S9E3: Lady Marmalade | Bonnie Lee Bakley & Pamela Churchill Harriman

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Friends, you may not be ready for the epic trashiness we have compacted for you this week. First up, Stacie has the astonishing back story of Bonnie Lee Bakley, a murder victim whose 2001 death led to years of legal and financial trouble for her tenth husband, actor Robert Blake. Then, Alicia has the incredible story of Pamela Churchill Harriman, "the 20th-century's most influential courtesan," who advised her father-in-law Winston through the darkest days of the Blitz and finished her life as an accomplished American diplomat. Stacie's Receipts The strange collision of Bonny Bakley and Christian Brando (laobserved.com) Dateline: A Question of Guilt (YouTube link) Bonny Lee Bakley had a remarkable story that played a big role at her husband Robert Blake's murder trial (abcnews.go.com) Life of Bonny Lee Bakley, Murdered Wife of Actor Robert Blake (thoughtco.com) A Question Of Guilt: The Bakley Murder (cbsnews.com) Who Killed Bonny Lee Bakley? (scaredmonkeys.net) Alicia's Receipts Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman, by Sally Bedell Smith (Amazon link) Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill, by Christopher Ogden (Amazon link) Churchill's Girl (YouTube link) Pamela Harriman Is Dead at 76; An Ardent Political Personality (nytimes.com) Affairs of state aplenty for the century's greatest courtesan (irishtimes.com) Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to another week of trashy divorces. My name is Stacy.
0:04.0	We're back with the trash, I'm Alicia.
0:06.0	Hey y'all, welcome back.
0:07.0	We really do have the trash this week.
0:09.0	Holy cats, another week of trashy ladies this week using our theme song from Miss Patty LaBelle with Lady Marmalade,
0:18.9	seam fitting with our ladies this week weekend the only line of French that literally every American knows
0:27.8	Fulevous Koche Avakmois.
0:31.0	Say, so what?
0:32.0	What does that mean?
0:32.6	Oh, will you go to bed with me tonight?
0:34.0	Ah, there you go. You can say it in French, but you might not know what it means.
0:39.0	Sure. We had two quartersens of different types this week.
0:43.5	Stacy, you're bringing us the story of
0:45.8	Bonnie Lee Bakley, who is best known as a murder victim.
0:50.6	Actor Robert Blake was her husband and was he was tried for her murder.
0:54.7	One of her husband she had really had a there was the murder thing is very sad but not the most interesting thing about her very trashy life so we get into that and then you have almost like a mirror image but same person.
1:12.0	But different. This week I'm covering Pamela Digby, Churchill, Hayward, Harriman,
1:20.0	oft married courtisson of the 20th century involved with every powerful man, this story.
1:27.4	The title on this episode is going to be like 8,000 characters long.
1:31.4	Even though only one trashy divorce is involved in her story, it is the high water
1:38.1	mark of individual trashy level Pamela. Wow, what a story. We have some shout-outs to give as we pull out
1:47.2	the magic mirror this week. For our new supporters on Patreon, remember over on the
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