Scandal Sheets

Due to some technical difficulties, we're resurecting an episode from the early days of Scandal Sheets. Stayed tuned for new content in April 2023! =============================================================== It's 12:30 in the morning--do you know where your podcast is? Caroline and Adrienne start the show off with lemurs but don't worry we're serving up an extra helping of scandal this episode as we discuss the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal which rocked Hollywood. Find out how it all...

Alma de Brettville Spreckels is considered the great-grandmother of San Francisco. Born to a working-class family of Danish immigrants, Alma used her incredible beauty to claw her way up the social and financial ladder. The result would be a scandalous career of nude modeling and a breach of promise suit where she sued her intended fiance for $50,000 when he refused to marry her. Despite the scandalous newspaper reports of the trial, Alma was still able to bag the wealthy son of a sugar...

The Scandal Sheets podcast is back!! This episode explores the scandalous life of Hollywood Golden Age actress, Hedy Lamarr. Known more for her beauty, Hedy was incredibly intelligent and is credited as a co-creator of the technology that allows up to carry cellular devices. Along the way, we will hear about Hedy's life changing journey on board the SS Normandie, a fabulous Art Deco cruise ship. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on...

"Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn..." So begins the infamous poem written about the scandalous erotica authoress Elinor Glyn. She began her writing career as a means of keeping her family afloat and ended up becoming the most talked about novelist in early 1900s London. Join Caroline and Adrienne as they explore Elinor's life and brief residence at Montacute House, an Elizabethan Prodigy house restored by her lover, Lord George Curzon. Along the way, our intrepid hosts will digress...

In 1923, the once famous courtesan Marguerite D'Alibert shot her husband dead at London's Savoy Hotel. Who was this scandalous woman and what was her connection to England's Prince of Wales? Join hosts Caroline and Adrienne as they break down the events leading up to this scandalous true crime. Along the way they will discuss the slightly disjointed building of the Savoy, ghosts, and haunted condoms. Now that's a truly frightening...

The first episode of Scandalous Broads is here! In this episode, your intrepid hosts Caroline and Adrienne discuss the life of Belle da Costa Greene, the personal librarian to financier JP Morgan. Though librarians not considered scandalous, Belle da Costa Greene was known for her amazing fashion sense, high salary, and many affairs. But she also kept a scandalous secret that would have destroyed her if known--she was born a Black American and was passing for as white. Tune in for all the...

The Scandal Sheets ladies finish the story of Cassius Marcellus Clay, a 19th century Kentucky politician turned firebrand abolitionist. There are plenty more shenanigans including political brawls, inappropriate marriages, and even...gasp...a possibly love child. Along the way, Clay rebuilds the family manse, transforming it into something a little hard to explain. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on Facebook and Instagram...

Most everyone knows the name Cassius Clay--it was the birth name of the late, great Muhammad Ali. But he was named after Cassius Marcellus Clay, a 19th century Kentucky politician turned firebrand abolitionist. Born on a wealthy plantation, Clay was inspired by his time at Princeton, where he saw William Lloyd Garrison speak, he would agitate for abolition beginning in the 1830s. But he was a bit of a hellraiser in his personal life, fighting many duels, inciting brawls, and even taking a...

Carl Tanzler was a German born man of mystery who little is known about except for two things: he had a spectacular imagination and a VERY obsessive nature. In the early 1930s he took a shine to a beautiful, but terminally ill patient at the Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida. It could have been like a Nicholas Sparks book with pledges of love and hasty marriages, but it ended up more like an episode of "Tales from the Crypt". Join Caroline and Adrienne as they dive into the deep and murky...

After detailing her origins, we're finishing the life of Hugette Clark, the reclusive heiress who died with $300 million in the bank. That's a lot of dough. Despite a scandalous short lived marriage, Hugette managed to stay out of the limelight for over 80 years. It wasn't until her death at 105 that the world came to know her name and the contents of her scandalous will. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on Facebook and Instagram...

Have you heard the story of Hugette Clark? The wealthy heiress spent the last 20 years of her life in a NYC hospital even though she had mansions worth millions. Caroline and Adrienne go back a generation to discuss Hugette's scandalous father William A. Clark, the so-called Copper King of Montana. Spoiler alert: He was a robber baron. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on Facebook and Instagram (@scandalsheetspod) and our website,...

Two acrimonious marriages, secret pregnancies, and a later-in-life career as a celebrity interior designer. This week, Caroline and Adrienne delve into the life of the scandalous Syrie Maugham, one of the early female interior designers and the sort-of wife of famous author, W. Somerset Maugham. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on Facebook and Instagram (@scandalsheetspod) and our website, www.scandalsheetspod.com. Enjoyed the show?...

Caroline and Adrienne head to Vienna to spin the tale of Alma Mahler, a turn-of-the-century beauty and composer. Married to the more famous Gustav Mahler, Alma chafed under the bonds of matrimony. So what's a girl to do? Try, try again...and again. Alma married a total of three times and entertained numerous liaisons, making her Vienna's most prolific....um, muse. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on Facebook and Instagram...

Caroline and Adrienne head to St. Louis otherwise known as "Beer City" to discuss brewing royalty or the brewery family you've never heard of--the Lemps. Along with the Pabsts (who were their BFFs), the Lemps made Lager great again or perhaps for the first time. But this wealthy and successful family was plagued by bad health, suicides, and a particularly horrible heir who was involved in a scandalous divorce case. Along the way, the ladies discuss cats (of course!), the paranormal, and...

Join your intrepid hosts for a trip to the Cote d'Azure and the detailing of a maybe? scandal. Chateau de L'Horizon was built in the 1930s for a British stage actress who hosted some of the most scandalous and well known personages of the early 20th century. Along the way, Caroline gets a crash course in French pronunciation and Adrienne determines that sometimes the building is better than the story. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on...

Caroline and Adrienne are here to finish the scandalous tale of Talullah Bankhead.... Join your intrepid hosts as they delve into Talullah's short stint in Hollywood, further bed-hopping misadventures, and conversion to gay icon. Part 2 of 2. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on Facebook and Instagram (@scandalsheetspod) and our website, www.scandalsheetspod.com. Enjoyed the show? Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us at Apple...

They're baaaaaack! It's a miracle. Caroline and Adrienne return with the scandalous tale of Talullah Bankhead....man eater and well, let's just say that she was all for practicing equal opportunity when it came to sex partners. Known as a brilliant stage actress, she struggled to break into Hollywood and eventually ran aground during the period of heightened morality during the Hayes Code era. This is Part 1 of 2. =============================================================== Visit...

They're back!!!! After being waylaid by technical problems (the laptop literally ate the episode...twice), Caroline and Adrienne are back to finish up the tale of Paris Singer and his marital woes. We'll also wrap up Addison Mizner's architectural glories and discuss what our new side hustle should be. Hint: it's not another podcast. =============================================================== Visit Scandal Sheets on Facebook and Instagram (@scandalsheetspod) and our website,...

The intrepid ladies of Scandal Sheets venture further down Isaac Singer's rather large family tree and introduce his 22nd child, Paris Singer. Yes, he was conceived in Paris. Good looking and intelligent, Paris would marry and hurriedly divorce his first wife (think Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra) before settling down with his second wife. But one woman is never enough for Singer, and Paris would embroil himself in a torrid affair with a tempestuous dancer before financing much of the...

Happy New Year from the Scandal Sheets ladies! Join us for our second installment in the Scandalous Singer Family trilogy. Today we talk Winnaretta (not winnebago), one of the more well known children in Isaac Singer's brood of 24 kids. A prolific patroness of the arts, she eventually owned a house in Paris, a house in Venice, and possible a penthouse in a Parisian homeless shelter. We also talk puzzles, post offices, and the ever present siren call of...