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  1. Confidential was an American magazine considered a pioneer in scandal, gossip and exposé journalism. Founded by Robert Harrison , it was published quarterly from December 1952 to August 1953 and then bi-monthly until it ceased publication in 1978.

  2. Apr 4, 2022 · Lifestyle News. Hollywood Flashback: In 1957, The ‘Confidential’ Trial Scandalized Hollywood. When the OG gossip rag got into hot water for its stories on the love lives of Liberace, Maureen...

  3. Apr 1, 2003 · April 1, 2003. By the mid-50s, Robert Harrison's Confidential magazine was the scourge of Hollywood, naming names and dishing dirt, with its army of tipsters, private eyes, and libel lawyers....

  4. Mar 2, 2010 · The same year, "girlie magazine" publisher Robert Harrison decided to launch a gossip rag all about Hollywood celebrities called Confidential. The subhead of Confidential — "names the...

  5. Sep 4, 2018 · Hardcover – September 4, 2018. by Samantha Barbas (Author) 4.0 48 ratings. See all formats and editions. In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America’s first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars’ secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail.

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  6. In so doing, the magazine earned the wrath of powerful Hollywood figures who convinced California's attorney general to file an array of criminal charges that the movie moguls and stars hoped would silence Confidential and its flamboyant publisher, Robert Harrison.

  7. Truth, after all, is a defense in a libel case. When it was over, Confidential was a different magazine and Hollywood was a different place. The Rise of a Scandal Magazine. When his accountant told Robert Harrison that the six girlie magazines he published were all losing money and headed for bankruptcy, he began thinking about a new type of ...

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