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      <title>GAWKER folds for good this time. (Scientology Throwback)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Secret Files Show Scientology Stalked Another Reporter 19.47K
John Cook 05/12/11 01:59PM Filed to: CULTSYour proprietor, Mark Ebner. Proudly stalked by Scientology since '96It's like the opening of the Stasi files after]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[On a spring day in 1997, a veteran porn actor, bodybuilder and strong-arm man named Paul Barresi picked up a supermarket tabloid and spotted a 24-karat opportunity. What caught Barresi’s eye was an intriguing story about]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In September 2002, when Timmy Iannello was still involved with the Garden of Eden, a doorman named Michael Tardio was murdered off-premises in a bizarre incident in North Hollywood where he and a friend from Las Vegas we]]></description>
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      <title>The Last Days of David Carradine (UNEXPURGATED)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[“It’s a revisionist kind of mindIt’s just a little town down in Indochina…”                             -- Alex Chilton, “Bangkok”                        David Carradine Found Dead (Kill Bill PR photo)  Sex is the new dr]]></description>
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      <title>When Scientology Attacks: Secret Files Show Scientology Stalked Another Reporter</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[05/12/11   It's like the opening of the Stasi files after the Berlin Wall fell: Yesterday, Scientology defector Marty Rathbun published the cult's surveillance file on Washington Post reporter Richard Leiby. Today, we're]]></description>
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      <title>Bad Liver, Broken Heart: The Hollywood Hep-C Story (Details, October 1999)</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[60 years ago, the late great craggy carny barker of character actors Lewis Arquette found himself in the Soho District of Manhattan sharing a syringe with jazz musicians. It was the first and last time Arquette shot up. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[FRACKED UP!: Hollywood,Interrupted Visits America’s New Boomtownby Mark Ebner  Three hundred miles due north of Deadwood, South Dakota and roughly half as many years past its 1870s heyday, a new gold rush is threatening ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pit Bullies, New Times,Published Date: New Times Los Angeles, November 7, 1996
Author : Mark Ebner     A coin toss determines which dog gets which corner in the pit. The toss also decides which dog will be washed first ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[He ran one of California’s biggest drug empires… …complete with all the trappings — Ferraris, strippers, tricked-out jacuzzis, and garish fake waterfalls – then, the Feds ran him. A star informant takes us through his pe]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1999, Rolling Stone assigned Hollywood reporter Mark Ebner to the story of Philip Gale, an MIT prodigy born into Scientology who killed himself on the birthday of the cult's founder. The organization sent Rolling Ston]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 2007—seven years before she publicly came forward—I spoke with Joan Tarshis, a former Hollywood publicist who claimed that Bill Cosby raped her. After our talk—and, of course, much more research—I filed a version of t]]></description>
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      <title>Do You Want To Buy A Bridge?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Author's Note: Exposing the criminal mind-control cult of Scientology for Spy magazine in '96... “If you really want to enslave people, tell them that you’re going to give them total freedom.”- L. Ron Hubbard  I am an ex]]></description>
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      <title>Death Becomes Real</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Maxim, November 2009. The original print spread, recovered from the file. A reported piece on the strange and lucrative business of celebrity death — and the people who profit by getting there first.]]></description>
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      <title>From The Hollywood Fixer Files: Hollywood PIs Set Up the OJ Simpson Porn Shoot; Wiretap the Hollywoo</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Don’t ever sleep with your stalker,” was the sage advice tendered to me in 2000 by Hollywood P.I., Fred “Mad Dog” Valis. Too bad those wise words came too late. I’d already bedded a slightly manicblond “fan” who found m]]></description>
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      <title>THE HUSTLER, THE HEIRESS, AND THE SOFT-PORN KING</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How a smooth-talking, social-climbing con man with a penchant for home movies and blackmail turned the tables on Hollywood’s T & A titan.
BY MARK EBNER   The videotape on the screen in front of me is stark, grainy. The ]]></description>
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      <title>Was Patrick Dollard Raped?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[WAS PATRICK DOLLARD RAPED?                                 Publicity still for Patrick Dollard’s upcoming film, “Young Americans” In Sharon Waxman’s May 6, 2006 New York Times story on pro-war/pro-military filmmaker Patr]]></description>
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      <title>Snake Pit on Sunset! Johnny Depp&apos;s Viper Room, An Oral History.</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jakob Dylan played here, Adam Duritz tended bar here, and River Phoenix died here. For half a decade, the Viper Room has been ground zero for Hollywood hip. The inside story of the club that defined a generation. Is the ]]></description>
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      <title>Wild Man Blues: Hasil Adkins drinks too much, screws too much &amp; rocks too much.</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Charleston, West Virginia's Yeager Airport sits atop a mountain, which is typical in a state that enforces few, if any, building codes. Request a window seat if you ever drop in; the views are spectacular. Green hills ro]]></description>
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