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Over fifteen years of dirty secrets, shocking reveals, and all of the celebrity gossip that’s unfit to print . . . but we’re going to anyway. When Jay Z defended himself against unfair charges that he slapped a woman, when Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez got tagged by an escort agency madam, when Bill O’Reilly dissed Muslim women, and when Ruth Madoff discovered her scam artist husband, Bernie, had also been cheating on her, it all came out in the pages of Rush & Molloy.

An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess-and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.

Across six revealing lectures, Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson will introduce you to one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and divisive writers in Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith. Beginning with an overview of her brief but remarkable life, Professor Wilson will then take you through an exploration of themes in O’Connor’s work and the hallmarks of her literary style. You’ll get a clearer picture of O’Connor’s historical and geographical context while digging into how her stories can transcend time and place.

“I don’t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize, but rather for my journalism,” Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career - years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982.

Modern history is filled with terrible crimes, baffling hoaxes, and seedy scandals. The infamous Jack the Ripper slayings. The alleged survival of Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of the murdered Tsar. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's public fall from grace. The Chicago Tylenol poisonings and the copycat crimes that followed.

An NPR Best Book of 2017 Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has...

AI correspondent Miles Mercer investigates the meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of ShaRone Moore, Michigan's first Black head coach. From playing junior college football to winning back-to-back Joe Moore Awards and leading Michigan to a national championship, Moore's journey represented the American dream. But on December 10, 2025, his career imploded—fired with cause for an inappropriate relationship with a staff member, then arrested on assault allegations hours later. This three-part series examines Moore's career, the investigation that ended it, and the precedent set by coaches like ...

Hosted by Catie, a nurse practitioner with a curiosity for all things clinical, criminal, and just plain weird. Scrubs & Scandals dives into true crime, medical mysteries, and the cases where science doesn’t quite add up. From toxic exposures and suspicious deaths to coverups, misdiagnoses, and ethically murky middle grounds—each episode unpacks the stories that make you say, “Wait… what really happened here?” Whether you’re a healthcare worker, true crime obsessive, or just love digging into the strange and unexplained—scrub in. It’s about to get weird.

The college basketball scandals of 1951 were to basketball what the 1919 Black Sox scandals were to baseball - a loss of innocence, after which the game would be permanently tarnished, its relationship to power and big money firmly established. In Scandals of '51, Charley Rosen identifies all the major figures - including players, coaches, gangsters, clergymen, politicians - that made up the elaborate network that controlled the outcomes to many games or protected those who did so.

The year is 1859, and Congressman Daniel Sickles and his beautiful wife Teresa are the toast of Washington society. Philip Barton Key, US Attorney for the District of Columbia, is one of the couple's closest friends - so close, in fact, that he often escorts the beautiful Mrs. Sickles to social events when the congressman is too busy. Then one day, Congressman Daniel Sickles receives an anonymous note about his wife and Key, setting into motion a tragic course of events that culminates in a bloody confrontation in the street that leaves one man dead and the other charged with murder.

'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement 'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.' Kim Fleet, Crime Review A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and...

Every week Phil Craig and his guests reveal the world’s BIGGEST scandals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Betrayal. Murder. Conspiracies. Cover-ups. History is filled with stories of deception, downfall, and ultimate justice—but some remain buried in time, waiting to be uncovered. The Sacred Scandal brings to light the dark deeds, shocking twists, and unexpected redemptions of the past. Each episode dives into gripping accounts of power struggles, secret alliances, and crimes that shook civilizations. Some are well-known, others have been forgotten—but all reveal the eternal truth that no darkness goes unpunished, and no justice is delayed forever. Because in the end, no crime escapes justice....

The Sports Scandals Podcasts shines a light on the dark side of sports. We cover the famous and infamous scandals of athletes, teams and events that have shaped the sporting world. We look at the scandals that have rocked Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Hockey, The World Cup, The Olympics and More!If you like the show, give us a 5 Star Review and comment on what topics you want us to cover next.

Deflategate: The Scandal That Rocked the NFL and Tom Brady's LegacyExplore the full story of Deflategate, the 2015 NFL scandal that accused Tom Brady and the New England Patriots of using underinflated footballs in the AFC Championship Game. Learn how the controversy unfolded, the legal battles, and its lasting impact on the league.

In this gripping series, we delve into the intertwined worlds of fame, fortune, and fatality in Hollywood’s golden era, exploring the darker side of the entertainment industry and the haunting mysteries that forever shadowed its brightest stars. From the glamorous yet tumultuous life of Lana Turner, whose beauty and career masked a tragic personal life culminating in the infamous death of Johnny Stompanato, to the dark, violent undercurrents of The Cotton Club and its entanglement with gangsters like Dutch Schultz, the series sheds light on the precarious intersection of fame and danger. ...

Your favorite guilty pleasure! A biweekly podcast featuring penetrating investigations into anything socially deviate, scientifically unexplainable, celebrity gossip, horrifically sinister – and - if we get lucky, criminal. Your hosts are a Millennial woman, a Gen X man, and a wise-cracking AI engine. Amazingly informative and funny!

John Wilson tells the shocking and untold story, backed by staggering evidence, of how he became collateral damage by overreaching federal prosecutors who weaponized our justice system to justify bringing Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin to trial in Boston in the infamous Operation Varsity Blues Case, and his ongoing battle against the federal government, Netflix and USC to restore his family’s honor.

Lights, Camera… Scandal!: Hollywood ExposedWelcome to the vault of Tinseltown's darkest secrets, most scandalous affairs, and untold stories that the studios never wanted you to hear. The Hollywood Files pulls back the velvet curtain on America's entertainment capital, exposing the shocking truth behind the glitz, glamour, and carefully constructed facades of your favorite stars.From legendary love triangles that destroyed careers to behind-the-scenes production nightmares that nearly killed Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, we dive deep into the stories that shaped American cinema. Discover...

The newly-wed Anne Hastings faced her husband's wrath when her affair with William Compton was made public. Mary Tudor married to satisfy her brother's political need to ally with France, but when her decrepit royal husband died, she married the dashing Charles Brandon for love. William Parr, humiliated by his wife's extramarital affair, sought a divorce to marry the woman he loved.