Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secrets: The Murder, The Starlet, and The Spin

About this episode

Bridgette explores the scandal surrounding Lana Turner's boyfriend's murder and its impact on celebrity culture and media manipulation.

When 1950s movie icon Lana Turner’s boyfriend was found stabbed to death in her Beverly Hills home, Hollywood spun trauma into profit and sold it as glamour. In this special BridgetteUNFILTERED: True Crime Edition, Bridgette revisits the scandal that defined celebrity culture and exposes how the same media manipulation still plays out on social media today.

People in this episode

Host: Bridgette

Topics covered

• true crime
• celebrity culture
• media manipulation
• Hollywood scandals
• 1950s history

Keywords

• Lana Turner
• Hollywood
• murder
• celebrity scandal
• media manipulation
• 1950s

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Beverly Hills

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