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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Billy Wilkerson founded The Hollywood Reporter out of spite and vengeance.
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0:32.1 | Hello, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. |
0:34.4 | This is Rachel Fisher. |
0:35.6 | This is Desi Jadigan. |
0:37.3 | And today we're talking about an old Hollywood story, talking about someone we've mentioned before |
0:45.5 | in our Bugsy Seagull series, and that is Billy Wilkerson. Yes. Founder of the Hollywood |
0:53.7 | reporter, restaurateur, almost, well, we'll get into that in one of our |
1:02.3 | subsequent episodes. But this story really does have everything. This man had a very interesting life. He was also a pretty big asshole. |
1:14.1 | But nevertheless, the life was interesting. |
1:18.1 | It was full of drama, full of crime. |
1:21.4 | And my main source for this episode is a book called Hollywood Godfather, |
1:26.8 | The Life and Crimes of Billy Wilkerson, written by his own son. |
1:32.8 | Ooh. And his son does not shy away from talking about stuff. He's like a Steve Hodel. |
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