Infamous

Matthew Perry was a beloved star making a million dollars an episode on Friends. But he could never shake his addiction to drugs, and died at 54 after taking ketamine in his backyard hot tub. Now, the criminal case tied to his death has wrapped, with his assistant, doctors, dealers, and the so-called “Ketamine Queen” sentenced for their roles.

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You may use ChatGPT or Claude every day, but how much do you know about the guys running those companies? One of them, Sam Altman, has come under a ton of fire recently. He transformed OpenAI from a nonprofit lab into one of the most powerful and controversial companies in Silicon Valley, raising billions in funding and steering the development of ChatGPT into a product used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. But Andrew Marantz, staff writer at The New Yorker, spent 18 months co-authoring an article with Ronan Farrow that asks if he can be trusted.

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This week on Infamous, author M.J. Corey joins Vanessa and Natalie to talk about her provocative new book, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto. Together, they unpack how the Kardashian era reshaped faces via plastic surgery, and about the way ordinary people document, brand, monetize, and perform their own lives online. For more from MJ, follow her on Instagram: @mjcorey.

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In this episode, Reeves Wiedeman of New York Magazine joins us to unpack what was supposed to be the end of the legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni — a feud that has spiraled far beyond Hollywood gossip into a full-scale public war. We get into the PR maneuvering, internet pile-ons, and whether the case is really over, or if it'll still be going through the courts.

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Vanessa and Natalie dive into how the Real Housewife playbook morphed into pop culture. They talk about Alex Cooper, Alix Earle, podcast empires and TikTok overexposure: how are young women navigating ambition, romance, and public scrutiny in real time?

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Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe

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