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In 2008, Joe Francis plead no contest to child abuse and prostitution. Today, he lives in Mexico, in a palatial resort estate often frequented by the Kardashians.

Who is this pornography mogul who has avoided more arrests than Ted Bundy? And how did he become a sweeping sensation of the early 2000s?

In this episode, I'm taking you deep into the history of the Francis family, and the making of a man Doug Stanhope once called, “Pure unadulterated evil…The most awful human being I’ve ever met in all of my time in the entertainment business.”

This is the story of Joe Francis. The real Joe Francis.

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While you might know the Baekeland family for their plastics empire, in the 1980s -- they became known for a scandal filled with incest and murder.

It was the kind of story that "just doesn't happen" in the high society circles of America. But in 1972, the curtain was peeled back on the elite of Manhattan when one of their own was murdered in cold blood.

This is the sordid and tragedy filled story of one of high-society's biggest scandals: the story of Barbara Daly and her son Tony Baekeland.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And we were there for every moment of it...

Yes. Early 2000s reality television. The wildest time in the Wild West. From Flavor of Love to Bad Girls Club, and Jon and Kate Plus 8 - the brand-new world of reality television showed us things we had never seen before. And then some.

Behind the scenes, though, there was serious scandal going on.

In this episode, I'm counting down my list of the 10 darkest reality TV shows from the early 2000s? Does your favorite show make the list? Find out!

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