Tabloid

[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 beginnings of her Bad Behavior headlines which would drastically influence 2000s pop culture. Lena also shares moments throughout her youth and career during which her and Lilo's paths have overlapped. For Part 2 of The Lindsay Lohan series on The C-Word, subscribe to the Luminary Channel of Apple Podcasts or directly on Luminary. The C-Word: on Luminary http://luminary.link/lenaThe C-Word on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-c-word/id1567724444

The biggest nude photo leak in history causes a reckoning.

Sex tapes get more common, and celebrity bashing gets meaner.

Pam and Tommy's sex tape created a whole new way to get famous.

Pamela and Tommy's sex tape goes from a safe in the woods to sex shops all over the country.

Old world porn bosses + internet upstarts = the celebrity sex tape phenomenon.

A jilted electrician, a stolen safe, and some very invasive cameras.

Pam and Tommy fall in love, and the whole world comes along for the ride.

You 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.

From 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… everything. Fair, unfair, for politics to take a toll on her business? To discuss all of this and more, Tabloid host Vanessa Grigoriadis sits down with writer Bethany McLean for a special bonus episode. Originally published October, 2019.

Social fixture Bob Colacello explains the role of the Trump family in Manhattan's demimonde.Originally published October, 2019

In the White House, Ivanka is the real first lady—and a possible World Bank head. But what's next?Originally published September, 2019

Ivanka 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

Now 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.

Ivanka 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.

Ivanka 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 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.

Ivana 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.

New York fashion editor Amy Larocca dishes on Ivanka's fashion sense, and feminist rebranding. Originally published September, 2019

We 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 raised their kids in and through them, too. Vanessa Grigoriadis, the host and writer, tells the inside story of Ivanka, through a New York City lens.[Originally published for paying subscribers only in 2019]

Tabloid 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]

Host 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.