Episode 134: Cosmetics Abuse
In this episode…
Patrice, Marleah, and Courtney drink Bulleit Spires, talk door-to-door makeup lines, ben gay, and learning leadership through being beaten and buried alive…?
North carolina-born William Penn Patrick claimed to be the ultimate bootstraps success story, becoming a millionaire in a year via his cosmetics line, holiday magic. but in 10 years he was dead, leaving behind strings of lawsuits, deaths, and abuse claims. how on earth did that happen?
Resources
A not so magical holiday with Holiday Magic Cosmetics, from The makeup museum
Lawsuits Threaten Millionaire Promoter of Pyramid Sales, from the NYT
'Fraud of the decade': The incredible implosion of the Bay Area's biggest pyramid scheme, by Katie dowd at SFGate
Sell-Shocked: The Pyramid Schemer Who Convinced His Targets to Climb Into Coffins, by jake rossen at mentalfloss
Excerpt: The pit: a group encounter defiled, by Gene Church and Conrad D. Carnes, from cameron freeman
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