"Most people want to know if they're getting caught on tape, especially if they're a famous person who has welcomed a journalist into their house. Griffin has been an actor and stand-up comedian for almost 40 years, and is intimately aware of the power of celebrity gossip. But in this case, she wants to know if I've turned on my recorder not because she's worried about getting caught on a hot mic, but because she wants me to catch every incendiary word."
"Her block is especially celebrity-filled, and if you ask Griffin, they all fucking hate her. "It's everyone from Larry Ellison-who I'm not speaking to-to Marc Andreessen, who can suck my dick. Elon better hope he doesn't run into me. He stays at Larry's when he visits. Sergey Brin, not speaking to him," she says, walking me along the perimeter of her pool. "Oh, and I'm not speaking to Gary Busey. I can't trust him. He's too crazy! He runs over people! He whips his penis out!""
Kathy Griffin asks recordings to capture her incendiary remarks and deliberately seeks to be heard. She walks her celebrity-filled Malibu neighborhood daily with four dogs and reports many neighbors avoid or dislike her, naming estrangements with Larry Ellison, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Gary Busey while offering blunt reasons. Her career is framed as split before and after 2017, when she posed with a fake bloody Donald Trump head. Before 2017 she was known for shameless stand-up gossip; after 2017 the bloody-head image became a defining moment that provoked swift backlash.
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