Blind Item #9

I know we like to think of the early rise of the journalist turned writer/director as unique, but it wasn't. Who am I talking about? The famed publisher, of course. He had a longstanding practice of hiring high school-aged teens of one sex rather than the other. He liked to invite them back to his lavish apartment where they'd be given booze and drugs, then required to partake of a certain game. You can imagine what happened next.