In this episode, Amanda Chicago Lewis discusses her investigative reporting career, including her work uncovering the theft of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape, which later became the basis for a Hulu series. She emphasizes how the public's portrayal of Pamela Anderson as a "villain" for the tape was incorrect. The discussion with Vanessa also touches on the broader impact of celebrity sex tapes, including the recent news involving Kevin Blatt and Kanye West. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. To connect with Infamous's creative team, plus access behind the scenes content, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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We're here today with Amanda Chicago-Lewis, who is an investigative reporter and an amazing human being and also covers a lot of things that are quite infamous and has in her career. She is well known as the person who tracked down the guy who stole the Pam and Tommy car. sex tape. And the Hulu series, if you watched it, was actually based on her Rolling Stone article about that.
So we are going to be talking about sex tapes quite a bit in this episode, and particularly an article that she also wrote for Wired in 2021 about a guy named Kevin Blatt, a celebrity sex tape broker who she also called the Forrest Gump of 21st century scandal in that article.
And he is recently in the news for threatening Kanye West to potentially release Kanye West's sex tape that apparently he was working with Kanye to keep quiet. So it's a sleaze fest. We're excited to get into it. Thank you so much, Amanda, for being here.
Thanks for having me and thanks for saying so many kind words.
Yeah, I'm glad you didn't take offense to being a purveyor of analysis of sleaze.
Oh my gosh. I hope that on my tombstone it says something about like resuscitated Pamela Anderson's career. Though she really did that herself, but I did have a role.
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