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Investigative Journalist Allen Salkin: Richard Gere and the Hollywood Rumor That Won't Die
Six years of investigating. Decades of gossip. And a Hollywood story people still repeat without asking: Where’s the evidence?
Investigative journalist Allen Salkin joins Roxy Manning on The Iconic Midlife to explore the unsubstantiated Richard Gere gerbil rumor—and the bigger story behind its staying power.
How does an urban legend become something “everybody knows”? Why do we trust a story because someone claims to know the doctor, the friend, or the insider? And what happens when a celebrity’s attempts to protect their reputation risk giving a rumor another life?
Roxy and Allen dig into…
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