:01 - 18 minutes - 43.1 MBSex tapes get more common, and celebrity bashing gets meaner.
The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape: The New Celebrities
February 22, 2024 05:01 - 16 minutes - 38.8 MBPam and Tommy’s sex tape created a whole new way to get famous.
The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape: The Leak
February 15, 2024 05:01 - 20 minutes - 46.9 MBPamela and Tommy’s sex tape goes from a safe in the woods to sex shops all over the country.
The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape: One Night at the Porn Awards
February 08, 2024 05:01 - 17 minutes - 40.8 MBOld world porn bosses + internet upstarts = the celebrity sex tape phenomenon.
The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape: The Heist
February 01, 2024 05:02 - 21 minutes - 48.5 MBA jilted electrician, a stolen safe, and some very invasive cameras.
The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape: The Lovers
January 25, 2024 05:01 - 19 minutes - 45.5 MBPam and Tommy fall in love, and the whole world comes along for the ride.
Meet Regina George’s Prototype (Introducing ‘Infamous’)
January 19, 2024 22:26 - 3 minutes - 3.38 MBYou probably know Tina Fey’s iconic camp masterpiece, Mean Girls—but do you know the real-life story behind the screenplay? Infamous co-host Vanessa Grigoriadis talks to Zoe Nightingale, the actual person whose mean streak in high school inspired the character of Regina George, about all of it. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infamous/id1652941051?i=1000642020663.
THE MAKING OF IVANKA: Crony Capitalism and Ivanka, ft. Bethany McClean
January 17, 2024 05:00 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBFrom the minute her dad took office, Ivanka and her business affairs have been at the center of controversy. Even though Ivanka removed herself from her Ivanka Trump fashion company when she entered the White House as a formal Adviser in 2017, she was forced to close the brand in Summer of 2018 due to continuing questions of conflicts of interest. Brands such as Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Gilt dropped her products after a boycott-Trump movement in backlash to the president's policies on… e...
The Making of Ivanka Trump: THE PARTY TRUMPS [Bonus]
January 11, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBSocial fixture Bob Colacello explains the role of the Trump family in Manhattan's demimonde. Originally published October, 2019
The Making of Ivanka Trump: JAVANKA GOES TO THE WHITE HOUSE
January 04, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBIn the White House, Ivanka is the real first lady—and a possible World Bank head. But what’s next? Originally published September, 2019
The Making of Ivanka Trump: IVANKA, INC.
December 21, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBIvanka is totally done with rebellion and, like Michael Corleone before her, gets dragged into the dirty family business. She also begins to build her personal, valuable brand as a very politics-neutral Woman Who Works. Originally published September, 2019
The Making of Ivanka Trump: "JARED IS MY SOUL MATE"
December 13, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes - 79.9 MBNow that she's secured her father's attention again, she rebels a little--tries Georgetown instead of Penn and parties a ton at a loft on Great Jones Street, where her social world collides with (host and producer) Vanessa Grigoriadis's. And then she meets the love of her life, Jared Kushner. Originally published September, 2019.
The Making of Ivanka Trump: THE PARTY-GIRL YEARS
December 06, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes - 59.4 MBIvanka regains her dad’s attention by dipping into the world of his dating pool--the modeling world. It's perhaps a strange choice for an ambitious, well-capitalized, well-educated and well-connected young woman, but Ivanka seemed to understand just what her father might want out of her. Originally published September, 2019.
The Making of Ivanka Trump: THE REBELLION
November 29, 2023 05:01 - 24 minutes - 247 MBIvanka as teenage rebel, looking to get her parents' attention back and learning to be the aristocrat of Ivana's dreams at Chapin and Choate, all while dying her hair and smoking cigarettes and flashing hot-dog vendors. Originally published Aug, 2019.
The Making of Ivanka Trump: DIVORCE!
November 22, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes - 71.2 MBThe rise of Marla; how Ivanka coped with the ruin of her perfect, cosseted world; and watched her parents duke it out in the tabloids as though she and her siblings didn't exist, learning that everything is a competition and that there’s more than one way to "win." Originally published Aug, 2019.
The Making of Ivanka Trump: IVANKA THE TROPHY DAUGHTER
November 15, 2023 05:01 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBIvana Trump tries to give Ivanka a normal childhood, even if they live in the penthouse of Trump Tower. Still, young Ivanka witnesses her father’s obsessions with business, women, and the media. At eight-years-old, Ivanka gets a front row seat to her parents’ very messy – and very public – divorce. Originally published in 2019.
The Making of Ivanka Trump: Woman Who Works, ft Amy LaRocca [Bonus]
November 09, 2023 23:45 - 13 minutes - 30.1 MBNew York fashion editor Amy Larocca dishes on Ivanka's fashion sense, and feminist rebranding. Originally published September, 2019
The Making of Ivanka Trump: WHO IS IVANKA?
November 07, 2023 05:09 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBWe know her as a family hood ornament, a succession of masks, and a strange collection of assets to her father (PR, attack dog, Manchurian candidate, sex object). The first episode opens at the inauguration to set up the major framing of the series--what's Ivanka Trump's psychological motivation? How does she present herself in the world? How did she become the person she is today? The Trumps are a tabloid family at their core, who didn't just conduct their dirty business in the tabloids but...
Introducing Tabloid S1: The Making of Ivanka Trump
November 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 minute - 1.47 MBTabloid stories are not just guilty pleasures; they are revelatory ones, electrified by the tripwires of culture: race, class, gender, and politics. This season, a full-life inquiry into the making of Ivanka Trump, from child of very public 1980s divorce to teenage party girl and then her trophy-collecting father’s very favorite trophy. Hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis. [Originally published in 2019]
The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape: Celebgate
August 02, 2021 04:01 - 18 minutes - 42.6 MBThe biggest nude photo leak in history causes a reckoning.
Trailer, Tabloid S2: The Pammy and Tommy Sex Tape
June 21, 2021 04:01 - 2 minutes - 4.77 MBHost Lux Alptraum introduces us to the characters who hustled to get a now infamous tape into the world, and what that tape’s release would come to mean for our culture. Originally released in 2021. Subscribe now to get the entire season.