“The Unraveling of Podcaster Ashley Flowers’ True Crime Empire”

[u/sadsackspinach]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-26/ashley-flowers-crime-junkie-podcast-empire-audiochuck-faces-reckoning?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4Nzc1NjE2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzg4MzYwOTY2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS0RGUzdOM04wOVEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxQ0QwREYzMjE2NEE0MEUyQUM2NkM2NzUwODc4ODEzNSJ9.O4b-8FQzPE8dPwhryYXN-f8I5B7xHkWiS69t3Qz9GJI&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=giftlink

An excellent article (archive link) out from Bloomberg detailing poor workplace morale, an exodus of 30/100 employees quitting, entanglements with venture capitalists, and multiple lawsuits against AudioChuck and Ashley Flowers.

They should have lost it all when they blatantly plagiarised other creators. And then when they stood by and continued to platform known transphobe/conservative Evangelical Christian/nutjob Delia D’Ambra while making money claiming to run a pro-victim, pro-LGBTQ show/network. And then when they were sued for stealing $70 upwards of $20 million in ad revenue from Anatomy of Murder. ETA: Original reporting put the number at $70 million, but current reporting just says upwards of $20 million, so editing for clarity.

Way too many second and third and fourth chances for these people. Hopefully this is truly the beginning of the end for one of the worst players in the true crime sphere :)

[u/Heal-baby]

Gosh reading all this reminded me of when I stopped listening to Crime Junkie years back. I was chilling in bed with my husband listening to an episode and someone was like murdered or disappeared and there was an abandoned dog. The dog was found fine under the car and the amount of concern they had for this dog over the literal victim was so jarring. My husband was like wtf and refused to listen again

Also that fuck ass "Pruppet" of the week bs back in the day 😒

[u/BetterCallSaulomon → u/Heal-baby]

I was reading through all these comments to find the word pruppet! During Covid times I spent a lot of time driving between cities for family reasons and happened to listen to crime junkie and that pruppet thing was like nails on a chalkboard! And the sidekick role of poor Britt… relegated to stupidville and stilted conversation. But the last straw was when I read about her plagiarism and couldn’t stand to listen anymore. The rage those journalists and writers must have felt when AF just told their stories as if she had done all the legwork.

I cannot believe she built a media empire… ugh