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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

323: The Rise and Fall of Fashion Cafe

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

A beautiful business disaster unfolds in 1995.


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0:00.0

Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

0:05.0

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

0:07.0

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

0:10.0

Well so are we.

0:11.0

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

0:17.0

and some horrific true crime cases.

0:19.0

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

0:22.5

and join us every Tuesday,

0:24.6

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:26.9

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

0:29.7

perplexed. Crime of Fashion. I'm Jason Horton.

0:50.8

I'm Rebecca Lebe.

0:51.9

And this is Ghost Town.

1:09.2

Okay. Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Lebe. And this is Ghost Town. In 1995, after the last show on the final day of New York Fashion Week,

1:14.8

and right across the street from the Women's National Republican Club in Midtown,

1:19.1

crowds erupted at 51 Rockefeller Plaza.

1:22.6

More than 600 people packed inside, including Johnny and Donatella Versace,

1:27.4

Stephen Baldwin, David Copperfield,

1:30.7

the Wayans brothers, John Stewart, Matt Lauer, Rupall, and Molly Ringwald, while others only hoped

1:36.9

to grab a table. Duran Duran and the Spin Doctors played inside, the soundtrack to the real

1:42.6

stars of the night. Supermodels Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell,

1:46.4

L. McPherson, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, and turkey meatloaf and chicken wings.

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