NYC scandals of the 1980s.

This should’ve been a poll.

This should've been a V8

This could've been a contender.

Ed Koch's ineffectual leadership on AIDS

That was too awful to enjoy, r4. Leona's fall, however, was a treat. Every twist revealed her to be a bigger monster.

Where’s a short-fingered vulgarian when we need him?

The stories of Leona Helmsley being a raging cunt to everybody she interacted with were very entertaining.

Remember, only the little people pay taxes!! I still know people who use that phrase.

Yes, she was a raging cunt, she deserved everything cause she was NICE to no one!!

"The Long Island Lolita" got the most mileage. Three TV movies!

Roxanne Pulitzer. "The Strumpet with the Trumpet".

Was there a funny name for Hedda Nussbaum? That one was pretty wild. Or that frat boy that killed the girl pleading rough sex in Central Park?

That was Palm Beach Florida...Best Divorce Scandal ever!

My neighbors lived in PB during that divorce, poor Roxanne got fucked over in that divorce.

r9 that was the 90s

The sad downfall of a former Miss America

Tawana Brawley

It would be weird to have a "favorite" but I definitely remember Leona Helmsley and Robert Chambers dominating headlines for ages. As did the Joel Steinberg/Hedda Nusbaum story as well as Marla Hanson.

The Bloomingdale affair.

Donald, Ivana and Marla.

Nothing funny or wild about the sordid Hedda Nussbaum and Joel Steinberg relationship, R11. Remember, he killed a little girl placed in their custody, and he beat Hedda to a pulp for years.

[quote] Or that frat boy that killed the girl pleading rough sex in Central Park?

See OP.

1989 Trump full page ad in the New York Times calling for the executive of 5 young black men that were accused of raping a woman in Central Park. They were later exonerated. Trump refused to apoligize.

I was scandalozed by the salsa at Senor Swanky's

Bess Meyerson (Mayor Ed Koch's beard and former Miss America) being arrested for shoplifting in a Pennsylvania department store.😱

On March 12, 1980:

Jean Harris pops a cap in the ass of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Herman Tarnower.

These are not scandals listed but rather crimes.

Well, if we're talking about crime, the biggest crime story of 1980's NYC was the "Son of Sam".

They were also scandals r25.

I'll never forget SPY Magazine: "Dr. Tarnower says 'avoid lead!'"

Murder is a crime R27. Serial womanizing (Tarnower’s character) is scandal.

Leona Helmsley seemed like a cartoonish movie character come to life. The rich mean villainess everybody loves to hate. I loved hearing how she left all her $$$$ to her little yapping dog.

OP- I never thought that Chambers guy was good looking. His chubby feminine face never appealed to me. The teenyboppers of 1986 drooled over this creature.

[quote]Well, if we're talking about crime, the biggest crime story of 1980's NYC was the "Son of Sam".

The 1970s, don't you mean?

Leona Sydney Bernie Robert

Chambers was so fat I thought he was a lesbian.

Leona had Resting Beelzebub Face

Starlight Express.

No Woody / Mia, OP? Turn in your Datalounge card!

Oops, my apologies, OP. I thought the title said, "1990's".

R15 has it right, it was Tawana Brawley. How Al Sharpton survived that I'll never know.

How is nobody discussing the mysterious death of Andy Warhol?

The Bess (Myerson) Mess!

Robert Chambers was/is hot.

The Son of Sam murders were committed in 1976 and 1977, R26. David Berkowitz was sentenced to prison in 1978.

As r31 mentioned.

I loved watching A Current Affair back then, they covered all these greasy stories. And Maury Povich tried to pretend he was above it all. I guess he didn’t know in the future he was going to spend 25+ years running paternity tests for trash.

I've known people who had dealings with Leona Helmsley and they all told me she was exactly what the media reported she was like. A nasty cunt with a mean streak.

R19 Upon reading Hedda’s name for the first time in ages I saw her face and collapsed nose. :(

Didn’t know Leona Helmsley and Suzanne Pleshette were sisters.

Ted & Generosa Ammon (+ Danny Pelosi)

Does anyone remember the murder of the popular maitre d' at Barbetto? He was caught up in some kind of tawdry, closeted sex scandal.

Was he the murder victim who lived on Restaurant Row? Older gentleman?

I think that murder was in the late 1990s, R49.

I was fascinated by the model who got her face slashed.