A Good Podcast About Bad Relationships. Every Wednesday and Sunday, Alicia and Stacie take you on a comedic ride through stories of marital misconduct and love gone wrong, blending biography, pop culture, history, and politics. "It’s one part Vanity Fair meets Town & Country, one part country music song—and an all-around good time." - The Atlantan. "Enjoying the juicy details of other people’s relationships is having a moment." - Sunday Times Style Magazine (UK). "When this shameless show about bad relationships kicks off with astrological analysis of the couplings discussed in the episode, you know it’s going to be a party." - AV Club
As she was idly scrolling Bluesky a few days ago, Alicia (@alicianwonderland.bsky.social) came across the ultimate Mad-Lib of a skeet: "roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker." Ask and ye shall receive, as they say, and Trash Pandas, believe it or not, it kind of all makes sense. Sponsors Upgrade your every day! Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers, or go to Quince.com/TRASHY. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and UK, too! Vinted. See what's hiding in your closet - you might be surprised how much you can earn with Vinted! Download the Vinted app for free to start listing with no seller fees, and for a limited time, enjoy free shipping in the US. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alicia - at the prompting of a listener - started to deep dive into Andrew and Sarah's adult daughters when she learned that an old boyfriend of Sarah's, who has also been an ally and patron over the decades, has died at the age of 88. Paddy McNally and Sarah dated for a few years beginning when she was 20 and he was 42. He also amassed a fortune of $800 million or so, and Royal watchers suspect that he intended to keep on taking care of Sarah Ferguson. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Sources The Man Who Made Fergie: What Paddy McNally's Death Tells Us About Sarah Ferguson (theroyalist.substack.com) Will Fergie, the Royal Family's Great Houdini, Escape Yet Again? (andrewlownie.substack.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we're revisiting our 2022 story of the tragic marriage of actress Patricia Neal - whose true love was Gary Cooper - and children's book author Roald Dahl - whose true love was his mistress. Rarely have two people been unhappier or more beset than these. Sponsors Make your summer wardrobe feel easier! Go to quince.com/trashy for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to Smalls.com/TRASHY. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Miah writes in with a banger of a story about her mother, her mother's many divorces, and her father's car. This one goes lots of places, each one trashier than the next. Do you have a trashy divorce story you'd want featured? Let us know at trashydivorces@gmail.com. Sponsors Make your summer wardrobe feel easier! Go to quince.com/trashy for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When a rookie came out of nowhere to win the 1991 PGA Championship, it catapulted John Daly, then 25, to the height of fame and fortune. His unusual look, powerful drives, and decidedly anti-country club vibe made him a fan favorite - but not an uncomplicated one. His drinking, smoking, gambling, carousing, and four marriages and divorces are a testament to the complexity, as we dive into one of the golf world's most notable figures. Here's that Dusty Slay 5 O'Clock Somewhere routine. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have come to the end of our Scandalous Candy Mossler series, and nothing quite tops the last decade of her life. Stacie joins Alicia for this mad lib of a story. What happens after Candace Mossler stakes through first degree murder charges in 1966? We progress through a whole decade of stories and spiderwebs, including the end of the affair with Melvin, another husband in the mix, a business empire, many more famous lovers, musical legends, and a family court battle, too. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You might think with all the evidence available that convicting Candy Mossler and Melvin Lane Powers for the murder of Jacques Mossler would be a cinch. Turns out justice can be bought with high powered attorneys and a compliant jury. The whole world was watching this trial go down in early 1966, and no one could have predicted the outcome. Sponsors Make your summer wardrobe feel easier! Go to quince.com/trashy for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
661. The Scandalous Candy Mossler | Getting Caught
Candy Mossler and her nephew Melvin, deep within their incestuous love affair, make some new plans for Candy to be out of her marriage to Jacques, and with a way to keep all the millions. These lovers are not exactly a top notch criminal operation as by July 1965, both will be indicted for capital murder. It's a scandal that's about to grip the nation, but how do the two get caught? All this and more in this episode of our summertime Trashy Poster Girl. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Trashy Divorces Cinematic Universe has been busy, and we don't want you to miss a thing! In the Dumpster this week: Ken Paxton gallivants his way through voter fraud allegations, Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff call it quits after three years, Kristi Noem's mom talks to the Daily Mail, Prince Harry and family hang with his dad, Kathy Griffin is living that cougar life, some professions tend toward more stable marriages than others, and Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen meet in court yet again. Sponsors Make your summer wardrobe feel easier! Go to quince.com/trashy for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
659. The Scandalous Candy Mossler | Melvin to Murder
In this next installment of the Candy Mossler series we meet her new lover (and nephew too) Melvin Lane Powers. This illicit relationship is an open secret in Houston and hits a few skids once her husband Jacques discovers the scandal. None of it ends well, for Jacques anyway. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
658. The Scandalous Candy Mossler | Origins to Jacques
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657. Founding Father Gouverneur Morris
Trash Pandas, there are a lot of ways to leave the world, but we don't recommend the way that American founding father Gouverneur Morris did it. In this 2020 encore for America's 250th birthday, we celebrate one of the forgotten men of the country's origin. His story is trashy enough that you wonder whether Benjamin Franklin occupying the "questionable morals in a founder" spot edged him out. Still, he was a significant figure in his time, a statesman, diplomat, and Penman of the Constitution. Happy Independence Day, everybody! Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this holiday episode, we go all the way back to 2020 to celebrate a true American, and maybe the OG Trash Panda, the iconic Willie Nelson. Willie may have had three divorces and some side romps along the way, but we have yet to encounter a subject who is so at peace with the Trash Candy he’s bequeathed to the world, nor as generous to those he may have hurt along the way. Sponsors Make your summer wardrobe feel easier! Go to quince.com/trashy for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It is with no joy that Stacie reports on the public corruption catastrophe that is one Ken Paxton, current attorney general of Texas and possibly the next Senator from the Lone Star State. On the other hand, are there two people in the world who deserve each other more than Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz? We don't think so. At least Ken's wife finally bought a couple of vowels and got o-u-t. Sponsors Make your summer wardrobe feel easier! Go to quince.com/trashy for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
And finally, at least for now, we get into a bit of redemption for Taylor Frankie Paul. During a Zoom court appearance on June 1, it became pretty clear pretty fast that Taylor - and her lawyer - are genuinely grappling with what has happened and what is to come. Meanwhile, Dakota and his lawyer got busy misrepresenting an earlier ruling by the judge presiding over the hearing - and shockingly wrote off Dakota's role in the domestic violence incidents as "self-defense that didn't count as self-defense." The judge was none too pleased, and Taylor's custody situation is gradually being eased back to shared custody. 3 Million Butts Love TUSHY. Get 10% off TUSHY with the code TRASHY at https://hellotushy.com/TRASHY. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Since our extensive coverage of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul all the way back in... last month, much has happened! Taylor and her ex-boyfriend/baby daddy Dakota Mortensen have finally been before a judge in their custody dispute. Remember that Dakota was initially awarded custody in April, with Taylor limited to supervised visitation with their 2-year-old child. Well, things seem to be changing - including Taylor, whose journey toward self-awareness continues to be non-linear and include detours to lash out at critics/friends, but seems to be a journey toward self-awareness all the same. This episode is a special 1 of 2 for Sunday. We'll be back Wednesday with plenty of trash, but blessedly no reality TV stars (we think. We're pretty sure.). Sponsors 3 Million Butts Love TUSHY. Get 10% off TUSHY with the code TRASHY at https://hellotushy.com/TRASHY. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After the death of Edwina Mountbatten in 1960, Dickie still had another 19 years of living to do, and while he was single, he was in no way alone. He had romances with plenty of women in his later years, and according to many, he had male lovers - including, it is alleged, boys - as well. A mentor to Prince Charles, his advice to the young man may have contributed to what turned into the tragic marriage, divorce, and untimely death of Princess Diana, who was exactly the sort of woman that Dickie encouraged the playboy prince to settle down with. The men remained close through the end of Dickie's life, and Charles delivered the eulogy at both of Dickie's services in 1979. Dickie was clearly a charming older man who counted Shirley MacClaine, Barbara Cartland, Christina Ford, and Sacha Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, who was also his god daughter, among his paramours. Let's say it was all pretty complicated, but that would only be keeping with rest of his and Edwina's history. Sponsors 3 Million Butts Love TUSHY. Get 10% off TUSHY with the code TRASHY at https://hellotushy.com/TRASHY. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As Edwina took pains to lay low in Malta after the scandals of her affairs, Italy decided to exit the League of Nations and invade Ethiopia. To protect their children, she took them to Budapest and installed them in a hotel with their nanny and governess... and then forgot which hotel they were in. For months. As the summer of 1935 turned to fall, and then winter, they just stayed in their hotel until Edwina finally came across the paper she'd written the hotel's name on, tucked into the pocket of an outfit she hadn't worn in a while. Careless people. But then World War II came, and with so much asked of ordinary Britons, the privileged were required to step up. For perhaps the first time in her life, the skills and networking that Edwina had spent her life developing could suddenly be applied to a grand purpose: fundraising, organizing, lobbying for help in the United States. Louis was in the fight as a Naval officer, but Edwina was equally engaged, and the experience brought them together as never before. They would have further adventures together in India, overseeing the end of the Colonial period there, and form a distinct attachment to Indian Prime Minister Nehru that would last to the end of her life in 1960. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Programming note: This episode is a bit more explicit than most, including strong language and descriptions of sex. If you listen with wee ones, use your judgment. The early '30s were a roaring time for Edwina's various romances, though two in particular would have far-reaching implications for her lovers. The first, with American actor Paul Robeson, caused scandal in the London tabloids because Robeson was Black. The Royal Family considered the situation dire enough that they demanded that Louis and Edwina sue the tabloid that wrote it about for libel, and saw to it that the court would handle the case... carefully. An early morning hearing, of which no notice was given to anyone but the Mountbattens, resulted in a quick ruling in Edwina's favor, though the couple notably did not ask for damages. Paul Robeson himself was apparently quite wounded by the whole incident, having been close to Edwina and left to deal with the fallout on his own. The second notable affair was with Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson, a Grenada-born musician whom Edwina had met in New York City. She encouraged him to bring his talents to England, where he became a bona fide star of the 1920s and '30s, entertaining royals and society patrons, and his work gained national prominence with frequent airings on the BBC. During his dalliance with Edwina, there are rumors that the two became "stuck" in flagrante delicto, requiring transportation by ambulance in the pose that was causing them troubles. Louis was outraged especially by Edwina's affair with Hutch, and as the scandal grew, Hutch found that his royal and society patrons had abandoned him. In spite of his celebrity, the Mountbattens appear to have had a role in his near erasure from history. It's all reminiscent of Fitzgerald's line in Gatsby: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the Roaring '20s turned into the '30s, Edwina's appetite for other lovers showed no sign of diminishing, and eventually led to a breaking point with her long-suffering husband, Louis. At one point, they decided that divorce was the best option, but quickly reconciled with new rules for their relationship: Edwina would be more discreet in her dalliances, which had previously been headline news, and Louis would be free to take lovers of his own. But a funny thing happened when he finally did - Edwina was jealous! Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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