S31E11: Natalie Massenet and Erik Torstensson
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
When two visionaries meet, strange things can happen. So it was for Natalie Massenet, founder of upscale shopping site Net-a-Porter, and Swedish creative director and Frame founder Erik Torstensson. The high fashion power couple parlayed their early successes into venture capital projects - including Skims - and then shocked their world in August 2025 with a bombshell lawsuit from Natalie alleging all kinds of inappropriate conduct by Erik, her partner of many years. It appears that things haven't blown over so much as having been fastidiously swept under a designer rug.
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| 0:46.4 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:51.9 | My name is Stacey and Alicia, you just cannot stay away from the fashion, can you? |
| 0:58.5 | Stacey, I cannot. I am helpless sometimes to these stories because the more you dig, the more thread you unpool the stickier the spiderwebs get. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello, I am Alicia Friends. |
| 1:04.5 | Thank you for joining us today for today's high fashion tale of marital misadventure. |
| 1:10.0 | Today I am bringing you the very trashy breakup of Natalie Massanay and Eric Torstinson. |
| 1:16.9 | Both big names and big money in the fashion world, but don't worry if you're saying to yourself, |
| 1:23.3 | and Stacey, if I can use you as an example, you may. |
| 1:26.3 | You are not exactly a fashionista. |
| 1:28.9 | Not exactly. |
| 1:29.7 | So those names probably do not ring a bell in your hoodie and sweats at the moment. |
| 1:35.9 | It's cold. |
| 1:37.4 | It is so cold. |
| 1:39.2 | You and all y'all, even if you don't know who these characters are, you're going to in just a few moments. |
| 1:45.3 | But I guarantee you, you know every one around them. |
| 1:49.6 | This story is an off the charts, sticky spider web kind of episode. |
| 1:54.2 | I think you're going to delight in. |
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