Trashy Divorces

Starting around 1970, Cathy Smith and Gordon Lightfoot reconnected and embarked on a wildly toxic romantic relationship that ran three or four years. He, of course, was still married to Brita (Brita would name Cathy Smith in her divorce suit), but they had been living separately. Cathy moved in with him, quit her job, and the pair immediately began cheating on each other. Jealousy seems to have been Gordon's main emotion during their time together, as evidenced by his song Sundown, written about Cathy.

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Super Groupies were a hot topic in the 1960s and 1970s, and definitely still are around here on Trashy Divorces. In this episode, Alicia gets into the life, work, and spiderwebs of Cynthia Albritton, known in the day as Cynthia Plaster Caster. Her art was unusual, certainly, but Cynthia went to great lengths to make her creative work her own. Cynthia was truly a Super Groupie, and is remembered in an alternate way than most of the other gals hanging around the scene. Pamela de Barres perhaps summed it up best about her fellow groupie sister Cynthia by saying "She was the Michelangelo of Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll."

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One especially fascinating figure who intersected with Gordon Lightfoot was named Cathy Smith. As a teenager in Ontario, she'd hooked up (literally and figuratively) with Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel, then future members of The Band. Before her several-year relationship with the married Gordon Lightfoot, she helped The Band get out of a drug bust and gave birth to a daughter who became known as "The Band baby" since no one was quite sure who the father was. 

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Alicia's Receipts

This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band, by Levon Helm (bookshop.org)

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There are few artists as iconically Canadian as Gordon Lightfoot, whose eight decades on Earth produced some of the most recognizable music there is. In this first episode of his story, Alicia gets into his formative years, his time in California, his first marriage, and Canada's then-most expensive divorce ever, from Brita Olaisson.  

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Welcome back to Today's Trash! This story has actually been ongoing for, well, parts of it for years, but acutely over the last month or so. Fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has been having some trouble on the homefront recently, as The Daily Mail keeps finding online personalities in the "Bimbofication" subculture that her husband has been paying for services. But what's a guy supposed to do when his wife has been rumored to be having an affair with the also married Corey Lewandowski for years?

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Stacie's Receipts

Secret double life of Kristi Noem's cross-dressing husband Bryon: The pouting 'busty bimbo' photos and trove of explicit messages (Daily Mail)

Astonishing audio of Kristi Noem being humiliated by husband Bryon: His desire to gender transition and chosen girl name... damaging ICE messages... and worst insult imaginable for a wife (Daily Mail)

A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem's Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS (Wall Street Journal)

The White House Is Keeping Kristi Noem's $70 Million Jet (Wall Street Journal)
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