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On this episode Host Kathy Kenzora is looking back at how tabloid media had a feeding frenzy on the Long Island Lolita.\xa0\nIn May 1992, a high school senior on Long Island, New York, went to the home of her much older ex-lover and shot his wife in the face.\xa0\n17 year old Amy Fisher had been having an affair with 37 year old Joey Buttafuco for 18 months and was angry that he wanted to end the relationship.\xa0\nWithin days, Amy was dubbed \u201cThe Long Island Lolita\u201d and the story exploded in the media around the country.\xa0Amy and the Buttafuco\u2019s became household names overnight and tabloid newspapers and TV shows scrambled to dig up dirt on anyone involved with the story.\xa0\nThis type of down and dirty pseudo-journalism was extremely common in the 90s, just think Lorena Bobbitt, Tanya Harding, Heidi Fleiss, Hugh Grant, George Michael and Peewee Herman.\xa0\nDavid Kamp, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair Magazine, wrote about the phenomenon in 1999 and dubbed the 90s the Tabloid Decade.\nKamp, explains in this episode that the coverage of tabloid stories in the 90s was weirdly out of proportion thanks in part to the popularity of tabloid TV shows like A Current Affair, Hard Copy and Inside Edition.\xa0\nIf you enjoy the History of the 90s, please take a minute to rate it on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts, tell us what you think and share it with your friends.\nContact:\nTwitter: @1990shistory\nFacebook: @1990shistory\nInstagram: @that90spodcast\nEmail: 90s@curiouscast.ca\nGuest:\nDavid Kamp\nTwitter: @MrKamp\nwww.davidkamp.com\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices