"The investigative journalist Hollywood doesn't want you to read." Bestselling author. Six books. Three decades of bylines. One ongoing investigation.
Long-form investigations from the side of Hollywood that doesn't issue press releases. Cult leaders. Crooked managers. Killers who got famous, and famous people who became killers.
"From the cults of L.A. to the kidnap kingpins of Mexico, Ebner has spent three decades writing the books no one else would touch."
All titles & retailers →The cover story that started it all: an unflinching account of Scientology's recruitment, auditing, and purification rundown — later credited as the basis for South Park's Emmy-winning "Trapped in the Closet" episode.
Eight years before the world listened, Mark interviewed Joan Tarshis and filed the original Cosby reporting on Hollywood, Interrupted — naming names mainstream outlets wouldn't touch.
An eye-opening exposé on the handlers, hangers-on and lawsuits surrounding the 95-year-old comics legend in his final months.
The first-ever interview with Natasha Prince, who alleged the magician raped her in a private home in Chelsea — and the international police inquiry that followed.
Mark's first byline: interviews with the working actors who made a career out of getting killed on-screen in 1980s horror films. Twenty-five cents a word, and he never looked back.
A pop-culture autopsy of how an entire election cycle came to be measured in a smile, a humidity reading, and a never-ending public ledger.
Mark Ebner has been reporting from the underbelly of American entertainment since 1995. Six books. Hundreds of bylines. One unwavering question: who are the people Hollywood works hardest to keep off the record — and what are they hiding?
The Hollywood Interrupted podcast continues that work in a new format. Same reporting. Same sources. Just longer.
One email a week. New episodes, the week's best reporting, and an occasional dispatch from the field. No press releases, no autoplay video.