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Welcome to Obscura, where we shine a light on the dark.

Welcome listener, I'm glad you're here. You know, there's a topic that's been weighing heavy on my mind.

There is so much sexual abuse in Hollywood. It has gone to a point that when a new scandal drops,

I am no longer surprised. Recently, the Atlantic published next was a on movie director Brian Singer.

Who, to put it mildly, after years of mounting rumors, his alleged who has behaved

inappropriately with a number of underage actors. It would seem that a curtain is being lifted on

an ongoing issue. The only problem is that it was never a secret. I'm talking, of course,

about widespread pedophilia and a febophilia in the entertainment industry. It's a topic that

isn't easy to discuss, but it's an important one. It's a kind of story where the truth begins to blur

and far-flung conspiracy theories emerge.

Four decades, the signs of something very bizarre going on with certain people drawn to the

entertainment industry were there. Shirley Temple Black, who had been Hollywood's first child star,

began acting at the age of three years old, and was likely one of the first victims of the

industry. In our autobiography, fittingly titled Child Star, she alleged that an MGM movie executive

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