Which one was your favorite?
Bernhard Goetz "The Subway Vigilante"
Leona Helmsley "The Queen Of Mean"
Robert Chambers "The Preppy Killer"
Sidney Biddle Barrows "The Mayflower Madam"
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Which one was your favorite?
Bernhard Goetz "The Subway Vigilante"
Leona Helmsley "The Queen Of Mean"
Robert Chambers "The Preppy Killer"
Sidney Biddle Barrows "The Mayflower Madam"
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 4, 2024 6:37 PM |
This should’ve been a poll.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 31, 2024 4:58 PM |
This should've been a V8
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 31, 2024 5:08 PM |
This could've been a contender.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 31, 2024 5:13 PM |
Ed Koch's ineffectual leadership on AIDS
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 31, 2024 5:14 PM |
That was too awful to enjoy, r4. Leona's fall, however, was a treat. Every twist revealed her to be a bigger monster.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 31, 2024 6:49 PM |
Where’s a short-fingered vulgarian when we need him?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 31, 2024 6:52 PM |
The stories of Leona Helmsley being a raging cunt to everybody she interacted with were very entertaining.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 31, 2024 7:01 PM |
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!!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 31, 2024 7:40 PM |
"The Long Island Lolita" got the most mileage. Three TV movies!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 31, 2024 7:52 PM |
Roxanne Pulitzer. "The Strumpet with the Trumpet".
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 31, 2024 7:56 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 31, 2024 7:59 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 31, 2024 8:02 PM |
r9 that was the 90s
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 31, 2024 8:09 PM |
Tawana Brawley
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 31, 2024 8:23 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 31, 2024 8:27 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 31, 2024 8:43 PM |
[quote] Or that frat boy that killed the girl pleading rough sex in Central Park?
See OP.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 31, 2024 9:56 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 1, 2024 1:52 AM |
I was scandalozed by the salsa at Senor Swanky's
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 1, 2024 2:14 AM |
Bess Meyerson (Mayor Ed Koch's beard and former Miss America) being arrested for shoplifting in a Pennsylvania department store.😱
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 1, 2024 2:21 AM |
On March 12, 1980:
Jean Harris pops a cap in the ass of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Herman Tarnower.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 1, 2024 2:43 AM |
These are not scandals listed but rather crimes.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 1, 2024 2:52 AM |
Well, if we're talking about crime, the biggest crime story of 1980's NYC was the "Son of Sam".
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 1, 2024 2:55 AM |
They were also scandals r25.
I'll never forget SPY Magazine: "Dr. Tarnower says 'avoid lead!'"
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 1, 2024 3:01 AM |
Murder is a crime R27. Serial womanizing (Tarnower’s character) is scandal.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 1, 2024 12:53 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 1, 2024 1:02 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 1, 2024 1:05 PM |
[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?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 1, 2024 1:08 PM |
Leona Sydney Bernie Robert
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 1, 2024 1:08 PM |
Chambers was so fat I thought he was a lesbian.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 1, 2024 1:09 PM |
Starlight Express.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 1, 2024 1:59 PM |
No Woody / Mia, OP? Turn in your Datalounge card!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 1, 2024 3:07 PM |
Oops, my apologies, OP. I thought the title said, "1990's".
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 1, 2024 3:08 PM |
R15 has it right, it was Tawana Brawley. How Al Sharpton survived that I'll never know.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 1, 2024 3:26 PM |
How is nobody discussing the mysterious death of Andy Warhol?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 3, 2024 1:49 AM |
The Bess (Myerson) Mess!
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 3, 2024 1:50 AM |
Robert Chambers was/is hot.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 3, 2024 2:10 AM |
The Son of Sam murders were committed in 1976 and 1977, R26. David Berkowitz was sentenced to prison in 1978.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 3, 2024 2:17 AM |
As r31 mentioned.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 3, 2024 2:24 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 3, 2024 2:37 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 3, 2024 2:54 AM |
R19 Upon reading Hedda’s name for the first time in ages I saw her face and collapsed nose. :(
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 3, 2024 4:02 AM |
Didn’t know Leona Helmsley and Suzanne Pleshette were sisters.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 3, 2024 4:09 AM |
Ted & Generosa Ammon (+ Danny Pelosi)
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 3, 2024 4:34 AM |
Does anyone remember the murder of the popular maitre d' at Barbetto? He was caught up in some kind of tawdry, closeted sex scandal.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 3, 2024 3:07 PM |
Was he the murder victim who lived on Restaurant Row? Older gentleman?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 4, 2024 6:18 PM |
I think that murder was in the late 1990s, R49.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 4, 2024 6:27 PM |
I was fascinated by the model who got her face slashed.
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