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The Cut

The Lovers, from Tabloid

The Cut

New York Magazine

Personal Journals, Documentary, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

From a home video locked in a safe, to an industry of performing our most intimate lives online, host Lux Alptraum traces how the heist of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape in the mid-90s forever warped the culture. The first episode of Tabloid: The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape, a series from Luminary and New York Magazine, is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5G capable device and a 5G coverage area. The cut. The cut. The cut. The cut. Hey, my

1:19.4

name is Noelle Busidi. I'm a new producer on the cut podcast. You're going to be

1:23.6

hearing more of me soon. But today I'm actually here to tell you about a

1:27.8

different project. I've been working on it for months and it's finally out this

1:32.1

week. Basically, it all starts with a sex tape. That sex tape. The Pamela Anderson

1:42.6

and Tommy Lee tape from the 90s. It pretty much created the whole leaked tape

1:48.0

like a sea. This is a story of sex, celebrity, and violation. But it's also

1:54.0

a story about how a fear of overexposure went from being a problem for only the

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