232: Cameron Diaz & the Murder of a Criminal Defense Lawyer

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 11 a.m.

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Cameron Diaz had a lot going on. Her latest movie, Charlie\\u2019s Angels: Full Throttle, was about to hit theaters. With the release just days away, a photographer named John Rutter reached out to her. John had photos of Cameron from about a decade earlier, when she was a 19-year-old model. He\\u2019d shot the photos for a racy S&M lingerie editorial. He told Cameron that people were offering him millions of dollars for them. Then he offered to sell them to her, for a discount.
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\\nThen Brandi tells us about the murder of Leslie Vaughn. Leslie was a successful criminal defense attorney whose work sometimes put him in close contact with violent people. So when Leslie was shot in his home one evening, the list of potential suspects could have been long. But the behavior of Leslie\\u2019s son, Brian Vaughn, made investigators think that perhaps the killer was right under their nose.
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\\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\\n\\u201cPhotographer convicted of trying to blackmail Cameron Diaz,\\u201d by Michelle Caruso for the Seattle Times
\\n\\u201cCameron Diaz photographer convicted for topless photo plot,\\u201d by Gil Kaufman for MTV.com
\\n\\u201c\\u2018I\\u2019m proud of topless shots,\\u2019\\u201d by David Sanderson for the Evening Standard
\\n\\u201cCameron Diaz photographer headed to jail,\\u201d by Todd Peterson for People.com
\\n\\u201cActress takes the stand in trial of photographer,\\u201d by Cara Mia DiMassa for The Los Angeles Times
\\n\\u201cMan who blackmailed Cameron Diaz over topless photos faces jail,\\u201d by Catherine Elsworth for the Daily Telegraph
\\n\\u201cPhotos develop into court case,\\u201d by Cara Mia DiMassa for The Los Angeles Times
\\n\\u201cJail for Diaz dirt,\\u201d by David K. Li for the New York Post
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\\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\\n\\u201cShattered Innocence\\u201d episode Forensic Files
\\n\\u201cBrian Vaughn: A Student-Athlete Kills\\u201d by Rebecca Reisner, forensicfilesnow.com
\\n\\u201cTeen Convicted of Dad\\u2019s Murder\\u201d by Associated Press, The Marshall News Messenger
\\n\\u201cBrian Leslie Vaughn v. State of Texas\\u201d justia.com\\n
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