The Bagman
On a spring day in 1997, a veteran porn actor, bodybuilder and strong-arm man named Paul Barresi picked up a supermarket tabloid and...
The Ham Whisperer
In September 2002, when Timmy Iannello was still involved with the Garden of Eden, a doorman named Michael Tardio was murdered...
The Last Days of David Carradine (UNEXPURGATED)
“It’s a revisionist kind of mind It’s just a little town down in Indochina…” -- Alex Chilton, “Bangkok” David Carradine Found Dead (Kill...
When Scientology Attacks: Secret Files Show Scientology Stalked Another Reporter
05/12/11 It's like the opening of the Stasi files after the Berlin Wall fell: Yesterday, Scientology defector Marty Rathbun published the...
Bad Liver, Broken Heart: The Hollywood Hep-C Story (Details, October 1999)
60 years ago, the late great craggy carny barker of character actors Lewis Arquette found himself in the Soho District of Manhattan...
Fracked Up!
FRACKED UP!: Hollywood,Interrupted Visits America’s New Boomtown by Mark Ebner Three hundred miles due north of Deadwood, South Dakota...
The Rat
He ran one of California’s biggest drug empires… …complete with all the trappings — Ferraris, strippers, tricked-out jacuzzis, and garish...
Pit Bullies
Pit Bullies, New Times, Published Date: New Times Los Angeles, November 7, 1996 Author : Mark Ebner A coin toss determines which dog...
Death of a Nethead
In 1999, Rolling Stone assigned Hollywood reporter Mark Ebner to the story of Philip Gale, an MIT prodigy born into Scientology who...
I Warned You About Bill Cosby
In 2007—seven years before she publicly came forward—I spoke with Joan Tarshis, a former Hollywood publicist who claimed that Bill Cosby...
