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The Man Who Gossiped Too Much
For years, John Nelson anonymously posted blind items skewering the Hollywood elite on the blog Crazy Days and Nights. Then his identity was revealed.
Writing in a unique style, hard-boiled and absurd, he trafficked primarily in blind items, entries written as puzzles that could each theoretically apply to at least two different celebrities — a clever way to both evade potential libel lawsuits and engage readers, who would guess the identities of the stories’ subjects in the comments section. The commenter also claimed, outrageously, that her abuse was part of a much larger story and suggested readers take a look at Diana Jenkins, a Bosnian-born socialite, entrepreneur, and ex-wife of an executive at Barclays: “She’s the Rosetta Stone of every scandal and perversion from Hwood all over the globe. She was a single mother of three who worked as an investigator for a gas-and-electric company; in her spare time, she hosted two podcasts: Cassandra Explains It All, in which she waxed nostalgic about the movies and television shows of her millennial childhood, and Welcome to the Carterverse, about the now-deceased teen pop star Aaron Carter.
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