Stephen Burrows is a human being with a bright light.  He is a treasure of historic proportion in the fashion industry, and nobody knows his passion for fashion more than Fashion and Passion co-host, the legendary supermodel Pat Cleveland. On this episode of True Crime, Fashion, and Passion, we invited Stephen to come share some of his favorite stories with us and oh he did. 

Phillip has hung out with Stephen many times and has been a big supporter of his collections and always look forward to his fashion shows.  For this episode, Stephen was in rare form and had us laughing through the whole interview...well, when we weren't gasping at some fun little tidbits we learned about Jimi Hendrix, singer Bette Davis, and so many of our other favorite icons of style. 

Throughout our conversation, Phillip constantly clutched his pearls and had to shut his mouth as the first African American man to be internationally heralded as a fashion designer. Stephen Burrows has always been a groundbreaker.  In the 70s at the height of his career and in the heat of the disco era, he had his own eponymous perfume with the tag line B is for Burrows and Breaking Free & that he did. The world of fashion celebrated his bold, graphic color blocking, innovative use of matte jersey fabric, and his funky and fresh detail of the lettuce-edged hem.  In the height of the Disco-era, these were the perfect style staples. 

However, trust and believe that as a designer, it's not just your talent and good taste that garner your success.   In Stephen's case, his boyish good looks, charm, and personality as vibrant as the colors he used contributed to him becoming a fashion phenomenon and the toast of New York.

The early '70s was a nonstop whirlwind of fabulosity for Stephen.  He won three Cody awards and in 1978 earned icon status for dressing the iconic Farrah Fawcett in a groundbreaking gold chainmail dress for the 50th Academy Awards.  That is just a few of the highlights of a life well lived in the world of fashion.  We hope you will join us for a little laughter, a lot of love, and some lessons in the language of style and fashion.

True Crime, Fashion, and Passion is recorded and edited at DNR Studios in New York, NY.  The podcast is hosted by Phillip Bloch, cohosted by Carol Alt and Pat Cleveland.  Our Senior Producer is Annie Quaile.  Illustrations created by Antonio Contreras.  Follow him at @antonioeldeseo on Instagram. 

Special thanks to Paul van Ravenstein, Romaine Patterson, Andrew Bagley, and the entire DNR Studios crew. Additional thanks to Vinnie Postestivo.  Visit us on the web at truecrimefashionandpassion.com, on Twitter @crimefashionpod and Instagram and Facebook at @TrueCrimeFashionandPassion.

Thank you for joining us for part 2 of the compelling and riveting true crime story of the questionable death of Ron Marquette. In this second installment, we will chat again with Ron's son, Aaron, and one of the girls he grew up with - a model, musician, one of his first loves, and spiritual guides. They share their beautiful memories of their beloved father and wild child friend who seem to have it all and continue to look for answers to the questions of how it all could have ended so quickly in a senseless game of Russian Roulette. None of it makes any sense even several decades later and that's why we are here on this episode of True Crime, Fashion, and Passion to dig deeper into the truth of the mysterious murder of Ron Marquette.

A Hollywood heartthrob in the 90s, Ron was at the top of Aaron Spelling's short casting list for leading men.  His tall, dark, exotic good looks and his charismatic wickedly hot bad boy charm had already made him a sex symbol in the modeling world, and he had slept with the better half of Hollywood's sexiest leading ladies.  At 30 years old and with his classic movie star good looks, he was conquering the small screen in tv land before he got involved with the wrong leading lady in one of his last movies.

In Hollywood in the '90s, unwanted partners and spouses frequently met sketchy early ends either by gruesome gun killings like Robert Blake's wife, stabbings like OJ Simpson's wife Nicole Brown Simpson, or tragic pool drownings like William Shatner's wife Nerine Kidd, whom we profiled earlier this season or Tito Jackson's wife, Delores Martes.  It seemed that if you were a famous man in Hollywood, it was allegedly cheaper and easier to kill'em than keep'em.

In this tragic love story, the beautiful and talented actress Dedee Pfeiffer has a Deadly Past and that's not only the title of the last movie she and Ron Marquette made together but it is a fact.  Dedee Pfeiffer is allegedly the last person to see Ron Marquette alive and the only person playing games with his heart and a gun on that fateful horrific night in May 19 when Ron was killed.  Was it a deadly game of Russian Roulette or did something else really happen? We may never know what really happened but in this first episode of Ron Marquette's double episode of True Crime, Fashion, and Passion podcast Phillip sit down with close friends and family of Ron's who tell a different side of the story.  Join Phillip as he talks with Ron's son, Aaron Marquette, one of Ron's long-time girlfriends who had originally discovered him as a model/ actor, and one of his best friends that he grew up with skateboarding and surfing.  Learn about an alleged letter that existed where Dedee proclaimed and threatened "if I can't have you no one else will", how Ron's death has changed all their lives tragically forever, and their struggle to find the truth and show the world the true crime story behind what they believe is the murder of Ron Marquette.

True Crime, Fashion, and Passion is recorded and edited at DNR Studios in New York, NY.  The podcast is hosted by Phillip Bloch, cohosted by Carol Alt and Pat Cleveland.  Our Senior Producer is Annie Quaile.  Illustrations created by Antonio Contreras.  Follow him at @antonioeldeseo on Instagram. 

Special thanks to Paul van Ravenstein, Romaine Patterson, Andrew Bagley, and the entire DNR Studios crew. Additional thanks to Vinnie Postestivo.  Visit us on the web at truecrimefashionandpassion.com, on Twitter @crimefashionpod and Instagram and Facebook at @TrueCrimeFashionandPassion.

Ron Marquette, a Hollywood heartthrob in the 90s, was at the top of Aaron Spelling's short casting list for leading men.  His tall, dark, exotic good looks and his charismatic wickedly hot bad boy charm had already made him a sex symbol in the modeling world, and he had slept with the better half of Hollywood's sexiest leading ladies.  At 30 years old and with his classic movie star good looks, he was conquering the small screen in tv land before he got involved with the wrong leading lady in one of his last movies.

In Hollywood in the '90s, unwanted partners and spouses frequently met sketchy early ends either by gruesome gun killings like Robert Blake's wife, stabbings like OJ Simpson's wife Nicole Brown Simpson, or tragic pool drownings like William Shatner's wife Nerine Kidd, whom we profiled earlier this season or Tito Jackson's wife, Delores Martes.  It seemed that if you were a famous man in Hollywood, it was allegedly cheaper and easier to kill'em than keep'em.

In this tragic love story, the beautiful and talented actress Dedee Pfeiffer has a Deadly Past and that's not only the title of the last movie she and Ron Marquette made together but it is a fact.  Dedee Pfeiffer is allegedly the last person to see Ron Marquette alive and the only person playing games with his heart and a gun on that fateful horrific night on September 27, 1994 when Ron was killed.  Was it a deadly game of Russian Roulette or did something else really happen? We may never know what really happened but in this first episode of Ron Marquette's double episode of True Crime, Fashion, and Passion podcast Phillip sit down with close friends and family of Ron's who tell a different side of the story.  Join Phillip as he talks with Ron's son, Aaron Marquette, one of Ron's long-time girlfriends who had originally discovered him as a model/ actor, and one of his best friends that he grew up with skateboarding and surfing.  Learn about an alleged letter that existed where Dedee proclaimed and threatened "if I can't have you no one else will", how Ron's death has changed all their lives tragically forever, and their struggle to find the truth and show the world the true crime story behind what they believe is the murder of Ron Marquette.

True Crime, Fashion, and Passion is recorded and edited at DNR Studios in New York, NY.  The podcast is hosted by Phillip Bloch, cohosted by Carol Alt and Pat Cleveland.  Our Senior Producer is Annie Quaile.  Illustrations created by Antonio Contreras.  Follow him at @antonioeldeseo on Instagram. 

Special thanks to Paul van Ravenstein, Romaine Patterson, Andrew Bagley, and the entire DNR Studios crew. Additional thanks to Vinnie Postestivo.  Visit us on the web at truecrimefashionandpassion.com, on Twitter @crimefashionpod and Instagram and Facebook at @TrueCrimeFashionandPassion.