Infamous

Lululemon built its brand on positivity, goal-setting, and high performance, but in 2011, a Bethesda, Maryland store became the scene of a brutal, high-profile murder. In the first episode of this four-part series, Vanessa and Natalie examine the crime scene and share audio from police files. Listen to Part 2 here. For more on the case, see Dan Morse’s The Yoga Store Murder. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From The Binge, ⁠Crime Scene⁠ plunges you into stories you can’t stop thinking about—revisiting cases that deserve a second look. Join Jonathan Hirsch (My Fugitive Dad, Dear Franklin Jones) and investigative reporter Cooper Moll as they crack open overlooked details, challenge the official narrative, and uncover what others missed. Each episode delivers the depth of a true crime mini-series in a single, gripping listen. If you’re drawn to unresolved mysteries and stories that stay with you long after they end...this is for you. Follow ⁠Crime Scene⁠ wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Subscribers to The Binge+ can listen ad-free, in addition to our network of limited series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Karen Read was acquitted of murdering her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe — but the case is far from over. This week, Natalie and Vanessa talk with journalist and podcaster Rebecca Lavoie about the snowstorm death that turned into a referendum on police power, small-town loyalty, and who gets believed when facts are murky. As civil suits ramp up on both sides, they examine the controversial case. For more from Rebecca, check out her podcasts Crime Writers On…True Crime Review and Something’s Off Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do looksmaxxing, Clavicular, and incels connect to Twin Flames? This week, Vanessa and Natalie speak with journalist Alice Hines, who explains that plus neurolinguistic programming (NLP), the self-help technique explored in her new podcast Mind Games, and how language itself can become a tool of control. She's also behind Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flame Universe about the online love cult built around the promise that your perfect cosmic partner is already out there. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Newly released Epstein files show thousands of messages between Jeffrey Epstein and wellness guru Deepak Chopra. What were they talking about—and why was Epstein so interested in consciousness and spirituality? Vanessa and Natalie are joined by Matthew Remski, co-host of the podcast Conspirituality, to unpack Chopra’s rise, the business of wellness, and why the world’s richest men keep turning to spiritual gurus.You can also check out Matthew’s other podcast, Antifascist Dad Podcast, and his forthcoming book of the same name. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Updated with the correct link! America’s Next Top Model was our early-2000s obsession—until the rewatch era exposed disturbing content hiding in plain sight. Natalie talks to pop-culture journalist Bridget Armstrong, host of Curse of: America’s Next Top Model, about Tyra Banks’s role, the show’s most disturbing moments and why “winning” the series didn’t mean a modeling career. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In addition to our regular episode this week, we’re dropping Episode 2 of Vanessa and Justine Harmon’s podcast Fallen Angel, “Emotional Content.” It’s about how Ohioan businessman Les Wexner, the richest man in that state, acquired the brand Victoria’s Secret and grew into the global sensation it is today — and the man who he was involved with financially, Jeffrey Epstein. Listen to the rest of the series here. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glynnis MacNichol, author of I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, returns to join Vanessa for a deep dive into Hulu’s buzzy new series Love Story, which chronicles the magnetic — and ultimately tragic — romance between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Together, they unpack what the show gets right, where it leans into mythmaking, and why America remains so captivated by this iconic couple.Then, we play Vanessa and Glynnis’s earlier conversation exploring the real-life union that defined ’90s style and tabloid culture, along with their tragic death in a plane accident. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vanessa and Natalie talk to journalist Ezra Marcus about his viral New York Magazine story, “The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse.” They unpack the rise of crypto “wrench attacks” and what one bizarre kidnapping case in Soho reveals about the new frontier of digital wealth. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Vanessa and Natalie talk to The Cut writer Angelina Chapin about Selena Gomez and her mother Mandy Teefey’s mental-health startup, Wondermind. They discuss allegations from former staff and the pressures created when celebrity and mental health advocacy become a business. Read Angelina’s story, “What Happened at Wondermind?” and stay tuned at the end of the episode for more on mother-daughter estrangement from Vanessa’s podcast, So Your Parents Are Old. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Vanessa and Natalie dive deep into the Beckham family fallout. They talk to Lindsey Weber (Who? Weekly) about the tension, the wedding drama, and how celebrity families control narratives—until they can’t. For more on family estrangement in the modern era, check out Eamon Dolan’s The Power of Parting. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you’ve been listening to Dead Certain, the new show about the Martha Moxley murder, you probably know Andrew Goldman. But we had him on a couple years ago. He’s talking about Harvey Weinstein. Before Weinstein’s serious crimes were exposed to the public, he was simply known for being a successful — and notoriously volatile — film producer. When Andrew Goldman attends the same ritzy event as Harvey, an altercation turns into a full-on fistfight. In his hilarious telling of the unbelievable true story, Goldman reflects on the disturbing ways powerful people have wielded control over the media. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vanessa and Natalie unpack the kid-centric platform that’s quietly reshaping advertising, culture, and online life. They talk with tech reporter Sam Biddle, who explains why Roblox feels less like a game and more like a vision of the internet’s future. For more, check out Sam’s article on Roblox. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To celebrate the time of year when we all make resolutions to better our lives—and to understand why it can be so hard to follow through with them—Vanessa sits down with Wharton/UPenn economist Dr. Corinne Low, author of Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. They talk about why so many of us feel maxed out—especially women juggling kids, work, and aging parents—and what you can do to get things under control. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Natalie talks to journalist and biographer Amy Odell about her new book, Gwyneth: The Biography, and Marty Supreme. They also discuss Gwyneth’s early Hollywood power plays, the Miramax years, and how Goop turned controversy into an empire. To hear more from Amy, check out her podcast Back Row with Amy Odell. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gwyneth Paltrow takes the stand in her ski crash trial against a retired optometrist. But as new facts emerge, is it possible that Gwyneth could be one of America’s most-hated celebrities and also a brave defender of justice? Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the holidays, we’re rerunning our story about a ski run mishap. Gwyneth Paltrow is as famous for her luxury lifestyle as she is for her movies. But when she collides with a man on a ski slope in Park City, Utah, she finds herself in a real-life high-end whodunnit, where fact is stranger than fiction. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fashion writer Amy Larocca joins Vanessa to unpack the modern wellness obsession—from expensive self-care gadgets to Ozempic and glow culture. They dig into Amy’s book How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time and ask when wellness became a moral obligation. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael Crichton’s widow says HBO’s hit medical drama The Pitt is cashing in on her late husband’s creation, ER. Now, they are in court. New York Times reporter Nicholas Kulish joins Vanessa and Natalie to explain how Noah Wyle’s nostalgic reboot pitch turned into a massive battle.You can read the original story here. Also, listen to our episode on Mean Girls. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Investigative reporter and Gen-Xer Jason Leopold (Bloomberg News), and freedom-of-information lawyer Matt Topic, join Vanessa and Natalie to unpack how they dig government secrets out of the dark, from the $2 million sale of “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli’s one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang album to Epstein’s personal emails. Listen to Matt and Jason’s podcast Disclosure. You can also learn more about Matt’s legal work or read Jason’s weekly newsletter. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Orgasmic Meditation was supposed to close the “pleasure gap.” Instead, it led to a federal indictment. Natalie talks to Bloomberg’s Ellen Huet, author of Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness, about the woman behind OneTaste and the explosive allegations that led to the startup’s downfall. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Allison After NXIVM follows Smallville star Allison Mack from her early days as a child actor to her time spent in prison for her role in a sex cult. Listen to Natalie explore the experience of interviewing Allison. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the Puritans to QAnon, strange thinking has shaped America more than most of us realize. Natalie Robehmed talks with author Jane Borden about why our culture keeps breeding new cult-like organizations, and how to recognize the signs before it’s too late. Check out Jane’s book, Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How did Jenna Jameson go from Vegas strip clubs to becoming the world’s most famous porn star—and what does her story reveal about sex, the internet, and the birth of personal branding? Natalie and Vanessa talk with Molly Lambert, creator of the new podcast JennaWorld: Jenna Jameson, Vivid Video, & The Valley. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Model Wars tells the story of the 80s fashion world. It’s not just parties and pretty clothes—beneath the surface is drugs, sex and violence. In the first episode, we meet Paul Fisher, a kid from the San Fernando Valley who has a chance encounter with a alleged mobster that leads him to start a modeling agency in New York City. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vanessa has a new podcast, called So Your Parents Are Old! Join Vanessa as she talks to friends, experts, and celebrities about the chaos of dealing with aging parents. From Medicaid nightmares to emotional meltdowns in storage units, it’s a brutally honest, often hilarious look at one of life’s most disorienting stages. Come for the catharsis, stay for the gallows humor and unfiltered conversations. If you’re currently the parent to your parents, this is your group chat in podcast form. You'll hear comedian Lewis Black and many more. You can find the show on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠TikTok⁠ & ⁠Youtube⁠ or listen to more episodes here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From Charli XCX handing out cigarettes at her wedding to The Bear cast chain-smoking to Carrie Bradshaw’s bestie lighting up in bed—it looks like smoking is back in the zeitgeist. But what about Juul and the vape craze that was supposed to kill cigarettes? This week, Vanessa and Natalie unpack Juul’s meteoric rise and fall. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the final episode of our Epstein mini-series, Vanessa sits down with Andrew Lownie—author of the explosive new book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York—to explore Prince Andrew’s ties to Epstein. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest sets off a political firestorm—and within weeks, his shocking death behind bars sparks one of the biggest conspiracy theories of our time. In this episode, Vanessa and Natalie trace Epstein’s downfall: from the victims who spoke out, to the Miami Herald investigation that brought him back into the spotlight, to the strange circumstances of his death. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Palm Beach, Jeffrey Epstein built a façade of respectability—a waterfront mansion that doubled as the center of a predatory empire. Behind the gates, teenage girls were lured in with promises of easy money. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We explore how Les Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret and The Limited, became entangled with Jeffrey Epstein. We also talk about how Ghislaine Maxwell’s role as Epstein’s friend and employee added another layer of complexity. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were more than a jet-set couple. In this episode of Infamous, we unravel the origins of their partnership, which would culminate in one of the most shocking scandals of our time. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re joined by Mike Isaac, New York Times tech reporter and one of the sharpest voices covering Silicon Valley. In light of his colleague Emily Steel’s explosive new reporting on Uber, Mike takes us inside the company, pulling back the curtain on the chaos, power struggles, and cultural clashes at its heart. Don’t miss his bestselling book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, which goes even deeper into the story. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you're here looking for a new episode, we are off August 28th! Enjoy the last rays of sun and see you in September. Freakier Friday is the big guilty pleasure of the summer, so we’re bringing back this deep dive. How did Lindsay Lohan go from starring alongside Meryl Streep and Jamie Lee Curtis to doing court-ordered community service at the LA county morgue? Vanessa and Natalie are joined by journalists Evgenia Peretz and Brennan Kilbane, and photographer Jill Ishkanian, to trace Lindsay’s rise and fall, and the new Lohanissance. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Times Culture Reporter Joe Coscarelli joins Vanessa and Natalie to unpack Justin Bieber’s meteoric rise, public stumbles, and unexpected reinvention with his surprise album Swag. Plus, Vanessa shares the behind-the-scenes story of her controversial Rolling Stone profile of 16-year-old Bieber.You can hear more from Joe Coscarelli on Popcast, or read his book, Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Amy Merrick joins us to unpack the rise and fall of American Apparel—a brand that once defined hipster cool and sexual provocation. We explore its bold aesthetics, and controversial founder Dov Charney, who had an ignominious fall. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Author Neil Gaiman built a career on dark, psychological stories like The Sandman and Coraline. Now he and his ex-wife, musician Amanda Palmer, are facing disturbing accusations that echo the themes in his work. Journalist Lila Shapiro joins Vanessa and Natalie to discuss her viral Vulture article, “There Is No Safe Word,” and the blurred the lines between art, intimacy, and control. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on Infamous, we cover the Alec Baldwin movie Rust, and Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna, a Hulu documentary that dives into the fatal on-set tragedy that claimed the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and left Hollywood reeling. We talk to Rachel Mason, the director, about her personal experience with Halyna, and the sensitive film she made about it. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anna Wintour stepped down as editor-in-chief of Vogue last week, so we’re rerunning this great episode. Whether it’s being eroded by fast fashion, climate change, or TikTok microtrends, the empire Wintour has long presided over is in flux. But where will Anna—and fashion—go next? We talk to veteran fashion journalist and Wintour biographer Amy Odell about Anna’s finsta, the time she was considered for an ambassadorship, and what she really thought of The Devil Wears Prada. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal jury has reached its verdict in the high-profile case against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Vanessa breaks down what it means with music journalist David Peisner, exploring why, unlike Hollywood, the music world has yet to confront its own culture of abuse. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What if your favorite summery wine had a dark past? This week, Vanessa sits down with journalist Chris Walker to talk about Blood Vines, the twisty true crime podcast he made with Scott Carney. It’s a story of wine fraud, federal agents, and a murder that rocked California’s vineyards. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

These days Mark Zuckerberg is looking… a little different. Vanessa and Natalie dig into the evolution of one of the most powerful and enigmatic figures in tech with New York Times reporter Cecilia Kang, co-author of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination. From hoodies to hydrofoils, they explore how Zuckerberg’s shifting image reflects deeper changes inside Facebook and Meta—and what it means for the rest of us. Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From Cassie to Kid Cudi, firebombs to designer scarves, Sean "Diddy" Combs’ ongoing court case has been filled with surreal and disturbing testimony. We talk to Complex reporter Shawn Setaro to find out what’s been going on in the courtroom at USA v. Sean Combs. What’s the most shocking thing his victims have alleged, and how has Diddy reacted? Follow Shawn Setaro on X at @SameOldShawn, and read his work at Complex.com Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices