This Body

Love Street Media
  • 4.9 (14)
  • TRUE CRIME

A podcast about Hollywood’s dark mysteries—where beauty, morality, and memoir meet. Hosted by Sofia Mella. This Body explores the stories that shimmer and rot beneath the surface of American culture—true crime, pop mythology, surreal cinema, and the women who move through it all. Blending pop culture and personal memoir, each episode looks at the ethics of desire, the performance of beauty, and the strange holiness of being a body in a world built on illusion.

  1. 1D AGO

    Danny Masterson, The Black Dahlia, and the Machinery of Male Salvation - Patreon Teaser!

    ***Listen to the full episode and whole series on PATREON*** It’s 2001 in Y2K Hollywood — a world of TV stars, Maxim covers, and after-hours in the Hills. A young woman, Ashley Ellerin, is murdered by the man who would become known as the Hollywood Ripper. Around her, a new generation of idols is rising — and one predator is hiding in the shadows, while another hides in plain sight. This episode traces the machinery that protects men like Danny Masterson — Scientology's cover ups. The Hollywood system that shields it's money makers. When the Me Too movement finally tears through decades of denial, karma's underground current finally reaches the open ocean. From Elizabeth Short to Ashley Ellerin to Chrissy Bixler, this is the Black Dahlia, and Los Angeles — a city that’s always worshipped Gods of it's own making.

    5 min
  2. Lynch & Lolita

    OCT 28

    Lynch & Lolita

    What does it costs to live inside a fantasy built by men? On this episode we prod that viper’s nest. David Lynch loved Kubrick’s film adaptation of Nabokov’s Lolita, so much so that he conjured his own Dolores Haze with Laura Palmer. JOIN PATREON We move between fantasy and wreckage. Between Desire, danger, and the American girl—through the eyes of genius. So put your heart shaped glasses on, pop a lolly in your mouth, and settle in. It’s about to get disturbing. Mentioned: The Black Dahlia Lynch discusses Lolita Star Dream Girl

    41 min
  3. BLACK DAHLIA 3 - THE CHAIN - PATREON TEASER

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    BLACK DAHLIA 3 - THE CHAIN - PATREON TEASER

    To hear the full episode subscribe HERE The Black Dahlia murder shocked postwar America and ignited a media frenzy that reduced her to pulp headlines and grotesque speculation. The LAPD’s bungled investigation faded into silence, until the incest trial of George Hodel thrust the Dahlia’s specter back into the spotlight. In episode 3 of This Body, we trace a line from Elizabeth Short’s depersonalized body in Leimert Park through Tamar Hodel’s testimony, and into the next generation of Hollywood daughters: Michele and Chynna Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips, and Bijou Phillips. From Chinatown to Lolita, from the Mamas and the Papas to Scientology, this is a story of how Los Angeles devours its daughters, and how some live to tell the tale.

    5 min

  4. SEP 20 · BONUS

    FULL PATREON BONUS! The Black Dahlia 2: The Sadist's Daughter

    :-) ALL. Enjoy the FREE PATREON BONUS, and JOIN HERE for the next installment xox Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness of mid-century Hollywood. In this episode 2 of The Black Dahlia, we trace the fractured childhood of Elizabeth Short and the parallel story of Tamar Hodel, daughter of the wealthy, decadent physician George Hodel. We follow Elizabeth’s vulnerable path to Los Angeles, her hopes colliding with predation. We enter the surrealist world of George Hodel’s Franklin Avenue “Jaws House”—a space where art, sadism, and sexual perversion merged, and where his daughter Tamar became both witness and victim. Her testimony would spark one of the most disturbing incest trials in California history. BECOME A PATRON XOX

    27 min

  5. TRAILER

    The Sadist's Daughter / The Black Dahlia Patreon Teaser

    Enjoy the Teaser and Listen to the Full Episode on Patreon >> Here or on Substack >> here! Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness of mid-century Hollywood. In this episode 2 of The Black Dahlia, we trace the fractured childhood of Elizabeth Short and the parallel story of Tamar Hodel, daughter of the wealthy, decadent physician George Hodel. We follow Elizabeth’s vulnerable path to Los Angeles, her hopes colliding with predation. We enter the surrealist world of George Hodel’s Franklin Avenue “Jaws House”—a space where art, sadism, and sexual perversion merged, and where his daughter Tamar became both witness and victim. Her testimony would spark one of the most disturbing incest trials in California history. Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual assault, incest, child abuse, and graphic violence.

    3 min
  6. Angels & Heaven In Twin Peaks

    SEP 6

    Angels & Heaven In Twin Peaks

    Welcome back Peaks Freaks! Support the pod on PATREON! In Twin Peaks, heaven is not eternal. Angels appear and vanish, offering only brief mercy in a violent world. This episode of Night Blooming Jasmine follows Laura Palmer, Dale Cooper, and the fleeting visions of grace that haunt David Lynch’s universe. Also: Mary Magdalene, the Upanishads, The Dweller On The Threshold, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Lana Del Ray, & The Veils.

    35 min

  7. AUG 26 · BONUS

    The Black Dahlia - The Body In The Lot FULL PATREON BONUS

    A free taste of Patreon - JOIN HERE The Black Dahlia murder remains unsolved 78 years later, and Los Angeles has never stopped dreaming about her. Elizabeth Short's story is the story of Hollywood itself. A city that projects it's dark fantasies onto the female body like film on screen, and devours what it gazes upon. A place where beauty and brutality are bound together. We follow the threads that connect the Black Dahlia murder of 1947, to Joan Didion's Helter Skelter 1960s on Franklin Avenue, and the paranoid circle that surrounded it. Welcome to Episode 1 : The Body In The Lot.

    19 min
  8. Night Blooming Jasmine - The Surreal Housewives of Twin Peaks

    AUG 14

    Night Blooming Jasmine - The Surreal Housewives of Twin Peaks

    Welcome back Peaks Freaks! In this installment of Women in Trouble, we enter The Surreal Housewives of Twin Peaks. From Nadine to Sarah, to Shelly to Norma, we explore how Twin Peaks gives space to women at every stage of life — their pain, resilience, shadow selves, and survival. Along the way: rescue fantasies, menopause, family trauma, and what Bravo’s Real Housewives can teach us about visibility, melodrama, and the messy beauty of women’s lives. Mentioned: theorignalx5 on tik tok & fire_walk_with_me_315 on IG Thank you Anna, Ivy, Xavier, Tess ♥️

    43 min
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A podcast about Hollywood’s dark mysteries—where beauty, morality, and memoir meet. Hosted by Sofia Mella. This Body explores the stories that shimmer and rot beneath the surface of American culture—true crime, pop mythology, surreal cinema, and the women who move through it all. Blending pop culture and personal memoir, each episode looks at the ethics of desire, the performance of beauty, and the strange holiness of being a body in a world built on illusion.

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  • Creator
    Love Street Media
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    70
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Sofia Mella 2023
  • Show Website
    This Body