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2 unusual facts about The Smoking Gun


Crime Library

Court TV, later truTV, purchased Crime Library in 2001, the same year The Smoking Gun was acquired by Court TV.

Melissa Sanders

Melissa Sanders, subject of an investigation by The Smoking Gun of James Frey's memoir A Million Little Pieces


Gossip magazine

The gossip genre has crossed over onto television and the internet with sites such as TMZ.com and its television counterpart TMZ on TV as well as Perez Hilton, The Drudge Report and The Smoking Gun breaking many of the stories that were formerly the domain of gossip magazines and tabloids.

Personalised stamp

Although most postal regulations permit the exclusion of "objectionable" pictures on the stamps, in 2004 The Smoking Gun managed to create personalised stamps featuring the Rosenbergs, Jimmy Hoffa, Ted Kaczynski, Monica Lewinsky's dress, Slobodan Milošević and Nicolae Ceauşescu using the service offered by stamps.com.

Stamps.com

The Smoking Gun has publicized various stamp designs it successfully ordered featuring images of Jimmy Hoffa, spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and the DNA-stained blue dress of Monica Lewinsky.


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