“I, Stalkerazzi” and “Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame,” by John H. Richardson

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It’s hard to find a profession more maligned than the paparazzi, but in 1998 Esquire writer at large John H. Richardson decided to find out for himself what it feels like to hunt celebrities for money in “I, Stalkerazi.” Two years later, Richardson found out what it was like to be the hunted when he profiled a then still-rising and very vulnerable Angelina Jolie for “Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame." Richardson joins the Esquire Classic Podcast this week to discuss our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.

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